CATEGORY: Healthcare
Senate Bill 959 Part 2
Your Bio-Identical Hormone Pellets are at Risk. Act Now to Stop Senate Bill 959 Senate Bill 959 is working its way through the Senate Health Education Labor and Pensions committee. This Bill is attempting to establish the authority for the[...]
Senate Bill 959 Part 1
Compounding Pharmacies and the Government In this podcast, Brett Newcomb and I are talking about Senate Bill 959, a bill before the Senate Health Education Labor and Pensions committee, chaired by Senator Tom Harkin. This is a fifty five page[...]
Gender-Specific Medicine
Gender-specific medicine takes into consideration that Men and women are different. In episode 137 of the BioBalance Healthcast we are speaking about gender-specific medicine and how gender affects every area of our life, from societal roles, to hardwired neurologic differences,[...]
The Cost of Cancer Drugs
The cost of cancer drugs, profiting and profiteering in the pharmaceutical business This weeks podcast examines several connected topics. My friend Brett Newcomb and I begin by discussing a recent article involving a letter sent by over a hundred Cancer[...]
Sexism in Medicine
The difference in treatment for men and women. Medicine has segregated the sexes in its research focus. Typically things are researched by categories, i.e. women and rheumatoid arthritis, men and diabetes, breast cancer and women, etc. . But more and[...]
Five Issues That Your Doctor Often Misses
Health risks that often go unseen. Women over 40 are statistically at increased risk of developing, strokes, and heart attacks. This is directly correlated to deficiency of testosterone. After the age of 40 women fight weight gain, increasing triglycerides, cholesterol,[...]
Patient-centered Medicine
Who should decide and who should pay for your medical care? One of the most fundamental teaching concepts that physicians are exposed to the Hippocratic Oath. In taking the Oath, we swear to first do no harm as we work[...]
Rationing in the American Medical System
How Obamacare effects physicians and patients This week Brett and I are discussing rationing and medicine. As our population ages, and Obamacare has brought more people into the group receiving healthcare under the universal healthcare plan, we must have a[...]
What is a Compounding Pharmacy?
Why are compounding pharmacies important in the market? This week, Brett and I are discussing the way drugs are made and marketed in the United States. We talk about the production and the distribution systems and how they work. One[...]
Gender Specific Medicine
The Difference Between the Way Men and Women Metabolize Drugs. This week Brett and I are talking about an article that was just published at the end of January 2013 in the New York Times. This article takes a look[...]