CATEGORY: Research
Integrative Medicine – What’s In A Name?
Should medicine be approached from a preventative and disease focus, or from symptom alleviation and treatment? There are a lot of new terms that are being bandied about as modern American Medicine attempts to address its internal conflict over the[...]
A Focus On The Benefits Of Hormone Replacement Therapy
Do we focus more on the risk or benefits of Hormone Replacement Therapy? We recently attended a Medical Conference at the 2017 AMMG conference in Tucson, Az. While there we participated in a discussion presented by Dr. Gary Donovitz who posed[...]
CBD – Cannabidiol Is Legal, Safe, And Non-Prescription
CBD is over the counter, legal in all fifty states, comes from the Hemp plant, and does not contain THC. Over the counter supplement legal in all fifty states, CBD comes from the Hemp plant. It does not contain THC[...]
Why You May Want To Stay On Your Antidepressant
Depression, Bipolar Disorder and PTSD. How Repeated Bouts Off Medication Cause More Severe Episodes in the Future. An article in Aeon recently called The Kindled Brain, caused me to rethink my theory that once my patients received testosterone for 4-6[...]
Signs and Symptoms of Thyroid Disease
Even if you have normal lab scores, you may still have symptoms that cause you discomfort or distress, and you may still be sick. There are major disagreements over the practice of medicine and the way it is done in[...]
Hormone Therapy and Long Term Mortality
Exciting new article on Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) in The Journal of the American Medical Association. JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Association is one of the major pieces of literature that doctors read to obtain new information about[...]
You Better Get Healthy, Because Illness Costs Too Much!
How do insurance and pharmaceutical companies decide what to charge for prescription drugs? How do insurance companies and pharmaceutical companies make the decisions they make? How do they decide which medicines to provide and what to charge for them? How[...]
Physicians Posing as Hormone Pellet Experts
How much experience does your doctor have in hormone replacement? Dr. Maupin has been primarily focused on Hormone Replacement in her practice of Medicine for nearly fourteen years. In the beginning she was accused of quackery by other physicians. Fourteen[...]
How the Government Wastes Money on Medical Research
Ten proposals that should be employed to reduce or eliminate this wasteful government spending. Years ago a United States Senator named William Proxmire from Delaware used to host an awards event he called the Golden Fleece Award. It was an[...]
1 out of 2 Americans Over 65 are Considered Disabled
Preventative care is a new focus that is beginning to overtake modern American medicine. American health care has historically been focused on repairing your health after you have broken down. Doctors have been trained to recognize symptoms and to treat[...]