BioBalance Healthcast Blog/Videos
The Cost of Cancer Drugs
June 3, 2013
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[...]
Testosterone and the Prostate
May 28, 2013
Treatment Truths and Myths This week Brett Newcomb and I are focusing on the issue of Prostate Cancer in men and the myth that if you treat prostate cancer with testosterone, the cancer will get worse, not better. Most doctors[...]
Sexism in Medicine
May 24, 2013
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[...]
Skin Care and Summer Weather Exposure
May 17, 2013
How to properly care for your skin. This week, Brett and I are talking about skin care and summer weather exposure. It is spring, and people are beginning to think about being out and about in the weather. We live[...]
Sex and the Elderly
May 6, 2013
An issue handled with great sensitivity. Living longer means that we are sexual beings longer. Recent studies in the United States and England, provide data that says both sexes are maintaining interest and activity about things sexual well into their[...]
Fibromyalgia
April 30, 2013
What is it and how is it detected? This week Brett Newcomb and I are continuing our discussion of five sneaky things that your doctor probably won’t ask you about, but that you should watch out for. We are focusing[...]
Five Issues That Your Doctor Often Misses
April 24, 2013
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,[...]
The Importance of a Good Night’s Rest
April 15, 2013
To Sleep, Perhaps to Dream I really want to focus on the importance of getting a good night’s sleep. If you don’t sleep well, you will suffer from fatigue, you will have trouble losing weight, you expose yourself to multiple[...]
Patient-centered Medicine
April 8, 2013
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
April 1, 2013
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[...]