For the moment I am stepping out of the role as a health writer to talk about relocation to a new country. This is a topic I am extremely familiar with, both from personal experience and because I have written ...
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Is Your Doctor Paid Off With Big Pharma Spending?
Lost in the healthcare debate is the serious problem of Big Pharma spending on marketing, advertising, and physician courting. While legislators and the public argue of the future of ObamaCare, pharmaceutical firms are putting down serious cash to ensure their ...
Read More »Big Pharma and the Drugging of the World: Following the Trail of the Many-Tentacled Octopus
It is no secret to anyone that large and powerful institutions have an influence on society and the course of events in general that is inimical to the workings of democracy. But in the past, undue influence by the largest ...
Read More »High Blood Pressure: If You’ve Got It, You Can Beat It
Ever since I was about fifteen years old, I have been aware of hypertension. My maternal grandmother and great-grandmothers both died from aneurysms. Neither saw her sixty-fourth birthday; as a result, my mother never met her grandmother, and I never ...
Read More »Natural Migraine Relief
Migraine headaches affect 30% of women and 20% of men. They are different than common tension headaches. A migraine is severe pain on one or both sides of the head, and the pain is throbbing rather than constant. You may ...
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