Month: October 2025
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Human Interest
DAILY STEP COUNT REPLACES PAIN AS 5TH VITAL SIGN
For a number of years, pain was designated as “the fifth vital sign.” Unlike the other four vital signs, temperature,…
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Human Interest
DIET DRINKS NOT HEALTHIER
Have you been to McDonald’s and watched people order a Big Mac, large fries, and a chocolate chip cookie then…
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COVID-19
MEDICAL “MISINFORMATION”
I fear I may be “wading into shark-infested waters” when I approach the subject in the title of this article.…
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Drugs & Medications
ALCOHOL OBSERVATIONS INCORRECT
Alcohol has a personality disorder, at least in the minds of researchers who study its effects on the human body.…
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Drugs & Medications
ORAL GLP-1 MAY BE PREFERRED DRUG
Eli Lilly and Co. is well on its way to bringing to market an oral Glucagon-Like Peptide-1 Receptor Agonist (GLP-1…
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Healthcare Policy
ABOLISH THE USPSTF?
Abolishing the well-entrenched, forty-plus year old, highly-respected, 16-member institution called the United States Preventive Services Task Force, or USPSTF, will…
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Drugs & Medications
TYLENOL AND AUTISM: UNCERTAINTY REMAINS
When President Trump and Health And Human Services Secretary, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. made the announcement about the association of…
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Human Interest
DEPAUW UNIVERSITY FOOTBALL
On two recent occasions I have had the satisfaction of writing about the success of the Indiana Hoosier football team.…
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Preventive Medicine
DENTISTS’ COMMENTS ON WATER FLUORIDATION
When it comes to matters of tooth decay and water fluoridation, who is better qualified to give credible answers to…
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Drugs & Medications
MMRV VACCINE HITS A SNAG
In my sixty years of association with the health care industry and the medical profession, I have never seen such…
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