Prescriptions For Health - 10/10/11

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• Continuation of the doctor as the patient
• A tribute to Steve Jobs and pancreatic cancer treatments
• Antioxidants tied to mixed effects in breast cancer
• Prenatal diet tied to birth defects
• Inflammatory food toxins found in high levels in infants
• Can dietary supplements with minerals have risks?

Vicki's Health Tips: 

       #1 - Great Truths 
       #2 - Susan G. Komen Conflicts of Interest and Pink Washing

Prescriptions For Health - 10/03/11

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• An update on "A Doctor's Experience as a Patient"
• Acid reducing drugs TRIPLE the risk of life threatening Clostridium Difficile
• MD's admit patients get too much aggressive treatment
• Medical Education needs to include Public Health and Prevention 
• A Return to Healing available on www.doctorsaputo.com
• Health Insurance rates continue to climb
• Vitamin B12 markers can prevent dementia 
• 89% of women erroneously believe mammograms are vital.

Callers: Mike (MN): Ozone therapy, Sandy (FL): Skin rash, Jeff (LA, CA): Hepatitis re. ozone, Harvey (SF, CA): Health benefits of no sugar, white flour, white rice or corn products.

Tips: #1 Dangers and Politics of BPA in food cans, etc. #2: Things to remember for peace of mind to avoid dis ease.

Prescriptions For Health - 09/26/11

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• A Doctor's experience as a patient
• Do we really have a drug shortage crisis?
• The French drug scandal similar to FenFen.
• They are at it again: Still recommending flu shots with no scientific basis
• Mixed messages re. whooping cough vaccine
• Medicare and the "doc fix"

Callers: John re. medical transcriptions, Richard re. hypothyroidism

20:20 Health Tips: 

• Scented laundry products emit hazardous chemicals through dryer vents

• Why didn't I figure this out sooner about shampoo!

Prescriptions For Health - 09/19/11

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The beginning of the show on skype didn't seem to work and then we switched to the telephone, so here goes:

Do doctors adequately inform their patients re. possible complications of treatment?

• Does investing in prevention save health care costs?
• How many kids died of the flu last year? Was it an epidemic of influenza? 
• What did Michele Bachmann really say to cause an uproar about Gardasil?
• Vaccinations
• Autism
• ADHD and importance of being outside
• And much more.....

Caller: Harvey - Stress and insurance and disease. Bringing med. back to people....

Tips: #1 - Story on Meaning of Stress, #2 - Fun facts on stress.

Prescriptions For Health - 09/12/11

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• Listener's poem on Chem Trails
• Chemical plants need to prepare for possible terrorist attacks
• Obama backtracking on smog plan and bowing to big business
• 911
• The prevalence of mental Illness
• NSAIDS adverse affects including the newest: they more than double the risk of miscarriage
• Clinical trial results should be available to the public
• Health Care Reform
• Chocolate linked to heart health
• NIH revises financial conflict of interest rules a little
• Many seniors are discharged from the hospital with out their medications or instructions

Tips:

• Clever Definitions
• One Day at a Time

Callers:

• David - suggests a new private investigation by the people that is not political
• Harvey - ALS may be an autoimmune disease

Prescriptions For Health - 08/29/11

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• Is there a financial solution for our ailing health care system?
• A novel way to control the most common hospital acquired infections.
• The importance of good nutrition.
• The one cause of all disease.
• Can spices prevent liver cancer?
• Can drawing blood for lab tests have a downside?
• Doctors and nurses surprisingly rely on CAM for their own treatment.

Callers: Bob - constipation, Phil (email question) - Is fructose in fruit OK for cancer patients?

Tips: 

• Run in the Rain
• The Wooden Bowl

Prescriptions For Health - 08/22/11

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• Do herbal supplements affect chemotherapy?
• Are dogs going to be the future in detecting cancer?
• How can you reduce the effects of a high fat meal?
• Child abuse can lead to long term depression with little response to traditional medicines and psychotherapy
• Life before Direct to Consumer ads on TV

Caller: Mike re: multiple system apathy

Tips:

• Can wearing a bra increase your risk for cancer?
• Laughter can be the best medicine: Story from Michigan demonstrating why not to mess with old people

Prescriptions For Health - 08/15/11

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• Congress to relax FDA rules so drug advisors can have conflicts of interest.
• US drug firm faked documents
• Omega 3 fatty acids reduce anxiety and inflammation; Omega 3 frankensoy oil
• Zinc shortens the duration of the common cold
• Why family meals are so important
• "The Pill"...Birth Control Pills and their benefits and their dangers
• High Fructose Corn Syrup (HFCS) increases heart disease
• Sleep loss can lower testosterone and what that really means

Caller: Lois with Gastrointestinal problems

 

Tips:

• Favorite Quotes from listener, Mike.
• Dr. Seuss 2011.

Prescriptions For Health - 08/08/11

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• Raw Food and Milk Raid
• Methyl Jasmonate, plant hormone, for cancer
• DTaP for whooping cough?
• Benefits of Vitamin K even with Coumadin
• Congressional Debt Deal reduces Medicare Services

Caller off line: Joe regarding osteonecrosis of the jaw

Tips:

• The Green Thing
• Don't Mess with Old Men!

Prescriptions For Health - 08/01/11

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• The herb, Artemisinin, kills most cancers
• Vitamin D and Near Infrared Light (photon stimulator) for cancer pain.
• Study shows mammograms do not save lives
• Eating fiber reduces incidence of breast cancer
• Can we afford the Affordable Health Care Act?
• John Robbins Cliff Story
• Probiotic strains trigger different immune responses
• Body/Mind medicine

 
Caller: Lisa regarding last week's show about grade points and communication skills for doctors and nurses, also 
having heart disease and living at high altitude
 
Online Question: Jill regarding Anxiety and how to treat it. Getting at the cause, etc.
 
Tips:

• Paraprosdokians (laughter is the best medicine :)
• More paraprosdokians and words of wisdom by famous people

Prescriptions For Health - 07/25/11

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• Fallout from 3/11/11 Fukishima Nuclear Disaster
• Tired Medical Residents Kill Patients
• What's More Important? People Skills or a 4 point grade average for Medical School Applicants?
• Headache Relief Including Spinal Manipulation with a Chiropractor
• Can an Osteoporosis Drug Kill Flu Viruses?

Prescriptions For Health - 07/18/11

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