Over-diagnosed and Over-treated: The medicalization of childhood

John Abramson, MD, award-winning Harvard family practitioner, author of Overdosed America (log onto www.overdosedamerica.com to read further) has sagely weighed in as new normals have been adopted for blood pressure, cholesterol levels, blood sugar and new diseases like osteoporosis have been developed. According to Dr. Abramson, “American medicine has medicalized symptoms to market medications.”

Summer’s Produce Stand

The power of the produce-stand now resplendent with the rich colors and inviting smells of ripe fruit and summer’s vegetable bounty is lost to all-too-many Americans. Walk the aisles of a public or farmer’s market at summer’s end and marvel over the blueberries, strawberries, raspberries and blackberries, the grapes and currants, fragrant peaches, and the… Continue reading Summer’s Produce Stand

With a new mandate of required payment of preventive testing, does the US Preventive Task Force miss the mark with women’s bone health recommendations?

The government has estimated that as many as ten million Americans have osteoporosis. Half of all American women will, according to these government estimates, have a fracture related to osteoporosis during their lifetime. Men are by no means immune to bone thinning.