In the earlier article “An Amazing Discovery in Turkey”, the first of this series of articles about oleander, I described how Doctor H. Z. Ozel discovered an age old remedy for cancer and other conditions in rural Turkey in the early 1960’s and, after successfully treating thousands of patients over the past 40 years, Dr. Ozel patented the medicine and it was entered into FDA trials...

Sneezing, coughing, fever, aches and pains…

Worried about flu symptoms like these? As winter approaches, most of us are.

But this year, the flu seems even more alarming, thanks to increased health concerns about the H1N1 influenza strain, also known as the swine flu. Even though this strain doesn’t appear to be particularly threatening, it has the potential to mutate into a more dangerous form.

Cancer screening, cancer screening, cancer screening, cancer screening...

For years, that has been the relentlessly wrong public message. You can't even turn on a TV or radio without hearing some celebrity, athlete or other public figure lecture you about the supposed importance of getting screened for breast or prostate cancer.

Now, the same people who started beating that drum have finally realized they're playing the wrong tune. The American Cancer Society is revising its position on screenings, admitting that recommending them for everyone has led to over-treatment.

Well folks, at the rate of vaccine development, it’s just a matter of time before some genius develops an anti-ugly vaccine to fit everyone into some predefined measure of beauty, and market it as something without which we cannot live healthy prosperous lives.

Alcohol addiction is a chronic brain disease characterized by the compulsive use of alcohol. The alcohol changes the brain both in structure and in how it works by disrupting the normal functions. These changes can be long term and lead to harmful behavior.

You may ease your symptoms of colitis, rheumatoid arthritis, asthma, and other inflammatory disorders without taking drugs. That‘s what new scientific research out of Australia suggests.

But before we get into the details, let‘s get a grip on how these problems take hold in the first place.

Why your immune system goes rogue...

Dear Pharmacist,

I read your Facebook post about vitamin D and how it works better than diabetic medications.  I have diabetes, and no one has ever told me this. Would you share more information? 

--L.N.  Denver, Colorado

20 family physicians in Contra Costa County, California, ripped up their membership cards in the American Academy of Family Physicians in protest over the AAFP’s partnership with Coca-Cola.

It's an awful tragedy. Three infants dead within two weeks of being given shots of the anti-infection vaccine Prevenar.

If you were in charge of the situation, what would you do? Stop all Prevenar vaccinations until all of the data from the use of the drug could be examined? Reopen the debate on vaccinating all infants against rare diseases?

Of course not. We can't be too hasty, can we? Not when it made Wyeth (now part of Pfizer) $2.7 billion last year.