“We do ourselves a disservice when diagnoses as wildly different as a grade 4 glioblastoma multiforme (a brain tumour that is virtually 100% fatal) and prostatic intraepithelial neoplasia (a prostate condition more likely to make you pee frequently than to kill you)...
Some interesting figures have been posted on the Medicines Australia website. In the six months to September 30, 2011 37 pharmaceutical companies spent AUD$ 40 million on 18,174 educational events which attracted 423,516 attendees. The average cost per head re event...
Last week Whitney Houston died at the relatively young age of 48. Whilst the story is yet to fully unfold, it seems that prescription medications were involved in her death. This would put her in the company of Heath Ledger and Michael Jackson to name but two who have...
Once ideas become accepted in health it is hard to change them. Yet knowledge presses forward and what was once thought to be the case may be shown not to be. Our understanding of cancer is evolving but the system is locked into a very 1970’s approach. The overarching...
As the world speeds up we tend to assume that newer must be better. In some instances it is but when it comes to health, less so than one might expect. The other tendency is to overlook simple solutions and go to complicated, and often expensive ones. In medical...
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XaSKKmpkOUc&feature=channel_video_title[/youtube] Dr JoeMedical Doctor, author, speaker, media presenter and health industry consultant, Dr Joe Kosterich wants you to be healthy and get the most out of life. Joe writes for...
