Responsibilities The Director of Public Affairs’ job duties may include: Fundraising and Development (60%) The primary function of the Director of Public Affairs will be to build and maintain personal relationships with a roster of major donors, in order to secure large gifts ($5,000+). As the Director will have considerable input into the expansion and […]
Hint: It’s not the flu.
Last week Michael Ellsberg of Forbes.com wrote an expose on the Dietetic Association’s lobbying efforts to push out the competition. Please, read, share and comment!
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The FDA lied by omission about GE salmon, and Monsanto is attempting an end-run around USDA rules for GE beets. The stock market seems to be telling the true story.
I recently had the opportunity to listen and learn to Moshe Frenkel, MD, former medical director of the Integrative Medical Program at MD Anderson Cancer in Houston, TX. As the founder and director of Integrative Oncology Consultants, he speaks that stress management is as important as supplements for a successful integrative approach to cancer treatment.
We’ve received some questions from a couple of our readers recently about some rumors that have been flying around the internet. Here is one:
We’re number one. But that is not good news because the U.S. is number one in the world for medical radiation. Yes, that’s right that Americans get the most medical radiation exposure in the world. It is increasingly known that one of the most common and insidious ways Americans are over-tested and over-treated is the use of diagnostic tests that involve the use of medical radiation.
According to a major international study just published in the International Journal of Epidemiology “using a cell phone seems to protect against two types of brain tumor.” Let that sink in for just a moment and then learn that even the researchers behind the study, funded in part by the cell phone industry, did not believe their results. Which prompts many of us to ask the question “can we count on the studies, the gold standard of double-blind placebo controlled randomized clinical trials”?
It has become a perennial political argument. Is it wise to involve government in health care? Does the government practicing medicine help people to live longer, live better, or make healthcare more efficient? The Medicare regulations alone, more profuse than those from the IRS, have caused many a physician to say “I wouldn’t choose this […]