I am many things: a writer, a researcher, a women’s health advocate, a teacher, a yogi. I’m also a few not so
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Kawasaki Disease
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Some years ago, I was confronted with a four-year-old girl as a patient. She had experienced repeated unexplained fever accompanied by a
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Remembering Thalidomide
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Over the last several months, I have been exploring the origins of pharmaceutical malfeasance. Thalidomide, the drug given to pregnant women to
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One of the more bothersome feedback loops that keeps adverse drug reactions from being recognized is that patients stay silent about their
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I have a medical mystery that no one can solve, been to numerous doctors and specialists with no help given. I had
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The Extrathyroidal Role of Iodine
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Iodine is an essential element required for the propagation of chemical reactions that are needed to create the thyroid hormones Thyroxine (T4)
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Poor Nutrition Stress: The Enemy of Health
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In previous posts, I have indicated that stress can initiate or exacerbate disease and medication or vaccine adverse reactions. Read that statement,
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So many of the disease processes that plague modern patients involve interactions between the host and his/her environment. Diet, lifestyle, pharmaceutical and
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