Why patients feel abandoned by IVF doctors when their cycle fails
I just got this email from a patient.Dear Dr Malpani, I have read your article online and am very much interested on any updates on your article or challenge to Clear Passage Therapy .I have seen this Clinic referred to me by Natural Fertility online and so I went to their website and started the application process including the submission of my medical history. I have gone thru 3 failed IVFs (2 fresh (w/ DNA bx of embryo) and 1 FET cycles), 1 natural pregnancy in between 1 IVFs, all miscarried on 5th week, 10th week, 0 pregnancy on my last IVF w/ DNA. I was diagnosed by my Fertility Doctor at Kaiser with Right ...
Source: Dr.Malpani's Blog - April 2, 2017 Category: Reproduction Medicine Source Type: blogs
The quackery that is “ battlefield acupuncture ” continues to metastasize
"Battlefield acupuncture," which is really a form of ear acupuncture based essentially on a homunculus on the ear, continues to invade and metastasize in the military. (Source: Respectful Insolence)
Source: Respectful Insolence - March 29, 2017 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Complementary and alternative medicine Pseudoscience Quackery Skepticism/critical thinking acupuncture battlefield acupuncture rapid acupuncture Richard Niemtzow Veterans Administration Source Type: blogs
“ Dr. Seuss monsters ” : The quackery that is “ battlefield acupuncture ” continues to metastasize
"Battlefield acupuncture," which is really a form of ear acupuncture based essentially on a homunculus on the ear, continues to invade and metastasize in the military, complete with Dr. Seuss monsters. (Source: Respectful Insolence)
Source: Respectful Insolence - March 29, 2017 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Complementary and alternative medicine Pseudoscience Quackery Skepticism/critical thinking acupuncture battlefield acupuncture Patricia Macsparran rapid acupuncture Richard Niemtzow Veterans Administration Source Type: blogs
Adventures in bad veterinary medicine reported by the local media (2017 edition)
Just because people think that sticking needles into their meridians will somehow unblock their qi and fix whatever ails them doesn't mean it's OK to inflict the same nonsense on our pets. Unfortunately, a local TV station disagrees. (Source: Respectful Insolence)
Source: Respectful Insolence - March 28, 2017 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Complementary and alternative medicine Pseudoscience Quackery Skepticism/critical thinking acupuncture dog Mike Petty Priya Mann Steve Garagiola veterinarian WDIV Source Type: blogs
The feds say restrict opioid use. Now what?
The federal government has declared, through its major health policy agencies, that the number of pain patients on opioids and the dosages they are on should be severely restricted. The Center for Disease Control (CDC), Veteran’s Administration (VA) and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) have all issued new guidelines within the past year to that effect. Private insurers are following suit, in many cases refusing to pay for high dose opioids.
More recently, the American College of Physicians issued new guidelines for the treatment of low back pain that recommend using nonpharmacological therapies before...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - March 15, 2017 Category: Journals (General) Authors: < a href="http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/cindy-perlin" rel="tag" > Cindy Perlin, LCSW < /a > Tags: Meds Pain management Source Type: blogs
IVF patients need to learn that doctors don't have all the answers
Dear Dr Malpani,I read your recent email with interest, as it relates directly to me.After 5 years of IVF and only one successful transfer, which occurred last year at the age of 49 (2016) and I was pregnant for 11 weeks. Unfortunately the embryo failed at 11 weeks due to Edwards syndrome, but these were my own eggs from about age 46.Since this, I have now done two transfers with donor eggs (23 year old donor) and neither has worked.The only successfully pregnancy I had involved a treatment protocol designed by a fertility immunologist, as a result of extensive and expensive blood tests in the US (exactly a you describe - ...
Source: Dr.Malpani's Blog - March 13, 2017 Category: Reproduction Medicine Source Type: blogs
Medical Marijuana Saves Lives
With so many political crises to attend to daily, it’s hard not to let important issues fall by the wayside. However, with the unveiling of the Republican plan to reform the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and the powerful opposition to that plan, nothing is being done to address the opioid abuse epidemic our nation faces. Every day we turn our attention to other matters, Americans die of overdose. But there is something we can do while the national debate on health insurance rages – encourage the use of medical marijuana for pain sufferers.
More than half the states in the nation and the District of Columbia have legalized...
Source: Cliffside Malibu - March 13, 2017 Category: Addiction Authors: Richard Taite Tags: Richard Taite Source Type: blogs
What To Ask Your Doctor (and Why) When You ’ ve Been Diagnosed With Lung Cancer
Heather Mannuel, MD, MBA is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Maryland School of Medicine and a Medical Oncologist at the University of Maryland Greenebaum Comprehensive Cancer Center. Below are a few questions she says to ask your doctor when you’ve been diagnosed with lung cancer, and why they’re important to ask.
What kind of lung cancer is this? Lung cancers are divided into small cell and non-small cell types, and the treatment is very different for each of these.
What is my stage? The stage helps to give information on whether the cancer is only in the lung or whether it has sprea...
Source: Life in a Medical Center - February 27, 2017 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Chris Lindsley Tags: Cancer Source Type: blogs
The Alt-Right and Alt-Med
I’ve suddenly come to realize that a rising political group, the so-called “Alt-Right” (basically nothing more than “…white supremacists who have repackaged the hate and served it up in a more palatable form for human consumption…“) and much of the “Alt Med” movement (including purveyors and proponents of alternative, complementary, integrative, functional, holistic, and assorted other terms for quackery through the years) have a lot in common.
Both operate in fact-free zones. Reality doesn’t seem to matter to either of them. Immigrants are objectively not streami...
Source: Musings of a Dinosaur - February 21, 2017 Category: Primary Care Authors: notdeaddinosaur Tags: Medical Source Type: blogs
The American College of Physicians integrates quackery with medicine in its recommendations for managing back pain
One of the overarching themes of this blog, if not the overarching theme, is to expose and combat the infiltration of quackery into medicine. What I’m referring to, of course, is the phenomenon that’s risen over the last 25 years or so in which various pseudoscientific alternative medicine therapies (but I repeat myself) have found… (Source: Respectful Insolence)
Source: Respectful Insolence - February 14, 2017 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Clinical trials Complementary and alternative medicine Quackery Science Skepticism/critical thinking acupuncture American College of Physicians integrative medicine low back pain massage NSAIDs Source Type: blogs
Prescription Lies: Five Myths about Prescription Pain Killers
When you’re in pain, you’re willing to do whatever it takes to feel better. For Americans diagnosed with chronic pain, getting a prescription for an opioid-based pain killer can seem like the only way to regain day-to-day function. But in desperation to find a treatment that effectively manages chronic pain, patients may rush into a treatment plan that fails to live up to their expectations or even meet their medical needs. Here are five of the biggest myths about prescription pain killers and the surprising truths about the drug they conceal.
Prescription pain killers are a permanent solution for chronic pain. Some ...
Source: Cliffside Malibu - February 12, 2017 Category: Addiction Authors: Richard Taite Tags: Richard Taite Source Type: blogs
