Editor: In 1993, there appeared four monumental articles outlining the incidence and prevalence, pathophysiology, and the so-called factors which enter into the genesis of and the solution to macular degeneration (MD).1-4 It would
Letters to the Editor: Epilepsy and Hypoglycemia
Dear Editor: Ex-United States President Harry S. Truman, when asked, “What’s new?” replied, “Anything you haven’t heard before.” In this connection, in 1963 we reported the relationship of carbohydrate metabolism and (grand mal)
What Chewing Gum Manufacturers Don’t Want You to Know
It is strange that so little has been done to investigate the consequences that can occur to those Americans who spend some $800 million a year on their chewing gum habit..This amounts to
Health Care – The Fastest Growing Failing Business
There is no question that one of the most overused words on the political and socioeconomic scene is ‘health.’ We are deluged with debates about health care, costs, reforms, benefits, principles, practices, and
Antioxidants in Health and Disease: The Big Picture
Abstract In December 1993, four reports appeared describing the ecology of macular degeneration (MD).1-4 It was generally agreed that the environmental contribution includes sunlight. It was suggested that the antioxidants serve to counter
Letters to the Editor: The Epidemiology of Vitamin C
No modern practitioner, even In the face of a complete clinical description of diabetes, would make a diagnosis of diabetes mellitus without a confirmation of the blood carbohydrate picture. Yet, that same practitioner,
Predictive Medicine: The Story of Odds and Ends
Introduction Some years ago in a stimulating, and at times irritating, book entitled Apes, Men and Morons, anthropologist Earnest A. Hooten made the comment that it is a very short-visioned medical science which
Medical (Not Health) Care Costs Are Rising, Stupid!
ABSTRACT: Health care costs represent the number one political issue in America today. The success of the 1992 Clinton campaign was credited, to a large extent, to James Carville, who brought into focus