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Would You Like Some Pneumonia With Your Acid Blocker Pill?
Written by Wellness Club on August 5, 2009 – 6:01 pm -By Nurse Mark Regular readers are well aware that neither Dr. Myatt nor I have any good thoughts about the current state of conventional treatment for GERD or heartburn despite the fact that Big Pharma would have us believe that their patented drugs such as PPI’s (Proton Pump Inhibitors) like Prevacid, Prilosec and Nexium […]
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Life Line Screening – Is It Worth It?
Written by Wellness Club on August 5, 2009 – 2:44 pm -By Nurse Mark We are bombarded with sales-pitches and come-on’s daily, with various health care or health insurance or health improvement schemes preying upon the fears and uncertainties of Americans – especially older Americans – with well-written and compelling advertising copy. No wonder so many are confused. Fortunately there are also many like Jean […]
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The Internet Can Be A Scary Place
Written by Wellness Club on July 9, 2009 – 1:13 pm -By Nurse Mark HealthBeat News readers are a smart and computer-savvy lot – after all, they find us on-line and they are not the least shy about searching online for whatever information they seek. There is a massive amount of information available – just for fun, this morning I entered the word ‘cancer’ in […]
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Questions About Things We Don’t Even Sell…
Written by Wellness Club on July 8, 2009 – 2:41 pm -By Nurse Mark It’s no secret that we get a lot of questions here – Dr. Myatt has a well-deserved reputation for being scientific, honest, thorough, and for being more interested in what’s best for the person than in just "making a sale." So, we get plenty of questions about products we do not […]
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A Reader Writes About Universal Health Care
Written by Wellness Club on June 23, 2009 – 10:08 pm -Opinion by Nurse Mark I’m not sure just how many other of our readers had strong feelings about the opinion article that I wrote for our last HealthBeat Newsletter titled "Some Thoughts On Universal Health Care" but at least one reader was somewhat unhappy with my thoughts on the subject. Linda has been a […]
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