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From the monthly archives: September 2010
I am giving 3 talks @ Tucson 10/22 ‘Freud Meets Buddha’ mindfulness treatment of PTSD, depression and heart disease, and ‘Before You Take That Pill’ – focus on psychotropic meds. Click here to register.
I’ve seen a lot of weird things flying through the internet lately about bipolar disorder so I thought I would try and address the issue. Bipolar disorder was formerly known as manic-depression, and is thought to affect as much as 3% of the US population. Recently there has been a lot of talk about “Bipolar [...]
This week the FDA finally took action regarding the diabetes drug Avandia (rosiglitazone), putting restrictions on its use for patients with alternatives for the treatment of their diabetes, while the Europeans voted to take it off the market all together. I have been writing about the dangers of Avandia for several years now (see e.g. [...]
This weekend we took our daughter to the University of Chicago for orientation for her first year of college (sob!).
During one of the orientation sessions a parent asked about what happened if their kid developed a mental health issue. I mean, that’s something to be concerned about if [...]
Diabetes is one of those conditions that must be treated for life, and requires lifestyle shifts and constant monitoring. Diabetics are in for the long haul, no matter which of the two major types of diabetes they are living with. Both type-1 and type-2 diabetes are associated with elevated glucose levels in the blood and [...]
Concluding the end of a several month investigation by the Seattle Times related to my sister attorney Anne Bremner pleading guilty to a DUI, the Seattle Times has continued in their failure to reveal a conflict of interest related to the fact that they were involved in a lawsuit with a committee co-chaired [...]
On June 3, 2010, my sister Anne Bremner, an attorney from Seattle, WA, who is a frequent commenter on legal matters on FOX, CNN, and other channels, was side swiped by a car, driven off the road, crashed, and hit her head and suffered a concussion. She was coming from a party where she’d had a [...]
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