Truth in Medicine

Supplements and When Fad meets Science

By Robert Lamberts, M.D. The supplement industry is a huge one – Over $14 Billion in US sales in 2004 (still small compared to the over $200 Billion spent on prescription drugs in the same year), but one study showed that 6 out of 10 Americans were taking a supplement of some kind. A recent [...]

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Is Common Sense Out of Touch for Society?

Shortly after Merck’s Gardasil garnered media spotlight for being an innovation against cervical cancer development, Forbes ran a story on “Condoms Protect Against Cervical Cancer.” The article concluded with an expert’s quote that our society have undoubtedly heard at least a few hundred times over the course of growing up: “Use condoms and use them [...]

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New Google Co-Op for Health

Google has created clusters of online discussion format called Co-ops. The Co-op is about “sharing expertise” (source: Google Co-Op website), I assume from whoever feel they have expertise to share. A Google employee posted general criteria about what posts would be stricken from a Co-op group: The posting of commercial advertisements or other promotional material [...]

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What Open Medicine Is and Is Not

A benefit – and side effect – of Internet culture is an embrace toward access and openness. I can access an abundance of free information on the web. I’ve always embraced open source applications, like the one used to create this website, and will continue to do so as long as it’s available. However, a [...]

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Media Hyping and Premature Promises Do Not Help

Recently, journalists picked up on a poster session on the effect of ginger on ovarian cancer cells at the 97th American Association for Cancer Research Annual Meeting (AACR) in Washington, DC (April 1-5, 2006). Forbes called it, “Ginger an Ovarian Cancer Killer.” The poster authors’ school, University of Michigan also sent out a press release [...]

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