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Yes, it’s Oscar time. The Academy does not have a category for Best Health Themed Movie. So I nominated 5 films for the award (which I created to draw attention to how such movies can help us deal with health issues).
And my winner of this award is…”Dallas Buyers Club”. For an explanation of why, see my article in the Huffington Post http://www.huffingtonpost.com/cary-a-presant-md/health-movies_b_4856335.html . Leave a comment there whether you agree or not.
In America, use of vitamins, nutritional supplements, and herbs is common, ranging from 10 to 95%. In my practice it is about 50%. But shockingly, a new study http://bit.ly/YVzEAx shows that between 20% to 77% of people who were using complementary or alternative medicines did NOT tell their doctor about which complementary or alternative therapies they were taking. People said they kept this a secret because the doctor never asked, or they were afraid of…
Can you trust the medicine you’re taking? Thanks the recent fungal meningitis outbreak (allegedly due to tainted drugs), people everywhere are taking more time to examine their pills and potions they ingest, even asking their physicians whether or not they even need the drug. And they should question!
It’s vitally important to be considerate of everything pharmaceutical you put in your body, but it can be difficult to know what to ask. To be more…
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