Placebo: Physician, Heal Thyself

Placebo: Physician, Heal Thyself

John W. McArthur, Jeffrey D. Sachs, Guido SchmidtTraub Amir Attaran’s Policy Forum [1] raises important points on the poor quality of data for some indicators used to measure progress on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), but, sadly, uses these fi ndings to draw the wrong conclusions. The evidence he presents on a small number of indicators is partial, and does not justify his conclusion ...

Physician heal thyself.

Heal thyself

www.landesbioscience.com oxidative Medicine and celluar Longevity 75 As we continue to gain further insight of human biology, we learn that the body has remarkable promise and potential to defend itself from a number of disorders. For example, adipose derived stem cells have the uncanny ability to secrete soluble factors, such as macrophage colony stimulating factors, interleukins, and trophic ...

Physician heal thyself: lifestyle education for medical students.

Marc Cohen is currently the Director of the Complementary Medicine Unit at Monash University and Vice President of the Australian Integrative Medicine Association. He received his MBBS from Monash Universi~. after completing a Bachelor of Medical Science and a PhD in Traditional Chinese Medicine. For the past six years he has been responsible for creating teaching programs in acupuncture and co...

Tax Man, Heal Thyself

here seems to be a general consensus among economists that the existing federal income tax structure in the United States: 1) is complex; 2) hobbles economic growth by creating disincentives to save and invest; and 3) creates a substantial compliance cost burden for individuals and businesses. It also appears that a large number of Americans and their political representatives concur with this ...