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Julia S.
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Oak Park, Illinois
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My name is Julia Schopick, and I am a medical/health advocate, who is committed to helping people...
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Free Ebook Now Available for International LDN Awareness Week: "The Faces of Low Dose Naltrexone"
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Honest Medicine is proud to announce that The Faces of Low Dose Naltrexone, a free 116-page EBOOK, is now available for download. The Faces of LDN is a special resource book, ...
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International Low Dose Naltrexone Awareness Week: October 19-25th, 2009
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an old drug a controversial treatment successful across a range of diseases linked by immune system dysfunction BUT YOU won't hear of it, and YOU won't be offered it On ...
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Low Dose Naltrexone on Wellness Talk Radio & Blog Talk Radio
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Low dose naltrexone (LDN), one of the treatments I’ve showcased several times on HonestMedicine ( here, here, here and here ), has been in the online media quite a bit lately ...
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Guest Columns by Daphne White About Comparative Effectiveness Research -- Reprinted from...
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When I first learned of the Obama Administration’s commitment to implementing Comparative Effectiveness Research (CER) as a way of determining which treatments are effective a ...
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The "Kabuki Play" of Monied Interests Around the $1.1-Billion Comparative Effectiveness Research...
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(This column was first published by John Weeks on TheIntegratorBlog.com.)John Weeks’ Introduction:In this section of a two-part series, Integrator contributor Daphne White, CH ...
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CAM and Comparative Effectiveness Research: Are We Going to Play? (By Daphne White, CHTP)
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(This column was first published by John Weeks on TheIntegratorBlog.com.)John Weeks’ Introduction:The idea of "comparative effectiveness research" (CER), the new $1.1 billion ...
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Getting the Word to Washington About What REAL Comparative Effectiveness Research Would Look Like
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As followers of Honest Medicine know, I have personally witnessed and reported on the outrageous amount of money that is being wasted by our healthcare system on expensive tre ...
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Julia Schopick’s Comment on the Institute of Medicine’s Proposed Panel: Comparative Effectiveness...
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I just posted the comment below to the Institute of Medicine (IOM), recommending that they include people with knowledge of integrative medicine on their panel that will be co ...
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Burt Berkson, MD, PhD, Talks With Honest Medicine About His Work and Our Medical System: The...
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I know that several people have already listened to my interview with Dr. Burt Berkson and have found him to be truly inspirational. My decision to transcribe the interview (a ...
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Audio Interview: Burt Berkson, MD, PhD, Talks With Honest Medicine About His Work With Alpha...
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It is my honor to introduce you to Dr. Burt Berkson, one of the few physicians I believe to be a true visionary. In this interview, you will hear the true story of Dr. Berkson ...
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Pharmaceutical News by Press Release? (OR: Low Dose Naltrexone Study Doesn't Make the News)
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In the article, “Statins (Crestor) for Everyone?”, I wrote about how the AstraZeneca-funded JUPITER study (JUPITER stands for “Justification for the Use of Statins in Primary ...
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Drug Companies & Doctors: A Story of Corruption -- by Marcia Angell, MD
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INTRODUCTION: When an email from Vera Sharav alerted me to the fact that Dr. Marcia Angell, a woman whose writings I have admired for a long time, had just written a book revi ...
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The Integrative Health Care Solution -- A 2-Part Series
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♣Part 1 -- For Tom Daschle and Barack Obama: Advocating the Integrative Healthcare Solution -- discusses WHY so many experts are now saying that best answer to our healthcare ...
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Julia Schopick’s “Anecdotal” Series: Six Articles
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1)♦Silverlon and Surgery: Our Search for Healing (Published in the National Brain Tumor Foundation’s Newsletter, SEARCH, Winter, 2003, Issue #54, as their cover article)I wro ...
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For Tom Daschle and Barack Obama: Part 1: Advocating the Integrative Healthcare Solution
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Healthcare Reform is in the air. Tom Daschle’s “house parties” have met, and people are posting their ideas all over the Internet. There’s lots of discussion on websites such ...
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For Tom Daschle and Barack Obama: Part 2: Seven of Honest Medicine's Articles / Audios Advocating...
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I have long advocated, through HonestMedicine.com, the careful combining of conventional and alternative modalities. My point has always been that a sensible medical system wo ...
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More on Crestor and AstraZeneca – With Thanks to Dr. Jeffrey Dach
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I recently received a very thought-provoking comment from Jeffrey Dach, MD, an extremely conscientious and informative integrative physician and blogger, who works hard to get ...
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Statins (Crestor) for Everyone? Or Could Diet and Nutritional Supplements Do the Job Better?
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The results of a recent study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, may well pave the way for almost all Americans to be taking pharmaceuticals.In the words of on ...
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The Crestor Study: A Humorous Addendum
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While most of the news stories following the release of the JUPITER study were serious –- some for and others against –- a few people found considerable humor in the study’s c ...
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David Servan-Schreiber, MD, PhD's Excellent New Book Panned By the New York Times for Citing...
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When I began reading Dr. Abigail Zuger’s New York Times review of Dr. David Servan-Schreiber’s latest book, Anti-Cancer: A New Way of Life, I was at first amused when she com ...
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