Statin Drugs and Botanicals Anti-Inflammatory Effects

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Statin Drugs Anti-Inflammatory Effects Reduce Mortality after Cardiac Surgery. Would Botanicals Be Better? For those of us with heart disease requiring cardiac bypass surgery (CABG), The New York Times advises we all take statins drugs, since studies show 50% reduction … Continue reading

Can Chronic Stress Cause Cancer ?

Chronic Stress – Nervous Breakdown and Catatonia The classic 1949 war movie, “Twelve Oclock High” starring Gregory Peck, reveals the effect of chronic stress on B-17 pilots during the war.  After many weeks of stressful daylight bombing raids,  Gregory Peck … Continue reading

Steven A Rosenberg and Cancer Immunotherapy

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Steven A Rosenberg MD and the Race for CAR T-Cell Cancer Therapy This article is part one For part two, Click Here by Jeffrey Dach MD Expecting the Unexpected Laboring tediously for hours on end, medical students inject cancer cells … Continue reading

GMO Food Fight on Senate Floor

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GMO Food Fight on Floor of Senate Setting the Record Straight When it comes to debate among members of the Senate, we think of the great orators of antiquity such as Ancient Greece and Rome.  These were the intellectual giants … Continue reading

Alpha Lipoic Acid Anticancer Agent Burt Berkson MD

Alpha Lipoic Acid Anti-Cancer Update with Burt Berkson MD Medical meetings these days force us to endure hours of boredom, until we finally get to the “really useful and important stuff”.   So it was at a recent meeting at the … Continue reading

Ivermectin Antiparasitic Anticancer Wonder Drug

Ivermectin Antiparasitic Anticancer Wonder Drug by Jeffrey Dach MD The 2015 Nobel Prize in Medicine went for discovery of Ivermectin, an “astonishingly safe” FDA approved anti-helminthic drug. Left Image: Label for Ivermectin Tablets for Human Use, Courtesy of Amazon Pharmacy … Continue reading

Cancer as a Parasitic Disease

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Cancer as a Parasitic Disease by Jeffrey Dach MD Highlights from the 14th Annual International Integrative Oncology Conference in San Diego. April 16th, 2016 I was intrigued by a presentation by Dr Nooshin Darvish, of five cases of Glioblastoma Multiforme … Continue reading