Good Evening Everyone!
In any contest or race, it helps if you can get a head start. Setting personal or health goals can be considered a race or contest against others with similar goals. So instead of making your goals an internal competition, make them a competition against others. For example, many people can only maintain their exercise throughout the year if they participate in athletic competitions. They need the competition as a way to motivate them to exercise.
This year, I'm asking you to consider all of your personal/health goals to be a quiet competition against others. By "quiet," I mean that others don't need to know that you are competing against them. And since they won't know you are competing against them, they won't mind if you get a head start either. Most of your "competition" will be setting their goals on New Years, but you can get a jump on them by setting/starting your goals in September! So as others are just starting on their goals, you can have a quiet celebration for yourself since you are already 4 months into your goal year!
*And don't worry, I won't tell anyone that you got a head start :)
Yours in Health,
Dr. Jeff
Any medical information provided in Doctor Jeff's Blog is designed to support, not replace, the relationship that exists between a patient/site visitor and his/her health professional. Any information provided is not meant to diagnose, treat or manage any specific disease/condition.Doctor Jeff's Blog respects the confidentiality of individual patients and site visitors. All clinical anecdotes are compliant with HIPAA regulations.
Wednesday, August 29, 2012
Thursday, August 23, 2012
Top Pediatricians Have 4 Legs?
Good Afternoon Everyone,
Want to know how to minimize a newborn's allergies and/or respiratory tract illnesses? All you have to do is get a dog if you don't already have one. According to a recent study in the Pediatrics journal; having a dog that spends half the day outside and the other half inside, helps improve a newborn's immune system and overall health. Here's the statistics from the study for children with dogs at home:
Take Home Message:
Health seems to coming right back to the basics in the research. Want to feel better?... - eat healthier and exercise (or get yourself moving)! Want a stronger immune system for your kids?... - follow what Grandma says and let those kids play outside in the dirt!!
*It seems that researchers could save a lot of time and money by just listening to what our elders have been saying for years!
Yours in Health,
Dr. Jeff
Source:
Respiratory Tract Illnesses During the First Year of Life: Effect of Dog and Cat. Pediatrics Volume 130, Number 2, August 2012.
Any medical information provided in Doctor Jeff's Blog is designed to support, not replace, the relationship that exists between a patient/site visitor and his/her health professional. Any information provided is not meant to diagnose, treat or manage any specific disease/condition.Doctor Jeff's Blog respects the confidentiality of individual patients and site visitors. All clinical anecdotes are compliant with HIPAA regulations.
Want to know how to minimize a newborn's allergies and/or respiratory tract illnesses? All you have to do is get a dog if you don't already have one. According to a recent study in the Pediatrics journal; having a dog that spends half the day outside and the other half inside, helps improve a newborn's immune system and overall health. Here's the statistics from the study for children with dogs at home:
- 31% fewer respiratory tract infections
- 44% fewer ear infections
- 29% fewer courses of antibiotics
Take Home Message:
Health seems to coming right back to the basics in the research. Want to feel better?... - eat healthier and exercise (or get yourself moving)! Want a stronger immune system for your kids?... - follow what Grandma says and let those kids play outside in the dirt!!
*It seems that researchers could save a lot of time and money by just listening to what our elders have been saying for years!
Yours in Health,
Dr. Jeff
Source:
Respiratory Tract Illnesses During the First Year of Life: Effect of Dog and Cat. Pediatrics Volume 130, Number 2, August 2012.
Any medical information provided in Doctor Jeff's Blog is designed to support, not replace, the relationship that exists between a patient/site visitor and his/her health professional. Any information provided is not meant to diagnose, treat or manage any specific disease/condition.Doctor Jeff's Blog respects the confidentiality of individual patients and site visitors. All clinical anecdotes are compliant with HIPAA regulations.
Wednesday, August 8, 2012
The $3 Billion Slap on the Wrist!
Good Evening Everyone,
Back in early July of this year, the British drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline plead guilty to criminal charges and agreed to pay a fine of $3billion to the U.S. Government (the Largest pharmaceutical settlement ever!!!). Those charges were promoting its best-selling antidepressants for unapproved uses, failing to report safety information on diabetes drugs and improper marketing of many other drugs.
This story is disturbing for many reasons:
* First, is that most people don't even know this story. This should have been on major headlines, but instead it was barely talked about. Everyone should know about such serious fines (largest ever!!!) and charges to a company that probably manufactures some or most of their medications.
* Second is the amount of the fine. Three Billion dollars seems like a large amount, but not if you are a major pharmaceutical company. The company made $28 Billion on the drugs which make up for those in the criminal charges and settlement. Some government officials consider the $3 billion fine to be just the cost of doing business for GlaxoSmithKline.
* Third and definitely not the least reason for this story being disturbing, is the fact that this unethical/criminal practice is happening with many other pharmaceutical companies according to this source of information.
So according to some government officials, this huge fine is just a slap on the wrist to a powerful company such as GlaxoSmithKline. The scary part is that since they are making so much money on the sale of these drugs (ethical/criminal or not), there's no reason for why they should stop with these criminal acts for which they plead guilty to. They can keep paying the fines and continue to make Huge Profits!
Take Home Message:
* Remember to always bring Dr. CommonSense to your doctor visits, and please do your research about treatments and drugs that are prescribed to you.
Yours in Health,
Dr. Jeff
Source:
Glaxo Agrees to Pay $3 Billion in Fraud Settlement, July 2, 2012, The New York Times.
Any medical information provided in Doctor Jeff's Blog is designed to support, not replace, the relationship that exists between a patient/site visitor and his/her health professional. Any information provided is not meant to diagnose, treat or manage any specific disease/condition.Doctor Jeff's Blog respects the confidentiality of individual patients and site visitors. All clinical anecdotes are compliant with HIPAA regulations.
Back in early July of this year, the British drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline plead guilty to criminal charges and agreed to pay a fine of $3billion to the U.S. Government (the Largest pharmaceutical settlement ever!!!). Those charges were promoting its best-selling antidepressants for unapproved uses, failing to report safety information on diabetes drugs and improper marketing of many other drugs.
This story is disturbing for many reasons:
* First, is that most people don't even know this story. This should have been on major headlines, but instead it was barely talked about. Everyone should know about such serious fines (largest ever!!!) and charges to a company that probably manufactures some or most of their medications.
* Second is the amount of the fine. Three Billion dollars seems like a large amount, but not if you are a major pharmaceutical company. The company made $28 Billion on the drugs which make up for those in the criminal charges and settlement. Some government officials consider the $3 billion fine to be just the cost of doing business for GlaxoSmithKline.
* Third and definitely not the least reason for this story being disturbing, is the fact that this unethical/criminal practice is happening with many other pharmaceutical companies according to this source of information.
So according to some government officials, this huge fine is just a slap on the wrist to a powerful company such as GlaxoSmithKline. The scary part is that since they are making so much money on the sale of these drugs (ethical/criminal or not), there's no reason for why they should stop with these criminal acts for which they plead guilty to. They can keep paying the fines and continue to make Huge Profits!
Take Home Message:
* Remember to always bring Dr. CommonSense to your doctor visits, and please do your research about treatments and drugs that are prescribed to you.
Yours in Health,
Dr. Jeff
Source:
Glaxo Agrees to Pay $3 Billion in Fraud Settlement, July 2, 2012, The New York Times.
Any medical information provided in Doctor Jeff's Blog is designed to support, not replace, the relationship that exists between a patient/site visitor and his/her health professional. Any information provided is not meant to diagnose, treat or manage any specific disease/condition.Doctor Jeff's Blog respects the confidentiality of individual patients and site visitors. All clinical anecdotes are compliant with HIPAA regulations.
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