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Actor Michael Douglas last night stunned a television audience with the announcement that he has “late stage IV throat cancer.” Actually, “throat cancer” isn’t a medical term. Several different kinds of cancer can involve different parts of the throat and mouth. Michael Douglas says he has a walnut-sized tumor at the base of his tongue. That’s an oropharyngeal cancer. Why do people get it? Well, as I have said on my other sites, half of us will get some kind of cancer. He just got this one. But the known risk factors are smoking and drinking – not so much separately but bad when both come together. However doctors are seeing a sudden general rise in oropharyngeal cases. Not all smoke and drink. Some victims do neither. Why?

Actor Michael Douglas last night stunned a television audience with the announcement that he has “late stage IV throat cancer.” Actually, “throat cancer” isn’t a medical term. Several different kinds of cancer can involve different parts of the throat and mouth. Michael Douglas says he has a walnut-sized tumor at the base of his tongue. That’s an oropharyngeal cancer. Why do people get it? Well, as I have said on my other sites, half of us will get some kind of cancer. He just got this one. But the known risk factors are smoking and drinking – not so much separately but bad when both come together. However doctors are seeing a sudden general rise in oropharyngeal cases. Not all smoke and drink. Some victims do neither. Why?

Here’s a big step forward in dieting technique. Ever wonder why some people seem to lose weight easily and yet others, on exactly the same regimen, don’t seem to be able to lose at all? The answer always was that people are different. But to understand just how different, we need modern science, especially an […]

Here’s a big step forward in dieting technique. Ever wonder why some people seem to lose weight easily and yet others, on exactly the same regimen, don’t seem to be able to lose at all? The answer always was that people are different. But to understand just how different, we need modern science, especially an […] The post DNA Typing To Choose Your Best Weight Loss Plan appeared first on Dr. Keith Scott-Mumby.

Forget swine flu. It’s trivial at the side of resistant bacteria deaths. As of Nov 6th the total still hasn’t reached 1,000 in the US, despite the continuing media hysteria [http://www.cdc.gov/h1n1flu/updates/us/]. Deaths from resistant bacteria run in the 10,000s. MRSA alone killed 19,000 in 2005, the latest year for which I can find official US figures (it is now much higher, of course). Now Clostridium difficile has joined the fray. It’s name says it all. It’s difficult to control and it’s antibiotic-resistant form is now killing 5,000 people a year in the USA alone. According to a report (November 1st 2009) one strain of MRSA is five times more lethal than what has gone before. The mortality is 50%, compared to 11% for the “normal” MRSA. Why aren’t the newspapers and TV programs screaming about this? This is NOW! 50/50 is horrendous odds. Like Russian roulette with 3 bullets in the gun.

Forget swine flu. It’s trivial at the side of resistant bacteria deaths. As of Nov 6th the total still hasn’t reached 1,000 in the US, despite the continuing media hysteria [http://www.cdc.gov/h1n1flu/updates/us/]. Deaths from resistant bacteria run in the 10,000s. MRSA alone killed 19,000 in 2005, the latest year for which I can find official US figures (it is now much higher, of course). Now Clostridium difficile has joined the fray. It’s name says it all. It’s difficult to control and it’s antibiotic-resistant form is now killing 5,000 people a year in the USA alone. According to a report (November 1st 2009) one strain of MRSA is five times more lethal than what has gone before. The mortality is 50%, compared to 11% for the “normal” MRSA. Why aren’t the newspapers and TV programs screaming about this? This is NOW! 50/50 is horrendous odds. Like Russian roulette with 3 bullets in the gun.

The concierge’s wife has back pain due to a prolapsed inter-vertebral disc (a “slipped” disc). Then, I woke up this morning with a stiff neck, due a poor sleeping posture (and a dose of dairy in the form of ice cream last night!) It got me to thinking I should write a little bit about […]

The concierge’s wife has back pain due to a prolapsed inter-vertebral disc (a “slipped” disc). Then, I woke up this morning with a stiff neck, due a poor sleeping posture (and a dose of dairy in the form of ice cream last night!) It got me to thinking I should write a little bit about […] The post Simple tips for neck and low back pain appeared first on Dr. Keith Scott-Mumby.

It’s over! The truth is, the comfortable world as we have known it for the last 60 years is coming rapidly to an end. Bacteria are deadly and the short period of time where we were able to control them is vanishing fast. Even as you read this, a new strain could be emerging somewhere, […]

It’s over! The truth is, the comfortable world as we have known it for the last 60 years is coming rapidly to an end. Bacteria are deadly and the short period of time where we were able to control them is vanishing fast. Even as you read this, a new strain could be emerging somewhere, […] The post antibiotic age is over appeared first on Dr. Keith Scott-Mumby.

Doctors aren’t writing prescriptions for certain antibiotics to treat children’s respiratory tract infections as much as they used to, so trumpets the Journal of the American Medical Association. I thought, Hooray! They’ve been reading my report How To Survive In A World Without Antibiotics. But actually, they are just prescribing something else instead! The researchers […]

Doctors aren’t writing prescriptions for certain antibiotics to treat children’s respiratory tract infections as much as they used to, so trumpets the Journal of the American Medical Association. I thought, Hooray! They’ve been reading my report How To Survive In A World Without Antibiotics. But actually, they are just prescribing something else instead! The researchers […] The post Antibiotic Prescriptions DOWN! appeared first on Dr. Keith Scott-Mumby.