October 22nd, 2008 · 8:36 PM
Wall Street Journal
October 15, 2008
Two studies on stents were recently presented at a cardiology conference. The first found that many patients are being given stents without adequate documentation of ischemia (inadequate oxygen). They are doing it based on visualization of arteries that appear blocked on X-ray, and not on documentation of ischemia as recommended in [...]
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Tags: death, heart attacks, heart disease, inflammation, placebo, stents
July 20th, 2008 · 9:38 PM
Proverbs 23:7 “As he thinketh in his heart, so is he.”
In that rather fascinating scripture that represents a philosophy as old as time, assume we have a concept called the placebo effect. A certain percentage of patients in trial studies are given “placebo” medicine. Theoretically, if
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Tags: cancer, faith, Goodman, gratitude, laughter, medicine, placebo, prayer, secret, self love, Selye, Siegel, thoughts