Newsletter Archive
2007
January - Brain Health as We Age Part Ten: The Hippocampus – The Seat of Memory
February - Brain Health as We Age Part Eleven – Reason for Hope: Nutrients to Preserve Memory and Sharp Thinking
March - Brain Health as We Age Part Twelve: The Final Chapter
April - Supplements: Beware the Lowest Bidder
May - Depression, Dementia, and Lithium
June - The Long and Winding Road
July - Annual Pharmacy Price Update - Overseas Medicine
August - Resist the Hype; Summertime Scrapes
September - Prescription Medications
- When to Use Them; When to Lose Them
October - What is Science? - Colon
Cancer Screening Update
November - How to Talk to Your Doctor, Flu Vaccine, Vitamin D
December - What I Learned in Jail
2006
January - New
Year's: Resolution or Action?
February - Brain Health
as We Age: Part One – How the Brain Works
March - Brain Health as
We Age: Part Two – Oxidative Brain Injury of Aging
April - Brain Health as
We Age: Part Three – The Little Engines That Could
May - Glucosamine, Brain
Health as We Age: Part Four – Circulate and Stay Sharp
June - Brain Health as
We Age: Part Five – Inflammation
July - Brain Health as
We Age: Part Six – Microinflammation and the Brain
August - Health Care Finance
Reform: Small Changes; Big Results
September - Brain Health
as We Age: Part Seven – Homocysteine, Folic Acid and Vitamin
B-12
October - Brain Health
as We Age: Part Eight – Phosphatidylserine Preserves Brain Function
thru Membrane Support
November - Brain Health
as We Age: Part Nine – Dementia – Know Thy Enemy
December - Shingles Vaccine
2005
January - Medicine, Money & Your Health, Naproxin Update, Toxic Ayurvedic RemediesFebruary - The Secret Life of Glucose, We Get Mail, LASIK - Risky or Wonderful?
March - Calcium, Leukemia Survivor, Save Money on Pharmaceuticals
April - A Second Look at Mammograms
May - The School Sisters of Notre Dame
June - Health & Aging
Late June - New Food Pyramid, Help for Tired Legs
July - Colon Cancer - Preventive Screening
August - Water, Your Number One Home Remedy, Discount Drugs at Costco
Mid-August - Melanoma Is Epidemic. Or Is It?
September - Skin Cancers and Skin Lesions, Body Mapping, In Memorium: Rita Herkel
Mid-September - On-Line Evaluations of Physicians
October - The Weight Control Issue
November - Physical Therapy
November Extra Edition - Getting Ready for the Flu, More on Physical Therapy
December - How We Spend Our Lives, Holiday Wish
2004
January - Chick-Chack for Lice, COX-2 Inhibitors, Estrogen, Health Savings Plans, Health Care Payment WarsFebruary - Vitamin D, Television and Children, Estrogen, Malpractice Insurance
March - Vitamin D, Sinusitis and Fungus, Antibiotic Resistance, Prescription Refills
April - High-Dose Statin Drugs, When Pharmaceuticals Help, Head Lice Redux
May - Sun and Your Health, Puritanical about Pain
June - Drugs and Their Side-Effects, Phen-fen: Good Drug or Bad?
July - 2C9, Drug Detoxification, and Drug Side-Effects, Toenail Fungus Ads
August - Natural Treatments for Osteoporosis, Headline Writers Boot it Again, Services for Business Needs
September - A Letter to Our Readers, A Lesson in Acceptance
October - Aspirin and Heart Attacks, "Purifying" Rashes, Influenza Vaccine
November - Nutritional Supplements, Combating the Flu
Mid-November - Vitamin E, Mixed Tocopherols, Mail Order Drugs
December - Folic Acid and Your Health, Wellness Tune-up
2003
March - Malpractice
Insurance, Generic Drug Price Inflation, Smallpox Vaccination,
Judging Supplement Quality, Pharmaceutical Advertising
May - SARS, Disaster
Preparedness, Coral Calcium, On-Line Pharmacies, Drug Pricing
June - Loss of your
Privacy Rights, Natural Menopause, What's New in Medicine?
July - West Nile Virus,
Sore Joints, Vitamin B12 Deficiency, SARS, Politics of Prescription
Drugs, Same Day Service
August - Vitamin A
and Osteoporosis, Summer Hours
September - Supplements
At Risk, Stopping the Niacin Flush, No-Fault Illness, "Solutions" Weight
Loss Program
October - The AMA,
Zinc and Macular Degeneration, Malpractice Law Reform, Glossy Brochures,
Free Information
November - Anxiety
and Depression, Head Lice Hysteria
December - Sleep,
Medical Privacy, Seasonal Affective Disorder
2002
January - Longevity
Calculators
February - Fitness
ratings, toenail fungus, ear infections
June - Depression
in the news, new Home Remedy service
July - Estrogen, No
Cure-No Pay service, Vitamin A
August - New "Medical
Privacy" Law, Discount Prescription Drugs, Exercise and Arthritis,
Halitosis
October - On-Line
Pharmacies, Ear Candles, Flu Shots
November - New Test
for Heart Disease Risk, Medical Research Bought and Sold, Multilevel-Marketed
Multiple Vitamins, Letters!
2001
September - Vitamin
C
December - Advertisements
for Screening Tests
2000
December - Nurse
Practitioner, TV show
1999
May - Weight loss,
male hormones, clinic services
Medicine for People! is published by Douwe Rienstra, MD at Port Townsend, Washington. Edited by Carolyn Latteier.
Subscribe | Previous issues | Contact Dr. Rienstra | More information
©
Monroe Street Medical Clinic - Disclaimer
Monroe Street Medical Clinic is a trade name of and is operated
by
Integrative Health Systems, P.S., a Washington professional service
corporation.