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America’s Medical System: Better or Worse than the Developing World?

by francine 01.02.2012

Five years ago, I lost a dear friend to a situation that never should have happened. Although, if I were to ask him, he would tell me otherwise. He would say his life’s journey was over. I would say the ignorance and arrogance of his adopted country’s medical system killed him.  I am writing about [...]

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Death by Diet

by francine 12.11.2011

Until you have gone off the deep end on nutritional therapy as I have, a Western medicine aficionado has every reason to doubt its effectiveness. Thr only people who know how useful it is to tightly control the toxins, vitamins, and foods that go into their bodies are the people who MUST know: very sick [...]

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by francine 11.17.2011

I am listening to the story of a woman who had malignant mesothelioma eleven years ago, was given 8-14 month prognosis, and is alive because her best friend is a specialist in personalized medicine at the University of Arizona. He found through tumor tissue analysis that her markekers were the same as those of someone [...]

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A Dozen New Health Care Startups at Rock Health

by francine 11.17.2011

Yesterday was Rock Health’s first Demo Day. Rock Health is the hip, cool, incubator for health care startups in San Francisco, and I was fortunate enough to mentor many of the young companies. Almost to a person, they don’t come from health care backgrounds, so they are able to look at things with fresh eyes.   [...]

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