“You never fail until you stop trying.” ~ Albert Einstein I dedicate this heartfelt memorial to a dear friend, mentor, teacher, colleague, and warrior, Dr. Etienne Callebout, who departed this...
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What do COVID-19 and Cancer Share in Common?
I’ve spent twenty years providing personalized medicine consultation for cancer patients, mostly those suffering from Stage IV advanced cancers. The most common feature, which I observed in the vast majority...
Read MorePlacebo-phobia is Killing COVID-19 Patients
We really didn’t need another study into the Placebo Effect, but it made the researchers feel better Nico Reznick Years ago I saw a cartoon that showed two orderlies...
Read MoreUsing Old Drugs Against a New Virus
Sir Robert Alexander Watson-Watt was a Scottish meteorologist who developed a low-tech radar system to help forecast the weather. In 1935, he convinced the British government to use his far-from-perfect...
Read MoreCan Fear Increase the Death Toll of the Coronavirus?
“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more so that we may fear less.” –Marie Curie On March...
Read MoreMIT Innovation Lab Presentation
This past Thursday, February 28th, I was honored to stand before some of the world’s greatest thinkers, industry game-changers, and leaders of innovation in the US Army, Navy, NASA, Ford,...
Read MoreWhat price will we pay for the FDA’s faith in Gd?
Gd is the chemical symbol for gadolinium, a rare metal that is commonly used during magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans and is approved by the FDA. Thirty million MRI scans...
Read MorePatients Beware: Your Patience May Kill You
I recently flew from Vienna to New York on Austrian Airlines. As sometimes happens after landing, a number of passengers were impatient and stood before the plane arrived at the...
Read MoreSerendipity & Drug Repurposing
Serendipity is understood to mean the fortuitous discovery of that which we didn’t set out to seek. Usually, we think of science as following well-defined logical processes and that new...
Read MoreIn Experts We Trust
In light of the advances in knowledge and education wouldn’t we expect modern, sophisticated human beings to be more discerning and less naive than their forebears? Wouldn’t it be logical...
Read MoreThink! See No Boxes
Some years ago, while helping a young man suffering from treatment-resistant colitis (inflammation of the large intestine) I came across several safe, little-known treatments using existing approved drugs that originally...
Read MoreCuriosity – The Indispensable Factor for a Good Physician
“Necessity may be the mother of invention, but curiosity is the mother of discovery.” –Charles Handy. “I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.” –Albert Einstein. Medicine faces...
Read MoreSaving Time – Welcome and Thank you
Some years ago I visited a researcher at one of the leading universities on the US East Coast. This researcher, a distinguished professor with many awards, discovered a treatment that...
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