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It’s Health’s Illusions I Recall, I Really Don’t Know Health at All

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T here is a core concept shaping the ‘market’ in health, the concept of an assay, that few doctors or patients understand. This article explains what assays are, how they entered healthcare and the consequences of failing to grasp the role they play. Drugs like mirtazapine improve appetite and sleep; this is a tonic effect.

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The Clinical, Social, and Cultural Harm of an Iatrogenic Psychiatry

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T he harm caused by the medical profession is called iatrogenesis , and in 1975, Ivan Illich (1926-2002) published Medical Nemesis (republished titled Limits to Medicine ) in which he discussed the clinical, social, and cultural iatrogenesis of modern medicine. Antidepressants? John’s wort-treated patients).

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Enlarging the Treatment Lens for Postpartum Depression

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Mom continued to struggle to overcome depression until her death in 2002. No one helped us to understand how the sleep disturbances we experienced could play havoc with our moods. The Office on Women’s Health emphasizes psychosocial causes as being significant in PPD.

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Trust Among Those People in Prison, Rising From the Borderlands

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Recovery activists and Black Panthers in the 1970s experimented with ear points to arrive at a simple procedure that community health workers could safely apply it in underserved areas of the world. New Mexico acupuncture law opened right after in 2002. Acudetox arrived here to the Mescalero reservation in 2001.