Implanted medical devices have been in use for decades: pacemakers, ports, metal rods and tubes of all sorts and sizes, stents, etc.
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The Hidden Advertising Truth
by Axel E. Thieke G.P. •
Surely you have come across one of those unbelievable ads of how to lose weight in your sleep. One tends to see one of those six-pack stomachs snoozing and a voice in the in-off tells you that this is how you’re going to look when taking Dr. Fartys Wonderpills. I always find these things an assault to human intelligence and wonder genuinely how anybody can believe such rubbish. Until..
What’s Good for the Goose…
by Axel E. Thieke G.P. •
Doctor Axel Thieke brings his monthly medical column to the Seaside Gazette, with his customary cynical eye for the pharaceutical world
Who is Who & Who am I?
by Axel E. Thieke G.P. •
Each of us is colonised, inside and out, by micro-organisms. More than three pounds of micro-organisms in our gut alone, and many more on our skin.In fact, we harbour 10 microbial cells for each one of our own cells. If our microbial partners were merely fellow travellers with no effects on our health, their invisible…
How Necessary is Screening?
by Axel E. Thieke G.P. •
Screening is meant to detect health problems before their ‘owner’ gets aware of them. Many ailments do only cause problems, complaints or even pain, once they’re too big to be treated successfully. Therefore one wants to find a problem that is still small enough to be healed.
Real News is Scarce…
by Axel E. Thieke G.P. •
Many new medicines are released and approved and marketed every year. Most of them are pseudo-innovations that are not any better than the ones already available.