CNS Blog
Breaking News – Cell Phones and Brain Tumors – Leaked Insight from the U.S. National Toxicology Program?
In early 2008, I self-published a review paper on-line, clearly expressing my concerns regarding mobile phones and brain tumors (Reference 1, below). That paper caused an international stir after Geoffrey Lean from The Independent UK added his provocative headline (Reference 2, below) and I and others eventually discussed our thoughts on this topic on Larry […]
Read MoreTime for a second opinion? When surgery becomes a ‘placebo’?
In the last few weeks, among other things, I’ve been asked to give my opinion on a patient offered a discectomy for a ‘herniated’ spinal disc that I (and the reporting radiologist) found difficult to call ‘herniated’, a patient offered a three-level spinal instrumentation operation when two levels of instrumentation could readily suffice, a patient […]
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