By: Dr. Mercola
Source: Mercola.com
More than half a million Americans received an angioplasty in 2007 (the most recent year for which data is available).
This invasive procedure involves inflating a thin balloon in a narrowed artery to crush deposits; a stent (a wire […]
By Andreas Moritz
Surgery is often unnecessary.
Several years ago a committee of the American Congress investigating procedures of surgery in the United States came to the conclusion that 2.4 million operations are performed unnecessarily each year, costing 12,000 lives and 4 billion US dollars. The latest figures show that some 6 million unnecessary operations are performed each year.
Another study found that most people who were accepted for an operation did not actually need one and half of them did […]
