Node Smith, ND It’s become common for patients in the intensive care unit (ICU), both children and adults, to receive probiotics. Often, they are started at home to counteract diarrhea [...]

Node Smith, ND A new study has provided evidence that antibiotic usage is associated with an increased risk of developing rheumatoid arthritis. Patients exposed to antibiotics were 60% higher in [...]

Node Smith, ND Dr. John E. Parker was working at a West Virginia hospital in 2015 when a 31-year-old female patient was admitted with acute respiratory problems. A team of doctors ultimately [...]

Naturopathic Perspective Decker Weiss, NMD, FASA As a human species, we face grave dangers from climate change, food shortages, wars, terrorism, and more. As a physician, there is not much I can [...]

Node Smith, ND A new study conducted by researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and published in JAMA Network Open, found that 81% of antibiotics prescribed by dentists – who [...]

Node Smith, ND Concentrations of antibiotics found in some of the world’s rivers exceed ‘safe’ levels by up to 300 times, the first ever global study has discovered. Researchers [...]

Node Smith, ND Outpatient healthcare providers inappropriately prescribed antibiotics to 40 percent of patients in a major Veterans Affairs healthcare system, a higher figure than in previous [...]

Node Smith, ND A recent research study suggests that changing the gut microbiome in children with autism could reduce the severity of the symptoms they experience.1 This is part of a longer [...]

Node Smith, ND A recent research article supports what naturopathic medicine has known for generations, that antibiotics kill helpful bacteria and cause more problems than they solve. The [...]

Node Smith, ND A study published in the European Journal of Public Health recently acknowledges that probiotics taken as a preventative measure may lower the number of antibiotic prescriptions [...]