Last week I sent out a press release on Canker Sores. Amazingly it was picked up by 74 news sources including Google, Yahoo, USA Today, several major newspapers and the Mayo Clinic News Letter. Not bad for a country boy.
From time to time I like to do some research on a topic and present it in a format that everyone can understand. This time it was canker sores. As I read through the scientific papers for background I was struck by how difficult most of it was for me to understand.
I am not really interested in animal studies on those cute little hampsters. Far away possible cures are far away. Call me when they are ready. I hate it when the arcicle ends with “further studies need to be done”. What did that cost us and what did you accomplish Mr. researcher.
I believe the public wants to know about the here and now. So I distill heavily and cut out the nonesense. My goal is to make the information clear and easy to understand.
I wish the medical community would do the same. I read some of the articles in the New England Journal of Medicine and Lancet. I admit to reading just the beginings and ends of the articles. I skip the middle. I simply can understand it. Regretfully my statistics is a little rusty so the middle is meaningless to me.
I skim the Journals of the American Dental associaton and the California Dental Association. I don’t know what page these folks are on but its not mine. Studies with no product names don’t help me to help you one bit.
If you get a chance Google “Dr. Allan Melnick” and read about canker sores and let me know what you think. I hope I am on the right tract.
Best regards, AM
