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Thanks to Michael Burkhart for forwarding me this article entitled, “Beauty Secret: Your Make-Up Can Kill You” by Jacqueline Houton, about the lack of oversight of the cosmetic industry. If you thought the FDA provides safeguards to protect …
While all the major media outlets reported today on a very interesting finding about breast cancer survival rates among women who took hormone replacement therapy (HRT), what was not reported by the media was a troubling finding that …
Why is it that women and people with higher levels of education are more likely to use complementary and alternative medicine (CAM)? The study released by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and the Centers for …
Yes I am for universal health care but manadatory health care insurance does reveal an underlying problem with the health care system overall -a shortage of health care providers. This has become clear in Massachusetts where I …
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As a licensed pilot, I’m a member of AOPA (Aircraft Owners and Pilots Assoc) and get email updates on the magazine. When I saw the …
Ok, the headline might seem like a stretch but in fact, college students were 47% less likely to score poorly on exams according to Dr. Kristen Nichol,one of the authors of this study and chief of …
This commentary appeared in the journal Nature (12/8/08) : “The drugs just reviewed (ADHD medications and other cognitive enhancing medications), along with newer technologies such as brain stimulation and prosthetic brain chips, should be viewed in the same …
Crunch these numbers: A small company pays $2 million/year to insure its employees and their families. The insurer pays out $700,000 in claims last year (one claim for treating ovarian cancer - just the chemo alone – …
Preliminary guidelines related to the treatment of gender confused kids were recently issued by the Endocrine Society. The recommendations include giving children as young as 12, drugs that block puberty to avoid the emotional distress associated with …
Why is it that some people get better even though they are given nothing more than a sugar pill? Well, scientists have wondered why too. A new study by Tomas Furmark of Uppsala University in …
