Archives for March 2009

IN THIS ISSUE: Half of the “expert” advice you get on heart health may be TOTAL GARBAGE; Obesity causes cancer…and other medical myths; Want to fight heart disease and cancer? This Bud’s for you!

IN THIS ISSUE: Isn’t that the same diet they used to starve POWs?; The macrobiotics cult is creating a nation of eunuchs!; Beware of deadly prescription drugs

Someone in the town of Bellaire, Ohio, mistakenly put hydrochloric acid into the town’s water supply, thinking it was fluoride.

Here’s a good one: the lawyer for a man accused of shooting a church pastor (DURING a sermon, no less) is arguing that his client is not liable for his actions because he has Lyme disease.

Six of the largest makers of baby bottles have vowed to stop selling bottles made with the chemical known as Bisphenol A, thanks to one crusading attorney general.

My biggest issue with HRT has always been the role it plays in causing cancer. And now a new study published in the New England Journal of Medicine seems to indicate that taking women off of HRT cuts their cancer risk – and fast.

As you know, the FDA isn’t terribly adept at regulating the things that they are ostensibly charged with regulating – namely food and drugs. So excuse me if I’m skeptical about how well they’ll do at “regulating” tobacco products.

Some doctors are now asking patients to sign an agreement that they won’t post negative comments about their experiences online.

Does actual TV watching have anything to do with asthma? Of course not. I wish researchers would be less concerned about getting the public’s attention.

The recent wave of food-borne sicknesses could lead to something that would be worse for our food supply than the occasional salmonella outbreak: more food irradiation.