Archives for May 2009

Researchers think they’ve found another potential cause of high blood pressure, but don’t get too excited just yet.

Now the habit of using useless – and potentially dangerous – topical drugs to treat all manner of muscle and joint pain is gaining even more popularity.

Alzheimer’s researchers are leaving no stone unturned in their quest to find the cause for Alzheimer’s disease.

A new study says ginger can be a particularly useful ally in the battle against cancer.

Over the past few months, I’ve been keeping you posted on the growing movement against BPA, a chemical found in many plastic containers. Well, it looks like we’ve finally got a victory on the horizon.

A statewide indoor smoking ban has cleared the state senate in Texas and is looming in Wisconsin. And if those Bill of Rights-shredding, anti-smoking lobbyists have their way, this ban is coming to a state near you sooner than you think.

CSPI is now blaming fast food and chain restaurants for the deaths of thousands of Americans every year. The cause? High sodium content. Their solution? More government regulations.

Here’s something you won’t hear every day: researchers are admitting that there’s actually a disease that the much-glorified statin drugs can’t fix.

According to researchers at the Collaborating Center for Obesity Prevention of the World Health Organization (WHO), the climbing rate of obesity in industrialized nations is the result of – drum roll, please – overeating.

There’s a new report that’s added severe allergies and asthma to the list of maladies that can result from a vitamin D deficiency.