Archives for September 2010

The latest ugly trend in healthcare is an unholy alliance between banks and clinics that’s led to the creation of a usurious new line of business: healthcare credit cards.

Drug companies are turning the online health community into a shady back-alley drugstore. In some cases, they’ve been caught red-handed promoting meds on the Internet without mentioning those pesky side effects, as required by law. In others, they’ve been found using the Web to push the off-label use of meds.

Listen very closely, and you can practically hear the backpedaling: The CDC now admits it’s been badly wrong about flu deaths.

Vegans aren’t just missing out on good health… there’s now solid evidence that a meat-free lifestyle can leave seniors open to pneumonia and even death.

I’ve told you for years that oral health affects heart health. Now, one scientist has figured out the “why” behind this cause-and-effect relationship.

Dental clinics are like industrial waste zones. They’re loaded with some of the most powerful poisons on the planet — and mercury and fluoride are just the tip of the iceberg.

If you’re the “glass-half-empty” type, you might want to consider getting an attitude adjustment. It turns out that the more disagreeable you are, the more likely you are to have a stroke.

If you had told me decades ago that people would deliberately start injecting each other with one of the world’s most potent poisons just to smooth over a few wrinkles, I would have wondered if maybe you weren’t a little poisoned yourself.

The drugs forced on millions and sold by the billions simply don’t work — and now, a researcher has put a number on all that futility: 85 percent.

A new study shows why blood pressure meds don’t work for some people — and how they can actually raise blood pressure to dangerous levels among a significant number of patients.