Archives for March 2011

Your pain is a surgeon’s gain, especially when it comes to back pain — just don’t count on that pricey operation to actually solve your problems.

Maybe you’ve seen the headlines about a “study” that found even BPA-free plastics can give off estrogen.

It’s the most useless test in medicine, and your doctor knows it.

You don’t have to be a sissy to hit the pain pills every day — but the side effects can turn you into one.

Uncle Sam is plotting to snap naked photos of you with a blast of radiation from a full-body scanner… and you might not even know when it’s happening.

You don’t need to see research to know that cellphones alter the brain.

Seniors who suffer from depression don’t need a drug, a hug, or a room in an old folk’s home.

Big Pharma’s going to hate this — and that means I love it already: One of the tiniest and most humble creatures on the planet could hold the key to preventing Alzheimer’s disease.

Australian researchers randomly assigned 60 healthy men between the ages of 25 and 52 years old to either 600 mg of a ram’s horn clover extract called Testofen, or a placebo, every day for six weeks.

Zinc can shorten the length of the cold, lessen the symptoms and severity, and even help you avoid getting sick in the first place.