Archives for May 2011

The drug levothyroxine, aka Synthroid, a synthetic form of the thyroid hormone used to treat hypothyroidism, is just about the least effective means of battling an underactive thyroid gland – and now, researchers say in some seniors it may more than triple the odds of a bone break.

Hungarian researchers recruited 19 type-2 diabetics and randomly assigned them to either 10 mg of resveratrol a day (in a supplement, not a wine glass), or a placebo, for four weeks. One month later, those who got the wine nutrient showed a significant decrease in insulin resistance.

It came as no surprise to me when a recent study found that docs who buy or lease MRI machines have much higher rates of screenings — and ultimately, surgeries.

A new study confirms that docs get worse at colonoscopies as the clock winds down toward quittin’ time – with some docs only half as good at the last procedure of the day as they are for the first.

As I’ve told you time and again, a low-salt diet won’t lower blood pressure OR protect your heart — and now, the latest research shows it can actually boost the odds of any early death by more than 500 percent!

You’d have to be clinically insane to eat 22 teaspoons of sugar… but that’s exactly what you’re doing, every single day, if you’re an “average American.”

Mammograms have led to the mass disfigurement of American women while doing nothing to improve breast cancer survival rates, and now even mainstream docs and researchers are backing away from them.

Sure enough, Swedish researchers claim their 15-year study found that men with prostate cancer under the age of 65 who get surgery have a higher survival rate than those who choose to watch and wait.

When it comes to weight loss, there’s no such thing as a quick fix — especially when it comes to the fat-sucking procedure, liposuction. Because, as a handful of unlucky ladies discovered, fat sucked out of one area of the body eventually rears its blubbery head in another one.

Doctors these days may as well hang a sign on their door that says, “For sale to the highest bidder.” It’s no great shock that the highest bidder is always Big Pharma — what IS shocking is that doctors are willing to admit it.