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New information shows that melanoma, the most deadly form of skin cancer, affects men far more than women.
When dealing with ischemic stroke (the kind caused by a clot that obstructs brain blood flow), it has often been emphasized that early treatment say within a couple of hours
Ovarian cancer is difficult to diagnose before it progresses, and thus far there are no effective ways to screen women for it. However, a new method may help detect the disease in its early stages.
We ve said repeatedly that the Dietary Supplements Health Education Act (DSHEA) passed in 1994 put consumers at risk from unregulated or under-regulated supplements. The latest study confirming that opinion was just published in BMC Medicine.
Nothing new here. We ve written about this before. Once the esteemed New York Times columnist Nick Kristof gets out of his comfort (and knowledge) zone he goes from a really great commentator to an ignorant scaremonger. Sort of a Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hydrogen.
An ad hoc organization Allow Golden Rice Now will continue its quest to end fear and agenda-driven opposition to Golden Rice with a weekend protest in Vancouver.
In the neverending battle between the unregulated multibillion dollar supplements industry and legitimate medicine, this shady industry is trying to recover from a pretty good licking it received today from the FDA.
An article in today s New York Times discusses the situation regarding fracking in N.Y. State, with a focus on the small town of Dryden in
A new study published in Science shows evidence that, in mice, substances like amyloid-beta known to be increased in Alzheimer s disease and others, are removed from the cerebrospinal fluid bathing the brain at an accelerated rate during sleep.
A new study published in the American Journal of Medicine shows that for patients with the most common arrhythmia (irregular heartbeat), atrial fibrillation (A-fib), trying to convert the heartbeat to
The New York City Department of Health has just launched a new public health campaign called the NYC Girls Project, with the goal of sending the message to young girls that they are beautiful the way they are. With the prevalence of obesity in our society, as well as the constant flood of media promoting
In case you re wondering, superstar athletes like LeBron James and Peyton Manning don t seem to be in the know about the nutritional value of the foods they re promoting.
One risk factor for childhood obesity is thought to occur even before a baby is born if the mother gains an excess amount of weight while pregnant.
Last November we commented on a rather startling development in the treatment of type 2 diabetes. A widely-used family of drugs called sulfonylureas (Avandia and Glipizide, for 2 examples) was found to increase heart attacks, strokes and death by about 20 percent
Why wouldn t consumers want to embrace a technology that could: Reduce the use of pesticides on crops; provide crops resistant to drought and high salinity in soil; enhance the nutritional value of foods; improve disease resistance in crops; prevent expansion of agriculture into marginal lands; allow the use of soil-conserving methods; and reduce the anti-nutrients in staple crops?
Scare-mongering anti-chemical activist groups have pressured the FDA into calling for more stringent oversight of the cosmetics industry. But there is no basis for this concern, and the FDA has many more urgent and important issues on their crowded plate than this nonsense.
A long NYTimes article on the current e-cigarette situation fails to shed much light on the complexities of the "debate." The writer only sought opinions from those whose opinions were already well-known. But the NYC Council will not take action against e-cigs, maybe partially thanks to ACSH.
Only two years after banning the free toys from kids meals high in fat, salt and sugar, turning Happy Meals into the unhappy meal,
Qsymia, the combination diet drug composed of phentermine and topiramate, was approved by the FDA in July of 2012. Now, the results of a study conducted between December 2007 and September 2008 and
Union of Concerned Scientists, in reality a politically-funded anti-science group which routinely demonizes the consensus on everything but climate change by using what scientists call "insincere skepticism", is hoping to shore up its tattered reputation by criticizing the pro-science side with ad hominem attacks.
Recently the FDA enhanced its required labeling on statin drugs to include a warning the there might be a link between the use of statins and some forms of reversible cognitive impairment.
A mother in the Canadian Province of Manitoba was fined ten dollars for packing her child a lunch that was missing a grain. The packed lunch consisted of roast beef, potatoes, milk, carrots and an orange.
While malaria deaths are in decline in sub-Saharan Africa, the problem remains huge,with 600,000 deaths, mainly toddlers. Fake and sub-standard drugs contribute to resistance, and diversion or theft is another problem making controlling the disease more difficult. Now the USAID is on the case.
A fairly large, retrospective study of almost 8,000 VA male patients who had a coronary arterial study and had low testosterone levels, found that those men who got supplemental testosterone had a 30% increase rate of CVD events, compared to those men who did not get testosterone treatment.
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