Healthy post-menopausal women should avoid taking low doses of vitamin D and calcium. These supplements don’t help prevent bone fractures. So says the government’s U.S. Preventive Services Task [...]
Month: March 2013
Watch out for these drugs
Over the past 50 years, there have been some true breakthroughs in medicine. And some of these even came from the pharmaceutical industry. Take a blood pressure drug like Losartan, for instance. [...]
Mission Impossible?
Greedy drug companies. Fake data. Drug recalls. Corrupt research scientists. We’ve seen it all from Big PHARMA in recent years. But not everyone on the inside has his head in the sand. Take, for [...]
Something to keep in mind
The baby boomers will face many challenges in the coming years. One of the greatest challenges they will face is the growing epidemic of Alzheimer’s disease. In fact, U.S. researchers predict [...]
Scraping the bottom of the bottle
Alcohol causes 3.5 percent of cancer deaths each year in the United States. This figure comes from a new report published by the National Cancer Institute (NCI). Of course, it made all kinds of [...]
Survive late winter viruses with cook’s secret
We are almost through the worst of winter. And the sun is getting higher in the sky. But we’re not quite through cold and flu season yet. And sometimes, it’s the virus you get late in the season [...]