For years women in the US were given drugs for menopausal symptoms (and other things) that were unproven to be safe, says the Wall Street Journal. Most commonly used were Premarin, which is derived from

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Study Credits 2002 Warning on Hormone Replacement Drugs
Breast cancer rates prior to 2002 were 210,000 per year, reports the Wall Street Journal, with a drop to 190,000 per year after 2002. In the year 2002, the Women’s Health Initiative sponsored by NIH halted the study of Wyeth’s drug Prempro because it caused an increase

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The Wall Street Journal reports, regarding influenza:  Tamiflu is an anti-viral drug that can shorten the duration of ‘flu’ symptoms. However, the most common subtype of the flu that penetrated the U.S. has mutated in some unknown way that has made it

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Sugar Shock
In 1976, the sugar industry discovered it was cheaper to make sugar from corn than from beets or cane.  Since then, high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) has replaced sucrose as a sweetener in most soft drinks, baked goods, and processed foods.  Among other consequences, fructose has been implicated in

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Study Questions Evidence Behind Heart Therapies

New research reported in the Wall Street Journal reveals that only 11% of more than 2700 recommendations approved by cardiologists are supported by high quality research. Harlan Krumholz, a cardiologist at Yale University School of Medicine says, “Treatment decisions are often made very dogmatically even when the level of evidence [...]

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Calorie Counters Have it Right, Diet Study Says

Recently released information in the Wall Street Journal shows that calories do count—that it isn’t what you eat, but how much. Participants were put in one of four diet groups—2 low-fat groups and 2 high-fat groups, with a high-protein and normal-protein groups being the other parameter. All diets [...]

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Breast Cancer’s Decline Analyzed
Study Credits 2002 Warning on Hormone Replacement Drugs

A study recently cited in the Wall Street Journal points out that breast cancer rates prior to 2002 were 210,000 per year, but there was a drop to 190,000 per year after 2002. Interestingly, in the year 2002,

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A new program that is now available is designed to help your feet (your source of balance and healthy posture) to feel relief from bunion pain.  I felt it was important for you to realize the great interconnection between something as seemingly simple as a bony, painful bump on the outside of the base of [...]

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