2003 October

A member named John starts off a thread titled “Insulin and Exercise” with some very specific questions about, well insulin and exercise: “I suffer from insulin resistance. I have heard that exercise can help to combat insulin resistance

If you’re a woman who takes a daily aspirin to help prevent heart attacks, you might have gotten a jolt earlier this week when major newspapers and TV networks reported that aspirin therapy raises the risk of pancreatic cancer in women.

Last week, a federal grand jury indicted Dr. Robert Kasamatsu, accusing him of collecting on fraudulent Medicare billing, totaling more than $600,000 over four years.

Unless of course statins don’t actually do any of those things effectively. The full text of all the studies that would question Fortune’s sweeping statement could fill a book the size of the Manhattan Yellow pages.

You need to know about a new study that confirms what we’ve known for a long time at HSI: a dietary adjustment is often the only treatment necessary to relieve IBS.