2008 January

Your doctor may be able to assess your relative stroke risk with just two simple measures.

When I received that comment from HSI Panelist Allan Spreen, M.D., it was attached to an article with this headline: “GM Carrots Could Cut Osteoporosis Risk.”

Why don’t we drink pig milk? We could. Apparently it’s very nutritious. But pigs are really hard to milk. They just won’t stay still and behave. Sono pig milk, unless you go out there and milk them yourself.

That buzz saw that wakes you up at night, it might just be garden variety snoring – which ranges from amusing to annoying – or it might be sleep apnea – which ranges from annoying to dangerous.

“Alzheimer’s disease may be a chronic condition in which changes begin in midlife or even earlier.”