2008 April

With two articles and an editorial, researchers offered precise details about Merck's very aggressive Vioxx sales strategy, which included a practice that's not well known among the general public: ghostwriting.

It's easy to overdo a good thing. In fact, when it comes to water intake, you can actually become intoxicated if you overdo it.

The Associated Press calls it the "strongest evidence yet" that a government- recommended diet can prevent heart attacks and strokes.

Reading through health studies is like fishing. Every now and then you land a beauty, but between those beauties there are dozens you have to throw back.

A recent New York Times article focused on a typical problem for doctors who make the transition from mammography that produces images on film to mammography that produces digital images.