2009 April

The colon-clearing preparation is a bit daunting. And now we find it may even be dangerous if a drug containing sodium phosphate is involved.

A research team recruited more than 130,000 middle-aged women in rural India. The women were screened for HPV infection or given standard care, defined as education about HPV and recommendation for screening.

I always assumed that medical mainstreamers referred to placebo-controlled, double-blind, randomized trials as the “gold standard” of clinical research because the results are supposed to be reliably impartial.

After UHCMC researchers conducted a review to assess the benefits and risks of widely used herbal supplements, they compiled this list of herbs that might be best to avoid in the two weeks prior to surgery…

So far, only 82 cases of so-called swine flu have been definitively identified worldwide, mostly in Mexico (26 confirmed, 7 deaths) and the U.S.(with 40 confirmed, no deaths). (Though about 1600 suspected cases, including 159 deaths, are reported in Mexico.) That does not add up to a pandemic swine flu outbreak.
This virus has nothing to [...]