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…

Researchers at Duke University compared levels of scientific evidence against practice guidelines recommended by the American Heart Association (AHA) and the American College of Cardiology (ACC).