2009 August

National Cholesterol Education Month (NCEM) is sponsored by the National Heart Blood and Lung Institute, which is one of the National Institutes of Health, which is part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Judge Dennis Cavanaugh of the U.S. District Court of New Jersey recently told the Federal Trade Commission to lighten up and get out of the way of a company that manufactures unique dietary supplements of proven quality and safety.

Recently, the Health Protection Agency (UK’s FDA) sent a letter to about 600 neurologists alerting them to the possibility that the H1N1 vaccine may prompt Guillain- Barre syndrome (GBS), a paralyzing immune system disorder.

A relatively new trial called SANDS (Stop Atherosclerosis in Native Diabetics Study) set out to answer the question: Can atherosclerosis be stopped or reversed when the condition is attacked with high drug doses?

Breast cancer patients – beware! Common breast cancer drug tamoxifen may quadruple your risk of developing a more aggressive cancer in your healthy breast. FOUR times the risk!
A new study (published in Cancer Research) found that tamoxifen therapy brings on a 4.4-fold increased risk of a specific, particularly aggressive form of breast cancer (called estrogen [...]