| 05/31/2005 - Aspirin Risks and Benefits Among Older People |
| Television advertisements that pitch aspirin to prevent heart attacks would have you believe that low dosages of the 20th Century wonder drug are as sweetly benign as drinking water from a high mountain stream. |
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| 05/31/2005 - "Extra Baggage" continued… |
| A study that found middle-aged men with excessive abdominal fat to be one and a half times more likely to have a stroke compared to subjects of the same age who were trim in the middle… |
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| 05/27/2005 - Adverse Affects Caused Fluorescent Light Exposure |
| Does anyone have, or know of, any information about people being adversely affected by the frequencies of light emitted by fluorescent lighting or by the sound frequencies emitted by said lights?" |
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| 05/26/2005 - A Flu Shot for Everyone |
| One of the primary topics at the vaccine summit was universal immunization (UI). That's a formal way of saying "a flu shot for everyone." CDC officials currently recommend that people in certain high-risk groups get immunized. |
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| 05/26/2005 - "Moderate" Drinking "Remarkable" |
| Writing in the May 2005 issue of Diabetes Care, a team of researchers in the Netherlands reports on a meta-analysis of 15 studies that examined the association between alcohol consumption and the risk of developing type 2 diabetes… |
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| 05/25/2005 - "Tea Off" continuted… |
| In 2003 a team of researchers from USC took green tea research out of the laboratory and into the homes of hundreds of women, with promising results concerning the prevention of breast cancer. |
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| 05/25/2005 - Effectiveness of a Slow Carb Diet |
| Researchers at Children's Hospital in Boston designed a study to test the effectiveness of a slow-carb, low-GI diet using two key measures: weight loss and cardiovascular disease risk. |
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| 05/24/2005 - The Battle Between Good Bacteria and Bad Bacteria |
| At virtually every moment there's a widespread battle being waged between good bacteria and bad bacteria. |
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| 05/24/2005 - GI Bleeding linked to NSAIDs and SSRIs |
| NSAID statistic in a Reuters article reviewed medical records for nearly 550 patients with GI bleeding. They found that ongoing use of SSRIs posed approximately the same risk for GI bleeding as NSAID use. |
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| 05/23/2005 - Can Americans following health guidelines? |
| …according to a Reuters report, the Michigan State University
researchers who conducted the survey were surprised to find that only three percent of Americans follow all four of these health guidelines… |
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| 05/23/2005 - Saffron Might Be An Effective Antidepressant |
| So, what does the price of saffron have to do with health? Plenty, as it turns out. In fact, new research shows that saffron just might be an effective antidepressant. |
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| 05/20/2005 - How Many Calories Are You Burning? |
| How many calories are you burning? That question, of course, calls to mind the necessity of burning the calories we use to fuel our bodies. |
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| 05/19/2005 - Effectiveness of Acupuncture in Relieving Back Pain |
| But we do have some new research that indicates the effectiveness of acupuncture in relieving back pain in humans. |
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| 05/19/2005 - "B+" continued… |
| Looking for a versatile vitamin? I nominate vitamin B-6… |
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| 05/18/2005 - A first in drug advertising |
| …In a typical drug commercial, this is where a voiceover would hurry us through a scary list of possible side effects…they casually run down the inventory of Nexium's side effects as part of their conversation… |
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| 05/18/2005 - Reducing Abdominal Fat to Eliminate Health Problems |
| But a new study shows that those who are diligent in finding a way to reduce abdominal fat may also help reduce the risk of one of the most serious health problems facing middle-aged and elderly people. |
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| 05/17/2005 - Fight Colon Cancer with Vitamin B-6 |
| According to research just published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, it may be time to include vitamin B-6 in the lineup of nutrients that fight colon cancer.. |
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| 05/17/2005 - Genetically modified "frankenfoods" get scarier every day. |
| …If the next level of GM foods is a mix of human genes with food, I hope genetic engineers will feel free to go right on to that level without me… |
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| 05/16/2005 - Time travel is bad for your health |
| That's my theory, anyway. I'm guessing that all future attempts to travel back and forth through time will turn out to have dire side effects. Otherwise folks from the future would be as common as reality TV show contestants… |
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| 05/16/2005 - Best Selling Drugs Crashed and Burned |
| In the past few months we've seen some best selling drugs crash and burn amid safety concerns, while major drug companies and the FDA have taken hit after hit in the mainstream media. |
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| 05/13/2005 - Niacin and Heart Health |
| But this imbalance can usually be corrected with exercise, dietary changes and the use of supplements such as niacin - also known as vitamin B-3. |
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| 05/12/2005 - Farmers Use Afternoon Hay to Fatten Their Cattle |
| But here's the intriguing part: If all U.S. cattle farmers used afternoon hay instead of grain to fatten their animals, our national rates of obesity, heart disease and cancer might be considerably lower. |
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| 05/12/2005 - Merck executives about Vioxx last week |
| That oddly precise directive comes from confidential documents distributed to Merck & Co. salespeople who once promoted the arthritis pain-killing drug Vioxx before Merck removed it from the market late last year. |
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| 05/11/2005 - CDCs diet of obesity myths |
| If you believe you've been "force-fed" a diet of obesity myths by the U.S. government, trial lawyers and the "food police," then have I got an advocacy group for you! |
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| 05/11/2005 - Ginkgo Biloba May Address MS-Related Memory Problems |
| After doing some research she started taking ginkgo biloba to address MS-related memory problems as well as muscle pain and fatigue. |
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| 05/10/2005 - The New Doctor-Patient Relationship |
| The old patient-doctor trust - which in simpler times was largely automatic - is now outmoded. The relationship has a new model. |
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| 05/10/2005 - "Study no one was crying out for." |
| The headline of a NutraIngredients.com report that covered the study was very intriguing: "Dairy Calcium Has 'No Effect' On Weight." |
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| 05/09/2005 - For some people the bacterium known as H. |
| For others though, H. pylori weakens the protective coating of the stomach, allowing acid to irritate the sensitive stomach lining. Then the trouble starts: ulcers, skin diseases, autoimmune diseases risk of heart disease and even some forms of cancer. |
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| 05/09/2005 - Natural Ways to Treat Gout |
| I was able to steer Terry to several good sources of information about treating gout without the use of prescription drugs or non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs). |
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| 05/06/2005 - Migraines are more than bad headaches |
| A migraine is not just a bad headache. Far from it. In several e-Alerts and HSI Members Alerts we've examined aspects of migraines that reveal just how complex this health condition can be. |
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| 05/05/2005 - Colorectal Cancer Prevention |
| Polyps can be removed on the spot while a colonoscopy is performed, which is why this procedure is the premier tool in colorectal cancer prevention. |
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| 05/05/2005 - America embraces the new USDA Dietary Guidelines pyramid - Part Two… |
| It does indeed. The truth is, there are two pyramids; one illustrates the supposed "ideal" diet promoted by the UDSA, and the other is a pyramid we can only imagine: the reality pyramid, which illustrates the actual diet of average Americans. |
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