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Dangerous Drugs That Put Seniors At Risk

By on Friday, May 24th, 2013 | No Comments

Guest arti­cle from Drug­watch, a con­sumer watch­dog web­site, on the dan­gers of cer­tain pre­scrip­tion med­ica­tions for seniors.

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Hospitals Benefit From High Rate of Surgery Mistakes

By on Wednesday, May 1st, 2013 | No Comments

It’s a tragedy that the cur­rent med­ical sys­tem has strayed so far from its basic mis­sion of pro­tect­ing people’s health. Finan­cial incen­tives have become so skewed that they actu­ally encour­age sub-standard care.

Two recent arti­cles offer pow­er­ful evidence.

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Research deepens questions about low back mri

By on Thursday, March 28th, 2013 | No Comments

Researchers reviewed records of 1,000 MRI’s taken of patients with low back pain and found that more than half were pre­scribed inappropriately.

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You Have Pesticide Residues in Your Body

By on Thursday, December 13th, 2012 | No Comments

The inci­dence of food aller­gies has been ris­ing. What does this have to do with envi­ron­men­tal expo­sure to pes­ti­cide residues?

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Pink Slime Burgers? Better Know What You’re Putting In Your Mouth

By on Wednesday, August 15th, 2012 | 2 Comments

An arti­cle on food safety and the ques­tion­able ingre­di­ents found in processed foods from “Cur­rant Table” — a blog cov­er­ing food sustainability.

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Why People Skip the Medication They’re Supposed to Take

By on Monday, August 6th, 2012 | No Comments

Up to one-third of patients fail to fill their pre­scrip­tions and about three-quarters fall short of tak­ing their med­ica­tion as directed. Why? And what should policy-makers do about it?

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What Works Best to Treat Multiple Chemical Sensitivity Syndrome?

By on Tuesday, July 17th, 2012 | No Comments

A sur­vey per­formed in 2003 asked peo­ple with Mul­ti­ple Chem­i­cal Sen­si­tiv­ity what treat­ments worked best.

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Eight Best Ways to Detox Your Life

By on Friday, June 15th, 2012 | 3 Comments

We live in an increas­ingly toxic world. Dis­cover the impor­tant steps you can take to safe­guard your health.

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Scientists Claim: Antibiotics Make You Fat

By on Sunday, June 10th, 2012 | No Comments

Sci­en­tists are dis­cov­er­ing the many ben­e­fits we get from our sym­bi­otic rela­tion­ship with the bac­te­ria that live in our diges­tive tract. Now it appears that gut bac­te­ria play a role in reg­u­lat­ing appetite and sati­ety. And that antibi­otic use, which wipes out ben­e­fi­cial colonies of bac­te­ria, can con­tribute to obesity.

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The Fourth Leading Cause of Death in the U.S.

By on Friday, May 25th, 2012 | 2 Comments

The FDA tracks adverse drug reac­tions in the United States and ranks them as the 4th lead­ing cause of death.

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