What Doctors Don't Tell YouHigh milk consumption may be an indicator of later heart disease, say British researchers. ...
Although the conventional wisdom has it that hormone replacement therapy (HRT) protects a woman's heart after menopause, two new studies show that it is in fact bad for the heart, and why. ...
For the few people in any doubt, the risks of smoking carry on into later life and quitting smoking will help you to live longer no matter when you give up. ...
Irish researchers have found that measures to control air pollution have dramatically reduced the death rate from respiratory and cardiovascular disease.
Sex is everything - even if it kills you, it seems.
Take, for example, the inexorable rise of Viagra (sildenafil), the male impotency drug from Pfizer.
DRUGS SALES RISE. And the best seller isn't even required
Hard on the heels of the COX-2 debacle, the US Food and Drug Administration, which somehow seems to have developed a conscience, has recently issued a Public Health Advisory targeting all non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) as worthy of...
A new study has found that lycopene - found in tomatoes - protects against cancer only when the entire fruit is eaten rather than when taken as a dietary supplement. One study found that rats fed on tomato powder developed fewer cancers
Although vasectomies do not increase your risk of dying from heart disease, another study shows an increased risk of cancer, mainly of the lung, among those who'd had their vasectomies done 20 yea ...
A major HRT trial in the US has been halted because the combination of conjugated equine oestrogen (0.625 mg/ day) and medroxyprogesterone acetate (2.5 mg/day) (Prempro) simply did more harm than good.
