| 05/31/2007 - Time to speak up—loudly |
| As I write this, our senators in Washington, D.C. are patting themselves on the back over a bill they passed that they say is needed to give the FDA more authority over the prescription drug market. |
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| 05/29/2007 - Want to lose weight? Try NOT dieting. |
| If you would like to increase your risk of heart disease, stroke, and diabetes—and while you’re at it, tinker with your immune function—then go on a diet. |
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| 05/29/2007 - Mr. Sandman—give me a solid seven |
| You’re in the grocery store right now, but it looks like you’ll have to make a second trip back. |
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| 05/25/2007 - Warning: Sleeping pills may work at inconvenient times |
| Troubles sleeping? No problem. There’s a prescription for that so you can sleep through the night, but you may also doze off while driving your car or while eating dinner or even while cooking. |
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| 05/25/2007 - Brave new (modified) world |
| In the movie “Jurassic Park,” one of the main characters, who studies chaos theory, says to the man behind the engineering of dinosaurs: “You wanted to know if you could, but you didn’t stop to ask if you should.” |
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| 05/24/2007 - Supplements don’t work? |
| Prove it. I can’t help but shake my head when I see all the recent press that has been given to supplements, denying their effectiveness. |
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| 05/22/2007 - Guinea pigs in the name of research |
| School boards are cutting time for gym class, and have already reduced recess to the point that kids can only go outside long enough for a whiff of fresh air before being hustled back inside. |
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| 05/15/2007 - Shipping trouble abroad |
| When it comes to making money, no one is more relentless in pursuing the almighty dollar than Merck. You recall the debacle over Vioxx? |
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| 05/11/2007 - A history of thuggery |
| Unfounded search warrants, raids with guns pointing, intimidation tactics, and seizure of property—this doesn’t sound like the workings of a democracy. |
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| 05/11/2007 - No longer the heart of the matter? |
| It has become commonplace to think of the heart as the center of everything in your body. Not anymore, it seems! |
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| 05/10/2007 - Caution: Statins edge dangerously close to the water supply and baby formula |
| The American Heart Association and Big Pharma won't be satisfied until every man, woman and child has been put on a statin drug. |
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| 05/10/2007 - Is it a hospital for healing, or an outer ring of hell? |
| If you went into the hospital to deliver a baby-with all of your limbs intact, would you expect to leave without those same limbs? |
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| 05/01/2007 - As the world of cardiovascular turns |
| By now, you probably know my stand on surgery: Always explore the alternatives and get a second opinion. |
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| 05/01/2007 - Landfill clogger or forest decimator? |
| How many times have you faced this conundrum: Plastic or paper? |
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