In Eye on FDA - Posted 1 week ago

I took last week off for the holidays. Expecting guests, planning menus and my other regular duties left no time for posting and I suspected, littl...

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In Planet Lactose - Posted 1 week ago

Vitamin D is necessary for many reasons, not least because it helps the body absorb calcium better. I've been telling you You Need More Vitamin D with...

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In Eye on FDA - Posted 2 weeks ago

The holiday last rush is on. I'm late with the Weekly Roundup because wrapping gifts took precedence. Traffic is sadistic. The weather, unpredi...

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In Straight From the Doc - Posted 4 weeks ago

Photo courtesy of iStockphoto, Eric HoodThe osteoporosis drug Zometa (a product of Novartis AG) has been found to shrink breast cancer tumors better t...

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In Well Woman Blog - Posted 4 weeks ago

Photo courtesy of iStockphoto, Image# 3336500Do you have type 2 diabetes? Are you taking the oral diabetes drugs rosiglitazone or pioglitazone? Well n...

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In CNN Paging Dr. Gupta - Posted 4 weeks ago

As a new feature of CNNhealth.com, our team of expert doctors will answer readers questions. Here s a question for Dr. Gupta.Question asked by J...

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In Dr. Buttery's Public Health BLOG - Posted 5 weeks ago

Diets and beauty products which claim to have anti-oxidant properties are unlikely to prevent aging, according to research funded by the Wellcome Trus...

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In Dr. Hotze - Posted 5 weeks ago

If people let the government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as the souls wh...

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In Straight From the Doc - Posted 6 weeks ago

Photo courtesy of iStockphoto, Image# 6827769Such is the new discovery by researchers at Columbia University Medical Center: bone growth is controlled...

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In Diabetes Self-Management - Posted 6 weeks ago

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