A story is blazing around the blogosphere about a ten year old girl having an anaphylactic reaction to a blueberry pie. Physicians supposedly traced the reaction to streptomycin used as a pesticide...
Edward Jenner, an English country doctor is usually credited with introducing the idea of vaccination because of his landmark publication in 1798 in which he described inoculating 23 people with...
William Beaumont was an army doctor stationed at Fort Mackinac in Michigan in 1822 when an accident occurred that allowed him to make the first systematic study of the process of digestion. Alexis...
The effort to eliminate trans fats from our diet may have more benefits than expected. There is near unanimous agreement that trans fats increase the risk of heart disease but eliminating them may...
When it comes to health matters, scientists rarely make statements that do not begin with 鈥渕ay.鈥澛� But here is one.聽 Excessive exposure to sunlight causes skin cancer!聽 There鈥檚 no 鈥渕ay鈥� about it.聽...
I opened the door to pick up my morning Gazette and found a package with an anonymous note. 鈥淐an you please discuss in a column whether this is good to take?鈥� Inside was a bottle of 鈥淰egeGreens.鈥�...
If you feed varying amounts of trans-4-hydroxy-2-nonenal to rats, they develop kidney and liver problems and some may even die. So why should anyone care? Because this substance, which we will call...
Dr. Oz is talking and nutritionists are shuddering. It鈥檚 almost a daily occurrence. This time he is all excited about a sugar substitute that according to him does not have a 鈥渃hemical taste,鈥�...
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