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ALZHEIMER'S: A speedy way to be diagnosed
Medical researchers can be a funny breed. In their search for the secrets of health, they can come up with the strangest findings and present them with a straight face. Read more...
Antidepressant Shown to Cause Birth Defects
A retrospective study has suggested that the antidepressant Paxil may cause birth defects. Read more...
Exercise Makes You Smarter
One result was that mice who exercised on a running wheel learned new tasks better than mice who remained sedentary. Memory Tests Researchers compared groups of old mice (about age Read more...
Foundations of Science Frequently Flawed at the Core
The peer review process is the basic method for checking medical research. Read more...
For Every Pill, They Invent Another Ill
It had never occurred to me, before last week, that big pharmaceutical companies might actually be evil. I knew they could be a bit iffy - bribing doctors, failing to mention horrible side-effects, fudging the science - but I always imagined them to be fundamentally well-intentioned. Read more...
CANCER: Radiotherapy causes it, too
Radiation is one of the cornerstones of cancer treatment - but it can also cause cancer, as a new study has found. Read more...
Antidepressants: They’re not as effective as we’re told after researchers suppress the ‘bad’ studies
17 January 2008 Doctors and the public may have been misled about the effectiveness of antidepressant drugs. They have both been victims of spin that researchers have put on Read more...
The Pill: It can double your cancer risk, even years later
17 January 2008 Is the birth control pill as safe as the latest research suggests? Last autumn researchers concluded that not only did the pill not increase the risk Read more...
The Sunshine Vitamin: It’s good for your heart, too
17 January 2008 Yet more good news for sun worshippers and those who eat plenty of oily fish: the vitamin D derived from either activity reduces your risk of heart Read more...
Top Hoaxes of All Time
11. UFO Lands in London On March 31, 1989 thousands of motorists driving on the highway outside London looked up in the air to see a glowing flying saucer descending Read more...
