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Image via Wikipedia The FDA is making news again – this time it’s a mixed blessing. The new head of the FDA is clearly getting serious about the promise to clean up the FDA. One FDA Director just resigned and another is apparently under investigation. The first one, Daniel Schultz, previously head of the […] In a study showing that television may be even worse than anyone thought for your kids, researchers have discovered that television viewing is also linked to future high blood pressure in children, regardless of whether they were overweight or not. The results were published in the Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine. The study examined […] Image by Photos8.com via Flickr It turns out that a bunch of recent articles in scientific and medical journals about the benefits of hormone replacement therapy for menopausal women were paid for and secretly promoted by Wyeth Labs. Court records, according to the New York Times, show that a total of 26 papers were […] No one likes to think of a tanning bed as an efficient emitter of radiation, but, well, frankly…it is (UV radiation, but radiation still). And, in terms of causing cancer, that fact has not been a surprise to anyone in the health field for a long, long time. There’s a lot of dry data that’s […] There’s a frankly fabulous Grand Rounds up this week over at Captain Atopic! Captain Atopic is a wordsmith, an insightful writer, an amazing illustrator and photographer. And, oh yeah, a (massively overworked) medical student Down Under. Check out this week’s round-up of the best of the healthcare blogosphere – with a Tour de France theme. […] While participating as faculty at the Book Passage Mystery Writer’s Conference, I had the pleasure of interviewing the award-winning author, Jacqueline Winspear, right after the death of the oldest living man, Henry Allingham, a World War I vet. Today, shortly after Henry Allingham’s passing, the man known as the Last Tommy, Harry Patch, also passed […] |
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