Wellness Library

Milk, Does a Body Bad?

This June 9, 2005 suggestive headline comes from ABC News, and is one of a flurry of articles based on a new study that suggests that the more milk that kids drink, the fatter they grow. The study was performed by a team at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard University in Boston and, published

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Mental Exercise Can Keep Brain Young

Several British publications including the BBC-News reported on September 7, 2005 on information presented at the British Association for the Advancement of Science meeting in Dublin last month showing that mental and physical exercise can help keep your brain young. In his presentation Ian Robertson, a professor of psychology at Trinity College in Dublin explained

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Medication Utilization, Drug Reactions & Death Rates

This statistic is according to a recent article appearing in The Journal of American Medical Association. The author, Bruce Pomeranz, M.D., Ph.D., reviewed 39 different studies of adverse drug reactions in hospitals, and came up with some alarming conclusions. According to Pomeranz’s research, he estimates that 2,216,000 hospital patients experienced serious adverse drug reactions (side

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Medications & Children

According to a Canadian study reported at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Allergy Asthma and Immunology, antibiotics and vaccines are the medicines that most often cause adverse reactions in children. “There is relatively little pediatric data on adverse reactions, which can range from rashes to potentially fatal hypersensitivity”. More than 1,500 Canadian

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Medication Side Effects Strike 1 in 4

The above headline comes from one of a series of articles recently published on medical errors and side effects. The first article with the title above appeared in the April 16, 2003 MSNBC news. That article starts off by reporting that 3.34 BILLION prescriptions were dispensed in the United States in 2002 alone. With this

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