Whole Grain Diet Helps Prevent Stroke
From the September 27, 2000 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association is the report of a study showing how…
Website Pill Pushing Draws Warning of AMA
Under the possible heading of “it would be funny if not true”, is a new report in the July 19, 1999 American…
Walking May Ward Off Alzheimer’s
From the September 22/29, 2004 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) comes a study that shows that walking…
Surgical Tools Left in 1,500 Patients Per Year
A study done by researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard School of Public Health, in Boston was published in the…
Nursing Homes Kill Thousands Report Says
From an October 15, 2002 Associated Press release comes a chilling story of how Nursing Homes kill thousands of senior citizens each…
Non Medical Care Usage Continues to Rise
A study by Harvard Medical School, published in the August 21, 2001 issue of the Annals of Internal Medicine, examined trends in…
No Junk Food Schools
A story that appeared in the April 19, 2004 Associated Press, highlighted schools that were eliminating all junk food from school grounds.…
News Media May Offer Misleading Drug Information
On June 1st 2000 the Associated Press ran a story that strongly suggested that many of the news releases on drugs commonly…
New Warnings on ADHD Drugs
An article from the Associated Press on February 9, 2006 reports that experts from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) advisory…
New Warning Labels Proposed for Over the Counter and Prescription Drugs
The Dec. 3, 2001 issue of the American Medical News reported that the US Food and Drug Administration may change warning labels…
