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Just 4 per cent enjoy healthy old age, and processed food is to blame The devastating effects of the standard ‘Western’ diet—fried food, processed and red meat, and refined grains—have been highlighted this week. Just 4 per cent of people are ‘ageing well’ without any... Beetroot juice lowers blood pressure It may not be the most delicious tasting drink—but a glass of beetroot juice a day can lower your blood pressure. Egg whites as effective as drugs for lowering high blood pressure So they were wrong—eggs are good for the heart after all. Egg whites are as effective as drugs for lowering blood pressure, researchers have announced this week. Statin patients should supplement with coenzyme Q10 People taking a cholesterol-lowering statin should consider supplementing with coenzyme Q10 in order to reduce the drugs’ risk of causing diabetes, researchers say. Don’t just offer women mammography, says leading radiologist Women are assured that mammogram screening is the only reliable test for breast cancer—but it’s not, a leading radiologist has said this week. Although it’s the ‘gold standard’ technology, it misses... Common heart drug linked to cancer A common heart drug increases the chances of cancer. Amiodarone—marketed as Cordarone in the UK and Nexterone in the US—raises the risk by 45 per cent, especially in men and people taking higher dose... Why a vegetarian diet is better for your heart Scientists think they have finally figured out why vegetarian and vegan diets are so much better for our hearts. Red meat is rich in a compound, carnitine, which triggers the process that leads to th... Mercury from fish and dental fillings increases diabetes risk High levels of mercury in your body—which you can get from eating fish and shellfish and from your dental fillings—dramatically increase the risk of diabetes. Antioxidants and zinc supplements can prevent AMD Age-related macular degeneration (AMD)—one of the most common causes of sight loss and blindness as we get older—has been in the news recently, but nobody has mentioned that it can be prevented with a... The oil that tricks the body into feeling full The weight-loss gurus talk about the importance of feeling full so that we don’t over-eat—and there’s a very simple way you can trick your body, researchers have found.

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Blog Speak

30 Apr 2013 | Adverse Reactions (Caitlin Hubbard)

Back to the future

When Lynne’s mother was 24, her dentist unwisely extracted a tooth while she had the flu. Within days her neck had ballooned with a streptococcal infection and she was rushed to hospital. Lynne&... more »

8 Feb 2013 | Adverse Reactions (bshubbard)

They're not even wrong

There’s a breathtakingly ignorant comment that has done the rounds of late, and it goes like this: there are only two types of medicine, that which works and alternative medicine. ... more »

17 Jan 2013 | Adverse Reactions (bshubbard)

Miracles of the demi-gods

Medicine seems to divide itself between the miraculous interventions and the mundane. The latter is all the things medicine isn’t very good at: the nagging, chronic problems that are made... more »

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19:41 | Health Conditions (prioris@excite.com)

Re: Lack of response to curren...

This is not a vaccine failure. Vaccines are doing precisely what the state wants. People who think these are just mistakes, failures or errors are still not fully awake. This is crimes of humanity aga... more »

11:35 | Health Conditions (Edwina Lane)

Repetitive Corneal Erosion Syn...

I have this and am using the prescribed drops and night ointment but the eyeball is still painful upon waking. The ripped area was stated to be healed but the location visible when an Opthalmolo... more »

11:17 | Health Conditions (KiwiGal)

Re: gabapentin

Hi, I don't know if you're still reading this since it's been a while since you posted (and a while since I've been on the site) but - you've got to be joking!! All you have to do ... more »

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