JNJ Heart Drug Doesn't Kill People Or Do Much Of Anything
Author: Robert Langreth, Forbes.com | Category: Current Health News | Saturday, January 01, 2011
A giant new study out today shows that a controversial Johnson & Johnson heart failure drug doesn't kill people or cause serious kidney problems, as previous studies have suggested. But the study showed that the drug doesn't seem to do all that much to help improve symptoms of acute heart failure, either.
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LIPODISSOLVE - TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE?
Author: Quackfiles.Blogspot.Com, QuackWatch.org | Category: Current Health News | Saturday, January 01, 2011
Want to get rid of your stubborn fat bulges without endless spinning classes or going under the knife? Lipodissolve, a fat-fighting procedure billed as liposuction without the risks, has been popular at "rejuvenation clinics" and "medi-spas" throughout the country, but the Food and Drug Administration yesterday decided to take action to warn consumers about lipodissolve's unknown hazards and dubious benefits. The agency issued warning letters to six medical spas for making false or misleading statements that their injections are safe and effective, despite the fact that they've never been studied in research trials or approved by the FDA.
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Health Checkup: Who Needs Organic Food?
Author: Jeffery Kluger, Time Magazine | Category: Current Health News | Thursday, October 21, 2010
The biggest reason not to ignore the food purists is that in a lot of ways they're right. Our diet is indeed killing us, and it's killing the planet too.
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Medical Humour from Jay Leno
Author: Jay Leno | Category: Current Health News | Wednesday, October 20, 2010
Various humorous quotations from Jay Leno...
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President Obama Give Us A Break!
Author: Cleaves M. Bennett MD FACP | Category: Current Health News | Monday, January 25, 2010
Our leaders think the solution to the health care crisis is political. You can see how that is working out. First of all Obama needs to very publically STOP SMOKING!
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Wikileaks Next Target: The North Pole
Author: www.dailykos.com | Category: Current Health News | Friday, January 01, 2010
The founder of the web site WikiLeaks is preparing to drop his next bombshell this weekend, and this time it won't just be adults who are upset.
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House Committee Opens Probe Into Celebrity Drug Endorsements
Author: Fox News | Category: Current Health News | Monday, January 07, 2008
Television commercials and print ads featuring a prominent physician promoting a popular heart disease medication are the targets of a House investigation into celebrity endorsements of prescription drugs, the Congressmen chairing the probe announced Monday.
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Why I Don’t Eat Hamburgers
Author: Cleaves M. Bennett MD FACP | Category: Current Health News | Monday, January 07, 2008
In the wake of the staggering recall of 143 million pounds of beef—the largest in the nation's history by far—The Humane Society of the United States is calling on the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the Congress to take immediate steps to strengthen federal humane handling procedures and to enact more stringent laws to prevent a recurrence of the gross abuses documented at a southern California slaughter plant.
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Transforming Healthcare
Author: David Dibble New Agreements, Inc. | Category: Current Health News | Monday, January 07, 2008
Linda pulled me in to watch the Oprah show when Oprah interviewed Michael Moore on his new film, Sicko. I haven’t seen the movie yet. While I don’t doubt that America must move toward a one-payer, non-profit healthcare model, there is an even bigger issue tearing apart healthcare in America. The central issue that is driving the mess we call the American healthcare “system,”, is internal systems and processes that are dysfunctional,
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