John WhitcombTo get to be really old, you have to eat right and exercise more! Right? Well, maybe not. Published this week in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society is a fascinating study looking at centenarians and comparing them to the rest of the...
Traditional Chinese Medicine, other alternative practitioners, and even traditional Western practices have had proven success using auricular acupuncture in the healing of addictions and addictive behaviors. Auricular acupuncture is a specialized...
What Doctors Don't Tell YouILLNESS: Where does it begin?
Children of smokers are three times as likely to develop serious infections requiring hospital treatment and also run an increased risk of cancer, according to two recent American studies. ...
Coffee drinking can damage your baby even before you get pregnant, according to a Canadian study (JAMA, 22-29 December 1993). ...
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) may be set to reclassify nicotine as a drug because it is addictive. If it does, tobacco advertising could be subject to more stringent controls, and ciga ...
Two events have strengthened significantly the hand of those of us who want to exercise our right to breathe clean air at work, unpolluted by colleagues' cigarette smoke. ...
Q My wife has been taking drugs for high blood pressure for six years, and suffers distressing side-effects from whichever type she is prescribed. She is convinced the drugs have no beneficial effect whatsoever, as her blood pressure goes up and...
My mother, who smokes, has been diagnosed as having emphysema. As far as I know, it is in the early stages, but what I have read about conventional treatment (oxygen therapy, drugs to dilate the b ...
Results of a new study by the American Cancer Society show that around 12 per cent of colorectal cancer deaths in the US are attributable to smoking. ...
