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Plastic additive BPA connected to diabetes, heart diseaseA population study has correlated exposure to Bisphenol A, commonly present in bottles and cans, to diagnoses of heart disease and diagnosis, and an accompanying editorial calls for regulatory action.Read More... ... |
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Palin Quoted Reagan Calling Medicare CommunismAlaskan dingbat Sarah Palin proudly quoted Ronald Reagan last night, you betcha. So what was that weird quote about, anyway? It’s from this LP propaganda record, part of a “campaign organized by the American Medical Association to block the passage of Medicare.” Here’s wha... |
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Exercise can help memory, study saysAdding 20 minutes of exercise to a person's daily routine could reduce the risk of developing Alzheimer's, according to a study published in Wednesday's Journal of the American Medical Association. ... |
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Is Your Candidate Worth Dying For? Study Reports Car Crash Risk Rises On Election Days [Election]MSNBC reports a study to be published in the Journal of the American Medical Association finds that, on average, your chance of dying in a car crash rises 18% on election day. Conducted by Canadian researchers, the study looked at presidential election days from Jimmy Carter's 1976 win through Bu... |
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More Deafening SilenceFrom a review of medical licensing: By almost all accounts, the quality of services consumers get from non-physician clinicians is at least on par with what they would get from a physician performing the same services. Dozens of peer-reviewed studies compare outcomes in situations where patients... |
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American Doctors Regularly Issue Placebos, Survey SaysLONDON — About half of American doctors in a new survey say they regularly give patients placebo treatments _ usually drugs or vitamins that won't really help their condition. And many of these doctors are not honest with their patients about what they are doing, the survey found. That con... |


