One day, coffee causes cancer; the next, it cures cancer. One day, wine is good for you; the next it kills you. Given its self-contradictory wishy-washiness, can nutrition science be trusted? Not at all, say Edward Archer and his co-authors, in a new paper published in Frontiers in Nutrition. They believe nutrition research is so… Read More »
By Amy Norton HealthDay Reporter MONDAY, Nov. 19, 2018 (HealthDay News) — When someone with HIV has the virus suppressed with medication, there is virtually no chance of passing it on to sex partners, a new review concludes. The Public Health Agency of Canada pulled together studies from the last decade looking at the risk… Read More »
It is a well-known fact that the type of exercise you choose to do and the way you do it has a huge impact on your body’s shape. To achieve a toned figure without the addition of extra muscle mass just in time to show it off in the coming summer, there are a lot… Read More »
The ECRI Institute is looking to pick up the slack from the now-defunct National Guideline Clearinghouse by continuing to offer providers evidence-based clinical practice guidelines. Funding cuts to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality forced AHRQ to shutter the National Guideline Clearinghouse in July. While ECRI developed and maintained the National Guideline Clearinghouse for… Read More »
Many patients who end up in Suboxone treatment have chronic pain. They were originally prescribed other opiates and ended up addicted to them. Skeptics argue that is just substituting one opiate for another. But that isn’t quite accurate. More on that in a bit. In my seven years of prescribing Suboxone for opiate addiction, I… Read More »
The December issue of Women’s Health has just hit shelves. On the cover, Nkateko Dinwiddy (better known as Takkies) shows off her sizzling-hot abs, just months after giving birth to baby Sana. Takkies got back in shape fast. When we called her about being on the cover, she responded: “I can shoot tomorrow! My body… Read More »
A new bill tabled in the Rail calls for intimate piercings for people below the age of 18 to be banned. Fianna Fáil TD Mary Butler has brought forward the Regulation of Intimate Piercing and Tattoo Bill 2018. According to RTE, the bill would be the ‘first ever regulation of the body art sector, banning tattoos and… Read More »