I've repeatedly been asked about the circulating email that claims Sheryl Crow blames her breast cancer on chemicals leaching out of water bottles and warns women to never keep bottled water in the...
If you want to lengthen your life, you need to lengthen your telomeres. That鈥檚 the message from the marketers of a pricey dietary supplement called TA-65. How pricey? Try up to $4000 for a six...
On my radio show today the story of putting a bar of soap under the sheet to cure leg cramps came up again. When science leaves a void, as it does with the treatment of leg cramps, unconventional...
This post needs a bit of a background. A few weeks ago we noted that the Dean of Pharmacy at the University of Toronto was organizing a trial on using homeopathic preparations for the treatment of...
What makes people defend the indefensible? A prime example of this conundrum is the case of Antonella Carpenter, a 71 year old 鈥渁lternative practitioner鈥� who was convicted of conducting a...
So what is an emu? A bird. It can grow to about six feet and is native to Australia. It is a strange looking bird, but not as strange as some of the health claims being made for its oil. Dozens of...
Dr. Oz is talking and nutritionists are shuddering. It鈥檚 almost a daily occurrence. This time he is all excited about a sugar substitute that according to him does not have a 鈥渃hemical taste,鈥�...
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