Year: 2009

Recent evidence indicates that merely providing health information and medical advice doesn’t guarantee that patients will heed it.

Several studies show that food preferences may be set even before you’re born, as early as 13 weeks after gestation....

A recent study of alcohol consumption found that that those who didn’t drink at all had an elevated incidence of...

A study, funded by Worcestershire Royal Hospital in the UK, found that the typical noise generated by a moving convertible...

The Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) has just released a report listing the 10 foods most likely...

In Part 1 of our series on the digestive system, we explored the process whereby food enters the stomach through...

A new study shows that the most distressed and tired physicians made the most mistakes (39 percent of doctors in...

A new study shows that children have strokes far more frequently than previously thought, with the youngest children the most...

According to a study by researchers at the University of New Mexico, intelligence correlates to healthy sperm.

A new British study involving 6500 people has come to the conclusion that low-self esteem and emotional problems lead people...

Over the course of the next half dozen or so newsletters, I'm going to walk you through the digestive system...

The media has reported the first case of a resistant strain of swine flu that has spread from one person...

An FDA advisory panel just recommended approving Gardasil vaccines to prevent genital warts in boys as young as age nine.

Researchers from the University of Colorado discovered that shower heads harbor dangerous bacteria that could cause lung infections and breathing...

The International EMF Foundation just issued a 37-page report claiming that the major research to date on cell phone safety...

According to a new report by the AHA, Americans eat way too much sugar—an average of 22 teaspoons a person...

Everyone produces up to 10,000 cancer cells every single day of their life as part of the normal metabolic process....

According to a study, just published in Cancer Research, long-term use of tamoxifen ups the risk of getting aggressive cancer...

According to a study just published in the New England Journal of Medicine, tests such as CT scans and nuclear...

Seafood fraud is on the rise and restaurant patrons should be on the watch for restaurants that are substituting cheaper...

According to the Environmental Working Group, national standards for perchlorate in drinking water should be one-tenth the level the Environmental...

A new study has found that a startling number of kids are deficient in vitamin D.

Jon explains why you should be very concerned about rumblings out of Washington and across the country to tax "fat...

The results of one of the largest-ever studies of substance abuse recently discovered that a surprising number of older adults...

A recent study showed that the pleasure centers in the brains of happy people demonstrated far more activity in response...