Aloe Vera, Not Dangerous Drugs

Shawn M. Talbot, PhD, author of A Guide to Understanding Dietary Supplements, the aloe plant also “has been shown to exert beneficial effect...

Birth Control Pill Caused Stroke

Bayer sued over pill that caused stroke in young woman. What is tragic about this situation is the prescribing doctor failed to address the ...

Jolly Joints

Regular exercise is essential to preserving your health—and it’s even more important if you suffer from arthritis , since losing excess weig...

Sister Act

(Click on images for full-size versions.) Source: Modern Beauty Shop, April 1943

Chemo Recipients Benefit from Vitamin E

In a new report of a study involving people treated with cisplatin chemotherapy and provided with daily vitamin E, good benefits were found....

Where's That Then? No 27

Sorry for delay. Leaves on the line, carriage taken out of service at Evercreech Junction, wrong kind of rain. But here's a sunlit eveni...

Pet Peeve Rant

'Get on Board or Get Left Behind'is the subject of an email I just received, advertising CME for health professionals who are moving...

Safe water bond is a good deal

In my job as director of Maine’s public health agency, we work to protect public health for all Maine people. An important part of our core ...

Quackwatch named quack once again

I am always amazed how mainstream media leans on every breath of what quack-doctor Stephen Barrett says or posts on his website. Once again ...