A clinical trial that followed 14,641 doctors for over a decade has found those who took multivitamins were 8 percent less likely to get cancer but ACSH is very skeptical about this study, for reasons we ll get to later.

Not a fan of annual physicals? Well, a new meta-analysis may give you a good excuse to skip it, since it seems they don t save lives after all.

Dr. Bruce Chassy, an ACSH advisor and professor emeritus of food and nutrition at the University of Illinois, was wary when producers for the Dr. Oz Show approached him about appearing on a recent episode about genetically modified food and California s Proposition 37. In the end, he had a family conflict and couldn t appear thankfully, it turns out. Dr. Chassy has written an open letter to two Dr. Oz producers to say he s appalled they gave a platform to a one Mr.

Methadone has been shown to reduce the risk of HIV transmission in people who inject drugs, according to a study published in BMJ.

Cholesterol trends seem to be moving in the right direction, according to a new study published in JAMA. Total cholesterol as well as low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL, or bad cholesterol) was down, while high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL, or good cholesterol) was up.

We d like to draw your attention to two recent articles that have shed light on the drastic increase in propaganda and junk science surrounding genetically modified organisms, such as an embarrassing scientific study from a team of French researchers who purported to find that GMO corn fed to rats caused them to develop tumors and die prematurely.

Yesterday, we covered two new developments that offer hope for fighting hepatitis C. The first was a new rapid blood tests which could give results in as few as five minutes.
The second development was Abbott Laboratories reporting positive results from a mid-stage clinical trial of an experimental drug regimen to clear the virus.

This may be the first and last time you ll hear us praise Vladimir Putin in the annals of Dispatch. But thanks to the Russian president, a personal fitness buff, the Kremlin seems poised to finally crack down on cigarette smoking.

Bariatric (weight loss) surgery has helped many obese people shed the pounds. But it may also put them at risk for substance abuse, according to a new study published by Archives of Surgery.

Earlier this month we told you about an interesting dilemma faced by cities implementing bike sharing programs whether or not they should require users to wear helmets, which may increase biker safety at the cost of decreasing ridership. Piet de Jong, a professor of applied finance and actuarial studies at Macquarie University in Sydney, argues that pushing helmets really kills cycling and bike-sharing in particular because it promotes a sense of danger that just isn t justified.