Don't let Thanksgiving flop; make sure your roast your turkey right! Check out our fun (and all-too-common) tips to a successful holiday.
It is hardly news that Sovaldi and Harvoni, the enormously effective new hepatitis C drugs, are quite costly. This has caused some debate about when it is best to start using them. But, a new study says: "The sooner the better." It is better to treat patients before liver fibrosis is present.
A new study of over 600 stroke patients found that those who spoke 2 languages had significantly better cognitive functioning than those with only one language.
The New Yorker magazine recounts the first national chemophobia scare in 1959 -- but it wasn't caused by environmentalists. Instead, it was courtesy of the FDA, which had to follow a new legal provision known as the Delaney Clause, which targeted any food that contained even trace amounts of a cancer-causing chemical.
The holidays are challenging for everyone's midsection but they are a factor in the actual obesity rather than seasonal weight gain?
Formaldehyde is a known toxin and a carcinogen. We know this from real science, as well as hysteria-based groups like the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) which designated the compound as a known carcinogen in 2004.
A New York City-based coalition of healthcare workers, physicians and community outreach specialists managed to increase the city's screening colonoscopy rate from an abysmal 42 percent in 2003, when the C5 coalition began, to an amazing 70 percent last year. A incredible boon for public health.
Nearly 60 years ago, the first great chemical carcinogen scare put a damper on many folks' Thanksgiving celebrations. A chemical used in cultivating cranberries in the northwest was found to cause cancer at high doses in rodents, and the Federal health agency advised consumers to avoid cranberries. Utter nonsense, then and now.
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All of today's domestic turkeys -- even the ones labeled organic -- are actually of the GMO variety. Years of artificial selection by optimizing genetic traits have made the genome of the turkey we eat significantly different than the genome of those found in the wild. Therefore, unless you shot yours in the woods, the turkey heading to your table is not "natural."
