Do the Health Benefits of Coffee Apply to Everyone?
Genetic differences in caffeine metabolism may explain the Jekyll and Hyde effects of coffee.
Genetic differences in caffeine metabolism may explain the Jekyll and Hyde effects of coffee.
Who has the healthiest thoughts, attitudes, and habits regarding food?
Seven dates a day for three weeks are put to the test in a randomized controlled trial.
Oxidized cholesterol (concentrated in products containing eggs, processed meat, and parmesan cheese) has cancer-fueling estrogenic effects on human breast cancer.
How few eggs should we eat to reduce the risk of prostate, ovarian, colon, and breast cancer?
The relationship between the consumption of eggs and other cholesterol-rich foods and cancers of the colon, breast, endometrium, pancreas, and throat.
What is the best source of lutein, the primary carotenoid antioxidant in the brain?
Dozens of lipsticks and lip glosses are put to the test.
Do the benefits outweigh the risks for acid-blocker drugs (proton pump inhibitors like Nexium/Prilosec/Prevacid)? What about baking soda?
Shorten labor time by hours, with less induction and less postpartum bleeding, with a humble fruit.
Dates are put to the test in a randomized, controlled trial for cervical ripening.
Some studies on mice show cannabis makes cancer better; other studies on mice show it makes cancer worse. What did the one and only human clinical trial to date find?
Can UTI-causing ExPEC E. coli bacteria be transferred human-to-human from those who eat chicken?
What does the best available balance of evidence say right now about what to eat and what to avoid to reduce your risk of cancer?
Do the estrogenic effects of tea tree oil get absorbed through the skin?
Addyi (flibanserin), the drug marketed for “hypoactive sexual desire disorder,” is ineffective and unsafe. What about dietary approaches for female sexual dysfunction?
What are the effects of aloe on radiation burns caused by cancer treatment and on the cancer itself?
How effective is chemotherapy for colon, lung, breast, and prostate cancers?
What happened when researchers tried to tease out what’s in dairy that interferes with the health benefits of berries and tea?
What role do antibiotics play in the development and treatment of autism spectrum disorder?
What’s the best household cleaning product to use?
When it comes to uterine fibroids, is soy harmful, harmless, or helpful?
Shark cartilage supplements carry risks, but so do many cancer treatments. The question is, do they work?
If even light drinking can cause cancer, why don’t doctors warn their patients about it?
Let’s review lead from occupational exposures, shooting ranges, eggs, and bone broth.
Fact boxes can quantify benefits and harms in a clear and accessible format.
If doctors don’t understand health statistics, how can they possibly properly counsel patients?
“Early” detection is actually really late. Without mammograms, breast cancer may not be caught for an average of 22.8 years. With mammograms, though, breast cancer may only grow and spread for…21.4 years.
After you watch this video, you’ll know more than an estimated 97 percent of doctors about a critical concept called lead-time bias.
What do nine in ten women say they were never told about mammograms, even though they thought they had the right to know?
Nine out of ten women don’t realize that some breast cancers would never have caused any problems or even become known in one’s lifetime. This is an issue ductal carcinoma in situ has brought to the forefront.
The mammogram paradox is that women who are harmed the most are the ones who claim the greatest benefit.
What is the risk-benefit ratio of the cancers picked up by mammograms and the cancers caused by mammograms?
Excessive breast compression during mammography may not improve image quality and can cause unnecessary pain.
Odds are most women will get at least one false-positive mammogram, but, thankfully, most women who are called back for further testing of a suspicious mammogram finding do not end up having cancer after all.
For every life saved by mammography, as many as two to ten women are overdiagnosed and unnecessarily turned into breast cancer patients—and let’s not overlook all of the attendant harms of chemo, radiation, or surgery without the benefits.
Various health organizations offer clashing mammogram recommendations that range from annual mammograms starting at age 40 to eliminating routine mammograms altogether. Who should you trust?
What are the effects of smoking, pesticides, vaccine mercury, and air pollution on autistic spectrum disorder risk?
Before speculating about the reason for the “explosive” increase in autism, one has to make sure the explosion is real.
When women are fully informed about the risks and benefits of mammograms, 70 percent may choose not to get screened. You may be in that 30 percent who opts to get a mammogram and absolutely have the right to decide for yourself.