General Mills has announced that it is removing genetically modified ingredients from its iconic Cheerios. Now there's a non-newsworthy item that is guaranteed to make for flashy headlines and lead...
A story is blazing around the blogosphere about a ten year old girl having an anaphylactic reaction to a blueberry pie. Physicians supposedly traced the reaction to streptomycin used as a pesticide...
Edward Jenner, an English country doctor is usually credited with introducing the idea of vaccination because of his landmark publication in 1798 in which he described inoculating 23 people with...
William Beaumont was an army doctor stationed at Fort Mackinac in Michigan in 1822 when an accident occurred that allowed him to make the first systematic study of the process of digestion. Alexis...
The effort to eliminate trans fats from our diet may have more benefits than expected. There is near unanimous agreement that trans fats increase the risk of heart disease but eliminating them may...
When it comes to health matters, scientists rarely make statements that do not begin with 鈥渕ay.鈥澛� But here is one.聽 Excessive exposure to sunlight causes skin cancer!聽 There鈥檚 no 鈥渕ay鈥� about it.聽...
I opened the door to pick up my morning Gazette and found a package with an anonymous note. 鈥淐an you please discuss in a column whether this is good to take?鈥� Inside was a bottle of 鈥淰egeGreens.鈥�...
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