It's common medical advice. Almost every traditional doctor tells almost every patient that the way to prevent cardiovascular events is to take one or two baby aspirin a day. Studies show that aspi  

You love your doctor, don't you? He or she is wonderful, caring and well-intentioned. Just don't go into his or her office for Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS). You won't like the experience, an  

On a daily basis we are inundated with health information. Every morning and evening, on national or local news, is a health segment. The morning newspaper reports every day on the latest informati  

In the "Annual Report to the Nation on the Status of Cancer, 1973-1998," a consortium of government agencies reported a 1-percent annual decline in rates for new cancers and deaths between 1992 and   

I'll bet you thought the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) was there to protect you, didn't you? Your physicians would never prescribe a drug for you that hadn't been tested properly, would they?   

Is it possible you have too much estrogen circulating through or deposited in your body? I'm not talking only about women. Men can suffer from this also. For the moment, let's concentrate on women.  

Is NutraSweet, a low calorie alternative to sugar, a central nervous system toxin? There appears to be growing evidence that, although approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), NutraSweet  

In a recent issue of CityBeat, we published a letter to the editor about last month's column, "It's Not the Fat, It's the Insulin" (issue of June 21- 27). The point of the column was a high carbohyd  

If you think fats and cholesterols can impact negatively on your health and contribute to weight gain, you've fallen for the commonly held misconceptions that can have disastrous consequences for yo  

Osteoporosis is the most common bone disorder in America and more than half of all healthy women aged 30 to 40 are likely to develop vertebral fractures as they age. Bone is a dynamic tissue, cont