News
Bad
News About Hormone Replacement Therapy
Many of us have been jaded by the constant onslaught of “the
latest” medical news, much of which seems to contradict
what we just heard or read about the week before.
But on July
9, millions of us – patients and health care providers
alike – paid rapt attention when the federal government’s
National Institutes of Health released findings from a major
clinical trial, warning of the risks associated with a widely
used type of hormone replacement therapy (HRT) that combines
two female hormones, estrogen and progestin. View
this article »
Man
charged with selling fake and illigal growth hormone
A
St. Paul man alleged to have sold an illegally obtained human
growth hormone and a homemade version of it to body builders
was indicted Tuesday by a federal grand jury in Iowa. View
this article »
Olympic
athletes face tests for human growth hormone
Grapevine,
Texas -(KRT) - Doping authorities served notice Monday that
athletes at August's Athens Olympics will be subject to drug
tests for human growth hormone - a substance prohibited by the
International Olympic Committee for which no test so far has
been validated. View
this article »
The
weather and your health
For
as long as people have been aware of weather, they've pondered
its impact on their health. The Greeks noted the effect of "hot
and cold winds" on pain and illness 2,400 years ago. During
the Civil War, physicians wrote about amputee soldiers sensing
pain in their "phantom" limbs when the weather changed.
And folk wisdom tells of people who "feel the weather in
their bones." View
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