| 04/28/2006 - Genetically modified food |
| Some of my readers have been surprised at my tentative endorsement of genetically modified food. They say it doesn't fit my "old-school" band of medicine... |
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| 04/25/2006 - Unnatural sex selection |
| Despite the scoffings of some of my readers and peers (or as close to them as there may be) in the health publishing field, I've been warning about unnatural sex selection as a fast-approaching reality... |
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| 04/24/2006 - Obese patients |
| According to an Associated Press article from March 29th, a Las Vegas company called American Medical Response has sunk a quarter of a million dollars not into roulette or blackjack, but on an extra-large ambulance designed specifically to carry... |
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| 04/21/2006 - Benzene |
| In the last Daily Dose, I wrote to you about a large-scale benzene scare in soft drinks in the UK. Britain's equivalent to the FDA here in the states has pulled 26 varieties of soda pop from store shelves - some of which contained more than 30... |
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| 04/18/2006 - Aspartame |
| Between the sugar and coloring agents in most soda and the artificial sweeteners in "diet" varieties, there's plenty in pop to pop off about. And as some of you may know, I've been doing just that for a long time... |
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| 04/17/2006 - Movie Therapy to Help Troubled or Depressed Patient's? |
| In this latest twist on psychology, patients are "prescribed" a course of motion pictures that are hand-selected by a therapist based on the particular patient's issues and challenges. |
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| 04/14/2006 - Grotesque Symptoms Brought on by a Shady Drug Trial |
| Beware the Ides of March, an unnamed seer told Julius Caesar in Shakespeare's play... |
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| 04/11/2006 - Dangerous Fluoride into Much of the Water Being Consumed |
| Despite the modern American mania about drinking more tap or bottled water (all of it fluoridated, it seems) I clued you in on in the last Daily Dose... |
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| 04/10/2006 - Drink H20 Only When Your Thursty For It |
| If you've been a reader of mine for any length of time at all, you already know how I feel about consuming more water than is absolutely necessary. |
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| 04/07/2006 - Problem on Your Hands...Sleep on It |
| Anyone who knows you-know-what from Shinola will tell you the same thing: If you've got a stumper of a problem on your hands... Sleep on it. |
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| 04/04/2006 - Corruption and Abuses in all Levels of the Pharmaceuticals Testing System |
| The Ides of March British drug trial fiasco I wrote about in the last Daily Dose forms the perfect "opener" for a story I've been sitting on for a few months. |
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| 04/03/2006 - Singin' the Praises of Coffee |
| I know I've been singin' the praises of coffee a lot lately (Daily Doses, 8/19, 9/13, and 12/9/2005), but what can I say... |
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