MEDIA COVERAGE OF DRUGS

Study: Media coverage of drugs often misleading June 1, 2000 By KATHARINE WEBSTER Associated Press Writer A study of how the mass media covers health found that many news stories on drugs fail to report side effects or researchers’ financial ties to the...

FRENCH FRIES

NOW, HERE IS NEWS YOU WON?T BELIEVE!!!!ADVANCE/Nutritionist Credits Americans’ Penchant for French Fries to Helping Prevent ‘Outright Scurvy in this Country’ June 2, 2000 (ADVANCE) PLEASANTVILLE, N.Y.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–June 1, 2000–A...

THE FOSAMAX FRAUD

This just in from Dr. Whitaker’s Health & Healing Newsletter:June 2000 Vol. 10, No. 6The Fosamax FraudFosamax (alendronate), the leading drug for osteoporosis, generated $775 million in sales in 1998. But other than the drug’s manufacturer, Merck...

FOLIC ACID & WOMEN’S HEALTH

Folate is Challenging Calcium as the Women’s Wonder Nutrient May 26, 2000 Latest Folate Findings Are Published in the Journal of Nutrition’s June Issue GAINESVILLE, Fla., May 25 /PRNewswire/ — As the nutrient for women, calcium ruled the late 1990s....

VITAMIN E — CARDIOLOGISTS FAVORITE

ITHACA, New York, May 23 /PRNewswire/ via NewsEdge Corporation – More cardiologists take Vitamin E supplements to protect their hearts than any other “common antioxidant vitamin,” a special report by Cornell University’s Weill Medical College...