October 2010 - Health Sciences Institute - Official Site

I’ve seen some brutal slams on complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) over the years. They all have a strong mainstream medical bias, of course. Some have been fairly coherent while others have been completely off their rockers. But I’ve got a new one today that manages to explore depths of cluelessness I never knew existed.

Want to really scare people this weekend? Dress up as an FDA official for Halloween. Talk about scary!

In a recent study, retirement-age subjects were divided into three groups. One group followed a diet that emphasized unsaturated fats. A second group followed a diet that restricted calorie intake by 30 percent. The third group continued their normal diets.

The FDA has sure not made it any easier for women to sort out fact from fiction when it comes to bisphosphonates (the class of osteoporosis drugs that includes Fosamax, Boniva, Reclast, and Actonel).

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The Ig Nobels are presented every year by the editors of the Annals of Improbable Research. The goal of the prizes: to make you laugh, then think.

The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) is back on the anti-meat warpath–this time using a provocative video to shock meat-eaters.