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Ritalin and related drugs are now widely used in the United States that they appear to be redefining a whole generation of young people. Prescription and illegal use of this stimulant continues to surge: Between 1990 and 1997, production increased 700 percent, and two million children were using it; between 1997 and 2003, use tripled [...]

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Surgery is generally a poor choice for knee pain from osteoarthritis, a new study confirms. Medicare stopped paying for it a few years ago based on an earlier study, but creative diagnostic shape-shifting allowed payment for the procedure some of the time. From today’s New York Times: In the study, being published Thursday in The [...]

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Newsweek  has a powerful article about the ways the American health establishment has tried to defeat cancer over the past 40 years. It’s a tale with some individual happy endings, but no trend line toward broad-based, sustainable success. As is so often the case, the primary focus (as measured in research dollars spent) has been, and still [...]

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Processed foods do more than harm health on an individual basis. They also contribute significantly to environmental degradation. Describing an article in the journal, Human Ecology, by David Pimentel and his colleagues at Cornell University, Medical News made these key points: The first, and very astute suggestion they put forward is that individuals eat less, [...]

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Body influences mind; mind influences body. Exercise is best known, of course, for benefiting our physical structure. But its effects on the mind are no less impressive. A new study describes the benefits of exercise for people with memory impairment. In addition, the Australian researchers noted: “Unlike medication, which was found to have no significant effect [...]

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