It happened again.
A big pharmaceutical company has admitted to bribing doctors.
Novartis Pharmaceuticals paid $678 million to settle a case in which it was accused of giving thousands of dollars to doctors in return for prescribing the company’s medicines.
Besides cash, the drug giant lavished doctors with expensive dinners, wine tastings, sporting events, and even trips to Hooters.
The settlement stems from 2013.… Read More
We’ve been fighting the wrong enemy.
In the war against America’s biggest killer, heart disease, doctors told us for decades that we needed to cut saturated fat.
This, it turns out, is nonsense spawned by bad science.
One of the worst offenders is the 1969 Los Angeles VA Study.[i]
It looked at 850 elderly veterans who were divided into two groups.… Read More
A new Cambridge University study found that there’s an existing health treatment so effective that it saves nearly 4 million lives every year around the world.
In the U.S. alone, it prevents 140,200 fatalities annually.
That’s roughly equivalent to the entire death toll so far from COVID-19.
The study found that this treatment is so effective it may be the single most lifesaving weapon against disease that mankind has.… Read More
Sports have been one of the biggest lifestyle casualties of the coronavirus pandemic.
Many of us are yearning for the day when we can go to a football, baseball, or basketball game…or even watch one on TV.
Sports fans are so desperate for entertainment that Russian table tennis, which is broadcast over the internet, has become the most-wagered sport worldwide.[1]
Major American sports leagues are pulling together plans to reopen in the coming months.… Read More
For decades, mainstream doctors warned us to stay away from fatty dairy products. Butter, whole milk, and cheese would clog our arteries, they said.
So those of us worried about heart disease opted for skim milk, if we drank milk at all. And we chose other low-fat dairy products whenever possible.
In recent years, researchers have started to question this conventional “wisdom.”… Read More
When we feel down in the dumps, most of us don’t want to do much of anything. Our first inclination is to just chill, maybe sit on the couch and watch some Netflix.
A new study shows that’s exactly the wrong strategy.
Research published in the Journal of Preventive Medicine found two seemingly opposite things that can help you break out of a bad mood: sleep and physical activity.… Read More