In the past聽we heard in the news about a shocking admission from the execs at the National Football League in the USA that they may finally admit to believing that there is a link between football...
鈥淚t鈥檚 natural medicine.鈥� 鈥淗erbal remedies.鈥� 鈥淚t鈥檚 like鈥cupuncture.鈥� 鈥淣o chemicals.鈥� 鈥淓nergy healing.鈥� 鈥淵ogurt.鈥� Such were the common responses when we asked random people, including physicians,...
Sometimes beliefs are converted into fact just by repetition. We constantly hear of people who want to avoid monosodium glutamate because of a fear of being struck by 鈥淐hinese Restaurant Syndrome鈥�...
Next time you think of welcoming someone home by tying a yellow ribbon around an old oak tree, you might want to think again. According to a widely circulating report the yellow dye could leave a...
You never know what you will come across when surfing TV channels late at night, hoping against hope that you will come across a Seinfeld episode you haven鈥檛 seen a hundred times. Last night I was...
How can anyone trained as a pharmacist, with courses in chemistry, biology, and physiology believe that ghostly impressions of molecules imprinted onto sugar can cure disease? Michelle Boisvert, a...
This is a tale of two bracelets. One brandishes flagrant nonsense, the other flirts with some clever science. We begin with a perplexing question I was asked while wandering through a mall in...
Just mention cinnamon, and I can smell and almost taste my mother鈥檚 apple strudel. She made it from scratch, gently pulling the pastry on a table until the dough was paper thin. The filling was...
General Mills has announced that it is removing genetically modified ingredients from its iconic Cheerios. Now there's a non-newsworthy item that is guaranteed to make for flashy headlines and lead...
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