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Creams Deliver More Hype than Evidence

20 Mar 2017

In the 1980s, Dr. Albert Kligman, an American dermatologist made an interesting observation. Patients being treated for acne with retinoic acid saw an improvement in their wrinkles, an...

Can ASEA Improve Health as Advertised?

20 Mar 2017

When I first came across a “wonder” product called ASEA on the web, I thought someone had come up with a clever parody. The Internet of course is full of of ads for supplements, drinks and...

VegeGreens Products' Unfounded Claims Hide Behind Great Marketing

20 Mar 2017

I opened the door to pick up my morning Gazette and found a package with an anonymous note. “Can you please discuss in a column whether this is good to take?” Inside was a bottle of “VegeGreens.”...

Cancer Quackery Costs Lives

20 Mar 2017

“We've had more people reverse cancer than any institute in the history of health care, so when 91˿Ƶ fails, or Toronto hospitals fail, they come to us. It can be stage 4 cancer and we reverse it....

Antioxidants Disappoint Again

20 Mar 2017

Science is based on evidence, and evidence changes. Heart attack victims used to be put on prolonged bed rest until evidence indicated that this was not the way to go. If a baby was born by C...

What is Gerson therapy?

20 Mar 2017

What sort of treatment do you think cancer patients would receive at the Gerson Institute in San Diego? Actually, they would receive no treatment at all, because the “Gerson Therapy” is not...

Sizing up the Most Fashionable Address in New York City

20 Mar 2017

The most fashionable address in New York is no longer Central Park West. It is 66 East 11th St., in Greenwich Village. The building doesn’t look like much from the outside; it was once a factory,...

What are Bach flower remedies?

20 Mar 2017

Bach flower remedies have been around for close to a hundred years and were the brainchild of Edward Bach a British physician. Actually, there doesn’t seem to have been much “brain” involved in the...

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