Month: April 2008
Charlie Woo TV
Some of us received the announcement a week ago of the Bravewell Collaborative’s planned conference on “Integrative Medicine” co-sponsored with the National Academies’ Institute of Medicine, to take place in February, 2009. (Note: I like to cap slogans and commercial trademarks and such and enclose them in quotation marks. Especially when the terms have no consensus meaning or are intended to obscure...
Cell Phones and Brain Tumors
The question of whether or not there is a link between the use of mobile phones (also called cell phones) and the risk of brain tumors has been cropping up more and more frequently in the media – every time a new study or analysis comes out. This is a very important question of public health as cell phone use is becoming...
Hormone Replacement Therapy
The Women's Health Initiative revealed new risks about hormone replacement therapy, and now the media (and doctors) are scrambling to understand what it means. Of course, because this is medicine, it's complicated.