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Are Diet and Toxic Substances Linked to Attention Deficit Disorder? Is it the diet? Parents who have children with Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) have long been told that their kids can’t be helped by dietary changes, and only a small percentage of kids with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) are helped by a restrictive diet. […]

Inner Sanctum — The Hidden Price of Feminine Hygiene Products. The feminine hygiene industry has made revolutionary innovations since the original maxi-pad–which was nearly three feet long. And no doubt we have come a long way from surreptitiously paying for purchases in a box on the counter of drug stores.

Are Medicated Baby Powders Doing More Harm Than Good? Lead has been identified by the federal government as the foremost environmental health threat to American children. Nearly one million children still have elevated blood lead levels, over four percent of the population. Now, according to San Francisco's Center for Environmental Health (CEH), infants may be […]

Infectious Diseases, Once Thought Near Eradication, Show a Remarkable Persistence Almost 20 years ago, smallpox was eradicated from the face of the Earth, and medical science was feeling bullish. With good reason: as James W. Brown and Elin A. Gursky wrote recently in the Medical Laboratory Reporter, at that time “it appeared civilization’s oldest enemy—infectious […]

The Unhealthy Cigar’s Glamorous Image Is a Lot of Hot Air Demi Moore wants to light up your life. “There’s something about smoking a cigar that feels like a celebration,” says the star, a Cigar Aficionado cover celebrity. “It’s like a fine wine. There’s a quality, a workmanship, a passion that goes into the making […]

Modern Bacteria are Resisting Treatment by Antibiotics When penicillin was first discovered to cure diseases in the 1930s, it seemed a miracle. Some thought you couldn’t get too much of a good thing. One Asian brothel routinely fed penicillin prophylactically to its workers, hoping to prevent infections. But some Neisseriea gonorrheoeae, the bacterium that causes […]

Natural Eye Care Offers Alternatives to Glasses and Contact Lenses