“Somehow, an exercise originally meant to help wounded soldiers caught on with Jennifer Aniston, then Oprah and then just about everybody else in America. But is Pilates really right for everyone? Here’s a closer look: Pilates (pronounced Puh-Lat-Eez) is a series of low-impact exercises meant to strengthen core muscles-namely, your abs and lower back. Individual […]
“It takes courage for politicians to fight powerful special-interest rate groups. The reform of the Medicare prescription drug benefit will provide a clear test as to whether the Democratic Congressional leadership has enough backbone to stand up for the public good and follow through on one of its most important campaign promises. The basic story […]
“Municipal unions should raise a holiday toast to gullible Massachusetts taxpayers for their willingness to absorb disproportionate pain from increases in health insurance costs. Bostonians, for example, sit by passively while city workers, who pay just 10 percent of premium costs for their HMO coverage, gobble up nearly half of the annual increase in the […]
“A popular message circulating the internet claims that ‘guns don’t kill people, doctors do,’ based on statistics that theoretically show that doctors are responsible for more accidental deaths every year than firearms. Independent research by NewsTarget staff shows that this claim is absolutely … false. … NewsTarget’s stance is that conventional medicine is dangerous, and […]
“Medical schools in the United States are awash in cadavers. Yet, at the same time, there is a chronic shortage of organs for transplant patients, resulting in the deaths of thousands of people each year. Understanding why so many people donate bodies to medical schools holds lessons for how we should reform the laws governing […]
“A Buzzards Bay man has sued The Scotts Co. , the lawn care giant, for firing him after a drug test showed nicotine in his urine, indicating that he had violated a company policy forbidding employees to smoke on or off the job. The suit, filed yesterday in Suffolk Superior Court, is highly unusual because […]
“Pregnant women and those who plan to become pregnant should avoid taking the antidepressant Paxil if possible because of the risk of birth defects, a group of obstetricians said Thursday. The opinion issued by the obstetric practice committee of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists comes nearly a year after the Food and Drug […]
“AIDS patients who stop taking their antiviral drugs whenever blood tests show their HIV infection is under control run nearly twice the risk of dying as those who take their medication without interruption, according to a large international study meant to settle the question of whether the practice is safe. The experiment that eventually involved […]
“Children with food allergies are told to avoid problem foods at all costs, but a novel experimental treatment is taking the opposite approach. In a two-year pilot study conducted by researchers at Duke University and the University of Arkansas, eggs were very gradually introduced into the diets of kids who were highly allergic to them […]
“Staying slim and fit is especially important for cancer survivors, because obesity raises the risk of cancer coming back, the American Cancer Society said in new guidelines issued on Wednesday. ‘The evidence really is quite strong for the need for cancer survivors to achieve and maintain a healthful weight,’ Wendy Demark-Wahnefried of Duke University Medical […]
