medicine: facts and fictions

     There were many news articles published after a report printed in the Journal of the American Medical Association ( JAMA volume 310, no...

     Recently, the American Heart Association and the American College of Cardiology came out with new recommendations for the use of stat...

     There have been many studies and much written about calcium supplements as well as calcium plus Vitamin D and the amount of calcium in ...

     A very interesting meta-analysis was published online in the British Medical Journal by H. Naci (BMJ 2013:347:f5577) this month. It com...

          This blog is based on an article that recently appeared in Lancet, vol. 382, pp779-789, Sept. 6, 2013. The article was a meta-anal...

     There was an article published recently in the New England Journal of Medicine ( Vol 369, pp1011-1022, Sept. 12 2012) about the effect ...

     There has been much confusion and differing recommendations about how often women should get mammograms. Different groups and different...