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Previous Articles from "The Cutting Edge"
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| 2/3/2009 | |
| Vitamin Supplements - Do They Work? | |
| Vitamin Supplementation is huge worldwide. Most of us take vitamins now or have taken vitamins in the past. Here are some statistics compiled by the Consumer Healthcare Products Association (CHPA) on supplementation: The US ranks top in dietary supplementation globally.18.9% of Americans had taken at least one dietary supplement in 2004. Over 100 million Americans use vitamin and mineral supplements everyday. |
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| 1/1/2009 | |
| The Melamine Story - Is Our Food Safe? | |
| In September 2008, the world was shocked at the sight of little babies in China attached to dialysis machines as they fight for their lives. Yet, the news of contaminated milk formula did not gain much attention until it was realized that the melamine problem is not only restricted to China only but has actually spread globally. | |
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| 12/11/2008 | |
| Automatic External Defibrillators (AEDs) - The Truth and the Fiction | |
| Few innovations have had such immediate and sweeping popularity as Automatic External Defibrillators (AEDs). Since it was first developed and marketed by R. Lee Heath in the late seventies, over a million have been purchased and distributed. The 2005 Federal Drug Administration decision to make them available without a prescription made for increasing deployment in homes of those at risk for sudden cardiac death. | |
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| 11/12/2008 | |
| HPV and Cervical Cancer | |
| Early November, writing for an established website, a board certified specialist in internal medicine, James A. Howenstine revealed the following (excerpt): Human papilloma virus (HPV) does not cause cervical cancer. The infections caused by HPV are self-limiting and are not a health threat to healthy females. . . | |
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| 10/16/2008 | |
| Gene Testing OnLine – Do You Really Want to Know? | |
| In Mid-September, Google founder 35-year-old Sergey Brin launched a personal blog, Too. The first post in that blog was a stunner and received huge media attention! The blog post unveiled that Brin--who underwent a gene test at 23andMe, a California-based gene testing company co-founded by his wife, Anne Wojcicki--is carrying a mutant gene linked to Parkinson’s disease. | |
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