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		<title>Foods rich in vitamin E lower risk of dementia</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jul 2010 19:27:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A high intake of foods rich in vitamin E may lower the chance of dementia; and high blood levels of vitamin D are associated with a lower risk of Parkinson’s disease and <a href="http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&#38;source=hp&#38;q=define%3A+cognitive+decline&#38;aq=0&#38;aqi=l1g1&#38;aql=&#38;oq=cognitive+decline+def&#38;gs_rfai=CQ8JzUbpETLH_I4fAzQTfk9GqCgAAAKoEBU_QmYxc&#38;rlz=1W1ADRA_en">cognitive decline</a>. These are the new, preliminary findings from three studies published recently in Archives of Neurology and Archives of Internal Medicine. <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=medicalconsumers.org&blog=7088906&post=5764&subd=medconsumers&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>MDs OK with industry gifts</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jul 2010 19:23:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One thing that adds to the inefficiency of our medical care system is the distorting influence of the pharmaceutical industry’s marketing techniques. A new survey of 600 doctors, surgeons, and medical students found that most have positive attitudes towards the marketing activities of the drug companies. Most seem to miss the fact that marketing is all about getting doctors to increase prescriptions of the most expensive drugs. <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=medicalconsumers.org&blog=7088906&post=5757&subd=medconsumers&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>We support Obama’s choice to head Medicare</title>
		<link>http://medicalconsumers.org/2010/06/29/we-support-this-nominee-to-head-medicare/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jun 2010 16:23:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This press release explains why we have joined 90 organizations in supporting Dr. Donald Berwick, who is President Obama&#8217;s choice as administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Click into the link to our letter of support at the end of this press release. Read what the New England Journal of Medicine has [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=medicalconsumers.org&blog=7088906&post=5716&subd=medconsumers&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Excessive chemotherapy and uninformed patients</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jun 2010 18:22:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two new research findings will be disheartening to anyone like me with hopes for meaningful reform of our medical care system. How’s this? Cut the excessive Medicare payments for chemotherapy drugs, and oncologists will just give more chemotherapy to keep their incomes from dropping.  And if that’s not bad enough, consumers came across as ill-informed in another study that showed most believed more care, as well as more costly care meant higher-quality, better care. In other words, they are sitting ducks for inappropriate and often dangerous medical treatment.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=medicalconsumers.org&blog=7088906&post=5670&subd=medconsumers&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Depression drugs &#8212; a cautionary tale</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jun 2010 17:22:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you noticed the recent spate of articles about antidepressants like Prozac, Zoloft, and Paxil… and how they are little more than placebos? These were the superstar drugs of the 90s. Once they were featured on the covers of Time and Newsweek. Now both magazines have joined the media chorus, telling us that these drugs are helpful only to people with severe depression (but even this claim has been challenged). <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=medicalconsumers.org&blog=7088906&post=5605&subd=medconsumers&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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