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		<title>Fried foods are not bad        for the heart, if&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://medicalconsumers.org/2012/02/01/fried-foods-not-bad-for-the-heart-if/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 20:50:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Regularly eating fried foods is not bad for the heart---if they are fried in olive oil or sunflower oil.  This from a new study conducted in Spain where these two oils are used most often for frying ---both at home and restaurants. Unfortunately, this good news may not be relevant to Americans whose fried food consumption most likely takes place at fast food chains where olive and sunflower oils are as rare as a side order of kale.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=medicalconsumers.org&amp;blog=7088906&amp;post=9487&amp;subd=medconsumers&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Drugs to treat the flu</title>
		<link>http://medicalconsumers.org/2012/01/24/drugs-to-treat-flu-not-much-use/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 19:08:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tamiflu, the anti-viral drug prescribed to treat influenza, is in the medical news again and not just because it’s flu season.  Roche, the Swiss company that makes this topselling flu drug, has once again refused to release all of iths study results---crucial, considering that Roche conducted all the studies. And once again, there's the Cochrane Collaboration, the independent, international organization that evaluates medical research, calling public attention to Roche’s unethical behavior. Whatever we know about Tamiflu’s safety and effectiveness is pretty much what Roche wants us to know.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=medicalconsumers.org&amp;blog=7088906&amp;post=9338&amp;subd=medconsumers&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A new take on bone density retesting</title>
		<link>http://medicalconsumers.org/2012/01/19/how-often-should-you-have-a-bone-density-test/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 20:23:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Screening creates drug customers. Keep this little-known consumer beware maxim in mind when you read the new finding about bone density retesting.  Frequent screening bone scans, starting in early middle-age, have been the norm ever since osteoporosis was discovered in the 1980s. (Believe me, no one ever heard of osteoporosis before then, other than the few health professionals who cared for people of advanced old age.)  The new study shows that women whose first test at age 67 shows normal bone density can safely delay having a second test for as long as 15 years.  There was a time, not so long ago, when women were advised to start bone density testing right after menopause. But then again, there was also a time when the diagnosis of osteoporosis was not made until a person suffered a fragility fracture.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=medicalconsumers.org&amp;blog=7088906&amp;post=9226&amp;subd=medconsumers&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Weight loss won&#8217;t prevent diabetes</title>
		<link>http://medicalconsumers.org/2012/01/15/weight-loss-wont-prevent-diabetes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 00:13:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rare is the public announcement that a long-standing medical recommendation has been found to be impossible to follow. That’s what happened---albeit unofficially--- at a recent press briefing when Richard Kahn, PhD, announced that weight loss is not the sure-fire preventive measure for avoiding diabetes 2. Studies show that hardly anyone can lose enough weight to meet the universally recommended goal. And even those who get there halfway usually regain the weight within a few years.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=medicalconsumers.org&amp;blog=7088906&amp;post=9168&amp;subd=medconsumers&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Drugs that can cause leg cramps</title>
		<link>http://medicalconsumers.org/2011/12/28/drugs-that-cause-leg-cramps/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2011 13:40:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Painful cramps in the legs or feet that disrupt sleep are impervious to treatment. The use of magnesium supplements and daily stretching exercises have been proven ineffective. And the anti-malaria drug Quinine, though often prescribed, is both dangerous and unproven. A team of Canadian researchers have identified several widely used prescription drugs that are a likely cause of these severe [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=medicalconsumers.org&amp;blog=7088906&amp;post=9145&amp;subd=medconsumers&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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