Prostate Cancer Treatment Choices

Prostate Cancer Treatment Choices

More than 180,000 North American men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer each year, and more than 26,000 of those men will eventually die from the disease. Prostate cancer, unlike most other cancers, tends to grow very slowly and does not kill the majority of men...
Triclosan Banned by the FDA

Triclosan Banned by the FDA

On September 2, 2016, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced that it will ban triclosan and 18 other antibacterial chemicals in soaps and liquid hand or body wash products because they are ineffective and potentially harmful. The banned chemicals are...
Irregular Heartbeats in Lifelong Exercisers

Irregular Heartbeats in Lifelong Exercisers

Many studies show that a lifetime of vigorous exercise makes the heart stronger and healthier and does not harm it. However, as I reported earlier, a few studies that got a lot of media attention suggested that chronic intense exercise can damage the heart to cause...
Triclosan Banned by the FDA

Preventing Dementia

More than one in 10 North Americans wil suffer from dementia. Today there is no effective treatment for dementia, but in the last month, several reports have shown that dementia may be delayed and prevented by: • exercising your brain, • exercising your muscles...