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Popular weight loss and diabetes drugs linked to increased risk of rare form of blindness. Study authors state that causality is not established. The health benefits of controlling diabetes, reduced heart, liver, kidney, and brain disease need to be considered with its use.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for July 4, 2024 Source:Popular weight loss and diabetes drugs linked to increased risk of rare form of blindness
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Wednesday House Call, September 4, 2019: Misinformation abounds, people listen, and children suffer.
Wednesday House Call, September 4, 2019: Misinformation abounds, people listen, and children suffer. Dr Barry Dworkin joins Rob Snow to discuss the latest health stories of the week. Measles outbreak in NY City ends. Epidemic of measles in New Zealand. We talk about how the anti vaccine movement’s misinformation campaigns has caused great harm to…
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Restricted diet of junk food leads to one teen’s loss of vision makes the headlines. Yet, news does not report that 500,000 children go blind per year from Vitamin A deficiency with half dying within a year of vision loss.
Health Headlines Commentary for September 3, 2019 Source:Teen went blind after eating only Pringles, fries, ham and sausage: case study Reference:Blindness Caused by a Junk Food Diet WHO: Micronutrient deficiencies :Vitamin A deficiency
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Medical advances restore vision for the future
Four exciting good-news medical stories warrant more exposure. Two of the stories report research into restoring the sight of visually impaired people. The other two stories demonstrate ultrasound technology advances to treat prostate cancer and improve medical diagnostic imaging.