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Sunday House Call, #623, July 23, 2017: Chili burns your taste buds but not your fat
Sunday House Call, #623, July , 2017: Chili burns your taste buds but not your fat Topics today include: Deconstruction of an ad for Chili Burn (TM) in the National Post misrepresents science with its claims of burning your fat to induce weight loss. Your calls about: A man with Marfan syndrome and a vertebral artery…
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Weak evidence used to state that ASA use increases risk of wet-type macular degeneration
Madely Health Headlines Commentary for January 24, 2013 [display_podcast] Source: 15-year study finds that Aspirin use ‘triples risk of blindness disease’ Long-term aspirin use ‘increases blindness risk’ Reference: Liew G, Mitchell P, Wong TY, et al. The Association of Aspirin Use With Age-Related Macular Degeneration. JAMA Internal Medicine. Published online January 21 2013
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Little evidence to suggest long-term ASA use increases risk of macular degeneration
Madely Health Headlines Commentary for December 19, 2012 [display_podcast] Source: Long-Term Aspirin Use Linked With Vision Loss: Study Reference: Long-term Use of Aspirin and Age-Related Macular Degeneration
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Treatments for Seasonal Affective Disorder abound but do they work?
Madely Health Headlines Commentary for December 1, 2009 [display_podcast] Source: Bright Ideas for Treating the Winter Blues
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Regenerating retinal cells in the eye
Eye diseases such as retinitis pigmentosa and macular degeneration result in the loss of vision in a slow and unrelenting fashion due to the deteriorating and damaged retina. A team of scientists at the Schepens Eye Research Institute and Harvard Medical School has published a study in the March issue of Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual…