Mercola objects to the Cleveland Clinic ranking bariatric surgery for type 2 diabetes first among its 2013 medical innovations, and recounts the clinic's 150-patient study, in which gastric bypass and sleeve gastrectomy patients lost about five times as much weight as those on medication.
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How Worried Should You Be About Antibiotic Resistance? Very Says the CDC
During Get Smart About Antibiotics Week, the CDC met with 25 health organizations over antibiotic overuse in health care and livestock. The piece faults prescribing for colds and viruses, stopping a course early, and antibacterials added to soap, detergent and toothpaste.
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UBC Researchers Advocate HPV Vaccine Scrutiny
Mercola reports on University of British Columbia research arguing that the HPV vaccine Gardasil may in some cases trigger cerebral vasculitis, an often-fatal inflammation of blood vessels in the brain and spinal cord, and cites 119 deaths reported to VAERS by mid-2012.
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Attacks Your Natural Immunity - Is This What's Behind These Recent Disease Outbreaks?
Research in the New England Journal of Medicine examined mumps outbreaks in heavily vaccinated US communities. Of more than 3,500 people sickened in 2009, 89 percent were children who had both recommended MMR doses; in 2010, 77 percent of over 1,000 cases had two doses.
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Cholesterol lowering statins unable to lower cancer incidence, mortality
A PLoS One meta-analysis pooled 27 randomized trials covering about 175,000 people and found lowering LDL cholesterol with statins for five years had no effect on newly diagnosed cancer or cancer deaths, in trials against controls and in trials of more versus less intensive therapy.
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Statins raise type 2 diabetes mellitus risk
In an Archives of Internal Medicine study with about 15 years of follow-up, postmenopausal women taking statins were 71 percent more likely to develop type 2 diabetes; after adjusting for confounders, women aged 50 to 79 were 48 percent more likely. The link applied to all statins.
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Statins cut risk of vascular events in diabetes mellitus patients
Pooling 14 statin trials covering 18,686 people with diabetes and 71,370 without, researchers found each 1.0 mmol/L drop in LDL cholesterol tracked with 21% fewer major vascular events in both groups, plus 22% fewer heart attacks or coronary deaths and 21% fewer strokes in diabetics.
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Breast cancer drug use raises heart disease risk
Among 315 advanced breast cancer patients studied in Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety, 16 percent of those on cardiotoxic drugs had heart failure events over three years, against 8 percent on non-cardiotoxic drugs, a 150 percent higher rate of new cardiac events after adjustment.
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Hormone Therapy? It’s as Safe As Cigarettes
Martha Rosenberg revisits the government study that found hormone replacement therapy raised heart attack risk 29 percent, doubled dementia risk, and raised breast cancer risk 26 percent and stroke 41 percent. US breast cancer incidence fell 7 percent in 2003 as millions quit.
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Mammogram screening raises breast cancer risk
A BMJ cohort study of 1,993 BRCA1/2 carriers in France, the UK and the Netherlands found those exposed to diagnostic radiation before age 30 were almost twice as likely to develop breast cancer. Risk rose with dose, reaching nearly fourfold in the highest exposure quartile.
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Antidepressant use linked to sexual arousal difficulties
Among 112 Malaysian women whose depression was in remission, 41.1% reported sexual arousal difficulties: 50% on fluoxetine against 32.1% on escitalopram, a difference that was not statistically significant. Higher doses carried four times the odds.
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Antidepressant use in women linked to low risk of suicides in men
A Finnish analysis of suicide rates and reimbursed antidepressant prescriptions from 1994 to 2001 found male suicide rates 30 percent lower in regions where women's antidepressant use rose most. Rising use among men showed no matching link to women's suicide rates.
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Organ transplant recipients face higher cancer risk
An American Journal of Transplantation cohort study of Australian liver and cardiothoracic transplant recipients found they were 162 percent more likely than the general population to develop cancer, with raised risk for 16 cancer types, mostly ones with a viral cause.
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Diabetes, insulin treatments boost lung cancer risk
Among 145,765 postmenopausal women in the Women's Health Initiative, those reporting treated type 2 diabetes were 27 percent more likely to be diagnosed with lung cancer, and those needing insulin 71 percent more likely. Untreated diabetes and diabetes duration showed no significant link.
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Could statins lower colorectal cancer risk?
A World Journal of Gastroenterology study of 1,156 colorectal cancer cases and 4,624 matched controls in Taiwan found no protective effect from statins; users were about 10% more likely to be diagnosed, rising to 30% at the highest cumulative doses.
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ADHD Drugs Prescribed to Poor Children to ‘Help’ in School
Mercola cites a New York Times report that some pediatricians use an ADHD diagnosis as an excuse to prescribe stimulants such as Adderall to low-income children who are struggling at school, on the reasoning that if the school environment will not change, the child will.
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Prenatal antibiotics linked to high risk of epilepsy
Following 447,629 Danish children born between 1996 and 2004, researchers linked mothers' prescriptions for the cystitis antibiotics pivmecillinam, sulphamethizole and nitrofurantoin to 10 to 20 percent higher epilepsy risk in their children, rising to about 30 percent with multiple prescriptions.
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Better Childhoods Through Chemistry - Pediatric Drug Proponents Pushing Pills
A look at how pharmaceutical money moves through ads, subsidized doctors, journals and patient groups to convince parents their children need pills, centering on Harold Koplewicz and the NYU Child Study Center, which critics call a threat to children's welfare.
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