http://www.healthknot.com/ Latest health news http://www.healthknot.com/the_MMR_vaccine.html The rant against Dr. Andrew Wakefield, started in 2004 by Brian Deer's media feeds, escalated to a full-blown campaign, not only very unusual in the circles of high-level medical professionals, but seemingly vastly overgrowing factual significance of his 1998 study... http://www.healthknot.com/wakefield_proceedings.html Formal proceedings against a medical study author, such as the fiery controversy spinning around Dr. Andrew Wakefield 1998 autism study, are extremely rare. Is the general absence of professional and ethical misconduct proceedings against those involved in authoring medical studies and presenting their data a proof that the vast majority of them are up to highest professional and ethical standards?... http://www.healthknot.com/wakefield_autism_study.html Wakefield's autism study, implying causative link between "environmental triggers", including vaccination, and "developmental regression", mainly autism, has been fully retracted by Lancet at the beginning of this month, after partial retraction (conclusion section) in 2004. The first question that comes to mind is: "Why did it take so long"? The second: "What was the reason?"... http://www.healthknot.com/antibiotic_children.html That sounds odd, doesn't it: antibiotic children? Even more so if you think of the inherent meaning of "antibiotic", which is pretty much the same as anti-life. How could possibly children be anti-life?... http://www.healthknot.com/physical_activity_benefits.html Most anyone knows that physical activity benefits health. This view is supported by both, medical research and statistical data... http://www.healthknot.com/healthier_life.html What is a year of life worth? Or years of a healthier life, not bothered by poor health and fear of dying? Their value seems to be low for those relatively young and healthy, skyrocketing ... http://www.healthknot.com/autism_epidemic_worsening.html Is the incidence of autism among U.S. children so high to justify calling it autism epidemic?... http://www.healthknot.com/rosuvastatin.html It shouldn't come as a surprise to see this news: on December 15th, FDA's advisory committee voted overwhelmingly (12 to 4) in favor of broadening indication for rosuvastatin - AstraZeneca's anti-cholesterol drug better known as Crestor... http://www.healthknot.com/high_protein_diet_effects.html If you are living in the U.S. - or most any Western country - your protein intake is likely to be between elevated and high. Health wise, any dietary excess is undesirable, and proteins are no exception. But what are, exactly, high-protein diet effects on health?... http://www.healthknot.com/folic_acid_cancer.html Are you confused? After over a decade of having our foods fortified with folic acid, studies are producing pretty consistent indications that elevated intake of this form of vitamin B9 - produced synthetically for food supplements and fortification - increases the risk of developing cancer... http://www.healthknot.com/folic_acid_studies.html For a while, we thought of folic acid - the most common synthetic form of vitamin B9, or folate - as a good friend of our health. Then, just as we stepped into this new century, a string of folic acid studies came to unexpected result... http://www.healthknot.com/high_sugar_diet.html Imagine you are a tiny little worm, happily feeding on bacteria, and also got lucky to have some steady sugar added to your diet. Everything looks - or should we say tastes - great ... until it's time to go...