Category Archives: Uncategorized

Category Archives: Uncategorized

Soy : miracle food or devil’s spawn?

By kathy | Published: April 28, 2010
Judging from media reports, soy is a regular Dr. Jekyll-and-Mr. Hyde of foods: on the one hand, it’s widely praised as a heart- and environment-healthy alternative to meat, and a source of important micronutrients like folate (particularly important for nursing mothers). On the other hand, it contains phytoestrogens – plant compounds that mimic, [...]
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Tamoxifen: When is a fifty percent risk reduction not impressive?

By kathy | Published: January 21, 2010
Thank you Gary Schwitzer for addressing absolute versus relative risk, despite the media’s (and some researchers’) viewing the Tamoxifen issue as proof of patients’ stupidity. I’m going to start with the conclusion of the New York Times column that inspired this commentary, in which a doctor at Memorial Sloane-Kettering dismisses the Tamoxifen problem as something that [...]
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women abhor a vacuum

By kathy | Published: December 15, 2009
I woke up this morning with a mammogram debate hangover. Enough with the new guidelines, already! But still, what do we do with the mammogram-shaped holes in our lives? As it turns out, nature abhors a vacuum almost as much as I do, and there are already some interesting and, fingers crossed and lucky [...]
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Health News Tool #2: Size Matters

By kathy | Published: November 14, 2009
Remember Henery Hawk, that little chicken hawk who was always pestering Foghorn Leghorn? That’s the image that should come to mind the next time you read of a little 12-person (or 20-rat, or 40-mouse) study claiming to have found a cure for cancer, wrinkles, or even boredom. It’s not that small studies are worthless [...]
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