An article in the current issue of JAMA reports on the efficacy of low-dose aspirin for the primary prevention of atherosclerotic events in patients with type 2 diabetes.
This was a multicenter, prospective, randomized, open-label, blinded, end-point trial conducted from December 2002 through April 2008 at 163 institutions throughout Japan, involving 2539 patients with type 2 [...]

A recent press release reports that pumping short children with Growth Hormone (GH) can markedly increase their final height even if they’re not growth hormone deficient in the first place.
In the past, this kind of approach was only used on those extremely short children in whom a growth hormone deficiency was detected, but it turns [...]

What sounds like great news has been reported in a study conducted by the Children’s Hospital Boston. Researchers caused mature neurons to recover and regrow vigorously after being damaged by temporarily silencing genes that under normal circumstances prevent healing.
I guess most of us wonder why we evolved in such a way that when our fingers [...]

A 2005 review in The Lancet titled ‘The End of Homeopathy’ reported what is patently obvious to any thinking person – that homeopathy is a farce and works due to the placebo effect.
The National Center for Homeopathy points out today, however, that the researchers must have borrowed some tricks from their opponents in neglecting to [...]