Today, The Globe & Mail published a response of Dr. Jay Wortman to the discoveries from the Women’s Health Initiative Dietary Modification Trial published this week in JAMA.
Dr. Wortman arrived from British Columbia in Canada, to participate in the 2006 NMS Scientific Sessions: Nutritional & Metabolic Aspects of Carbohydrate Restriction last month and he told about his work with the population of Canadian Inuit.

According to recent research, only 5 per cent young people in Norway between the age of 13 and 15 smoke every day. The number has been diminished by 50 per cent in five years.

The survey was conducted for the Department of Health by TNS Gallup. It examined more than 4000 students of secondary schools.

Are cholesterol-lowering drugs able to afflict memory? We have wrestled with this problem for almost six years.

It began when we got an alarming letter. Its author was a woman who complained that a few months after starting taking Lipitor, she was “having trouble remembering names and coming up with the right word. At dinner once I said, ‘Please pass the elephant’ though I wanted the bread.”

Probably they are, although the data are mixed. Some studies from the 1980s suggested that there may be a connection between ownership of pets and better health.

When we think about genesis of heart disease, probably all of us imagine an overweight middle-aged man, sitting in front of TV and consuming a bacon cheeseburger.

This notion is valid and strong. According to the Centers for Disease Control, heart ilness and other cardiovascular disorders are the No. 1 killer of men at age of over 35, taking the lives of more than 400,000 American males in 2005.

In business, it is a common situation that when one industry loses, another one - gains.

The pharmaceutical industry suffers through a span of extensive losses of patents on key medicines and at the same time retail pharmacies are getting the benefit because they receive significantly more money giving out generic drugs than brand names.

According to Australian researchers, low-dose radiation meant only for pain relief can help some patients with outwardly untreatable advanced lung cancer beat the odds.

The scientists examined 2,337 patients who received palliative radiation for advanced cases of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), that is the most common type of the disease. The researchers report that such advanced cases are usually regarded to be “incurable,” with “dismal” odds of survival.

MPs are strongly encouraged by a leading cancer charity to vote for a blanket ban on smoking.

According to Macmillan Cancer Relief, such a ban could be a “single most effective thing MPs could do to cut lung cancer deaths”. The Health Bill returns to the House of Commons tomorrow.

A US company has linked an intravenous medication pump with a handheld computer. It enables patients to check the amount of painkiller they get, recording the dosage amounts and times for further analysis by clinicians.

According to a research by the Mental Health Foundation and Sustain from January 2006, the changes in dietary habits and farming methods from the last five decades seem to have played a crucial role in the noticeable rise in problems of mental health.