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Which nutrients might help prevent the most common cause of blindness in the elderly?

Friday, August 29th, 2008

Macular degeneration is the most common cause of blindness in the elderly. And sufferers of this condition in England had some welcome news this week when the barring from use of a drug used to treat this condition (Lucentis) by National Health Service (NHS) doctors was reversed. This means that doctors in the state medical [...]

New evidence links low cholesterol with increased risk of cancer and death, and what are we to make of conventional cholesterol guidelines?

Wednesday, August 27th, 2008

At the risk of repeating myself, today I’d like to share with you the results of a study which has found a link between low cholesterol levels and heightened risk of cancer. After all, it was only last Friday that I reported on a recently published study which found precisely the same thing. The study [...]