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The Director-General of the World Health Organization was blunt. The world is facing “an end to modern medicine as we know it,” Margaret Chan warned last year. Strep throats could once again kill people, and hip replacements, organ transplants, and cancer chemotherapy “would become far more difficult or even too dangerous to undertake.” That’s because we’re losing our first-line antimicrobial drugs to antibiotic resistance, Chan noted. As for new antibiotics to replace them, Chan wasn’t optimistic: “The pipeline is virtually dry. The cupboard is nearly bare.”
At a Greek or Middle Eastern sandwich shop, should you order the gyro or the falafel? Gyro is a blend of lamb and beef, the falafel is fried chickpea patties.…
True enough. Almost any chicken or turkey burger is leaner than one made of “regular” (30% fat) ground beef. Regular ground beef has 230 calories and 6 grams of saturated…
Seen the claims for Azo Bladder Control pills? This dietary supplement, marketed primarily to women, supposedly “helps control the need to go to the bathroom,” “helps reduce occasional urgency,” and…
“Turn a balanced breakfast into a tasty one,” says the Nutella jar. The “Hazelnut Spread with Skim Milk & Cocoa” sounds healthy. It’s not. Nutella has more added sugar (five…
No evidence that Ester-C brand of vitamin C provides special protection against colds.
It’s “microwave popcorn reinvented” for so many reasons. The popcorn is organic, the paper bag is compost-able, and the box is made of recycled materials. And Quinn packages its unsaturated…
“It’s a common misconception that wild seafood is good and farm-raised is bad,” says Barton Seaver, director of the Healthy and Sustainable Food Program at the Center for Health and…
Most ploys for getting kids to eat vegetables just create lifelong negative attitudes about veggies. And bribery to eat their vegetables is even worse! That tells a child that vegetables…