'eHealthy News You Can Use', May 30, 2001

CT Scan Radiation Risk Even Concerns Conservative FDA Officials - Recent advances in computerized tomography (CT) technology have increased the efficiency and lowered the price of the scans. More of these scans are being done every day exposing individuals to potentially dangerous levels of ionizing radiation.

The Toxic Toothpaste - Fluoride is not the beneficial additive that is purported to be. Parents should try to ensure that their child's intake of fluoride is minimized as much as possible.

Integrity In Medicine - BMJ Editor Quits University Position - The editor of the prestigious British Medical Journal (BMJ) has resigned from a teaching job at a university that had accepted funding from a tobacco company.

British Journal Lancet States FDA Far Too Cozy With Drug Industry - The clinical data confirmed "substantial and potentially life-threatening risks" but instead of withdrawing Lotronex, the FDA issued a medication guide. Conflict of interest abound as the FDA received hundreds of millions of dollars offunding from the drug industry

Researchers Take a Second Look at Soy Foods - Conflicting opinions are now emerging among researchers about soy's health benefits. However, regular readers of this newsletter will find this as no surprise at all.

Brain Still Developing in Middle Age, Scans Show - The brain is much more like a muscle than we ever thought. That is, the brain's structure does change over time and it may be possible to, in essence, "bulk up" the brain throughout much of adulthood.

The Sanctity of Human Blood - We've always been told that vaccines are safe, effective, and necessary. But there's a growing body of information today that indicates that vaccinations are all we are led to believe they are.

Upcoming Course/Seminar Information

VACCINES - An Educational Seminar - Dr. Sherri Tenpenny is one of the leading physicians with the National Vaccine Information Center and she is so compelled to help children she has taken time off of her very busy alternative medicine practice in Cleveland to lecture around the country and educate physicians and health care professionals about this topic. Highly Recommended.

University of Illinois School of Public Health, Chicago Symposium on Food Irradiation - If you live in northern Illinois please consider attending the FREE symposium on food irradiation that will be held at the University of Illinois. Samuel Epstein, MD, Chairman of the Cancer Prevention Coalition will be one of the panelists.

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