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Is it the corn subsidies which make it easy for lots of corn based processed products to find their way to your supermarket and then... Read more »
About a year ago I wrote about some of the issues surrounding smoking and schizophrenia; how the rate of smoking in people with this... Read more »
(Ivanhoe Newswire) -- A toxic chemical may be contributing to the worldwide obesity epidemic. Scientists recently observed that tributyltin -- a... Read more »
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Nearly two-thirds of the United States population is overweight. There are many ways to determine if a person is overweight, but experts believe that... Read more »
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Article updated and reviewed by Hubert Chen, MD, Associate Director of Medical Sciences, Amgen Inc. and Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine... Read more »
A collaborative study by the World Health Organization (WHO), the World Bank, and Harvard University has found that mental disorders accounts for... Read more »
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