Cancer moonshot and slow-learners

M otivated by Vice President Biden's son's death at an early age from cancer, President Obama recently announced a new health initia...

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Real Truth in Labeling for the new statin replacement

T he FDA is about to or just has approve a new cholesterol-fighting drug to supplement or replace statins.  But is it taking all the 'si...

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Competing causes everywhere

We've written about recent studies in which one has to do risk-benefit analysis in order to statistically determine the least (or most)...

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