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...American Medical Association unpeeled a surprising new finding: Contrary to popular assumption, eating one egg a day does not significantly increase the risk of heart attack or stroke. The study essentially debunked the common train of thought that had given eggs a bum rap, explains TIME medical columnist Christine Gorman. ?Scientists have known that eating eggs increases blood cholesterol, and they have also known that people with increased blood cholesterol face a greater risk of heart disease,? she says. But they jumped too quickly to conclude that eating eggs therefore increases heart disease...
Reports that the mega-successful new painkiller Celebrex has been linked to 10 deaths and 11 cases of gastrointestinal hemorrhage during its first three months should not lead to any hasty conclusions, warns TIME medical columnist Christine Gorman. So far, it is unclear how the new data on deaths and severe reactions, first reported in the Wall Street Journal on Tuesday, is related to the drug, or whether other factors may be involved. Celebrex, the first of a new class of Cox-2 inhibitors to hit the U.S. market, has taken off nearly as explosively as Viagra did, with some...
...said New York Daily News columnist Phil Mushnick "began to write a number of things that were totally untrue" and damaging to his reputation, McMahon said...
...YORK: The papers of record didn't go home empty-handed at this year's Pulitzer prizes: The New York Times took home a pair, one for columnist Maureen Dowd's cranky Clinton-Lewinsky columns and another for Jeff Gerth's chronicling of the China satellite flap. The Wall Street Journal netted two as well, one for International Reporting (the Russian financial meltdown) and one for Feature Writing. And the Washington Post took home the Public Service award for "Deadly Force," about reckless gunplay by D.C. police officers. For photography, it was an historic but not-too-surprising sweep...
...journal Nature that it had identified an enzyme, presenilin, that controls the production of a protein believed to be responsible for causing Alzheimer?s disease. Some 4 million Americans suffer from the debilitating memory loss. ?This is encouraging news for those afflicted with the devastating disease,? says TIME medical columnist Christine Gorman, ?but Alzheimer?s is still far from being conquered.? As with so many other medical discoveries, doctors and patients need to remain cautious. ?The report is significant from a research point of view,? says Gorman, ?but it needs to be verified with further testing. For the moment...