The Health and Medical Blog
Should we be reconsidering the conventional wisdom on saturated fat? Yes, according to Gary Taubes’s interpretation of the new report in The New England Journal of Medicine on a two-year diet experiment in Israel. The Israeli researchers found that people on a relatively low-fat diet lost less weight (6 pounds) than those who ate a [...]
The US government has decided not to go ahead with a proposed AIDS vaccine trial called “PAVE 100.” The decision comes a few weeks before the 17th International AIDS Conference in Mexico City – and after a controversy earlier this year about the safety of another AIDS vaccine trial. To find out what it means [...]
Alzheimer’s Disease is robbing Bonnie Lowe of her memories. But the 89-year-old is not giving up. “I want to be like I used to be,” said Bonnie. She joined a new study and will soon start taking an experimental drug called Bapineuzamab, basically an Alzheimer’s vaccine. Currently the only way to treat Alzheimer’s is by [...]