Revealed: The seven great "medical myths"
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Reading in dim light won't damage your eyes, you don't need eight glasses of water a day to stay healthy and shaving your legs won't make the hair grow back faster.
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Medical textbooks skirt the topic, often avoiding any explanation. But as anyone who has ever complained of cramps will attest, lots of advice is circulating on how to avoid them.
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The stories seem strange but riveting. A heart attack victim recalls floating in the air, watching paramedics revive him. A surgical patient remembers hovering, watching the doctors operate. Such widely reported out-of-body experiences have long been the territory of theology, philosophy and scary movies. Now scientists have turned their attention to the topic.
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NEW YORK  - The idea that chronic  constipation is the result of a low-fiber diet may be one of  the many myths and misconceptions about the condition,  according to a new review of the issue.
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Numbers don't lie &#151; or do they? When it comes to public health, figures are seldom straightforward.
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Seven stocks you may want to get to know well.
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Popular wisdom is often an oxymoron.
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By Anonymous  Critical Thinking About Sex, Love and Romance in the Mass Media, Mary-Lou Galician and Debra L. Merskin, eds. Erlbaum, 2007,408 pp., $34.95.  Contributors to this fascinating book examine popular media's roles in perpetuating romantic fantasy and myth.
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Two medical studies stress an active lifestyle, as well as eating right, is vital for good health. By LISA GREENE, Times Staff Writer.
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Alternative remedies abound, but which actually work?.
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What do you think of the Medicare drug discount-card program? (Check all that apply.). I&#39;m eligible but I don&#39;t use it. Biopsy results confirm a young Dublin man has contracted the human form of mad cow disease.
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The largest ever study of genes in disease has found 24 genetic risk factors -- half of them completely new -- linked to seven common conditions, British scientists said on Wednesday.
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According to a new study by Israeli researchers, most doctors prescribe placebos to their patients, and in most of these cases, the patients are told they are receiving real medication.
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By Lindee, Susan  REBECCA M. HERZIG, Suffering for Science: Reason and Sacrifice in Modern America. New Brunswick, NJ and London: Rutgers University Press, 2005. Pp. ?+194. ISBN: 0-8135-3662-6.
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MONDAY, Feb. 11 (HealthDay News) -- Just 5 percent of Web pages devoted to breast cancer contain inaccurate information. But pages focused on complementary or alternative medicine are 15 times more likely to make misleading claims and contain other false information, a new study says.
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Online symptoms searches can be useful. They can also give you acute misinformation.
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One-third say they or a family member have experienced a medical error, a new survey finds. By Karen Pallarito. WEDNESDAY, Nov. 17 (HealthDayNews) -- Five years after the release of a landmark report revealing