Friday, March 25, 2016

Vitamin C intake may help reduce the chance of cataracts

cataractEat foods rich in vitamin C, if you want to keep cataracts at bay. A study published in Ophthalmologysuggests that diet and lifestyle, rather than genetics, may have the most significant impact on cataract development, and vitamin C could cut the risk of the disorder by one third.

Read the article at: http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/308215.php

Thursday, March 17, 2016

Drug-Company Payments Mirror Doctors' Brand-Name Prescribing

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Doctors have long disputed the accusation that the payments they receive from pharmaceutical companies have any relationship to how they prescribe drugs.
There's been little evidence to settle the matter, until now.