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Prophalactic Aspirin is Still a No-No…

…So why do people keep taking it?

Another article in this month’s “JAMA” concluded that low-dose aspirin not only showed the same results as placebo, but actually caused more bleeding (such as hemorrhagic stroke) in people who had a stroke anyway. There have been several studies like this over the past few years, yet people are still [...]

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Soy and Fertility, Acupuncture and Insomnia, and Calcium and Stroke

A few bits of research I came across today:

Men who eat a lot of soy may have lower sperm counts, according to the Harvard School of Public Health.

Acupuncture was recently proven very useful in the treatment of insomnia, according to a clinical trial run by the University of Chinese Medicine in Guangzhou.

Higher calcium intake from dairy [...]

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