Health News Update

by Tyrone M. Reyes, M.D.
Health store shelves are brimming with herbs, supplements, and other products to facilitate weight loss — but the vast majority of them don’t work. Recently, at least in the US, a proven medication that helps modestly with weight loss will join their ranks soon. The application by the pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline [...]

CHICAGO – Shark fin soup might taste good. But it won’t do much for cancer.
Shark cartilage, a widely used alternative therapy for cancer did not help patients with lung cancer live longer, according to the results of one of the first rigorous studies of the approach.
But two smaller studies showed some preliminary but encouraging evidence [...]