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April 1, 2008

Health Headlines Podcast, 4/1/08 Radio Interview, WBCL, Ft. Wayne, IN

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April 1, 2008

Health Headlines Podcast, 3/26/08 Radio Interview, Moody Radio Florida

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April 1, 2008

Health Headlines Podcast, 2/20/08 Radio Interview, KTIS, Minneapolis, MN

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April 1, 2008

Health Headlines Podcast, 2/13/08 Radio Interview, KTIS, Minneapolis, MN

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March 31, 2008

March 31, 2008 Health Headlines

Cholesterol Drug Controversy Continues Cholesterol Testing Not Enough for Some You May Be the Key to Cancer Prevention Managing Stress Can Lower Heart Death Risk A […]

March 31, 2008

Cholesterol Testing Not Enough for Some

This story is important for readers that plan to have their cholesterol level checked this year. Not only should you get an entire lipid profile (which […]

March 31, 2008

MEDIA ALERT

Dr. Walt and Barb will appear as guests on the Thursday, April 3rd broadcast of “Living the Life” at 930 am on your local ABC Family […]

March 31, 2008

Cholesterol Drug Controversy Continues

The controversy about Vytorin and Zetia continues. As I’ve been saying since this story began to break, the group of patients studied was one that had […]

February 2, 2012

Study: “No justification” for transferring three or more embryos in IVF

The Los Angeles Times “Booster Shots” blog reports, “A recent study … concluded that doctors can consider transferring two embryos in some women but that there […]

February 2, 2012

Hormone produced by exercise helps control obesity, blood sugar levels

The San Francisco Chronicle reports a study in Nature showing that irisin, “a hormone naturally found in muscle cells … rises during exercise, converting white fat into […]

February 3, 2012

Red meat consumption linked to an increased risk of stroke

Reuters reports that, according to a study published online in Stroke, red meat consumption may be linked to an increased risk of stroke.

February 3, 2012

Occasional marijuana use may not damage lungs

The Washington Post “The Checkup” blog reports, “Smoking marijuana doesn’t appear to do the kind of damage to people’s lungs as smoking tobacco does,” according to […]

February 5, 2012

Divorced adults have higher risk of early death

USA Today /Arizona Republic reports that a meta-analysis in published in the journal Perspectives on Psychological Science reviewed “more than 30 published studies” and “found divorced […]