Health Glance
Scientists have claimed people should remove old copper pipes from their homes or install special filters because the metal has been shown to build up in their bodies and cause serious health problems.
They have warned that tiny traces of copper from pipes, which are still installed in British homes, mix with tap water and are then consumed by people.
Copper pipes could cause heart disease and Alzheimer's
Hope for MS pill after cladribine and fingolimod trials
Oral drugs to treat multiple sclerosis could become available in 2011 after promising results in two trials.
Drug licences have been applied for and the MS Society said it was "great news" for people with MS - current treatments involve injections or infusions. The trials of the drugs each involved 1,000 people in over 18 countries, the New England Journal of Medicine says.
Over 7,000 women a year get false breast cancer alert
Thousands of women who attend routine breast screening checks are wrongly told that they have life-threatening cancer and undergo unnecessary treatment each year, researchers claim today.
An independent scientific review of the NHS breast screening programme accuses the Government of providing misleading propaganda to persuade women of the benefits of screening, without mentioning the drawbacks.
Fish Oils May Slow Genetic Aging
For heart disease patients, omega-3 fatty acids may protect against morbidity and mortality by slowing biological aging, researchers say.
Patients who had the highest omega-3 fatty acid blood levels also had telomeres that shortened at a significantly slower rate than patients with lower intake, Ramin Farzaneh-Far, MD, of the University of California San Francisco, and colleagues reported in the Jan. 20 JAMA.
FDA Estimates Vioxx Caused 27,785 Deaths
Merck pulled Vioxx, a popular pain reliever widely used by arthritis patients, off the market in September, saying it was "putting patient safety first" but the Wall Street Journal reported earlier that company officials had fought for years to protect the highly profitable drug and to keep news of the health risks quiet.
About 20 million Americans had taken Vioxx by the time Merck withdrew it.
Doctors Poisoned By Medical-Media Monopoly
European Council officials investigating vaccine industry corruption and media frights that prompted governments worldwide to over-stock risky H1N1 vaccines and expensive drugs for the unusually mild "2009 swine flu pandemic" have a Special Reportonline in Medical Veritas to consider.
Alzheimer's disease 'could be detected by eye test'
A simple eye test might be able to detect Alzheimer's and other diseases before symptoms develop, according to UK scientists. The technique uses fluorescent markers which attach to dying cells which can be seen in the retina and give an early indication of brain cell death.
The research has been carried out on mice, but human trials are planned.
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