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		<title>Kids Not Getting Enough Cholesterol?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 05:50:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jane Chin, Ph.D.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had no idea that September National Cholesterol Education Month, but it is, and I saw a press release about nonprofit nutrition education organization Weston A. Price Foundation on getting consumers to recognize the importance of cholesterol. The press release made sense to me, but it seriously will meet lots of antagonism because of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Acai Miracle Berries is Mostly Miracle Marketing</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 04:56:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jane Chin, Ph.D.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In experiments conducted by the US Dept of Agriculture, volunteers were asked to ingest large quantities of fruits that have been identified as having high levels of antioxidants, and their blood were subsequently tested for antioxidant capacity. One important note is the large amount of fruit required per ingestion &#8211; for example &#8211; volunteers in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Which Side Are You Really On, Jane Chin?!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 04:42:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jane Chin, Ph.D.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I received what is probably the most passionate email from a reader of this blog that I&#8217;ve ever gotten since creating NakedMedicine.com in 2006. The email concludes with this: I can&#8217;t figure out what your agenda is Ms Chin. Are siding with the poor hard working physicians who are fighting a losing battle with their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Provenge and FDA&#8217;s Etiology For Not Approving</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:42:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Dan Abshear Terminal patients are those who are not expected to live due to usually illness such as advanced prostate cancer (cT3). If the patient has 6 months or less to live, those patients are considered terminally ill. Regardless, if a patient is terminal, they are without a cure or tolerable treatment for their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Patients Adrift in a Sea of Clinical Trials</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Feb 2008 22:32:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Sally Satel, M.D. On the front page of the Washington Post last week was a headline geared to spark the ire of those who have a congenital animus toward pharmaceutical companies&#8211;&#8221;Comparison of Schizophrenia Drugs Often Favors Firm Funding Study&#8220;. The Post article noted that, according to a recent study, nine out of ten head-to-head [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Let Me Count the Ways to a Heart Attack</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Oct 2007 04:19:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jane Chin, Ph.D.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t know what&#8217;s going on, but October has been a productive month for studies that show different ways to get heart attacks. For example, in addition to the &#8220;traditional way&#8221; of getting a heart attack, you can also get a heart attack by: Undergoing prostate cancer therapy (consumer news / original research), speculated to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Updated Heart Attack Treatment Guidelines</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Aug 2007 01:57:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jane Chin, Ph.D.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week the American Heart Association and the American College of Cardiology have published updated treatment guidelines for heart attacks (or, as the journal article titled it, &#8220;Update of the Clinical Competence Statement on Cardiac Interventional Procedures&#8221;). The entire update is currently available in full from the Journal of the American College of Cardiology (JACC) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Backgrounder on Diabetes Drug Avandia Controversy</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jul 2007 17:04:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jane Chin, Ph.D.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been tracking the various developments and commentaries on the controversy surrounding diabetes drug Avandia (rosiglitazone, manufactured by GlaxoSmithKline). For those of you interested in background information and commentaries relating to the use of Avandia and increased risk for heart disease, as well as the affordability of chronic medications like diabetes drugs, I&#8217;ve compiled a [...]]]></description>
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