The New Health Care: A Study on Fats That Doesn’t Fit the Story Line

There was a lot of news this week about a study, published in the medical journal BMJ, that looked at how diet affects heart health. The results were unexpected because they challenged the conventional thinking on saturated fats. And the data were very old, from the late 1960s and early 1970s. This has led many… Read More: The New Health Care: A Study on Fats That Doesn’t… »

Can coffee ‘tame the redness of rosacea’? Here’s what you need to know about the New York Times’ coverage

October 22, 2018 Posted By Categories Kevin Lomangino is the managing editor of HealthNewsReview.org. He tweets as @KLomangino. Here’s another example in our occasional series documenting how the New York Times’ ‘Well’ section is often unwell. This time it’s a brief story claiming that “Coffee may tame the redness of rosacea.” Let’s start with the… Read More: Can coffee ‘tame the redness of rosacea’? Here’s what you… »

Britain's AstraZeneca to buy 9.8 percent stake in France's Innate Pharma

PARIS (Reuters) – British drugmaker AstraZeneca will buy a newly issued equity stake of 9.8 percent in smaller French peer Innate Pharma, as consolidation intensifies in the healthcare sector. FILE PHOTO: A man walks past a sign at an AstraZeneca site in Macclesfield, central England May 19, 2014. REUTERS/Phil Noble/File Photo AstraZeneca will buy the… Read More: Britain's AstraZeneca to buy 9.8 percent stake in France's Innate… »