Chemicals in Our Children

In 2001, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released the National Report on Human Exposure to Environmental Chemicals, which unveiled the first available benchmarks for a few of the thousands of chemicals to which we are all exposed. The report is based on blood/urine samples taken in twelve US locations from about 3,800 […]

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Principal Results From the Women’s Health Initiative

Risks and Benefits of Estrogen Plus Progestin in Healthy Postmenopausal Women Principal Results From the Women’s Health Initiative Randomized Controlled Trial Writing Group for the Women’s Health Initiative Investigators JAMA. 2002;288:321-333. Context Despite decades of accumulated observational evidence, the balance of risks and benefits for hormone use in healthy postmenopausal women remains uncertain. Objective To […]

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Vitamin D

Vitamin D Overview About The Science Help End the Government’s Shameful Silence About Vitamin D—the Natural Way to Prevent and Treat Flu Including Swine Flu! Overview With hundreds of thousands of seasonal flu-related complications, thousands of deaths from the flu, ANH-USA asks the obvious question: What are the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), the Food […]

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In 2007, complementary/alternative medicine accounted for 1.5 percent of all U.S. healthcare costs

Americans are voting with their pocketbooks. Although complementary and alternative medicine accounted for just 1.5 percent of all U.S. healthcare costs in 2007, Americans spent $33.9 billion out of pocket on CAM, 11.2 percent of all payments for healthcare. This sum is dwarfed by the $286.6 billion paid out of pocket for conventional medicine.

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