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vitamins

Old Drugs, new tricks!

by Stephen on 2010/12/30

The drug metformin has been around since the early sixties. Whilst it has been prescribed since that time in the UK and Europe, misplaced concerns about serious side effect of a similar now discontinued drug prevented it being prescribed in the USA until the last decade. Metformin has been shown to reduce cardiovascular mortality compared [...]

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Why did Popeye eat spinach?

by Stephen on 2010/12/23

I am sure we all have at one time watched the Popeye cartoons on the television. Popeye is being downtrodden and is just about to be defeated when he opens a can of spinach and suddenly he is rejuvenated full of energy and strength able to fight or run and conquer the evils around him. [...]

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