Archive for December 21st, 2007

7 Medical Myths Even Doctors Believe

Posted on December 21, 2007. Filed under: Diet and Nutrition, medicine | Tags: health, Life, medical myths, medicine, science |

Robert Roy Britt
LiveScience Managing Editor
LiveScience.comThu Dec 20, 7:20 PM ET

Popular culture is loaded with myths and half-truths. Most are harmless. But when doctors start believing medical myths, perhaps it’s time to worry.
In the British Medical Journal this week, researchers looked into several common misconceptions, from the belief that a person should drink eight glasses of [...]

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Negative Ion Generators and Seasonal Affective Disorder

Posted on December 21, 2007. Filed under: Alternative, Diseases, Health Products, medicine | Tags: depression, ion generators, ionizers, light boxes, Negative Ions, SAD |

I did a story a while back about seasonal affective disorder and light therapy. A study published around 12 years ago showed that negative ions and negative ion generators can also be effective in treating seasonal affective disorder (SAD). In 1995, Dr. Michael Terman published a study in The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine [...]

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