What We are Reading
Why a Bit of Belly Fat is a Good Thing
Belly fat is the trendy new “no no” for women—everybody’s talking about it. But I beg to differ. For a menopausal woman, a little bit of belly fat is natural, healthy and put there for a purpose…
Birth Control Pill Safety
A [...]
Truthiness in Advertising: Is Qlaira® Really a “Natural” Birth Control Pill?
New oral contraceptive, Qlaira® is being marketed as “body-identical” but a closer look proves otherwise.
The headline of the “consumer media” press release from Bayer Healthcare says, “Natural hormone inspires new contraceptive pill.”
Really?! I thought. This could be exciting! But of course it was not [...]
by Virginia Hopkins
The research is contradictory, the benefits are debatable and the threat of drug resistant viruses is real.
FLU DRUGS
Oseltamivir Phosphate (Tamiflu)
Zanamivir (Relenza)
What Do They Do in the Body?
Both drugs are neuraminidase inhibitors. They inhibit enzyme activity in flu viruses, which in turn inhibits their [...]
