Fixing Fibromyalgia

Learn how in recent clinical trials, intravenous micronutrient therapy (IVMT) has provided pain relief for patients with fibromyalgia.

Don’t Get Slimed: The Slippery Web Promotion of an Anti-Aging “Breakthrough”

By Scott Mowbray

The weird case of Caracol Cream offers a glimpse into the sometimes slimy but lucrative world of anti-aging product hype, in which an $80 cream is promoted vigorously by an allegedly scam-busting association that probably doesn’t exist based on tests in a laboratory that also probably doesn’t exist.

Who knew that the goo from Helix aspersa, your garden-variety brown snail, is rich in skin-nourishing compounds? (It was a brave woman who first daubed snail on her skin.) But yes: Caracol Cream is also known as crema de baba de caracol, which translates—on some websites—as cream of snail slobber. The extract hails from Chile where, according to one account, a farmer who couldn’t sell the snails for food decided to sell their slime instead. Read More

Link Between Vaccine and MS Unproven

(HealthDay News) -- Children vaccinated against hepatitis B probably are not at an increased risk of developing multiple sclerosis (MS) unless they were inoculated with a particular brand of the vaccine, according to a new study.

The French study found that children with MS were almost twice as likely to have received the vaccine called Engerix B three or more years before the disease's onset. Further studies will need to be done to determine whether the vaccine is a direct cause of the development of MS.

The study, which involved 349 children with MS and 2,941 children without the disease, is to be published in the Oct. 8 online issue of Neurology.

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The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has more about vaccinations.