Cosmetic manufacturers spend billions of dollars developing newer and better products. They also spend billions of dollars promoting these products to people who are told they need them. And indeed it seems consumers have come to believe this, judging by the huge sums of money that are now spent on cosmetic products. Not only that, [...]

I is a bacterium related to Mycobacterium tuberculosis, but is not transmitted from one person to another. People who do not have HIV infection also get infections with MAI, but only in the lungs. In people with HIV infection, MAI usually occurs late in the course of the infection when the CD4 count is low, [...]

I started taking calcium supplements fifteen years ago, when my aunts started breaking bones. My mother, too, was shrinking dramatically, and I’m lactose intolerant and so I get very little dairy calcium in my diet. Let’s just say I saw the writing on the wall. Along with 1,200 mg of calcium every day, I take [...]