Ridzwan Bakar

If the latest manual in psychiatry is anything to shout about, ladies and gentlemen, we have quite a number of new mental illnesses to worry about. And maybe throw out a couple of outdated ones out of the window.. The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, or DSM for short, lists the...
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Some patients asked recently whether coffee was good for ones health. They had apparently noticed that there has been the shift in marketing strategy by coffee-makers in promoting it as a rich source of anti-oxidants, and therefore beneficial to health. YES, coffee is a rich source of anti-oxidants,...
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The death of a medical student who took a banned slimming pill, dinitrophenol, commonly called DNP, raises the point that most, if not all, slimming pills that are currently available, are a major hazard to health. In fact, to date, the US FDA has only approved two new weight-loss pills in 2012 afte...
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2000 calories..thats what an average-sized man requires in one day. I found this interesting video and it helps explain why there is so much obesity around....
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The effects of the current outbreak of the H7N9 avian influenza in China has been as varied as causing the sales of KFC to drop and causing the stock-prices of rubber-glove manufacturers to be on the uptrend..but theres no mistaking the fact that to date, there has been 9 deaths and 28 confirmed cas...
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