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Opinion: Autism Fraud Just the Tip of the Iceberg

"A deliberate fraud." That's what the British Medical Journal, one of the world's most prestigious periodicals, has written of the study that kicked off the current anti-vaccine movement. It's "clear evidence of falsification of data should now close the door on this damaging vaccine scare," it said in a heavily documented...

Study Asserts a Dark Side to Calcium Supplements

(July 30) -- Calcium supplements, an oft-touted aid in the fight against bone loss and osteoporosis, might actually do more harm than good. That's the suggestion of a growing body of research, that applies only to supplements. The calcium derived from food products, like dairy, tofu and fortified cereals, carries myriad...

French-British Study: Stigma of Obesity Affects Sex

NICE, France (June 17) -- Obese women have less sex than women of normal weight, but they also have more unplanned pregnancies because they often don't ask for contraceptives or use the pill, according to a new study. Obese men have fewer sexual partners than men of normal weight, the study also says, but they run a...

Background on british medical journal

BMJ is an open-access peer-reviewed medical journal. Originally called the British Medical Journal, the title was officially shortened to BMJ in 1988. The journal is published by the BMJ Group, a wholly owned subsidiary of the British Medical Association.

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