An unexpected number of deaths among patients receiving intense therapy to lower their blood sugar forced the National Institutes of Health to abruptly cut short part of a major study on diabetes and heart disease.

On January 14, 2008, Merck/Schering Plough Pharmaceuticals issued a Press Release reporting preliminary results from the Effect of Combination Ezetimibe and High-Dose Simvastatin vs. Simvastatin Alone on the Atherosclerotic Process in Patients with Heterozygous Familial Hypercholesterolemia (ENHANCE)

The focus of my blog is to expose the truth about medical protocol being based on profit, which means keeping people sick so they keep spending money to get well.I really put my heart into this vid. I cried a few times as I remembered some of my patients, who were sacrificed by modern health care for profit.

Dr. Mani is a pediatric heart surgeon in India. Through his Dr. Mani Children’s Heart Foundation, he funds - and performs - thousands of heart surgeries, without which his young patients would die. How does he fund it? Entirely through Internet efforts, via Paypal! Help us meet our own "fund one surgery" goal for Valentine's Day!

By Maggie Fox, Health and Science Editor WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Dr. Julius Pham's stomach churned when he saw a critically ill heart patient getting an antibiotic instead of a drug to support his blood pressure -- the kind of mix-up that is...

The Cabbage soup diet is a radical weight loss diet designed around heavy consumption of low-calorie cabbage soup over the space of seven days. It is generally considered a fad diet, in that it is designed for short-term weight-loss and requires no long-term commitment. Indeed, it was arguably the first short-term diet to become popular, and inspired several copy-cats based around similar principles.The typical claimed intent of the diet is to lose 10 pounds (4.5 kg) of weight in a week, though nutritional experts point out that it is impossible to lose that much fat within a week.The origins of the diet are unknown, and it first gained popularity as a piece of faxlore in the 1980s. The cabbage soup diet has many names, usually linking the diet to a mainstream institution, including the "Sacred Heart Diet", "Military Cabbage Soup", "TJ Miracle Soup Diet", and "Russian Peasant Diet". All of these institutions, especially the russian peasants, have denied a link with the diet. Russian peasants have gone as far as to go on CNN to deny this attribution. As a general rule, most if not all forms of the diet emphasize that the dieter can consume as much cabbage soup as he/she wants. On some original documents mentioning the diet, it was claimed the diet is designed for obese heart-surgery patients, so they could lose weight quickly and therefore be at lower risk of complications during surgery.Many individuals and medical professionals are critical of the diet. It's claimed that most of the weight lost is water, and therefore not permanent. In addition, the recipe for the soup as often given has an extremely high sodium content, usually to make it palatable, and the diet provides practically zero protein for several days at a time. Many people report feeling weak and light-headed during the course of the diet.On a practical level, the most common forms of the soup recipe have been criticized as being bland, though spicy variations have appeared. Even so, the blandness of the soup means that few manage the entire seven days, and often report feeling nauseous whenever they smell the soup toward the end of the week-long diet. It has also been noted that flatulence is a common side effect of the diet.A frequent comment on the soup is that it makes a good low-calorie filler meal, but is not substantial enough to be relied upon as a dietary staple. The newer, healthier versions of the cabbage soup diet however take the fact of missing protein into account and add protein (dairy and protein shakes) to the diet plan while decreasing sodium. External linksCabbage Soup Recipes on successful-diet-cabbage-soup.comDescription of cabbage soup diet on faddiet.comDescription and critical commentaryUtah State University commentary on fad diets; the Cabbage Soup diet is mentioned under "food specific diets"