In January 2003, The Lancet – one of the world’s oldest and most respected medical journals – published an article championing the combination of two drugs (ACE inhibitors and ARBs) in treating certain types of kidney disease. More than 100,000 patients were prescribed these two drugs in combination. But then an investigation concluded that the […]
Steve Curwood talks with John Brock who is a section chief at the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta. Dr. Brock co- authored a study published in the current issue of the British medical journal “The Lancet” which links the banned pesticide Dieldrin to a doubling in breast cancer for women exposed to the compound.