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Articles in August, 1996 issue of Healthfacts

• Questionable docs: state guides for sale
• Calcium channel blockers: three strikes and you're out?
  by Arthur A. Levin
• Salt intake: damage to the dogma - lowering salt intake does not lower blood pressure - adapted from the Journal of the American Medical Association, May 22-29, 1996
• The new diet drug - small benefit, much hype - Redux
• New polio vaccine: back to the future? - new inactivated polio vaccine - adapted from the Journal of the American Medical Association, July 10, 1996
  by Arthur A. Levin
• Oral contraceptives: latest research
• Radon in the home - no increase in lung cancer - adapted from the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, July 17, 1996
• Moderate exercise can make a difference