Testosterone boosters: a report of a supplement’s misleading labelling claims

Effect of testosterone boosters on body functions: Case report

Testosterone boosters are supplementary substances that can be used for the purpose of increasing testosterone levels in the blood. This study aimed to evaluate the side effects and health risks of testosterone boosters among athletes. A sportsman came to the King Saud Hospital, Unaizah, Qassim, Saudi Arabia, suffering from abdominal pain. The attending doctor requested general laboratory tests...

Not-Approved Weight Gain Supplements as a Cause of AVN: A Cautionary Report

Introduction: Avascular necrosis (AVN) of the femoral head is a leading cause of end-stage joint disease in the young population that can conduct patients to total hip replacement in early life. There are various risk factors including, trauma, corticosteroids, thrombosis, hypertension, and alcohol. There is a growing number of femoral head AVN patients with a history of self-medication with he...

Indian Vi conjugate typhoid vaccine: misleading claims.

447 VOLUME 47__MAY 17, 2010 I refer to the article “Vi conjugate Typhoid Vaccine” written by Garg SP(1) on behalf of the manufacturer of Peda TyphTM in response to my previous article on the same subject(2). The author states that “this novel vaccine has been found to be safe and effective in inducing very high levels of immune response (>90%) in infants, young children and adults”, and goes fu...

a comparison of linguistic and pragmatic knowledge: a case of iranian learners of english

در این تحقیق دانش زبانشناسی و کاربردشناسی زبان آموزان ایرانی در سطح بالای متوسط مقایسه شد. 50 دانش آموز با سابقه آموزشی مشابه از شش آموزشگاه زبان مختلف در دو آزمون دانش زبانشناسی و آزمون دانش گفتار شناسی زبان انگلیسی شرکت کردند که سوالات هر دو تست توسط محقق تهیه شده بود. همچنین در این تحقیق کارایی کتابهای آموزشی زبان در فراهم آوردن درون داد کافی برای زبان آموزان ایرانی به عنوان هدف جانبی تحقیق ...

Users' guide to detecting misleading claims in research: misleading claims may be symptom of even more serious flaws.