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Viral Health Rumors—Fact or Fiction?

Mercury in candy bars? Radon in granite counter-tops? Here's the news...;
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Antiperspirant

Aluminum in antiperspirants causes Alzheimer's?

False, according to Joshua Grill, PhD, at the Mary S. Easton Center for Alzheimer's Disease Research at UCLA. Risk factors are family history, brain injury, diabetes, heart disease, and, of course, aging.

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