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Media Relations

Dim light ruins eyesight’ and other medical myths

Today Show
Jan. 2, 2008

Turkey makes you drowsy. Dim light ruins your eyes. Drink at last eight glasses of water a day. These are some of the medical myths that even doctors believe, reports the British Medical Journal.

Researchers from the Indiana University School of Medicine made a list of common medical beliefs espoused by physicians and the general public. They included statements they had heard endorsed by doctors on multiple occasions. The result is a seven-item list of medical and health myths that are widely repeated by doctors and in the media, all of which either aren't true or lack scientific evidence to support them.

Read the entire article at: http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/22466538

Learn more about the IU School of Medicine at: http://www.medicine.iu.edu/

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