Coca-Cola isn t taking the blame for America s obesity epidemic lying down. The world s biggest beverage company unveiled a new ad campaign yesterday that is airing on CNN, Fox News and MSNBC highlighting its low- and no-calorie drinks, marketing smaller servings of its beverages, and encouraging physical fitness. Entitled Coming Together, the ads encourage everyone to be careful about watching their weight.
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Amid the most severe influenza season in more than a decade, the FDA approved a next-generation, insect-based flu vaccine the second version that is not grown in eggs, and will therefore be available in a much shorter time enabling better focus on the type of flu in circulation.
Our New York readers should be able to catch ACSH s Dr. Gilbert Ross discussing fracking on WCBS-TV (channel 2) tonight between 5 and 6, and possibly between 6 and 6:30, and maybe even between 11 and 11:30. Also, if you haven t already, please like our Facebook page, Facts about Fracking.
The rate of patient readmission to a hospital may not be associated with a shorter hospital stay, according to a new study. This counters the concern which led to this study, which was that excessive LOS (length of stay) reduction may be harmful because discharge before medical stability may result in increased hospital readmission or use of emergency department services.
Cigarette smoking among American teenagers dropped to a record low in 2012, according to a national study released Wednesday.
The annual survey of about 45,000 students in the eighth, 10th, and 12th grades found that the number of teens who reported smoking cigarettes in the prior 30 days fell to 10.6 percent this year from 11.7 percent in 2011 the lowest number recorded since the survey began in 1975.
Yesterday, we described how British activist Mark Lynas apologized for how he assisted in demonizing an important technological option which can be used to benefit the environment. Of course, he was referring to genetic engineering technology and genetically modified foods.
Medicare, the federal insurance program for seniors, spent about $1 billion in 2006- 07 to pay for breast cancer screening, according to a new study. This number was almost as much as Medicare spent to actually treat the disease.
Were we surprised or even disappointed that the California EPA just ruled that the plastic hardener bisphenol-A (BPA) would be subject to warning labels according to their Prop 65 law, or that the Natural Resources Defense Council would be jumping with joy over it?
Not really given the chemophobia of both of those groups, the surprise is that it took Cal-EPA this long; and that the NRDC is so happy about it is as surprising as the sun rising in the east.
Britain s senior medical advisor is warning about the rise of antibiotic-resistant bacteria, describing what she calls an "apocalyptic scenario" where, in 20 years time, people going to the hospital for a simple operation die of infections because we have run out of antibiotics.
Generic drugs, which account for more than 70 percent of prescriptions, provide the same health benefits as brand-name drugs but often vary in color and shape. Now, a new study suggests that generic medications that differ in color from their brand-name counterpart may make people less likely to continue taking them.
Atrial fibrillation (AF), which is the most common arrhythmia and an independent risk factor for ischemic stroke, is independently associated with increased mortality. Furthermore, nonvalvular AF (that is, AF that doesn t stem from a problem with heart valves) is associated with a nearly five-fold higher risk of ischemic stroke, a risk that progressively increases with age.
Taking bupropion (Zyban), a drug used to help people stop smoking by reducing cravings and other withdrawal effects, did not help smokers quit in the period after a heart attack, a new study finds.
The American Academy of Pediatrics has issued the first-ever guidelines for type 2 diabetic children between the ages of 10 and 18.
Metastatic breast cancer which has already spread on initial presentation was found to have increased slightly among young women, ages 25 to 39, a 34-year analysis suggests. More research is needed to verify the finding, and scientists are not sure what may have caused the apparent increase.
In a recent New York Times article, reporter Denise Grady sheds light on a report stating that too little of the money spent on breast cancer research goes toward finding environmental causes of the disease and ways to prevent it.
Biomedical researchers have long used mice in the lab to learn about human diseases and to test treatments. Now, a new study strongly suggests that mice are poor models for studying trauma or infections in humans.
Yesterday, Governor Andrew Cuomo yet again delayed making a decision on whether to allow hydraulic fracturing fracking in the state of New York.
Fracking has been under review by state regulators since before Mr. Cuomo took office in January 2011.
It seems so easy. In fact, it really is. Infections in hospital intensive-care units were cut by nearly a quarter when patients were washed daily with antiseptic wipes, a new study has found.
People who eat a southern diet, heavy on deep-fried foods and sugary drinks like sweet tea and soda, are more likely to suffer a stroke, according to a new study. This study began in 2002 when researchers began to administer food surveys to more than 20,000 people in the contiguous 48 states, sorting respondents into five different diet styles.
Vegetarians are much less likely to suffer from serious heart disease than their meat- and fish-eating counterparts, British researchers have found.
The new study comes from the University of Oxford, where Dr Francesca Crowe lead author and medical researcher at the Cancer Epidemiology Unit, University of Oxford and colleagues analyzed data from 45,000 volunteers from England and Scotland, recruited in the 1990s and tracked until 2009.
The Super Bowl is over but the NFL and General Electric are just getting started with a four-year partnership to better detect and study concussions, which have been found to lead to brain injuries that accumulate over time and cause depression and dementia all too often.
A few weeks ago, we covered a story about how obesity rates are actually declining among children in New York and California. Now we might have an explanation. A new federal analysis found that American children consumed fewer calories in 2010 than they did a decade before. And although obesity rates have remained flat in many other places, this may an indication of changes to come in the future.
Well, Mayor Bloomberg is at it again. As we have recently learned, along with his ban on big sodas taking effect in March eateries are also to be prohibited from serving or selling sugary drinks in containers larger than 16 ounces.
What does that mean? No more 2-liter sodas with your pizza delivery, pitchers of soft drinks at your kid s birthday party and some bottle-service mixers at your favorite nightclub.
Emergency contraception isn t a secret anymore. An estimated 11 percent of sexually active girls and women aged 15 to 44 have used the morning-after pill at least once, a new federal report says.
That comes to 5.8 million women, about half of whom said they used the pill because they had unprotected sex. The other half worried that their birth control method had failed.
In other public health news, the CDC s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, has shown an incredible decline in motor vehicle fatalities among persons aged 15-24 years.
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