The effects of nicotine on human health - Consumer version
The effects of nicotine on human health - Consumer version
Menopause ushers in what can be a rather unpleasant period in a woman s life. In response to a natural end in endogenous estrogen
Major study of screening mammography confirms what we have been told, over and over: routine screening for breast cancer saves few (if any) lives and the costs financial, medical and emotional are huge.
Advocacy for early childhood education is rapidly gaining momentum, taking center stage as a bipartisan cause. However, some health policy experts are
A special joint panel of the Stroke and Heart Associations issued gender-focused guidelines on reducing the toll of strokes among women. In their vast literature review, surprising focus is on younger women.
Along with BPA, DDT, and PCBs, Aspartame has been the focus of fear-mongers for decades. Anything that can go wrong with the human body from cancer to lupus to brain tumors and multiple sclerosis has been blamed on this innocuous artificial sweetener.
Smart phones make life simple by centering work, home, and extra curricular responsibilities into one space. Efficiency comes
As of Friday, March 7th, there have been a total of 16 confirmed cases of measles in northern Manhattan and the Bronx, according to the New York City Health Department. These include seven adults and nine
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Dr. Gilbert Ross op-ed in The Daily Caller, February 19, 2014.
The most important, devastating yet preventable public health problem in the western world is cigarette smoking. How bad is it? The W.H.O. predicts one billion lives cut short worldwide this century, if current trends continue. In America alone, the...[Read more].
10 drug companies that normally compete against each other, including giants Sanofi and Pfizer, will now cooperate not just with government researchers and non-profits, but with each other as part of a five-year, $230 million partnership to speed up the pace of new drug development in several key conditions Alzheimer's disease, type 2 diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis and lupus according to an announcement from the National Institutes of Health.
The National Cancer Institute Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) program, the North American Association of
David P. Ropeik, Director of Communications for Harvard s Center for Risk Analysis, has produced a hard-hitting essay in Scientific American that skewers anti-GMO activists such as Greenpeace and the Sierra Club for their stance.
Measles has been much in the news of late, especially with respect to the outbreak in New York City. Currently, there have been 20 confirmed cases of measles, nine children and eleven adults. And now,
More fearmongering hype about e-cigarettes: Minnesota Dept. of Health trumpets alarming increase in children s poisoning from e-cigarettes. Let s look at the data: nothing actually happened, but let s be very afraid anyway.
Another scare story about toxic nicotine poisonings: another epidemic without any actual victims. But yes, do be careful! Some day, someone will be poisoned we re only human after all.
Food and You: Feeding The World With Modern Agricultural Biotechnology by
Ever since the first genetically-engineered (GMO) crop was introduced in 1996, nay-sayers and fear-mongers have busied themselves trying to convince the public that foods produced by such means are, if not deadly, at least bound to have negative health effects. Even though no science supports their position, these folks have forged ahead, and unfortunately have made some headway.
Phthalates ¦.
It s a good thing there aren t more days in the week, cause this could get awfully tiresome.
But on March 21st (a Friday) those of us who were unfortunate enough to stumble upon Deborah Blum s piece A Plastic Threat to Male Fertility were treated to a world-classless tutorial on (of course) phthalates which come across as one of the most dangerous chemicals on earth if you believe any of this nonsense.
A new device for severe hearing impairment has just been FDA-approved, a cochlear implant for sensorineural hearing loss, a common and often disabling condition.
A new study out of Sweden shows that a rapid test for a cardiac enzyme, when combined with a normal electrocardiogram, rules out a heart attack with 99.8 percent reliability. What are the implications of this finding for the future?
Bariatric surgery (weight-loss surgery) is widely acknowledged as an effective treatment for obesity, especially for individuals
Sustaining a concussion as a hockey player is not very unusual. According to a study published in the Journal of Athletic Training, about 300,000 high school and college athletes experience concussions
At the ongoing American College of Cardiology meeting, which is being held in Washington a place where the truth is generally in short supply there was an interesting talk which did the location justice.
The result: Anyone who takes headlines seriously will be afraid to even look at a bottle of diet soda, let alone drink from one.