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Scientists at the NIH s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) have come up with a cocktail of VLPs that provides extraordinary coverage against eight flu strains in mice. Ninety-five percent of mice that were subjected to a lethal challenge of these strains survived, while only five percent of the mice that received mock (inactive, control) vaccines lived.
In April 2014, the FDA proposed rules that would require e-cigarettes, including liquid nicotine and devices, to be approved by the agency. That would be a challenge, e-cigarette manufacturers say, because the FDA has never approved a new tobacco product.
Companies would have six months after the FDA completes its rules to register products and ingredients with the agency, and two years to complete the process of seeking approval which they may or may not get.
This week s U.S. News & World Report features an article by Health and Science Writer K. Aleisha Fetters entitled, Are Health Foods Making You Fat?--experts share how healthy foods can derail your diet.
The intentionally misleading title attracts attention, but of course her intent is to warn her readers not to be bamboozled by health claims prominently displayed on food labels, which upon closer inspection turn out not to be so conducive to a healthy diet as it seemed.
Disturbing reports about commonly used drugs mean...what? Screening tests over-used, dietary recommendations revamped. In summary: Science Marches On. That s what science is all about, as new data lead to new conclusions for those able to adjust.
Patrick Moore was instrumental in the founding of GreenPeace, and held high positions until he broke with the group in the 1980 s over policy decisions. Since then Moore has been an outspoken critic of the organization for losing touch with its initial science mission. This week, Moore posted a video on youtube in which he describes his reasons for leaving, and how GreenPeace is now doing more harm than good for the world.
I've been writing about artificial sweeteners, especially aspartame (NutraSweet) for years. Why?
Well, the same reason that I write anything to cut through the crap. And if you want to find more crap, you'd better get yourself tickets to a political debate.
Everyday the Red Cross must collect 15,000 blood donations for America s 2,600 hospitals and transfusion centers. But in the summer months when people are more likely to be on vacation, they lose about 40 percent of their donors.
What do New York environmental activists know about science that the entire EPA and earth scientists in 20 states do not? Well, nothing. But science and health was not the reason for New York state's recent decision to formally ban natural gas extraction using hydraulic fracturing - fracking.
Another group of serious doctors calls for the television kind to be regulated.
New obesity treatment approved by the FDA is just a refinement of an old one the gastric balloon. There doesn t seem to be anything really new under the sun when it comes to peeling off excess body fat. But who knows, maybe this will do the trick for at least some folks.
The legal system requires proof and in 2015 science is often likely to provide it, so lawyers need to know what is good science versus the junk kind.
A well-controlled, head-to-head comparison of low fat and low carbohydrate diets reveals (to no one s amazement) that there isn t much difference between them when it comes to weight loss.
Conservatives want poor people to have cheap energy but no one is against cleaner energy and less pollution
Hopewell Township, New Jersey has decided to block an expansion of the PennEast Pipeline through the township. The pipeline was proposed to bring natural gas from Marcellus shale deposits in Pennsylvania to previously existing pipelines in the area. What were their reasons to object? The same tired anti-fracking rhetoric that has been spun by activists who have somehow forgotten they lobbied for more natural gas just two decades ago.
Would you pay a premium for a product that would prevent your family from getting the food-borne illnesses that sicken 48 million Americans and kill 3,000 more each year? And if it was endorsed by the USDA, the CDC and the WHO, wouldn't you find that safety appetizing?
N.Y. Mets' star, David Wright, returned to the field Monday night and announced his recovery from spinal stenosis in the best possible way: by hitting a long home run in his first at-bat. The mystery of why he came down with this condition is unknown. Sadly, a new report shows that local steroid injections probably won't help people suffering from Wright's condition.
Call me a Greenie but I like the environment and I like it to be clean. I like to hike, fish, camp, and swim in an environment that isn t polluted with high levels of deleterious chemicals like heavy metals and industrial waste.
A new study shows that, despite ongoing educational efforts, doctors caring for patients with vein leg clots fail a significant fraction of the time to prescribe clot-dissolving anticoagulants (blood thinners) to vulnerable patients.
A recent study from JAMA Internal Medicine found that 1 in 10 serious and unexpected drug side effects are not reported by pharmaceutical companies to the FDA within the 15-day
We sympathize deeply with Sandra Lee s ongoing travails related to her recent post-bilateral-mastectomy complications. But her decision to have bilateral mastectomies made her vulnerable, and her problems should be a cautionary tale for other women.
In today's "you never know what is around the corner" department, a surprising story says that beta-blockers heart drugs that are used to lower blood pressure and slow the heart may have another use. That would be reducing the toll of ovarian cancer, which is one of the hardest types to treat.
It is hardly news when partygoers end up in the emergency room from an overdose of methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA), aka ecstasy (and a whole bunch of other names, such as Molly, E, X, many others).
It appears that some Indiana school children may be forced to create a secret smuggling web. Does it involve drugs, or other contraband? No. They're doing it just to get through their midday meal. Do we want to raise a generation of students who worry they can't even trust their own lunch?
The American Council on Science and Health has led the nation in efforts to stop people from smoking so it s no surprise we have embraced patches, gums, e-cigarettes and products like snus made in Sweden as ways to ease people off of cigarettes, because they replace nicotine. Smoking kills but it is the nicotine that makes people want to smoke.
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