With Florida in a state of emergency due to nine cases, officials are getting serious about science solutions to stopping the pest that transmits it.
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A federal standard would actually protect consumers from confusion, which is bad for environmental fundraising. However, it is good for the public.
The Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health recently published its new recommendations in CMAJ, coming out against the use of colonoscopies for colorectal cancer screening in low-risk individuals.
On February 23, 1954 the first mass trials of the Salk Polio Vaccine began in Pittsburgh. The results, evaluated over the next year, showed how remarkably safe and effective it was, eventually relegating the much-feared scourge of polio into the dustbin of history, at least in America.
Director of Medicine Dr. Lila Abassi shares her thoughts on science outreach and the mission of the Council.
The millennial generation (born between 1984 and 2004) has its own take on food and nutrition. From eschewing breakfast cereals to checking the web for information, they don't necessarily follow in their predecessors' footsteps when it comes to what they consume.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention singled out Lumber Liquidators after it found that the retailer's laminate wood flooring products from China carried a greater risk of causing cancer and other health problems than previously thought.
The marketing game is big on this one. It has a lot to do with the pH in your body, and yet very little to do with sound science.
One of the most notable changes in Coca-Cola's so-called natural marketing campaign is the company's decision to drop high fructose corn syrup in favor of cane sugar. But could it be that there really isn't any difference in the chemical content of the products? Apparently it depends on storage and transport temperature, and the time span between production and consumption.
For years, we've been getting advice to lower our consumption of fat to help prevent obesity and related ills. But a new study suggests that one group of fats — those found in whole milk — might actually have health benefits.
While smoking, other tobacco use and alcohol consumption continue to be major risk factors for oral cancers, as it turns out they are not the primary causes. Most would be surprised to learn the human papillomavirus, or HPV, is the main culprit of head, neck and throat cancers.
Once deemed a freak experiment, calling up images of Frankenstein's monster, animal-to-human organ transplant is slowly becoming a reality. Now after 10 years, researchers at the National Institute of Health have made an important step towards pig-to-human heart transplants.
In the continuing effort to curb childhood obesity, researchers are focusing on ways to keep kids active while encouraging healthy behaviors. According to a recent article published in the Journal of Pediatrics, researchers believe that parents of young children can be a big part of the solution by getting more involved.
Sleep disorders have also kept many researchers up at night, perhaps until now. Because according to a recent study, insomniacs brains may be wired differently than non-insomnia sufferers, which may lend credence to the long-suspected theory that anxiety and depression may not be the sole contributors to the pillow-time problem.
Don't ask us how, but we've noticed a little trend: apparently gluten-free vodka is a thing. But the thing is, gluten-free vodka has always been a thing, because according to the FDA, all distilled spirits should never have any gluten, unless it's added after distillation.
Researchers from the Medical University of Vienna have elucidated the role of galectin-1, a protein that has been found to be over-expressed in the joint cartilage of individuals with osteoarthritis, and which seems to stimulate the destructive inflammatory process.
Pindolol, a medication used to treat high blood pressure and angina, has been found to reduce alcohol consumption in binge-drinking mice. Researchers are looking to fast-track human clinical trials to test efficacy.
While statin drugs, which lower cholesterol production by the liver, have helped many avoid atherosclerosis not everyone can take them. A new means of dealing with artery-blocking cholesterol plaques may be on the horizon — with an old compound called cyclodextrin possibly being repurposed to do just that.
BMJ Global Health, a new publication, reports that five billion people around the world lack access to surgery, at a total cost of roughly $12.3 trillion in lost GDP by 2030. The authors call for various agencies to pull together in a concerted effort to provide access to those who need it most.
Occasionally we hear improbable stories, like one about a person who's left unscathed from a disaster that kills hundreds. In a way, we might consider this type of person to be "superhuman." Similarly, a recent study has uncovered a new subset of people who are genetically superhuman, described as otherwise healthy people who have survived despite having genes that signal fatal diseases.
The health website WebMD supposedly gives us scientifically sound advice. So why is it following in the footsteps of the Natural Resources Defense Council with respect to pesticide scares? As a result we think the Web Doctor's health advice on this issue is decidedly unscientific.
The International Agency for Research on Cancer, the U.N.'s epidemiological arm, has been in existence since the 1960s. But it only recently got a skeptical look from journalists and the general public, because officials declared that sausage is the same risk as cigarette smoking, plutonium, mustard gas and asbestos. So what's going on there?
Almost as if this was a sci-fi movie, virtually every time that new information about Zika surfaces it's bad. This trend continued this week as the CDC's Dr. Anne Schuchat, and Dr. Anthony Fauci of the NIH held a mostly-discouraging press briefing at the White House.
Challenge. Accepted. Bring on the raging river.
The global production and sale of fake and substandard medicines is a serious problem. Not just bogus pseudo-medical products like supplements, but dangerous knock-offs being sold as real medicine that people truly need. According to new research, scholars want to use criminology theory to stop the fraudulent activity.
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