Public Health

Significant Link Between Vitamin D And Excessive Daytime Sleepiness

A new study found significant correlation between excessive daytime sleepiness and vitamin D- in patients with normal vitamin D levels, progressively higher levels of daytime sleepiness were correlated inversely with progressively lower levels of vitamin ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 15 2012 - 8:15pm

Aerobic Exercise Better For Fat And Weight Loss Than Resistance Training

Al exercise is good exercise and there is a 100 percent chance you will lose weight if you consume fewer calories than you burn, but if you are interested in optimizing fat and weight loss after the holidays, aerobic training is the best way to go, accord ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 15 2012 - 2:17pm

Sitopaladi churna is an ayurvedic medicine for cough and cold

Sitopaladi churna is an ayurvedic medicine for cough and cold and sneezing nose. A little portion of it is mixed with honey in tea spoon and taken with milk. It is reported to cure cold. It contains Tavak 1 part, small cardamom two parts, Pippali 4 parts, ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Feb 13 2013 - 11:46am

Raw Milk Dairy Organic Pastures Sues FDA Over Ban On Selling Foodborne Illnesses Across State Lines

When does a business that has carefully positioned itself as more natural and wholesome and healthy and not at all like Big Ag suddenly look a lot like Big Ag? When the FDA tells them they can only make people sick in their own state. Then the corporate la ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Dec 18 2012 - 7:28pm

What Caused Sweden's Celiac 'Epidemic'?

Celiac disease, defined as a 'chronic small intestinal immune-mediated enteropathy precipitated by exposure to dietary gluten in genetically predisposed individuals', affects about one percent of the population but occasional 'epidemics ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 19 2012 - 11:43am

Muscular Dystrophy: Alpha-Enolase And Plasmin Mechanism In Muscle Regeneration

Researchers have described a new selective target in muscle regeneration. This is the association of alpha-enolase protein and plasmin, findings which could be used to develop new treatments to regenerate muscular injuries or dystrophies.  ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 30 2012 - 4:00pm

Newborn Baby Screening For Fragile X Syndrome FMR1 Gene Mutations

A study into newborn screening for fragile X syndrome (FXS) demonstrates that testing for mutations in the gene FMR1 can be done on a large scale, according to a paper published in Genome Medicine which shows that the number of carrier babies who carry th ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 23 2012 - 12:25pm

Ambulatory Health Care:Prostate Cancer Screening Overused In The US

Ambulatory health care took off in the 1980s as the cost of health care rose, more people got health insurance, and both the government and health insurers sought to contain the runaway costs associated with hospital visits by keeping people out of hospit ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 26 2012 - 11:56am

Old School: Hydrogen Peroxide Vapor Helps Kill Superbugs

A combination of robotic devices that disperse a time-honored bleaching agent into the air and then detoxify the disinfecting chemical are highly effective at killing and preventing the spread of multiple-drug-resistant bacteria- MRSA and so-called superb ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 31 2012 - 2:10pm

An End To The BPA Controversy? Toxic Effects Not Reproduced

BPA- Bisphenol A- has been besieged by so much negative public relations that it is almost indefensible. Like smoking, people are going to blame it for everything they can.    But research is sometimes about inconvenient truths and so a three-year study u ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 28 2014 - 12:41am