Public Health

China's "Beyond Index" Smog Is America's Problem

In some Chinese cities, breathing has recently become demonstrably hazardous to your health.  According to the US embassy's monitoring station, air pollution has skipped over unhealthy, exceeded hazardous, and gone straight to "  crazy bad " ...

Article - Robert Cooper - Feb 20 2013 - 8:08pm

More Subsidies Needed: Premiums For Public Health Insurance Will Still Be Too High

Requiring individuals to pay a premium for public health insurance coverage will counteract the coverage effects of expanding eligibility for public health insurance programs to higher income families, according to a paper in the journal Health Services R ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 8 2013 - 12:34pm

Latino Obesity In America- Send Guides To Grocery Stores, Says Paper

There are culturally appropriate ways to prevent obesity among Latino children, according to a new collection of studies from Salud America! Those might involve guided grocery store trips, menu labeling at restaurants, community gardens, and video-game-ba ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 15 2013 - 11:00am

Hysteria On BPA Debunked Again

Bisphenol A, widely known as BPA, has recently become a controversial science issue, along with climate change and every food, energy and medicine study. In the modern world, the only legitimate science is the science that agrees with well-funded activist ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 28 2014 - 12:39am

Criteria For Weight-Loss Surgery Should Be Lowered

The Swedish Obese Subjects study carried out at the Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg found that, though weight-loss surgery is currently only offered to patients who exceed a certain BMI, surgical intervention would improve the health of many ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 19 2013 - 12:08pm

On Doctors, Friend Recommendations Trump Online Ratings But One Thing Beats All Else

You can find ratings for anything on the Internet; reviews and ratings for hotels and restaurants are surprisingly well-regarded.  Doctors, not so much.  But it's generational as well. And one thing trumps all else: 'Do they accept my insurance? ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 19 2013 - 12:24pm

Liposomes In Beauty Products Are A Waste Of Money

Liposomes are small fat capsules, often added to beauty products, because of the claim that liposomes are capable of transporting active ingredients deep into the skin- when the active ingredients are released, it is said, they can alter the skin's s ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 19 2013 - 4:00pm

Living Against The Biological Clock Is Risky Business

Living against our biological clock, working late-night shifts or eating at inappropriate times, can has been linked to health risks like metabolic syndrome, obesity, and diabetes in Current Biology- at least for mice.  Insulin action rises and falls acco ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 22 2013 - 11:00am

Raw Milk Fights Back

I'm generally critical of raw milk, along with just about every microbiologist and all of the scientists in the CDC and FDA. The reason is simple; it has no beneficial value and foodborne illness plummeted once we started pasteurizing milk and other t ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Feb 26 2013 - 9:41am

Alcohol Sales In England Far Higher Than Self-Reported Consumption

The English know they drink too much alcohol, but they all think it is someone else doing it. In actuality, as many as 75% of people in England are drinking in excess of the recommended daily alcohol limit, according to a new paper in the European Journal ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 26 2013 - 11:31pm