Public Health

Incidental Genetic Findings- Guidelines For Clinicians

The handling of "incidental findings" in clinical genome and exome sequencing has been addressed by the American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics (ACMG). Incidental findings are health-related interpretations of a patient's genetic ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 21 2013 - 11:41am

Fruit Flies On Organic Diets Lived Longer, Had Greater Fertility

A new study led by Ria Chhabra, a student at Clark High School in Plano, Texas, set out to see if organic food is healthier than conventional food- and it was. In fruit flies. With some conditions. Chhabra sought to conduct the experiments after hearing h ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 27 2013 - 9:50pm

Diagnosed With Asthma? You Will Likely Have An Allergy Also

The number of Americans diagnosed with asthma is up to 26 million and a new paper says a majority, nearly two-thirds or more of all asthmatics, also have an allergy. Asthma is frequently associated with children but 3 percent or more of adults 60 years a ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 2 2013 - 10:02am

Epigenetic Studies Claim Benefits To Drinking Milk Throughout Lifetime

Animal and dairy scientists presenting at the Lactation Biology Symposium in Phoenix, Arizona have discovered that drinking milk at an early age can help mammals throughout their lives. The presentations focused on epigenetics, or how gene expression cha ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 5 2013 - 3:35pm

Egg White Protein May Help Lower High Blood Pressure

A component of egg whites, already a popular whole egg substitute among cholesterol-conscious consumers concerned, may have another beneficial effect- reducing blood pressure, according to a study presented earlier this week at the American Chemical Socie ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 11 2013 - 1:08pm

Why You Can't Stop Eating After One Potato Chip- The Science

Why can you not stop eating until you scarf down a whole bag of Doritos? Is it a special gene? Epigenetics, like your mom ate one when she was pregnant with you, or is Frito-Lay just fiendishly clever? Ban-happy critics blame fat and carbohydrate content ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 11 2013 - 5:42pm

Downside To Cutting-Edge Treatment: High Costs Leave Some Patients Out

Chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) is now considered a highly curable disease, thanks to the emergence of powerful, targeted CML therapies known as tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs) that allow patients to manage their disease with few symptoms by taking a we ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 25 2013 - 10:53am

Damage To DNA From A Traditional Herbal Medicine

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Article - Robert H Olley - Apr 30 2013 - 2:17pm

If You Are At An NHS Hospital, Try Not To Schedule Surgery On A Friday

If you are a patient in the United Kingdom's National Health Service (NHS), try to have surgery on a Monday instead of a Friday, says a paper in the British Medical Journal. The authors analyzed over four million elective procedures conducted in NHS ...

Article - News Staff - May 29 2013 - 10:30am

Is There Really A Chemical Free Park In Colorado?