Public Health

Rule Change May Not Save Dying Child, But You Could

Deciding who gets a lung transplant- and thereby who doesn’t- is not easy.  Lungs can only be transplanted from people who are organ donors, who are brain dead, and who died in such a way that their organs remain intact.  Problem is, there are not enough ...

Article - Robert Cooper - Jun 11 2013 - 2:30pm

Feeling no pain: plants were first to let it happen

Age of Herbals somewhere  during  1565 in this part of globe saw many medical man searching for medicines for relieving patients of pain.  The surgery  was done without anesthesia.     Plants provided narcotics, sedatives, stimulants. Opium probably provid ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Jun 12 2013 - 8:48am

Determinism: Baby's Weight Gain In First Month Linked To IQ

Scholars have linked higher IQ at early school age to weight gain and increased head size in the first month of a baby's life. The results were determined- as apparently intelligence is- by analyzing data from more than 13,800 children who were born ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 18 2013 - 10:46am

Hold Off On Buying That Chinese Miracle Lettuce

Claims from Chen-Yu Zhang's group at China's Nanjing University made international headlines when they reported that, after mice ate lettuce, bits of genetic material from the plants made its way into their bloodstreams intact- and could turn the ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 26 2013 - 1:23pm

Anglo-Saxon King Seeking Diet Advice?

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Article - Robert H Olley - Jun 29 2013 - 8:16pm

Methane In Drinking Water- What's The Rumpus?

Methane has been in water since man has been able to drink water from the ground- but when environmental activists sink their teeth into a fundraising issue, it suddenly becomes a cancer epidemic (nuclear power, along with everything else) and, in the case ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Jun 29 2013 - 2:08pm

'Organic' Milk Needs Supplements To Match Conventional

'Organic' milk has a lower concentration of elements like zinc, iodine and selenium than milk produced by conventional farming methods, due to the absence of mineral substances in the diets of the cows reared.  According to researchers at the Un ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 7 2013 - 7:58pm

Intra-Cytoplasmic Sperm Injection: In-Vitro Technique Raises Autism Risk

About 5 million children worldwide have been born by IVF since 1978, and 1.4 percent of total births in the U.S. annually and as many as 4.4 percent in western Europe result from the procedure, according to government and industry figures.  Across all typ ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 7 2013 - 9:22pm

Gingival Adult Stem Cells For Tissue Regeneration?

Gingivae is soft tissue that serves as a biological barrier to cover the oral cavity side of the maxilla and mandible. Recently, the gingivae were identified as containing mesenchymal stem cells (GMSCs). However, it is unknown whether the GMSCs are derive ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 20 2013 - 8:00am

There's No Water Crisis- But There Is A Clean Water One

800 million people lack reliable access to drinkable water and that problem could engulf many more in the years ahead, warns Alex Scott, senior editor for Europe at Chemical&Engineering News. ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 25 2013 - 9:03am