Public Health

Junkies Have 14X Higher Mortality Rate Than The General Population

You don't need to show kids a frying egg in a pan to get the message across about drugs; just show them this statistic.  Heroin and cocaine addicts in Spain have a fatality rate that is 14.3 times higher than for the general population, and that is a ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 8 2014 - 7:00am

Use Manga For Social Engineering

Many people in their school years like Manga comics. They predate the American kind by about 150 years, are generally more complex and even older American adults got an introduction to it in cartoon versions of "Astro Boy." In recent decades, th ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 11 2014 - 5:00am

Crop Pests Hurt Poorer Nations The Most- Science Can Fix That

While the developed world has levels of scientific and technical capacity that allow crop pests to be effectively managed, poorer nations, where food production is incredibly important, are caught in a tug-of-war between modern agriculture and an activist ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 10 2014 - 11:41pm

In California, 12 Percent Of Cigarette Smokers Say They Are Not Smokers

When is a smoker not a smoker? When they live in California and simply choose to self-identify as a non-smoker. Who are we to criticize the self-identify of people in a state where boys can just declare they are female and use a girl's restroom? Smok ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 11 2014 - 2:47pm

'Extremely Low' Risk Of Kidney Failure Risk For Kidney Donors

The risk of a kidney donor developing kidney failure in their kidney is much lower than in the population at large, even when compared with people who have two kidneys, according to new Johns Hopkins research. ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 1 2014 - 7:00am

Not All Disinfectants Kill HPV

Hospitals use disinfectants but they don't all kill the human papillomavirus (HPV), according to a new paper. Non-sexual transmission of the virus is exceedingly rare but hospitals need to be cautious so changes should be made, say researchers from P ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 12 2014 - 6:09pm

Samoans Were Obese Before It Was Fashionable- But Why?

If we want to see worldwide trends in public health, look to the South Pacific archipelago of Samoa and American Samoa. About 75 percent of the U.S. territory's adult population is obese, the highest rate in the world. Rates of type 2 diabetes top 20 ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 17 2014 - 11:50am

Tularemia: Rabbit Fever, The Bioweapon You Probably Never Heard Of

Tularemia, also called "rabbit fever",  is, unlike anthrax or smallpox, the bioweapon you are least likely to know about. But it is common in the northeastern United States and because it has been weaponized in various parts of the world could b ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 17 2014 - 10:34am

The Dopes Make The Poison

  Wherever he is, Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim a/k/a Paracelsus must be doing the Foxtrot in his grave. Because somehow a bunch of dopes have managed to “correct” something he got absolutely right 600 years ago. You know what it ...

Article - Josh Bloom - Feb 28 2014 - 12:36am

Vegetarian Diet Linked To Lower Blood Pressure

Long after gluten-free, low-fat and tapeworm diets have been consigned to the dustbin of quaint health fad history, vegetarians will still insist their way of is better. In at least one way, they may be right. It's one of the few dietary choices that ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 24 2014 - 4:00pm