Public Health

Your Blood Pressure May Be Up Because You're At The Doctor

Doctors make people nervous. Most people don't go unless something is wrong so they are already anxious. Thus, it is no surprise d octors routinely record blood pressure levels that are significantly higher than levels recorded by nurses, according t ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 25 2014 - 10:09pm

Weekend Science: Is It Safe To Pee In The Pool?

Health officials say that holding in your urine when you really have to go can be harmful. But every public pool has signs that prohibit peeing in the pool. Yet a lot of Olympic swimmers admit to doing it anyway and if you are visiting a public water park ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 26 2014 - 10:23am

Heart Attack Deaths In Decline, Southerners, Midwesterners Still Impacted Most

Heart attack death has declined across all regions of the United States but it remains proportionately higher in the South, according to a paperat the American College of Cardiology's 63rd Annual Scientific Session. ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 27 2014 - 9:36am

Acupuncture May Be As Good As Antidepressant For Depression Symptoms

Medicine stopped being symptom-based over 50 years ago but psychology still uses it. Little is known about why or how the brain works the way it does, much less personality variation, so if a psychological therapy works, it works. ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 27 2014 - 9:54am

Ban Second-Hand Smoking And Premature Births, Birth Defects Will Be Reduced

Only about 1/6th of the world bans smoking and a new paper in The Lancet seeks to increase that, and implied causality is the way to do it. Implied causality is fine, of course. No one knew smoking was bad until there was implied causality and then real c ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 29 2014 - 3:35pm

Erectile Dysfunction Can Be Reversed Without Medication- Or Cheating On Your Wife

Thanks to a constant stream of commercials advertising pharmaceuticals, men know that if they are not spending enough time sitting in a bathtub in the forest, a pill can cure that. Apparently it works for erectile dysfunction also. But that last part may ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 28 2014 - 11:55am

What Next In The Saturated Fat, Cholesterol And Statin Controversy

For decades, Americans have been told that high blood cholesterol as a result of heavy saturated fat intake causes cardiovascular disease. As such, Statin drugs are often prescribed to curb cardiovascular disease  risk by lowering cholesterol. That convent ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 28 2014 - 1:06pm

A Fishy Attempt To Link Glyphosate And Celiac Disease

Stephanie Seneff (a computer scientist at MIT),  and Anthony Samsel (a retired consultant), have recently been attempting to link the use of the herbicide glyphosate to a long list of modern maladies.  Their latest such attempt  to is Celiac disease.   The ...

Article - Steve Savage - Mar 31 2014 - 9:43pm

Suicide By Soda—Bullsweet!

In the mood to off yourself? I sure hope not, but if you are contemplating it, there is no need to use a gun, poison, or pills. Just take a sip of Diet Coke. Because anyone who takes headlines seriously—a universally bad idea—will be afraid to even look at ...

Article - Josh Bloom - Mar 31 2014 - 6:21pm

Beer McCarthyism- The Food Babe Goes After Breweries Again

Vani Hari, an earnest unqualified pundit who sells a lot of stuff on her website, implies you will look like her if you don't eat foods she cannot pronounce. And now she has gone after pizza. No big deal. Whereas people who eat at Subway are easily du ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Apr 3 2015 - 5:15pm