Public Health

Thanks For Preventing Skin Cancer, Eczema

Skin cancer is a common and growing problem, accounting for one in every three cancers diagnosed worldwide, according to the World Health Organization. Recent findings suggest that malignant melanoma, the most dangerous form of skin cancer, is has grown d ...

Article - News Staff - May 5 2014 - 6:54pm

Sports And Energy Drinks Called Gateways To Negative Behaviors

Cigarette smoking, overuse of screen media and even poor diet have been significantly associated with weekly consumption of sports drinks and energy drinks by adolescents.  Data for the study were gathered from 20 public middle schools and high schools in ...

Article - News Staff - May 6 2014 - 12:30am

Early Obesity Increases Probability Of Obesity Later In Life

If you are obese when you are young, it's likely to get worse when you are older. A recent paper examined the relationship between BMI at age 25, obesity later in life, and biological indicators of health and found that people who were obese by age 2 ...

Article - News Staff - May 6 2014 - 1:30am

How To Thrive On A High-Fat Diet

A comparison of the genomes of polar bears and brown bears reveals that the polar bear is a much younger species than previously believed, having diverged from brown bears less than 500,000 years ago. ...

Article - News Staff - May 8 2014 - 12:59pm

Recycling Patient Blood During Surgery Better Than Using Banked Blood

Patients whose lost red blood cells are recycled and given back to them during heart surgery have healthier blood cells compared to those who get transfusions of blood stored in a blood bank, according to the results of a small study at Johns Hopkins. To ...

Article - News Staff - May 8 2014 - 12:40pm

What Is The Best Diet And Exercise Combination To Counter Type-2 Diabetes?

Type-2 diabetes has dramatically spread in the last decade and is most often associated with being overweight and suffering from obesity. Moreover, nutritionists believe that inactive and sedentary lifestyles together with bad eating habits are the basis f ...

Article - News Staff - May 10 2014 - 10:25am

More Labels And Information Might Improve Public Health- But 'One Size Fits All' Claims Are Unfounded

In Europe, there is a rush to ban and label things regardless of information. In America, there is a movement to do the same. In Asia, it is open season on the public regarding bizarre supplements, alternative medicine and natural therapies. Yet in many wa ...

Article - News Staff - May 11 2014 - 5:30am

Golden rice now, everything else is noise

Please spare me the anti-biotech crowd’s Argumentum ad Monsantum (the “Appeal to Monsanto” argument) over Genetically Engineered (GE) foods. I’m speaking, of course, of the anti-GMO push back to my “ Golden rice, golden opportunity ” column. ...

Blog Post - Norm Benson - May 12 2014 - 10:18am

The Most Promising Antioxidant You Never Heard Of

There is a discovery out there that has shown some success with multiple sclerosis, with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS- Lou Gehrig's Disease), and has even improved the function of aging hearts – but despite all that, you have probably never hea ...

Article - Hank Campbell - May 19 2014 - 4:18pm

Medical Marijuana Involvement In Fatal Accidents In Colorado

Since the commercialization of medical marijuana in the middle of 2009, the proportion of marijuana-positive drivers involved in fatal motor vehicle crashes in Colorado has increased dramatically, according to data from the National Highway Traffic Safety ...

Article - News Staff - May 15 2014 - 5:10pm