Public Health

Child Deaths On Pace To Drop Another 50 Percent Globally By 2030

Public health works. In 2000, the United Nations drafted aggressive goals for both standards of living and public health. So far, they are ahead of schedule on both. Two analyses by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University ...

Article - News Staff - May 2 2014 - 10:30am

Do You Really Need To Be Afraid To Eat McDonalds French Fries?

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Article - Steve Savage - May 4 2014 - 11:09am

Type 1 And 2 Diabetes Up Sharply Among US Youth

An analysis of more than 3,000,000 children and adolescents from diverse geographic regions of the United States found that the prevalence of both type 1 and type 2 diabetes increased significantly between 2001 and 2009. ...

Article - News Staff - May 4 2014 - 8:00am

The Risks Of Nutritional Deficiencies In Obese Teens

A presentation at the annual meeting of the Pediatric Academic Societies in Vancouver discussed the risk of nutritional deficiencies in severely obese teens – including in those who had weight loss surgery. At least five years after undergoing gastric byp ...

Article - News Staff - May 4 2014 - 7:25pm

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