Public Health

Drink Your Nanojuice And Let's Shine A Laser In Your Gut

The small intestine is not easy to examine. X-rays, MRIs and ultrasound images provide snapshots but each suffers limitations.   The average human small intestine is roughly 23 feet long and 1 inch thick. Sandwiched between the stomach and large intestine ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 6 2014 - 1:08pm

Does Food Addiction Really Exist?

When people use heroin, their brains become physiologically dependent on the drug and the behavioral patterns of use become written alongside this need. That’s addiction: both behaviorally and biologically, heroin addicts need the drug. When they don’t ge ...

Blog Post - Richard Taite - Jul 10 2014 - 2:34pm

How Do We Keep So Many Preterm Babies Alive? Volume, Volume, Volume

In modern times, an otherwise healthy pre-term baby has a very strong chance of survival. And that survival chance goes way up in high-volume neonatal units; a counter-intuitive finding for people who think that slower dedicated health care is the way to ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 7 2014 - 11:00pm

Wet Wraps Cut Need For Drugs In Kids With Eczema

The number of children with atopic dermatitis- eczema, a painful, itchy skin condition- is on the rise. Some estimates are that one in five children in the U.S. now suffers from it and many children are prescribed powerful medications like immunosuppressa ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 8 2014 - 11:31am

Extreme Obesity Shortens Life Expectancy Up To 14 Years

Adults with extreme obesity have increased risks of dying at from cancer, heart disease, stroke, diabetes, and kidney and liver diseases, according to results of an analysis of data pooled from 20 large studies of people from three countries. The analysis ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 9 2014 - 5:30am

Smallpox In A Big Box With No Locks

You have to admire the consistency of our government, especially when it comes to protecting us. While the TSA is strip-searching 95-year old women in wheelchairs, a janitor tripped over a box of smallpox samples that someone left in an old Budweiser coole ...

Article - Josh Bloom - Jul 10 2014 - 1:54pm

The Obesity Crisis In Young Hispanics

Obesity is so common among U.S. Hispanics, particularly among young Hispanics,  that it is at crisis proportions, according to data from a study of 16,344 people of diverse Hispanic origin in four U.S. cities; New York City (Bronx), Chicago, Miami and San ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 9 2014 - 4:31pm

Donate A Kidney, Save A Life, Get Denied Health Insurance

Donating a kidney is a selfless act and it is going to save a life. But even before the Affordable Care Act, it had pitfalls if you wanted to add or change health insurance. In the future, the only option could be state Medicare programs, which many doctor ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 15 2014 - 10:30pm

Why Does Gastric Bypass Surgery Cure Diabetes So Often?

It's been known for some time that  gastric bypass surgery  doesn't just help obese patients lose weight, it also cures diabetes in the majority of patients that undergo it. Type 2 diabetes is linked to diabetes but studies have found that gastr ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 10 2014 - 10:23am

Climate Change Linked To Kidney Stones

Researchers have matched an upward curve in temperatures in the last few decades with increases in patient's seeking treatment for kidney stones, which both reflects and foretells a warming planet's impact on human health, they say. Of course, t ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 10 2014 - 1:02pm