Public Health

Futile ICU Care Prevents Other Patients From Getting Treatment

In a bygone era, doctors thought every life was important. Treatment was aggressive and persistent in intensive care units even when it might be futile.  In the 21st century world, resources are the first consideration, and there are plenty of ideas about ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 20 2014 - 10:45am

Risk Factors For Urinary Tract Infections In Young Girls

Young girls with an intense, red, itchy rash on their outer genital organs- vulvitis- may be at increased risk of developing urinary tract infections, according to new research from Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center.  Vulvitis is not a disease, but rathe ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 21 2014 - 2:02pm

Discharged Without Diagnosis When Health Care Is Free

Chest pain, breathing difficulties, fainting. Each year approximately 25 percent of patients admitted to medical departments with symptoms of serious illness are sent home again without receiving a diagnosis of the severe symptoms that led to their hospit ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 22 2014 - 12:00pm

Stats and Consequences of College Ecstasy and Molly Use

According to the 2012 National Survey on Drug Use and Health, about 16 million people have used ecstasy at some point in their life, and during the 2012 year, 869,000 people used ecstasy for the first time, far higher than the number of new LSD and PCP use ...

Blog Post - Richard Taite - Aug 22 2014 - 9:47am

Me, Myself And I Yii Yii...At Least It's Not Toads

You know, medicine is not an exact science, but we are learning all the time. Why, just fifty years ago, they thought a disease like your daughter's was caused by demonic possession or witchcraft. But nowadays we know that Isabelle is suffering from ...

Blog Post - Norm Benson - Aug 25 2014 - 10:59pm

Food Science Facts And Myths: Is MSG Bad For You?

Long before wheat and sugar, a popular craze against salt swept America. The salt in this case was the popular flavor enhancer monosodium glutamate (MSG), common in Chinese food, soups and meats.  Glutamic acid is also naturally present in our bodies. It ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 25 2014 - 10:19am

Mom Was Almost Right: Junk Food Will Spoil Your Appetite, Except Permanently

A diet of junk food not only makes rats fat, but also reduces their appetite for novel foods, a preference that normally drives them to seek a balanced diet, according to a study in Frontiers in Psychology which helps to explain how excessive consumption ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 28 2014 - 4:01pm

5 Myths about Healthcare Data Privacy from an Addiction Center CEO

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Blog Post - Richard Taite - Aug 28 2014 - 8:01am

Ontario Is A Worldwide Inflammatory Bowel Disease Hub

Why do so many people in Ontario have inflammatory bowel disease? One in every 200 Ontarians has been diagnosed with IBD, an increase by 64 percent between 1999 and 2008, according to a study by researchers at the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Science ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 28 2014 - 1:00pm

Non-Invasive Prenatal Testing: Why Pregnant Women Should Love Blood Tests

It has been almost 400 years since the publication of Exercitatio anatomica de motu cordis et sanguinis in animalibus ("On The Motion Of The Heart And Blood In Animals") by the British physician William Harvey, which accurately described the cir ...

Article - Susan Gross - Aug 28 2014 - 11:49am