Public Health

Unsurprisingly, Mandatory Flu Vaccines Boost Flu Vaccines

Hospitals can greatly improve their flu vaccination rate among health care workers by forcing employees to get them, finds the Henry Ford Health System where they did just that. Citing its own data, Henry Ford researchers say the health system achieved em ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 7 2014 - 9:59am

Occupational Asthma In France Caused By...Flour

Wheat is the latest fad diet victim and a new study presented at the European Respiratory Society's International Congress adds to its villainy. It says flour is worse for occupational asthma in French workers than toxic chemicals. The scholars analy ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 7 2014 - 10:08am

Babies Who Sleep On Animal Fur Less Likely To Develop Asthma

The hygiene hypothesis and its cousins, like that rural settings make children microbiologically stronger, now has a study that vegetarian activists are not going to like: sleeping on animal fur in the first three months of life has been linked to reduced ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 7 2014 - 5:57pm

Central Line Infections And Ventilator Pneumonias Decline In Neonatal Units

Hospitals across the country have seen sharp declines in rates of central line-associated blood stream infections (CLABSIs) and ventilator-associated pneumonias (VAPs) among critically ill neonates and children, according to a new study which analyzed inc ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 10 2014 - 7:00am

Sodium Scare: Salt Influence On Blood Pressure Statistically Insignificant

Though the American government now wants to control intake, another study has affirmed that claims of a link between table salt and hypertension were always on shaky ground. A new paper in the American Journal of Hypertension instead finds that increased ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 8 2014 - 6:04pm

Prediabetes Linked To 15 Percent Greater Risk Of Cancer

Though nearly every medical body and the United Nations would rather that epidemiologists stop talking about "pre-diabetes", concerns are still there. Governments are worried that working up the public about pre-diabetes will increase patient co ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 8 2014 - 7:00pm

Are E-Cigarettes Less Harmful? Yes And No

Image credit:  Gianluca Rasile via shutterstock http://shutr.bz/1o2xR50 By: Benjamin Plackett, Inside Science (Inside Science)-- From the strip malls of the Midwest to the boutiques of Manhattan’s West Village, e-cigarette stores can be found almost anywh ...

Article - Inside Science - Sep 11 2014 - 8:00am

Health Off The Range: An Anti-Vaccine Conspiracy Tale

Mystery virus EV-D68 exploding among vaccinated children; U.S. medical system clueless without a vaccine warns blogger Mike Adams, who calls himself a "Health Ranger" and seems to exist to undermine medicine. ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Sep 10 2014 - 8:00am

Epidemics: A Sleaze-Bag Payday?

I've seen some pretty awful tactics used by various self-promoters, quacks, and other invertebrates over the years, but this one may take the organic cake. Internet huckster Mike Adams, who ranks right up there with Crazy Joe Mercola, in terms of spre ...

Article - Josh Bloom - Sep 17 2014 - 1:42pm

25 Percent Of The World's Diabetics Live In China

China has 18 percent of the world's population but 25 percent of its diabetics. When the numbers are a staggering 1.3 billion, such a startling disparity in representation means a major public health crisis. In 1980, less than 1% of Chinese adults ha ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 11 2014 - 11:30am