Public Health

Endometriosis often takes a long time to be diagnosed and affects all areas of a woman's life, from sex to emotional wellbeing, from personal relationships to work. Endometriosis is a chronic, recurring disease that is experienced by approximately 1 ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 11 2014 - 3:22pm

High Protein Diets Linked To Lower Blood Pressure

Forget lettuce, adults who consume a high-protein diet are at a lower risk for developing high blood pressure (HBP), according to a paper in the American Journal of Hypertension. One of three U.S. adults has hypertension and 78.6 million are clinically ob ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 11 2014 - 11:00am

Maternal Age Effect: Molecular Mechanisms Of Birth Defects Among Older Women

Researchers have discovered a pathway that may improve understanding of molecular mistakes that cause older women to have babies with Down syndrome. As women age, so do their eggs and during a woman's 30s, the chance that she will conceive a Down syn ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 12 2014 - 7:30am

Ebola Crisis In West Africa: Where Did All The Development Money Go?

Health systems aren't sexy. Credit: Truthout.org, CC BY-NC-SA By Sophie Harman, Queen Mary, University of London ...

Article - The Conversation - Sep 11 2014 - 7:01pm

Dendritic Cells Affect Psoriasis

Psoriasis is an autoimmune disease with symptoms which include the formation of red inflamed lesions that appear on the skin, vary from mild to severe. It affects around 125 million people worldwide. A new paper has found different types of dendritic cells ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 14 2014 - 11:00am

Women,This Is Your Brain On Junk Food

Magnetic stimulation of a brain area, the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC), involved in "executive function" affects cravings for and consumption of calorie-dense snack foods, reports a paper in Psychosomatic Medicine: Journal of Biobehavi ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 16 2014 - 10:41pm

Radical Rethink: Sugars Are The Only Cause Of Tooth Decay

If we get sugars down to 3% of total energy intake, it may put dentists out of business, according to a paper in BMC Public Health which analyzed the effect of sugars on tooth decay and found that sugars are the only cause of tooth decay in children and a ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 15 2014 - 11:00pm

Without Western Diet, Asian-Americans Lower Insulin Resistance

Asian-Americans are at higher risk of developing type 2 diabetes than Caucasian-Americans, and prone to develop the disease at lower body weights. Can Asian heritage and ancestral reliance on a high-fiber, low-fat Asian mean extra risks for those of Asian ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 17 2014 - 2:30pm

Artificial Sweeteners Linked To Glucose Intolerance

Artificial sweeteners are promoted as aids to weight loss and diabetes prevention but a new study finds they could actually hasten the development of glucose intolerance and metabolic disease, and in a surprising way: by changing the composition and functi ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 17 2014 - 4:01pm

The Struggle For Babies To Survive After Being Born At 22 Weeks

While abortion is a common feature of the developed world, there remains some controversy about when it should be allowed. Only the United States and Canada still allow late-term abortion on demand because in the modern world a baby in the third trimester ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 18 2014 - 9:26am