Public Health

Study Of Identical Twins Reveals Type 2 Diabetes Clues

By studying identical twins, researchers from Lund University in Sweden have identified mechanisms that could be behind the development of type 2 diabetes. This may explain cases where one identical twin develops type 2 diabetes while the other remains he ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 6 2014 - 11:31am

Sandwiches: The Little Discussed Factor In Dietary Sodium Intake

Sodium is back in the health concern cycle and an analysis of data in the federal nationwide dietary intake survey known as "What We Eat in America NHANES 2009-2010," has led a team of Department of Agriculture (USDA) to conclude that, on any gi ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 7 2014 - 10:06am

Ebola Won’t Gain A Foothold In Western Countries – Here’s Why

Commotion outside house of infected nurse Teresa Ramos near Madrid. Credit: EPA By Peter Barlow, Edinburgh Napier University ...

Article - The Conversation - Oct 8 2014 - 8:30pm

Bushmeat Linked To Ebola: Why Industrial Agriculture May Be Safer

Sometimes organic food kills and there is nothing more natural than locally-hunted wild meat bought at a local market.  Now it turns out that ebola, as with many emerging infections, may have arisen due to the practice of eating wild meat known as 'b ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 9 2014 - 9:24am

Preventing Ebola: Screen — Or Screen Door?

It is pretty hard to trust or admire our government on a good day. However, this is more of a theoretical concern than a practical one, since they haven't had a whole lot of them lately.  ...

Article - Josh Bloom - Oct 24 2014 - 8:30am

PCBs May Have Altered Thyroid Hormone Activity During Pregnancy

A new study of human placenta has provided evidence that  flame retardant chemicals called polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), implicated as being endocrine disrupting chemicals, and find they can interfere with thyroid hormone action in pregnant women. The ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 10 2014 - 8:30am

Decaffeinated Coffee May Benefit Liver Health

Decaffeinated coffee drinking may benefit liver health, according to a paper in Hepatology by  Researchers from the National Cancer Institute whichsayss that higher coffee consumption, regardless of caffeine content, was linked to lower levels of abnormal ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 10 2014 - 6:00pm

Are Antimicrobial Condoms The New Frontier Against STDs? Not Quite

Very little has been published on VivaGel in peer-reviewed literature. Credit: Morgan/Flickr, CC BY By Bridget Haire ...

Article - The Conversation - Oct 12 2014 - 6:31pm

Free Radicals Found Beneficial To Wound Healing

While the modern talk is all about how antioxidants and good and free radicals are bad, biology has never been so simple. Rather than being simply destructive to tissues and cells, free radicals generated by the cell's mitochondria—the energy produci ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 13 2014 - 12:08pm

The Rats Of New York

It's not a secret that rats carry diseases, they quite literally carried the pests that caused the Bubonic Plague across Europe in the middle ages. But New York City has always felt like their rats were exceptional compared to rats beyond the Hudson ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 14 2014 - 11:40am