Public Health
- Air Pollution Linked To Higher Rates Of Chronic Kidney Disease
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Air pollution may play a role in the development of kidney disease, according to a study upcoming at ASN Kidney Week 2014 November 11-16 at the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. There are wide variances in the prevalence of chr ...
Article - News Staff - Nov 15 2014 - 12:13pm
- Home Dialysis May Be Better Than In-Center Hemodialysis For Kidney Failure Patients
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Home dialysis therapies may help prolong the lives of patients with kidney failure compared with hemodialysis treatments administered in medical centers, according to an upcoming study at ASN Kidney Week 2014 at the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Phila ...
Article - News Staff - Nov 15 2014 - 1:00pm
- Secondhand Marijuana Smoke As Bad As Tobacco Smoke For Blood Vessels
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Breathing secondhand marijuana smoke could damage your heart and blood vessels as much as secondhand cigarette smoke, according to preliminary research presented at the American Heart Association's Scientific Sessions 2014. ...
Article - News Staff - Nov 16 2014 - 11:03am
- Death Rate From Heart Disease Declines 4 Percent Since 2000
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Since the year 2000, mortality rates for heart disease declined by almost 4 percent even as higher blood pressure and obesity role, according to a new paper in JAMA. Matthew D. Ritchey, D.P.T., of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Atla ...
Article - News Staff - Nov 16 2014 - 4:00pm
- Emergency Room Visits For Irregular Heartbeat Up, Deaths Have Gone Down
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A generation ago, there were awareness campaigns to tell people with an irregular heartbeats to go to the emergency room to prevent possible heart attacks. It worked. People now go to the emergency room as they have been told but with the gradual governme ...
Article - News Staff - Nov 16 2014 - 7:13pm
- Omega-3 Fatty Acids Decrease Heart Disease- It's No Fish Tale
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Increasing the amount of omega-3s in your diet will likely decrease your risk of getting heart disease, according to Penn State nutritionists who cite evidence supporting the heart-health benefits of eicosapentaenoic acid and docosahexaenoic acid (EPA and ...
Article - News Staff - Nov 17 2014 - 7:21pm
- Microvascular Dysfunction Common In Cocaine Users
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Cocaine users complaining of chest pain may have microvascular dysfunction, improper blood flow through the smallest blood vessels that may not be detected in regular testing, putting these patients at risk for heart complications or death, according to r ...
Article - News Staff - Nov 18 2014 - 11:58am
- Health Risks Of Nicotine Cast Doubt On 'Safer' E-cigarettes
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E-cigarettes should not be sold in Australia, as a therapy or a consumer product. gdvcom/Shutterstock By Ross MacKenzie; Benjamin Hawkins, London School of Hygiene&Tropical Medicine, and Thomas Novotny, San Diego State University ...
Article - The Conversation - Nov 18 2014 - 6:30pm
- Regular Pot Use Changes the Brain
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The existing literature on the long-term effects of marijuana on the brain is confusing, mostly due to methodological differences across studies. ...
Blog Post - Richard Taite - Nov 20 2014 - 2:37pm
- 3X Saturated Fat In The Diet Doesn't Increase It In Blood
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Doubling and even nearly tripling saturated fat in diets does not drive up total levels of saturated fat in the blood, according to a controlled diet study. The researchers found that total saturated fat in the blood did not increase- and went down in mos ...
Article - News Staff - Nov 21 2014 - 3:16pm
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