Public Health

Emergency Room Visits For Irregular Heartbeat Up, Deaths Have Gone Down

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

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

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

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

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

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

El Niño Blamed For Stunted Growth Of Peruvian Children

Epidemiologists have linked El Niño, a recurring pattern where every 2-7 years warm waters in the Equatorial Pacific change the weather, to short stature, also known as stunting,  which is usually due to chronic malnutrition. The authors found that childr ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 25 2014 - 9:02am

One Third Of UK 11-year-Olds Overweight Or Obese

Igor Stepovik Shutterstock By Roxanne Connelly, University of Edinburgh ...

Article - The Conversation - Nov 30 2014 - 6:00am

Who’s Smoking Marijuana and How Much?

Statistics on cannabis users skew perceptions  of cannabis use. ...

Blog Post - Richard Taite - Nov 30 2014 - 8:16pm

Epinephrine In Cardiac Arrest May Do More Harm Than Good

Cardiac arrest, commonly known as a heart attack, is an often-fatal condition in which the heart stops beating. Epinephrine- adrenaline- is a hormone that stimulates the heart and promotes the flow of blood and current international guidelines recommend a ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 2 2014 - 7:00am