Public Health

That Ginkgo Biloba Won't Help You- And It May Not Even Be Ginkgo Biloba

If you are buying herbal dietary supplements like  Ginkgo biloba (G. biloba) to boost cognitive capacity, the first thing you should do is stop spending money on herbal dietary supplements like Ginkgo biloba and the next thing you should do is wonder how, ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 11 2014 - 12:26pm

Medicating When It Is not Needed

Creativity is a complex and vast construct that has been vital to the progress of human civilization and the development of human reasoning processes. Indeed, the immense array of creative endeavors encompasses the works of such disparate activities as tho ...

Blog Post - Richard Taite - Dec 11 2014 - 12:43pm

Conservation Of Massive: When You Lose Weight, Where Does The Fat Go?

Lots of people say they care about their weight, and there is no end to weight-loss schemes available on websites, but if you ask nutritionists, personal trainers and even some doctors where fat goes when people lose weight, they can't tell you the r ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 17 2014 - 9:30am

For Airline Pilots, Radiation On The Job Is As Much As Tanning Beds

Airline pilots can be exposed to the same amount of UV-A radiation as if they visited a tanning bed, because airplane windshields do not completely block UV-A radiation. ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 17 2014 - 7:30pm

Blame City Life, Not Fast Food, For The Surge In Diabetes

City folk may not think much of rural living- but they are healthier. A new study finds that diabetes, once rather uncommon, is now affecting 387 million people worldwide- and 77 percent of it is in developed nations. The reason is stress, write the autho ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 18 2014 - 5:18pm

Is A Cheap, Old Car Better For Teens?

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Article - News Staff - Dec 28 2014 - 12:39pm

Dr. Ozvorkian And The Amoebas

In case you are fooled by the title, and are expecting to learn about a retro-metal group with a really terrible name, I apologize in advance. That's not what this is about. At some point during the rancorous comment section that followed my last piec ...

Article - Josh Bloom - Dec 28 2014 - 12:03pm

IPad Before Bed Could Be Messing Up Your Sleep

Use of a light-emitting electronic device like an iPad in the hours before bedtime can adversely impact overall health, alertness, and the circadian clock which synchronizes the daily rhythm of sleep to external environmental time cues, according to a new ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 22 2014 - 12:55pm

To Survive A Heart Attack, It Helps To Be Fat

Being obese brings with it a greater risk of heart disease, but patients who are obese before developing heart failure live longer than normal weight patients with the same condition, an 'obesity paradox' that is still unexplained. Using data fro ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 22 2014 - 4:25pm

How To Assess The Risks Of The Botanicals In Supplements Craze

Examples of poisonings due to people mistakenly picking and consuming poisonous botanicals in the wild made it clear that, contrary to claims by an alarming number of nutritionists and supplement sales compnies, natural does not mean safe. Nature has alway ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 23 2014 - 9:00am