Public Health

Would You Like Listeria With That Capicola?

Standard cleaning procedures in retail delis may not eradicate Listeria monocytogenes bacteria, which can cause a potentially fatal disease in people with vulnerable immune systems.  In a recent study, 6.8 percent of samples taken in 15 delis before daily ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 10 2015 - 6:22pm

SB 203: California's New Warning Label Drive Targets Soda, But Not Sugar-Filled Juice

A California Democrat believes he can curb diabetes by requiring warning labels on sodas and energy drinks. Warning labels are not new to Californians. Ever since Proposition 65 required the ubiquitous 'may cause cancer' signage in virtually ever ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Feb 12 2015 - 10:36am

Danger to Gay Men Huffing Poppers

Participants in a new study have reported a small but growing and worrisome trend  among some gay American men. ...

Blog Post - Richard Taite - Feb 12 2015 - 2:24pm

A Civil Rights Struggle Few Remember: Desegregating Blood Donation

Sicily 1943: whose blood was this US soldier getting? NARA In December 1941, a few days after the bombing of Pearl Harbor and America’s entry into World War II, a Detroit mother named Sylvia Tucker visited her local Red Cross donor center to give blood. H ...

Article - The Conversation - Feb 14 2015 - 8:30am

Ban Them Or Embrace Them? E-Cigarettes Face A Fork In The Road

We've had 50 years of very-expensive, government-mandated penalties against cigarette companies that have funded programs to reduce cigarette smoking- anything that does so should be welcomed.  Yet that hasn't been the case for e-cigarettes. Whil ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 14 2015 - 2:31am

Mercury Levels In Tuna Are Getting Higher

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Article - The Conversation - Feb 16 2015 - 2:30pm

Obesity Paradox: A High-Fat Diet Reduces Heart Attack Damage 50 Percent

Over the long term, a high-fat diet is bad for heart attack risk. Yet a new study finds that if you are going to have a heart attack, you are likely to get through it better if you ate a high-fat diet before it happened. Mice fed a high-fat diet for one da ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 17 2015 - 1:41pm

Organic Milk Offers No Nutritional Boost Over Regular Milk

By Leigh Cooper, Inside Science (Inside Science) – Two bottles of whole milk sit side-by-side in a supermarket refrigerator. One costs $3.46 per gallon while the other costs $7.08 per gallon. The difference? The second bottle of milk is labeled organic. ...

Article - Inside Science - Feb 17 2015 - 2:43pm

Tackling Fat And Fitness Starts With Getting Off The Couch

Photo: Taber Andrew Bain, CC BY The link between exercise, diet and ill health has been recognized for a considerable length of time. ...

Article - The Conversation - Feb 18 2015 - 3:00pm

Fewer Drugs: Precision Medicine To Prevent Diabetes?

Precision medicine could prevent the flawed 'one size fits all' diet recommendations we currently get from the federal government and self-professed nutrition experts who latch onto the latest fad to sell books. 29 million Americans already alrea ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 19 2015 - 1:25pm