Public Health

Access To Electricity- And Artificial Light- Is Linked To Reduced Sleep

We can blame smartphone alerts, constant connectivity and a deluge of media for sleep deprivation but that is talking about the symptoms rather than the disease. The root cause is instead the thing that has led to cultural and social improvements for over ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 29 2015 - 7:57am

Advocates Insist Marijuana Is Safe, Teenagers Are More Skeptical

Teenagers are very familiar with the risks of smoking cigarettes but thanks to misinformation campaigns by advocates regarding marijuana, and campaigns against the poorly-named "e-cigarettes" by pharmaceutical companies selling competing smoking ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 25 2015 - 10:31am

Metabolic Adaptations to Weight Loss

In 1984, I was a Freshman in high school and much more interested in making the soccer team, getting kicked out of my honors classes and that girl sitting over there, than I was into the medical literature of the day. Which would explain why I missed an ar ...

Blog Post - Ignatius Brady - Oct 22 2015 - 8:45pm

Viagra Does Something, But It Does Not Cause Melanoma

A rigorous analysis of more than 20,000 medical records concludes that erectile dysfunction drugs, such as Viagra, are not a cause of melanoma, an often deadly form of skin cancer, despite the higher risk for the disease among users of these drugs.  The a ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 23 2015 - 2:59pm

An Organic Cause For Gastrointestinal Disorders

It's not a surprise that doctors may believe people obsessed with food- be they nocebos or migrating from fad to fad- have a psychological condition rather than a gastrointestinal one. The gluten obsession, where 75 percent of people without celiac di ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 24 2015 - 9:30am

Acidity Of Urine May Affect Susceptibility To Urinary Tract Infections

The acidity of urine-- as well as the presence of small molecules related to diet-- may influence how well bacteria can grow in the urinary tract, a new study shows.  Urinary tract infections (UTIs) often are caused by a strain of bacteria called Escheric ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 26 2015 - 6:43am

Math, Time and Obesity

Searching for the perfect equation You can discuss obesity and weight loss without using math...in the same way you can discuss Astronomy without using math. While there may be a way to present a conjecture in either field using just logic and pure reason ...

Blog Post - Ignatius Brady - Oct 22 2015 - 8:46pm

90 Outbreaks, 95 Hospitalizations Linked To Recreational Water

In 2011–2012, the most recent years for which finalized data were available, public health officials from 32 states and Puerto Rico reported 90 recreational water–associated outbreaks to CDC's Waterborne Disease and Outbreak Surveillance System (WBDO ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 26 2015 - 2:32pm

Homeopsychopaths

When it comes to educating the public about all matters chemical, there is no one better than Dr. Joe Schwarcz, a wildly popular professor at McGill University in Montreal. "Dr. Joe," as his students call him, is one sharp dude. He has written ab ...

Article - Josh Bloom - Jul 6 2015 - 5:05pm

Is Marriage Good Or Bad For Your Weight? A Comparison By Countries

If you ask some people why they would never want to get divorced, they joke that they would not want to have to 'get back down to dating weight', but do married people really give up and get heavier? ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 29 2015 - 8:17am