Public Health

Sitting At Work Gets All The Attention, But Standing All Day Is Worse

A lot of attention has been given to city dwellers and the health risks of sitting in front of a computer screen, but almost 50 of the world spends 75 percent of their time on their feet. Prolonged standing is associated with short-term adverse health iss ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 19 2015 - 9:00am

Chinese Child Obesity- Blame Indulgent Grandparents

A new paper says that Chinese grandparents tend to indulge, overfeed and protect grandchildren in their care from physical chores, thus increasing their risk of obesity. The underlying motive for the action of grandparents may be affection for their treas ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 23 2015 - 8:08am

Diarrhea In Cats- Especially In Homes With Multiple Cats

Barbara Hinney and her colleagues from the Institute for Parasitology at the University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna, screened 298 faecal samples taken from cats across Austria for single-cell intestinal parasites, so called enteric protozoa. The sample ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 26 2015 - 8:30am

Are All Weight Loss Doctors Quacks?

Ben Goldacre, whom I hold in high esteem, has repeatedly contended that anyone espousing diet philosophies to others is practicing quackery. Eating does not require scientific scrutiny, nor does it take any specialized knowledge to get healthier: walk a li ...

Blog Post - Ignatius Brady - Jul 27 2015 - 9:47am

Fatherhood Makes Men Fat

All those leftover pizza crusts you snatch from your kids' plates add up. Men gain weight after they become fathers for the first time whether or not they live with their children, reports a large, new study that tracked the weight of more than 10,00 ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 27 2015 - 7:30am

Dietary Protein Recommendations Need Modernization

New research based on modern techniques suggests that recommendations for protein intake in healthy populations may be incorrect. In a paper just published in Applied Physiology, Nutrition, and Metabolism, an NRC Research Press journal (a division of Cana ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 25 2015 - 9:30am

Sorry, NRDC, Breast Milk Is Glyphosate Free

On the heels of a rather poorly constructed International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) analysis of organophosphate insecticides and pesticides a short while ago and a bizarre claim by the activist-funded group Moms Across America last year, the pub ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 24 2015 - 9:14am

Spines Of Boys And Girls Differ At Birth

Looking at measurements of the vertebrae- the series of small bones that make up the spinal column- in newborn children, investigators at Children's Hospital Los Angeles found that differences between the sexes are present at birth. Results of the st ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 29 2015 - 8:30am

Mild Hypothermia In Deceased Donors Improves Function After Kidney Transplant

Mild hypothermia in deceased organ donors significantly reduces delayed graft function in kidney transplant recipients when compared to normal body temperature, according to UC San Francisco researchers and collaborators, a finding that could lead to an i ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 9 2015 - 1:39pm

Waiving Medicare's 3-Day Rule Lessens Hospital Stay

For nearly 50 years Medicare has required patients to endure at least a three-day stint in the hospital before they become eligible for coverage of skilled nursing care afterward. A new study finds that the main consequence of waiving the rule, as Medicar ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 7 2015 - 7:00am