Public Health

We Need To Reinvent Primary Care

Politicians are arguing with each other about health care. One side is yelling that people have coverage, even if they can't afford to use it and twice as many people will lose than ever got it. Another side claims emergency room visits and pediatric ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 24 2017 - 2:03pm

BPA-Free, Here We Go Again!

The headline almost jumps out at you – “ BPA Substitute Could Cause Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes.”  That alarming headline appears in an industry publication, but the same story was widely reported in the popular media, which tends to cover science only whe ...

Article - Steve Hentges - Mar 30 2017 - 8:39pm

Truvia Doesn't Kill Houseflies, They Starve To Death

Activist groups have continually perpetuated claims about artificial sweeteners, without noting that they are in animal models- and a billion rats have been killed by chemicals found in every food- and that to get similar risk in humans, you would need to ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 5 2017 - 11:46am

Massachusetts Health Care Expansion Increased Thyroid Cancer Surgeries

Health care expansion in Massachusetts, which became a model for the controversial Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) caused a surge in surgeries for thyroid cancer. What that means depends on who is doing the framing. One side can argu ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 5 2017 - 4:46pm

Emotional Feeding Leads To Emotional Eating

If you hand food to a child when they are sad, or angry, or anything else, they will begin to associate food with those feelings. As adults, this emotional eating will be a tough habit to break. In youth, it will be even more difficult because kids aren� ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 25 2017 - 6:31am

Pig Study Shows Dairy 'Excellent' Source Of Protein For Human Kids Too

In 2011, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations propose using animals like pigs to study the best way of evaluating protein quality in foods eaten by children. The researchers behind a new study calculated protein scores for eigh ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 27 2017 - 6:30am

Sensible And Pragmatic Proposal For Implementing The EC's Criteria For Identifying Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals

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Article - Gregory Bond - Apr 28 2017 - 8:55am

Do You Know What’s In Your Water?

It’s widely understood that a key reason why life developed on Earth is because of water.  A common definition of a habitable environment is one in which plenty of liquid water is available to sustain life.  In short, we can’t live without water. ...

Article - Steve Hentges - May 3 2017 - 7:42am

Hidden Demographic: Young Adult Smokers

In the many efforts to prevent people from taking up smoking, most initiatives have focused on kids.  As the consumer advocacy group the American Council on Science and Health has long phrased it, "smoking is a pediatric disease." Prevent uptake ...

Article - News Staff - May 3 2017 - 1:53pm

Acupuncture Works, At Least In Some Patients With Non-Specific Pain

A randomized controlled trial of the use of acupuncture in emergency departments has found the treatment is a safe and effective alternative to pain-relieving drugs for some patients who visit looking for relief from things like a self-reported ankle sprai ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 19 2017 - 6:30am