Public Health

Blood pressure and stroke risk increase steadily with sedentary lifestyle, obesity and of course the biggest risk is age. Many want to optimize their time living to prevent debilitating injuries and epidemiologists are happy to find a statistical correlat ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 5 2019 - 10:30am

18 Percent Of Multiple Sclerosis Patients Misdiagnosed

With a tricky disease like multiple sclerosis, where symptoms and MRI testing results can look like other conditions, such as stroke, migraines and vitamin B12 deficiency, it's common to be misdiagnosed with other things first. A new analysis of patie ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 8 2019 - 9:13am

Vitamin C May Protect Cells From Hexavalent Chromium? No, But You're Safe From It Anyway

In the movie "Erin Brockovich", actress Julia Roberts portrayed a clerk who got energy company PG&E worried enough about a jury being scared of science they wrote her boss a giant check. Because Hollywood is in California, the state governmen ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Apr 8 2019 - 6:43pm

What Is A Normal Testosterone Level? The Answer Is Difficult

Testosterone is the main sex hormone in men. It’s best known for its role in the development of male sexual characteristics and physical features, but there are also many surprising and lesser known functions of testosterone that make it an important horm ...

Article - The Conversation - Apr 18 2019 - 6:00am

FDA Approves IQOS Smoking Cessation Tool

Just over a year ago I testified before a Food and Drug Administration advisory panel in support of the iQOS device, a smoking replacement tool that heats tobacco but doesn't ignite it. ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Apr 30 2019 - 10:39pm

Prosthesis or Bionics?

Tyler Clites holds a BS in Biomedical and Mechanical Engineering from Harvard (2014) and a PhD from Harvard//MIT program in Health Sciences and Technology (2018). Presently he is a Post Doc in the Biomechatronics group at the MIT Media Lab where his ...

Blog Post - Scott Beers - May 1 2019 - 7:02pm

Pregnancy Alert: Possible Listeria Contamination Of 'l’Explorateur' French Soft Ripened Cheese

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is warning of possible Listeria monocytogenes contamination in l’Explorateur soft ripened cheese. This is pasteurized cow’s milk cheese, so at least it isn't raw unpasteurized milk causing illness yet again, and w ...

Article - News Staff - May 6 2019 - 1:16pm

WIRED Promotes Chemophobia About Sunscreen, But At Least The Trial Size Was Bigger Than Andrew Wakefield's

A recent paper in JAMA should have EXPLORATORY in giant red letter across every page, or else journalists will use it to promote fear and doubt about sunscreens. Which is already happening. ...

Article - Hank Campbell - May 6 2019 - 11:09pm

In A Pilot Study, Metformin For Insulin Resistance Reduces Fibromyalgia Pain

Using patients who were referred to a subspecialty pain medicine clinic to be treated for widespread muscular/connective tissue pain, and then separating people who met the criteria for fibromyalgia into smaller groups by age, a small experiment (n=23) fou ...

Article - News Staff - May 7 2019 - 3:42pm

In The 'Fourth Trimester' 40% Of New Moms Feel Anxious, Overwhelmed Or Depressed

After a baby is born, the priorities and schedules of parents shift dramatically. This is especially true for mothers (sorry dads, we know you change diapers) but after spending 40 weeks thinking about their health because of the little person they've ...

Article - News Staff - May 8 2019 - 1:27pm