Public Health

Link Between Oral Cancers And Sexual Behavior

In recent years, there have been efforts to reconsider cancers of the uterine cervix oropharyngeal, penile, vulvar and anal as sexually transmitted diseases. The reason is because of their link to human papillomavirus (HPV). HPV is everywhere and has been ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 17 2023 - 10:59am

New Survey Says People Want To Buy 'Healthier' Substitutes- Science Says Save Your Money

A new survey says lots of people opt for 'healthier' substitutes like chicken instead of beef and vanilla-flavored plant juice instead of milk, and 56 percent of them claim to feel better doing so. Well, they probably do feel better. The reason ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jul 31 2023 - 12:28pm

More Girls Started Puberty Early During COVID-19, And Obesity Is To Blame

The number of girls diagnosed with precocious puberty increased during the COVID-19 pandemic was most likely due to obesity- increased screen time and less physical activity.  Precocious puberty is when children's bodies begin to change into adult bod ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 3 2023 - 10:02am

Butter Is Why You Shouldn't Get Your Health Advice From The New York Times

If you read mainstream media in 2013, you will learn that wheat and sugar are trying to kill you. It's better not to take them too seriously. While science tends to be rather rigorous in its claims- peer review is an inherently prudent idea that conse ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Aug 4 2023 - 9:37am

Black People Have More Premature Births- Cardiovascular Health Implicated

 In 2019, nearly 12 percent of Black individuals experienced pre-term births compared with 7 percent of White individuals, according to a new demography paper. ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Aug 8 2023 - 5:04am

Epidemiology Fallout: Heart Attack Survivors Ignore LDL Cholesterol Risk Because Of Correlation Disrepute

The American Heart Association is concerned that stroke and heart attack survivors don't think enough about 'risk' of LDL (low-density lipoprotein) cholesterol, now colloquially termed 'bad' cholesterol. ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Aug 23 2023 - 10:20am

#MedEd: How Well Doctors Use Social Media To Combat Misinformation

If you go to social media, you can see a lot of suspect claims about fad diets, unapproved medical devices, therapies, and conspiracy theories. Many of them have names with "Dr." attached. How is the public to know a "Dr." may be a PhD ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Sep 1 2023 - 2:35pm

TikTok Can Be More Than Just Harvesting Your Data For Chinese Spies

Controversial social media video site TikTok has one supporter- a public relations academic at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. A recent paper, ironically in a journal from a publisher that has also been called predatory, argues that TikTok may be effec ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Oct 5 2023 - 12:39pm

Halloween Science: The Sugar Rush Is Fake But The Sugar Crash Hits Hard

If you are a parent, or know a parent, you have had someone claim that if their kid eats sugar they get 'hyperactive'- that may happen, but only because a child has been told they get hyperactive and act that way, the same way if you tell a child ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Oct 18 2023 - 7:49pm

Harvard- Meat Causes Diabetes! Science- Harvard, Please Stick To Anti-Semitism

Harvard University, and its anti-science allies like The Guardian (1) paper in England, are again claiming that meat causes diabetes. ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Oct 24 2023 - 2:18pm