Public Health

Nobody wants to have a stuffy, runny nose and itchy eyes year-round, or to not be able to breathe deeply. (Or maybe there are some that do. Whatever floats your boat.) The current magical mystery tour of my immune system, hosted by the coolest allergy, imm ...

Blog Post - Becky Jungbauer - Apr 24 2009 - 3:12pm

Urgent Care Light Medical Clinics

One possible solution to the occasional lack of access to, or shortage of, primary care doctors is what are known as retail care clinics, or convenience care clinics. The popularity of these clinics continues to increase progressively for a variety of rea ...

Blog Post - Dan Abshear - Apr 26 2009 - 11:55am

The Unique And Chronic Pain Of Fibromyalgia Syndrome

The experience of pain appears to be a complex phenomenon with humans. The reason for the occurrence of pain can be physical, psychological, or a combination of both of these causes. And how one defines or describes the intensity of the pain they expe ...

Blog Post - Dan Abshear - Apr 26 2009 - 1:20pm

Dead With Lead!

Though we all know that nature has provided us with many vitamins, minerals and variety of trace elements that are necessary for our survival, however, little we know that there are certain natural elements and heavy metals that are poisonous to our bod ...

Blog Post - Zeea Hasan - Apr 29 2009 - 12:44pm

My air is cleaner than yours

Well, the air in Minnesota is pretty clean, and I grew up there, so I'm identifying with the rankings there instead of my current state of residence, which got surprisingly low grades. The annual State of the Air report describes levels of ozone and ...

Blog Post - Becky Jungbauer - Apr 29 2009 - 8:46am

Swine Flu Psychology

Stanford Psychologist, Marcel Selathe, is looking for volunteers for a study on the way people are responding to the spread of Swine Flu. As you have heard in the news, there has been an outbreak of swine flu in Mexico and the United States. There is a po ...

Blog Post - Nicholas Horton - Apr 30 2009 - 11:26am

Hand Sanitizers Proven To Be Effective Against H1N1 Influenza A (Swine Flu) Virus

Regular hand washing is recommended by both the WHO and the NHS as one of the most effective ways of controlling infections. Using a hand sanitizer when soap and water are not available is also a good idea. ...

Article - News Staff - May 2 2009 - 11:45am

AIDS Healthcare Foundation Says Bush Cared More About AIDS Than Obama

As a Senator last year, Obama voted for US$9.6 billion annually in funding for George Bush's Global AIDS Program but as President he wants it cut by almost 50%. George Bush cares more about AIDS than Barack Obama? Yes, says AIDS Healthcare Foundati ...

Article - News Staff - May 7 2009 - 6:43pm

Americans Are Fat Because They Eat Too Much, Not Because Of No Time To Exercise

New research that uses an innovative approach to study, for the first time, the relative contributions of food and exercise habits to the development of the obesity epidemic has concluded that the rise in obesity in the United States since the 1970s was vi ...

Article - News Staff - May 8 2009 - 12:58pm

Buy Expensive Sports Drinks? Just Eat Some Cereal Instead

A bowl of whole-grain cereal is as good as a sports drink for recovery after exercise. Research published in BioMed Central’s open access Journal of the International Society of Sports Nutrition has shown that the readily available and relatively inexpensi ...

Article - News Staff - May 14 2009 - 12:07am