Public Health

Convenient Food Making Canadians Fat- Study

Living in an area with more fast food outlets and convenience stores than supermarkets and grocers has been associated with obesity in a Canadian study published by BMC Public Health. Correlation/causation misfire?   Sure, unless you want to believe that t ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 17 2009 - 6:43pm

More Milk, Less Hunger

Now there's a new reason for the weight-conscious to drink fat free milk at breakfast time, suggests a new study published in the July issue of the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. Researchers in Australia found that drinking fat free milk in t ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 23 2009 - 2:00am

Inhaling A Heart Attack

Research links smog to devastating effects not just on lungs but on hearts, brains and fetal development. By Greg Critser June 23, 2009 Not long ago, Jesus Araujo, a cardiology researcher at UCLA, parked a cage full of transgenic mice alongside the 110 Fre ...

Article - Greg Critser - Jun 23 2009 - 11:23am

The Man who stopped Smoking

The man who stopped smoking is the title of a video from the British Medical Journal (BMJ).  The blurb says: Richard Doll was a luminary of clinical research whose case control study, published in the BMJ in 1950, first identified smoking as an important ...

Blog Post - Robert H Olley - Jun 25 2009 - 6:39am

War On Teeth Whitening Misguided- Orange Juice Is Worse For Your Teeth, Says Study

With the increasing popularity of whitening teeth, and some studies showing negative effects of teeth whitening, researchers at the Eastman Institute for Oral Health at the University of Rochester Medical Center set out to learn if there are negative effec ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 30 2009 - 10:08am

Again, Vaccines Do Not Cause Autism

The evidence is in. The scientific community has reached a clear consensus that vaccines don’t cause autism. There is no controversy.” So begins an in-depth discussion of the vaccines-cause-autism nonsense penned by  “SkepDoc” Harriet Hall  in a recent iss ...

Article - Massimo Pigliucci - Mar 31 2010 - 4:39pm

Safer Eggs

Eggs are sexy. They can be safer to eat according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). What was announced on 7 July 2009 is the final rule requiring specific preventive measures against the bacterium Salmonella Enteritidis contamination during ...

Blog Post - Hatice Cullingford - Jul 12 2009 - 6:53am

Evaluate Pitcher Shoulders In Spring Training And Reduce Injuries, Says Study

For a baseball pitcher, control is critical but shoulder strength remains vital to remaining healthy during a long season. A new study presented at the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine's (AOSSM) Annual Meeting in Keystone, Colorado, su ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 30 2010 - 8:52pm

Researchers Determine Clients Of Tijuana Prostitutes Engage In Risky Sexual Behavior

In an article that makes us want to review the "Studies you won't need to read" section,  UC  San Diego School of Medicine researchers examined HIV infection among male clients of female prostitutes- in Tijuana, of all places- and decided an ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 10 2009 - 1:00pm

Top 10 Diets Compared

You want to live healthier and probably look better; that's a good start.  Diet popularity can either be a sign that something works or an indication that people believe in crazy stuff.   Either way, it can't hurt to spend 5 minutes reading an a ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 17 2009 - 3:34pm