Public Health

Public Smoking Bans Popular, Effective- Study

a new review published in the April issue of The Cochrane Library suggests that restrictions on smoking in public reduce secondhand smoke exposure, heart attacks, and improve a number health indicators. Researchers searched for studies of situations where ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 14 2010 - 10:57am

Rocket Science: Involved Parents Reduce Teen Smoking

New research conducted by Cardiff University scientists suggests that good parenting is still the best way to prevent teenage smoking. The three-year-study of 3,500 11 to 15 year-olds found that children whose fathers regularly talk with them about 't ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 15 2010 - 10:57am

Future Doctors Don't Like Fat People

The next generation of doctors and other health professionals does not like fat people. In fact, they like fat people even less than the rest of the population, according to a study published in Obesity. Scientists at the Universities of Manchester and Haw ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 16 2010 - 10:56am

Researchers Call For Ban On Trans Fats

A new British Medical Journal editorial claims that banning trans fats would protect the public and save lives by preventing thousands of heart attacks and deaths every year. The policy recommendation follows calls by public health specialists to eliminate ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 16 2010 - 12:56pm

Dissolvable Nicotine Could Poison Our Innocent Children

In 2009, the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company launched a dissolvable nicotine product called Camel Orbs. The mint look-a-likes are intended as a temporary form of nicotine for smokers in settings where smoking is banned, but a team of overzealous health mulla ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 19 2010 - 5:26pm

Eradicating Disease A Waste Of Time?

Attempting to eradicate disease is not a good use of public health dollars, say researchers writing in Proceedings of The Royal Society B. Instead, the emphasis should be placed on reducing the prevalence of diseases in areas most affected by them. What� ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 19 2010 - 1:54pm

Diabetes Drug Could Help Smokers Avoid Lung Cancer

A common treatment for patients with type 2 diabetes could one day help smokers avoid lung cancer, say scientists at the National Cancer Institute. Metformin decreases levels of insulin-like growth factor-1 (IGF-1) and circulating insulin, which is importa ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 19 2010 - 4:27pm

Kids Take Too Many Psychotropic Drugs; Blame Big Pharma

In the last two decades there has been a dramatic rise in the use of psychotropic medications to treat children. One in every fifty Americans is now considered permanently disabled by mental illness, and up to eight million children take one or more psycho ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 20 2010 - 10:49am

Weight Loss Boosts The Immune System, Study Finds

Modest weight loss appears to reverse many of the damaging changes often seen in the immune cells of obese people, particularly those with Type 2 diabetes, according to a new research. The recent study, published in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology Me ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 20 2010 - 12:59pm

U.S. Sugar Consumption On The Rise

Daily consumption of added sugars in the U.S. averages 3.2 ounces (15.8 percent of daily caloric intake) and has increased substantially since 1977-1978, when added sugars contributed only 10.6 percent of the calories consumed by adults, according to a new ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 20 2010 - 5:50pm