Public Health

Too lazy to exercise? In a world full of concern about global warming and estrogen in rivers and anti-vaccine hippies trying to bring back polio, science has some good news for a change; even if you are sedentary, a glass of red wine may offset some of th ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 1 2011 - 8:50am

Widely Obvious: Obesity Spreads Socially

Joanna Dolgoff covers new research on how obesity spreads through social contact over at Huffington Post. I'm sure this comes as a huge surprise to those of us who have watched our waistlines spread along with the waistlines of our friends. Well, a ...

Article - Kim Wombles - Jul 2 2011 - 7:44am

McDonald's Going Vegan? Not Just Yet

Progressive kooks in San Francisco want to ban Happy Meals but they can't have a beef with vegan burgers, right? Just down the road from 'Frisco, at Stanford, biochem professor (and founding co-director of PLoS- yayy, open access!) Pat Brown i ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jul 14 2011 - 4:40pm

Climbers With Multiple Sclerosis And Parkinson's Disease Conquer Mt Kilimanjaro

Today, seven men and women with Multiple Sclerosis (MS) and four with Parkinson's disease (PD), along with nine climbing companions, reached the highest peak in Africa- Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania stands at 19,340 feet, not only making it the high ...

Article - Newswire - Jul 18 2011 - 1:10pm

Drinking Liquor Without Getting Drunk- A General Perspective

Alcohol is a class of organic compounds with-OH (hydroxyl) group attached to the hydrocarbon chain. The hydrocarbon chain got its hydroxyl group through replacement of its hydrogen. Among the many alcohols in the class, ethyl alcohol or ethanol ...

Blog Post - Camilo Tabinas - Nov 12 2017 - 7:28am

Saxifraga moorcroftiana (Seringe) Wallich. ex. sternb. a medicinal plant of traditional medicine

Saxifraga moorcroftiana (Seringe) Wallich. ex. sternb. Family: Saxifragaceae Bhutanese medicinal name: Bri- ta- sa- zin Distribution area: Bhutan, Nepal to S.W. China. Alt. 3,600-4,500m. Alpine slopes; common, Aug.- Sept. Description: An erect perennial 10 ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Jul 26 2011 - 10:29am

Rosa the genus for Rose has some medicinal plants also

1. Rosa macrophylla Lindley. Family: Rosaceae Bhutanese medicinal name: Se-rgod. Common name: Taste metog Distribution Area: Temperate Himalaya, Bhutan, Sikkim, alt. 1,200-3,500m. In Bhutan found in Ha, Paro, Thimphu, Bumthang,Gasa and Mongar districts. De ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Jul 27 2011 - 4:34pm

Autism: It's In The Womb(?), But Genes Still Play A Large Role

Studies....So Many Studies... Lots of buzz over recent weeks on various studies concerning autism, genetics, and environment, along with the incidence of autism occurring in subsequent siblings. ...

Article - Kim Wombles - Aug 16 2011 - 9:36pm

Dumpster Diving For Longevity: Get Up Stand Up

Sitting for hours at your desk is bad for you, even fatal in the long run. Paul Knoepfler has recently again made me aware of this – read his Thinking on your feet: practical suggestions for creating and using a standing workstation. There is no point in ...

Article - Sascha Vongehr - Sep 27 2011 - 8:42pm

Rethinking Trans Fats; Natural Trans Fats From Dairy And Beef Are Good

Whenever a popular television health claim makes its way into the media, some skepticism is in order. A decade-long war on "trans fats", including outright bans in some areas, was not based on science or objective evidence. ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 7 2011 - 11:34am