Public Health

You Can't Run It Off

Picture this: an anxious patient sits in the doctor's exam room. He has handed his health questionnaire to the receptionist detailing his diabetes, cholesterol problems, and hypertension. The nurse has checked his height and weight and recorded the nu ...

Article - Ignatius Brady - Oct 27 2015 - 10:54pm

When All You've Got Is A Mammogram, Everything Looks Like A Breast

Last week, the American Cancer Society changed its recommendations for normal-risk women regarding screening mammograms: they took a middle road between their prior advisories and those of the United States Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF): ACS no ...

Blog Post - Gil Ross - Nov 2 2015 - 10:57am

Greater Support Needed For Pregnant Transgender People

Many transgender people who want to bear children are faced with barriers in the healthcare system, argue Juno Obedin-Maliver and Harvey Makadon in a commentary published in SAGE journal Obstetric Medicine. ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 29 2015 - 11:45am

Do The Walking Dead Floss Between Meals?

One just has to be able to accept certain scientific liberties to be a fan (addict?) of The Walking Dead. It is well worth it, since it's the most entertaining hour on television. For example, I always wondered why the characters are routinely covered ...

Article - Josh Bloom - Oct 30 2015 - 5:58pm

'Everything In Moderation' Advice Is As Flawed As Low-Fat And Sugar-Free

Diet diversity may be linked to lower diet quality and worse metabolic health, according to survey data from 6,814 participants in the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis, a study of whites, blacks, Hispanic-Americans and Chinese-Americans in the United ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 1 2015 - 8:31am

Sugar – The Food Nobody Needs, But Everyone Craves

It seems as though no other substance occupies so much of the world’s land, for so little benefit to humanity, as sugar. According to the latest data, sugarcane is the world’s third most valuable crop after cereals and rice, and occupies 26,942,686 hectar ...

Article - The Conversation - Nov 1 2015 - 10:08am

Is There Evidence For The Vitamin D Supplementation Fad?

Products like milk have been fortified with Vitamin D for decades because of its importance in uptake of calcium in the bones, along with other cellular and immune processes. The body creates vitamin D in the form of cholecalciferol within the skin itself ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 3 2015 - 11:36am

Does Defensive Medicine Even Work?

Higher-spending physicians face fewer malpractice claims, and it is believed the reason is because they run a lot of tests to cover every possibility- all to keep lawyers at bay in case anything at all goes wrong for the patient. Nearly three-quarters of ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 5 2015 - 7:34am

Milk: Good For You Or Not?

Decades of public health messages have encouraged us to drink milk to strengthen our bones and reduce the risk of fractures as we age. But dairy products have recently come under fire – and not just from paleo dieters and animal welfare supporters. Resear ...

Article - The Conversation - Feb 25 2019 - 10:55am

Kids With Asthma: Avoid The ER By Avoiding The ER

Asthma has become the most common chronic disease in children, and that plus a corresponding increase in modern helicoptering parenting one of the reasons there are so many emergency department visits for asthma in the US. A new study presented at the Ame ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 5 2015 - 6:18am