Public Health

High-Rise Apartments, Lower Survival Rates From Cardiac Arrest

Urban dwellers may think urban living is better than rural life, and penthouse dwellers may believe living at the top of the city is better than living in a townhouse, but a new study found that survival rates from cardiac arrest decrease the higher up th ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 19 2016 - 8:23am

Transplant Centers Often Reject Potential Donor Livers For Sickest Patients In Need

Some patients are in desperate need of a liver transplant, so why do many livers go unused by centers across the nation? Patients on the liver transplant wait list are ranked according to their Model for End-Stage Liver Disease (MELD) score, an objective ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 28 2016 - 8:39am

Here's How To Avoid The Gout, Ebenezer

Historically called the disease of kings, gout was common among wealthy gents who could afford to eat and drink to excess. These days it doesn’t just affect the rich: rates of gout have been increasing globally since the 1960s. It now affects around 70,00 ...

Article - The Conversation - Feb 1 2016 - 7:28am

Evidence-Based Medicine: You May Want It, But You Might Not Be Getting It

Unless you are seeing a homeopath, or a naturopath or anything else that ends in "path", you probably believe your treatment is evidence-based.  That may not be true. Hospitals are not under even more pressure to contain costs, but they may need ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 2 2016 - 8:00am

Stop Using BMI To Determine Health

When it comes to health and nutrition, academia goes through fads, they make their way to government panels, and then popular culture is stuck with them. ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 4 2016 - 8:01am

Smoking Rate Declines In Chinese Male Teens

Though smoking has declined dramatically in America, it is still quite high in Asia. Yet there is hope, in that younger Chinese teenage boys are less likely to start smoking than those in previous generations. The trend is significant because nearly one t ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 10 2016 - 11:01am

Going...going...Obama's "Clean Power Plan" Unlikely to See the Light of Day

In an unprecedented decision, the U.S. Supreme Court has sort-of overruled a lower Circuit Court's decision to allow the "Clean Power Plan" to proceed pending final adjudication. The Supreme Court had never before granted a request to halt ...

Blog Post - Gil Ross - Feb 10 2016 - 1:12pm

Put That In Your E-Cigarette And Vape It: Or Should You?

Smoking cigarettes dramatically increases a person's risk for a host of diseases. The nicotines is addiction but it's the hundred other chemicals in cigarette smoke that are toxic.  Because e-cigarettes are simply diluted nicotine vapor, no ciga ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 12 2016 - 9:23am

Life Extension Is Kinda...Dumb

The cover of Time magazine 3/2/15 features an Anglo baby (so remarkably cute one wonders whether he isn't a computer generated composite of everything we like about babies) with the statement (not question, statement) THIS BABY COULD LIVE TO BE 142 Y ...

Article - Ignatius Brady - Feb 16 2016 - 12:24pm

Fibromyalgia And Acupuncture

Nine weekly sessions of acupuncture lessen perceived pain intensity, and improve functional capacity and quality of life, in people diagnosed with the blanket pain condition called fibromyalgia. Fibromyalgia diagnoses are based on claims of chronic widesp ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 16 2016 - 7:01am