Public Health

Vaping Helps Smokers Quit- Including People With Schizophrenia

Schizophrenia can cause hallucinations, delusions, trouble with thinking and other behaviors that impact daily functioning. Though it affects less than 1% of the public, 60% of schizophrenic smoke cigarettes, a known carcinogen and risk factor for numerous ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 16 2021 - 12:53pm

Like And Trust Your Doctor? It May Lead To More PSA Tests Even If The Government Wants Otherwise

Having a single primary care physician is statistically correlated to increased treatment adherence and decreased hospital admissions and mortality risk. A new paper finds it may also lead to costly unnecessary tests. Male patients who have a single genera ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 22 2021 - 1:54pm

UCSF Publishes Its Annual 'Science May Be Killing Us' Paper

Tracey Woodruff, PhD, MPH, of the University of California San Francisco, frequent collaborator of anti-vaccine activist and organic industry trade group head Gary Ruskin (US Right to Know) and sue-and-settle attorney Raphael Metzger, is back with a new pa ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Mar 24 2021 - 10:22am

US Urged To Loan From AstraZeneca Hoard As Health Workers Die In Africa & Assist Technology Transfer To Stop Pandemic Fast

The US has enough doses to vaccinate its entire population twice over and have enough left to fully vaccinate 1.3 billion people outside the USA by the end of 2021. It's not going to run out of doses. As most of you will know, Biden has committed now ...

Article - Robert Walker - Mar 28 2021 - 6:56am

WHO Say We Can Vaccinate Entire World Fast If Wealthier Countries Permit Transfer Of Technology To Weaker Economies

We have major bottlenecks with producing the vaccines, but the WHO say that it doesn't have to be like this. There are many companies that could have produced them if they had been authorized to do so. There are things we can do to ease the bottlenec ...

Article - Robert Walker - Apr 2 2021 - 10:30am

USA Can Easily Release 10 Million Unused Astrazeneca Doses To Protect Health Care Workers In Africa- Many Trained By Them

There are billions of vaccine doses coming along later this year. Biden says he will give excess doses to other countries, so the US is expected to be a huge donor later this year. Even if the US fully vaccinates everyone, adults and children, twice over, ...

Article - Robert Walker - Apr 2 2021 - 1:20pm

WHO Call For Rapid Transfer Of COVID Vaccine Technology To Weaker Economies To Solve Bottlenecks & Vaccinate World Ultrafast

We have major bottlenecks with producing the vaccines, but the WHO say that it doesn't have to be like this. We already have millions of extra doses of COVID today because of the early technology transfer by AstraZenecs at the end of last year. This ...

Article - Robert Walker - Apr 3 2021 - 8:21pm

Foliar Application Of Zinc Boosts Wheat Output

Micronutrient deficiencies pose health problems for a third of the world's population. Worldwide, zinc deficits are more problematic in the rural areas of developing countries, where diets are largely limited to vegetable products grown in soils suffe ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 10 2021 - 11:48pm

Young Women Seem Healthier Than Men, And If They Claim Heart Attack Symptoms That Delays Treatment

Men may be more reluctant to go to a doctor for chest pain but when they get to a care facility, a new analysis finds they get it quicker than women. In this look at the data, all of the patients were younger, from 18-55.  Compared with men, women were tri ...

Article - News Staff - May 6 2021 - 3:02pm

COVID-19 Is More Than Life And Death, Half Of Patients Left The Hospital Worse Off Than Before

In a recent study, scholars did a prospective review of charts of nearly 300 adult patients hospitalized for COVID-19 at Michigan Medicine during the pandemic's first wave between March and April 2020. They analyzed discharge locations, therapy needs ...

Article - News Staff - May 25 2021 - 12:57pm