Public Health

Holistic approach to cure Ailments

In today's world, with the advent of Science and Technology, we have unraveled a myriad of mysteries that were hidden from the human eye for centuries. Typically, a reductionist approach is taken by scientists to understand the processes as a whole. A ...

Blog Post - Anirudha Lakshmin... - Sep 29 2022 - 8:41am

Atrial Fibrillation: Skip Drugs And Go Right To Cryoablation?

A new study says early intervention with cryoballoon catheter ablation (cryoablation) can halt disease progression and reduce risk of serious health impacts of atrial fibrillation(AF). ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 15 2022 - 10:13am

Top 20 Worst Foods I Intend To Enjoy In 2013

Don't have room in your stomach for 36 eggs but you really want those equivalent calories in one delicious treat?  Head to The Cheesecake Factory with me and get their  French Toast Napoleon, which is basically bread dunked in cream and powdered sugar ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Nov 18 2022 - 2:00pm

The Calorie Is Broken- And That's Why Dieting Doesn't Always Work

Bo Nash is 38. He lives in Arlington, Texas, where he’s a technology director for a textbook publisher. He has a wife and child. And he’s 5’10” and 245 lbs – which means he is classed as obese. In an effort to lose weight, Nash uses an app to record the ca ...

Article - Mosaic Science - Nov 18 2022 - 2:19pm

Could High Quality Masks Solve China's COVID Problems? Idea For A Randomized Control Trial Of Masks In Households To Find Out

This is a suggestion for a way to resolve questions such as: How effective are the best FFP3 / N99 masks at breaking transmission of COVID? However effective is eye protection when combined with the best masks? How effective is ventilation with HEPA filte ...

Article - Robert Walker - Dec 29 2022 - 6:24am

EU COST Action Hopes To Replace Impossible Standards With Risk-Based Meat Inspection

Vegetables have had a lot of foodborne outbreak scandals, but two times since the 1980s they have also impacted meat in a big way.  Mad Cow disease in 1986 and Listeria in 2019 killed people. Mad Cow disease was due to poor quality control and a lack of co ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jan 4 2023 - 11:12am

Marijuana Causes 1800% Surge In Emergency Room Visits

Legal marijuana has meant a boost for government accountants, and ended the need for fake "medical" marijuana claims, but it is often still dangerous in both the short and long term. ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 16 2023 - 2:48pm

Epidemiologist Claims Bacon Causes Type 2 Diabetes

Do you believe bacon causes diabetes? Cancer? If not, you may be an apostate in 2023, when we've just exited a period during which any skepticism of epidemiology(1) is met with the 2020s equivalent of 'Do you even Science, Bro?' There is jus ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jan 23 2023 - 10:37am

Assessing SIDS Risk: Siblings Of Kids Who Died Are 4X Higher Risk

Sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) is a diagnosis of exclusion, a general term for death during the first year of life that lacks an obvious cause. Though it is a leading cause of death, its etiology is complex and remains largely unknown so assumptions a ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 25 2023 - 1:57pm

Reducing HIV In Blood Donations: FDA Pivots To Risk-Based Questions

Reducing the risk of transfusion-transmitted HIV from blood donations is important for public health and the U.S. currently uses time-based deferrals to assess donor eligibility. Now the FDA is proposing individual risk-based questions to reduce the risk o ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 27 2023 - 9:40am