Public Health

Women Exercise Less Than Men- Study

Females of all ages are less active than their male peers according to two studies presented today which reveal the gender difference in activity levels among school children and the over 70s. Both studies show males to be more physically active than femal ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 5 2009 - 11:11pm

Not for men only! What's Your Beauty Policy?

  A new book, "Poisoned Profits: The Toxic Assault on Our Children" by Philip and Alice Shabecoff is praised for its competent journalism in January 5, 2009 issue of Chemical and Engineering News. The review article, Protecting Children From Tox ...

Blog Post - Hatice Cullingford - Jan 6 2009 - 6:57pm

Exercise Not Key To Stopping Obesity, Say Researchers

For a long time, we have been told that exercise is key to weight loss.   If you don't have time to exercise, or can't, your excuse is built in.    Not so, says a recent international study.  It comes down to knowing how many calories your body n ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 6 2009 - 5:58pm

Ensuring Evidence-based Personalized Medicine

The National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), the branch of the NIH which funds the majority of academic genome research in the US, is trying to lay out its next big road map, and personalized medicine looms large. The NHGRI wants to use its hefty ...

Blog Post - Michael White - Jan 6 2009 - 1:53pm

Link Between Dust Mites And Allergens Revealed

Today the world faces countless obstacles and afflictions; AIDS, cancer, heart disease and Alzheimer’s are a few of the widespread conditions that significantly affect the global population. But what about less serious diseases?  In the US, most of us can ...

Article - Erin Richards - Jan 8 2009 - 12:21pm

Scary Record- Mount Everest Climbers Achieve Lowest Human Blood Oxygen Levels

The lowest ever levels of oxygen in humans have been reported in climbers on an expedition led by UCL (University College London) doctors. The world-first measurements of blood oxygen levels in climbers near the top of Mount Everest, published in this week ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 8 2009 - 2:44am

Figuring Out The Mystery Of America's 'Stroke Belt'

Southerners die from stroke more than in any other U.S. region, but exactly why that happens is unknown. A new report by researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) and the University of Vermont underscores that geographic and racial diffe ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 8 2009 - 11:56pm

Sex, The Mosquito And Dengue Fever

Dengue fever is a nasty disease found all over the tropics, with names like break-bone fever referring to the severity of the pain it causes.  It is carried mostly by the mosquito Aedes aegypti, but also by related species.  I have just read three reports ...

Article - Robert H Olley - Jan 17 2009 - 2:24am

Paleo vs. Neo Carbs (not Cons)

Dr. Lam has a post on the link between sugar and all the ills of humanity. While I’m certainly for a low sugar diet (and the proscriptions in the post are largely fine), he brings up some points that are just plain weird. In particular, he quotes (favorab ...

Blog Post - Nicholas Horton - Jan 10 2009 - 9:45pm

Less Sleep, More Colds, Says Study

Individuals who get less than seven hours of sleep per night appear about three times as likely to develop respiratory illness following exposure to a cold virus as those who sleep eight hours or more, according to a report in the January 12 issue of Archi ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 12 2009 - 10:30pm