Public Health

Alcohol Deaths Higher For UK Immigrants In England And Wales

If you're Scottish- or Irish-born, you are twice as likely as natives to die an alcohol-related death if you move to England or Wales; surprising because most people assume if they die in Wales it will be from a beer bottle smashed over their head at ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 19 2009 - 9:00am

Even Future Firemen Will Be Obese, Says Study

Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM), Boston Medical Center, Harvard University and the Cambridge Health Alliance found that more than 75 percent of emergency responder candidates for fire and ambulance services in Massachusetts are ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 19 2009 - 11:16am

Your Next High Blood Pressure Medication- Garden Peas?

Researchers in Canada are reporting that proteins found in a common garden pea show promise as a natural food additive or new dietary supplement for fighting high blood pressure and chronic kidney disease (CKD). Those potentially life-threatening condition ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 22 2009 - 1:35pm

Analysis Of Windmill Pitching Shows Risk Of Injury To Biceps

Contrary to common belief, softball pitching subjects the biceps to high forces and torques when the player's arm swings around to release the ball, according to an analysis of muscle firing patterns conducted at Rush University Medical Center. Publis ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 5 2009 - 10:39pm

Reassessing Circumcision- It Should Be Routine Medical Advice, Says Study

New data from Ugandan scientists and investigators at Johns Hopkins University find that adult male circumcision decreased rates of the two most common sexually transmitted infections – herpes and the human papillomavirus (HPV), the virus that causes cervi ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 25 2009 - 9:02pm

Morbidly Obese Sedentary For 99 Percent Of The Day

A new study appearing in Clinical Cardiology examines the average fitness level of the morbidly obese (body mass indexes between 40.0 and 49.9). The findings show that the tested population was sedentary for more than 99 percent of the day and, on average, ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 26 2009 - 6:24am

Going Under The Knife To Treat Diabetes

As more research is conducted on the development and spread of pandemic type II diabetes, there is more evidence than ever that diabetes is intricately linked to obesity, which is spreading in the US at an alarming rate. To combat the struggle of managing ...

Article - Erin Richards - Mar 30 2009 - 11:31pm

Sports Drinks Linked To Tooth Erosion

While sipping on sports drinks all day may provide an energy boost, this popular practice is also exposing people to levels of acid that can cause tooth erosion and hypersensitivity, NYU dental researchers have found. In a recent study, the researchers fou ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 3 2009 - 3:21pm

Your Stress May Be Giving Your Kids Cavities

Does the stress of being a parent lead to decay in children's teeth? A team of scientists from The Ohio State University has examined the stress levels of parents whose young children either had no cavities or so many cavities that the children had re ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 4 2009 - 9:19am

MacGyver- The Parasite Edition (And Without The Mullet)

It’s the same story over and over: he enters a new environment, wastes it, and grabs what he needs from his surroundings to make a clever escape. But this time there’s less mullet and more microscope. Parasites like Plasmodium hijack your own enzymes to le ...

Article - Stephanie Pulford - Apr 6 2009 - 8:47pm