Public Health

Fat But Fit: One-Third Of Obese Kids Still 'Metabolically Healthy'

Obesity isn't always presenting an accurate picture of health. BMI is a nice metric for television shows but in reality, simplistic notions of height, weight and circumference are only a guideline when it comes to predicting health. A lack of physica ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 20 2014 - 5:02pm

Aerobic Capacity And Muscular Physiology Are Why Some Remain Thin

The muscles of the inherently thin may give them an edge, according to a new paper by Chaitanya K. Gavini et al., who previously found that aerobic capacity is a major predictor of daily physical activity level in laboratory animals. In their new study, t ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 20 2014 - 4:45pm

Bill would tighten Canada’s Food and Drug Act, but holes remain

Canada’s Parliament will debate a bill next week that could add significant new powers to regulate the sale and recall of drugs in the country. ...

Blog Post - Brandon T. Bisceglia - Mar 23 2014 - 4:32pm

Why I Will Never Take Statins Again

News media in the United Kingdom and United States have fallen in love with statins all over again.  According to media reports, a recent study by British researchers into 29 clinical trials for statin drugs allegedly concluded that except for an elevated ...

Blog Post - Michael Martinez - Jun 22 2014 - 8:16pm

Your Blood Pressure May Be Up Because You're At The Doctor

Doctors make people nervous. Most people don't go unless something is wrong so they are already anxious. Thus, it is no surprise d octors routinely record blood pressure levels that are significantly higher than levels recorded by nurses, according t ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 25 2014 - 10:09pm

Weekend Science: Is It Safe To Pee In The Pool?

Health officials say that holding in your urine when you really have to go can be harmful. But every public pool has signs that prohibit peeing in the pool. Yet a lot of Olympic swimmers admit to doing it anyway and if you are visiting a public water park ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 26 2014 - 10:23am

Heart Attack Deaths In Decline, Southerners, Midwesterners Still Impacted Most

Heart attack death has declined across all regions of the United States but it remains proportionately higher in the South, according to a paperat the American College of Cardiology's 63rd Annual Scientific Session. ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 27 2014 - 9:36am

Acupuncture May Be As Good As Antidepressant For Depression Symptoms

Medicine stopped being symptom-based over 50 years ago but psychology still uses it. Little is known about why or how the brain works the way it does, much less personality variation, so if a psychological therapy works, it works. ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 27 2014 - 9:54am

Ban Second-Hand Smoking And Premature Births, Birth Defects Will Be Reduced

Only about 1/6th of the world bans smoking and a new paper in The Lancet seeks to increase that, and implied causality is the way to do it. Implied causality is fine, of course. No one knew smoking was bad until there was implied causality and then real c ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 29 2014 - 3:35pm

Erectile Dysfunction Can Be Reversed Without Medication- Or Cheating On Your Wife

Thanks to a constant stream of commercials advertising pharmaceuticals, men know that if they are not spending enough time sitting in a bathtub in the forest, a pill can cure that. Apparently it works for erectile dysfunction also. But that last part may ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 28 2014 - 11:55am