Public Health

Metabolism And Explaining Healthy Obesity

25 percent of people who look obese are metabolically healthy and don't have a high risk of developing type 2 diabetes, even though obesity is a major risk factor for diabetes. A study finds a possible explanation, revealing that high levels of a mol ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 4 2014 - 6:00am

Production-Line Hypothesis Ruled Out As Cause Of Miscarriages, Birth Defects

46 years ago, an idea was introduced that the first eggs produced in a female's fetal stage tend to have better connections or "crossovers" between chromosomes and that, as the woman ages and ovulates eggs produced later, her eggs will have ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 5 2014 - 12:05pm

Bone Marrow Fat Helps The Body Stay Healthy

You know why soup tastes good- and your dogs love it too. It's bone marrow fat. Now it may be healthier to eat delicious. A study has found that the fat tissue in bone marrow is a significant source of the hormone adiponectin, which helps maintain in ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 3 2014 - 12:59pm

Count Macronutrients, Not Calories: For Weight Loss, High-protein Works

Though strange fads like the blood type diet, going gluten-free or going vegetarian are clearly gimmicks, when your body is in a rut, it helps to change it up a little. Just like exercise, if you do the same workout every day, its effectiveness will drop- ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 4 2014 - 12:30am

Drink Your Nanojuice And Let's Shine A Laser In Your Gut

The small intestine is not easy to examine. X-rays, MRIs and ultrasound images provide snapshots but each suffers limitations.   The average human small intestine is roughly 23 feet long and 1 inch thick. Sandwiched between the stomach and large intestine ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 6 2014 - 1:08pm

Does Food Addiction Really Exist?

When people use heroin, their brains become physiologically dependent on the drug and the behavioral patterns of use become written alongside this need. That’s addiction: both behaviorally and biologically, heroin addicts need the drug. When they don’t ge ...

Blog Post - Richard Taite - Jul 10 2014 - 2:34pm

How Do We Keep So Many Preterm Babies Alive? Volume, Volume, Volume

In modern times, an otherwise healthy pre-term baby has a very strong chance of survival. And that survival chance goes way up in high-volume neonatal units; a counter-intuitive finding for people who think that slower dedicated health care is the way to ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 7 2014 - 11:00pm

Wet Wraps Cut Need For Drugs In Kids With Eczema

The number of children with atopic dermatitis- eczema, a painful, itchy skin condition- is on the rise. Some estimates are that one in five children in the U.S. now suffers from it and many children are prescribed powerful medications like immunosuppressa ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 8 2014 - 11:31am

Extreme Obesity Shortens Life Expectancy Up To 14 Years

Adults with extreme obesity have increased risks of dying at from cancer, heart disease, stroke, diabetes, and kidney and liver diseases, according to results of an analysis of data pooled from 20 large studies of people from three countries. The analysis ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 9 2014 - 5:30am

Smallpox In A Big Box With No Locks

You have to admire the consistency of our government, especially when it comes to protecting us. While the TSA is strip-searching 95-year old women in wheelchairs, a janitor tripped over a box of smallpox samples that someone left in an old Budweiser coole ...

Article - Josh Bloom - Jul 10 2014 - 1:54pm