Public Health

Arsenic: Kids Shouldn't Have Rice Drinks At All, Say Gastroenterologists

If your baby is allergic to milk, your choices might get a little more narrow, if the European Society for Paediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition (ESPGHAN) and the North American Society for Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrit ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 15 2014 - 1:18pm

Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms: Who Needs Screening And Treatment

An abdominal aortic aneurysm is a potentially life-threatening condition: If the body's major blood vessel ruptures, it can prove deadly. Abdominal aortic aneurysms are a bulge in the aorta, which is the body's largest artery and is located in t ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 16 2014 - 1:01pm

More Antioxidants. Less Filling.

Last Friday a group of researchers announced their findings ahead of their report on the nutrition of organically produced food to be published in the British Journal of Nutrition. ...

Blog Post - Norm Benson - Jul 17 2014 - 8:46am

Probiotics Linked To Diminished Fat Accumulation In The Liver- Study

Spanish scientists did an experiment using obese rats and found that the consumption of probiotics over 30 days (equivalent to almost four years in human terms) helped diminish the accumulation of fat in the liver. ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 18 2014 - 10:30am

Utilizing Fat's Healing Properties In Heart Disease

Too much dietary fat is bad for the heart, everyone knows that by now, but not all fats are equal. The right kind of fat keeps the heart healthy, and a paper in The Journal of Experimental Medicine shows how it works. Unlike saturated fats discussed in po ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 21 2014 - 1:00pm

Probiotics Linked To Improved Blood Pressure- Review

Eating probiotics regularly may modestly improve your blood pressure, according to a new review of none studies examining blood pressure and probiotic consumption in 543 adults with normal and elevated blood pressure. Probiotics are live microorganisms na ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 22 2014 - 1:30am

Secondhand Trauma in Childhood Doubles Addiction Risk for Adults

We know the effects of childhood traumas like abuse and neglect on later substance abuse. But what impact does second hand trauma have? A study published in the August issue of the journal Addiction shows that when a child under age 15 is exposed to a fam ...

Blog Post - Richard Taite - Jul 22 2014 - 8:56am

How To Distinguish Psoriasis From Eczema

In some patients, the chronic inflammatory skin diseases psoriasis and eczema are so similar that dermatologists have had to examine tissue samples but a team of researchers at the Helmholtz Zentrum München and the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 27 2014 - 12:30pm

1 In 3,000 Blood Donors In England Has Hepatitis E

The first systematic analysis of hepatitis E virus (HEV) transmission by blood components indicates that about 1 in 3,000 donors in England have HEV in their plasma. The findings suggest that around 1,200 HEV-containing blood components (eg, red cells, pl ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 28 2014 - 10:36am

Running Was Never As Great As Once Claimed, But Not As Bad As Now Said Either

Running was once a big health fad. Like red wine and chocolate on the miracle side, or wheat and sugar on the panic side, mainstream media is happy to build up fads so they can tear them down later. Modern stories revolve around people dropping dead from ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 30 2014 - 11:20am