Public Health

Triclosan In Utero May Disrupt Growth Of Boys, But BPA Doesn't

A team of epidemiologists have written a study indicating that exposure to certain phenols during pregnancy, especially parabens and triclosan, may disrupt growth of boys during fetal growth and the first years of life. Triclosan is on store shelves and i ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 4 2014 - 8:43am

WHO Is Misleading On E-Cigarettes, Say Experts

A recently published World Health Organization (WHO)-commissioned review of evidence on e-cigarettes contains serious errors, misinterpretations and misrepresentations, which may lead to policy-makers and the public not understanding the potential public ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 4 2014 - 7:17pm

Herbals, Dietary Supplements Linked To Liver Injury

Supplements are more likely than medications to lead to death or liver transplantation, according to a new paper in  Hepatology. The new research shows that liver injury caused by herbals and dietary supplements increased from 7% to 20% in the study group ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 4 2014 - 11:04pm

Vampires Are Right: Fresh Blood Is Better

Blood may look like blood but it doesn't always behave like blood.  The longer blood is stored, the less it can carry oxygen into the tiny microcapillaries of the body, says a new study that used optical techniques to measure the stiffness of the mem ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 6 2014 - 10:04pm

Unsurprisingly, Mandatory Flu Vaccines Boost Flu Vaccines

Hospitals can greatly improve their flu vaccination rate among health care workers by forcing employees to get them, finds the Henry Ford Health System where they did just that. Citing its own data, Henry Ford researchers say the health system achieved em ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 7 2014 - 9:59am

Occupational Asthma In France Caused By...Flour

Wheat is the latest fad diet victim and a new study presented at the European Respiratory Society's International Congress adds to its villainy. It says flour is worse for occupational asthma in French workers than toxic chemicals. The scholars analy ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 7 2014 - 10:08am

Babies Who Sleep On Animal Fur Less Likely To Develop Asthma

The hygiene hypothesis and its cousins, like that rural settings make children microbiologically stronger, now has a study that vegetarian activists are not going to like: sleeping on animal fur in the first three months of life has been linked to reduced ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 7 2014 - 5:57pm

Central Line Infections And Ventilator Pneumonias Decline In Neonatal Units

Hospitals across the country have seen sharp declines in rates of central line-associated blood stream infections (CLABSIs) and ventilator-associated pneumonias (VAPs) among critically ill neonates and children, according to a new study which analyzed inc ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 10 2014 - 7:00am

Sodium Scare: Salt Influence On Blood Pressure Statistically Insignificant

Though the American government now wants to control intake, another study has affirmed that claims of a link between table salt and hypertension were always on shaky ground. A new paper in the American Journal of Hypertension instead finds that increased ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 8 2014 - 6:04pm

Prediabetes Linked To 15 Percent Greater Risk Of Cancer

Though nearly every medical body and the United Nations would rather that epidemiologists stop talking about "pre-diabetes", concerns are still there. Governments are worried that working up the public about pre-diabetes will increase patient co ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 8 2014 - 7:00pm