Public Health

The Vicious Cycle Of Fructose

Put down that honey. Fructose, often in the form of table sugar, is not less harmful than glucose, according to Wilhelm Krek, professor for cell biology at ETH Zurich's Institute for Molecular Health Sciences.  ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 18 2015 - 5:06am

MRSA Superbug Contamination Found In UK Sausages And Minced Pork

A survey carried out earlier this year has found the first evidence of the 'superbug' bacteria Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in sausages and minced pork obtained from supermarkets in the UK.  In February, a team of researche ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 22 2015 - 6:37am

Including 'Experimenters' In E-Cigarette Studies Have 'Questionable' Value

The inclusion of experimenters who are unlikely to become habitual users in e-cigarette prevalence studies is of 'questionable' value for monitoring population public health trends, finds research published online in the journal Tobacco Control. ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 24 2015 - 10:30am

Heartbeat Linked To Female Libido

Sexual dysfunction in women can be linked to low resting heart rate variability, a finding that could help clinicians treat the condition, according to a study by psychologists from The University of Texas at Austin. Heart rate variability (HRV)-- the var ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 24 2015 - 11:21am

Normal Regulation of Human Body Weight

Let us start with nothing. A naive human has come to stay in your home. Perhaps it's a Tarzan type of character, just arrived from the wild, or, if you like a modern twist, it's a government agent who has been hit over the head and can't ev ...

Blog Post - Ignatius Brady - Oct 22 2015 - 8:41pm

Access To Electricity- And Artificial Light- Is Linked To Reduced Sleep

We can blame smartphone alerts, constant connectivity and a deluge of media for sleep deprivation but that is talking about the symptoms rather than the disease. The root cause is instead the thing that has led to cultural and social improvements for over ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 29 2015 - 7:57am

Advocates Insist Marijuana Is Safe, Teenagers Are More Skeptical

Teenagers are very familiar with the risks of smoking cigarettes but thanks to misinformation campaigns by advocates regarding marijuana, and campaigns against the poorly-named "e-cigarettes" by pharmaceutical companies selling competing smoking ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 25 2015 - 10:31am

Metabolic Adaptations to Weight Loss

In 1984, I was a Freshman in high school and much more interested in making the soccer team, getting kicked out of my honors classes and that girl sitting over there, than I was into the medical literature of the day. Which would explain why I missed an ar ...

Blog Post - Ignatius Brady - Oct 22 2015 - 8:45pm

Viagra Does Something, But It Does Not Cause Melanoma

A rigorous analysis of more than 20,000 medical records concludes that erectile dysfunction drugs, such as Viagra, are not a cause of melanoma, an often deadly form of skin cancer, despite the higher risk for the disease among users of these drugs.  The a ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 23 2015 - 2:59pm

An Organic Cause For Gastrointestinal Disorders

It's not a surprise that doctors may believe people obsessed with food- be they nocebos or migrating from fad to fad- have a psychological condition rather than a gastrointestinal one. The gluten obsession, where 75 percent of people without celiac di ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 24 2015 - 9:30am