Public Health

Glaring Deficiencies In Berg Et Al. Paper Linking Pesticides To Heart Disease

Google News was awash in suggestive headlines last week following the publication of a new paper purporting to show a link between occupational pesticide exposure and increased cardiovascular disease risk. ...

Article - Geoffrey Kabat - Oct 3 2019 - 6:00am

'Safer Than Cigarettes'- Snus Gets The First Modified Risk Tobacco Product Designation Ever From FDA

Snus, a smokeless tobacco popular in Sweden, has led to a dramatic reduction in smoking-related diseases compared to the rest of Europe. But though it has been legal for sale in the U.S. since 2015, it was not legal to claim it is less harmful than cigaret ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 22 2019 - 10:41am

Chronic Kidney Disease And Hypertension: Twin Challenges For 21st Century Europe

The European Kidney Health Alliance (EKHA) and World Kidney Day (WKD) organisations today call for action at EU level to support early awareness, identification and treatment of CKD and its associated diseases such as cardiovascular disease (CVD), hyperte ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Nov 4 2019 - 11:18am

Chronic Kidney Disease And Diabetes- Major Risk Factors Amongst Europe's Population

The European Kidney Health Alliance (EKHA) and World Kidney Day (WKD) organisations today call for European Union (EU) support. Early awareness, identification and treatment of chronic kidney disease (CKD) and its associated diseases, including diabetes- ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Nov 4 2019 - 11:22am

Prenatal Air Pollution Exposure Makes Children Stupid

It's well known that serious air pollution can cause of all kinds of nasty health problems- headaches, nausea, allergic reactions, chronic respiratory disease, lung cancer and heart disease counted among them. But according to new statistical correlat ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 4 2019 - 6:33pm

In Developed Countries, Nutritional Supplements Are Often An Expensive Placebo; Not So In The Rest Of The World

Though activists oppose Golden Rice, essentially a vitamin-fortified food staple, on ideological and economic grounds, Vitamin A deficiency affects hundreds of thousands of kids each year, and a progressive tool that feeds people and prevents disease is we ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 13 2019 - 12:42pm

Prohibition 100 Years Later: Why The US Is An Outlier On Vaping And What We Can Learn From Alcohol

It's no secret to anyone with even modest command of history that America has long meant freedom. Every oppressed religion moved here, to the one country that did not have a national religion, separating it from the Anglican Church (imagine if the Pre ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Nov 24 2019 - 1:00am

Your Local Hospital Is Much More Dangerous Than It Could Be

In late November 1999, a TV producer called me about an alarming report that 44,000 to 98,000 Americans were being killed each year by preventable errors in hospitals and another 1 million were being injured. Could that be true? Based on my research, I re ...

Article - The Conversation - Nov 29 2019 - 5:01am

When Is A High Protein Diet Valuable?

In December, people begin to think about the new year, and that means resolutions to lose weight. Exercising is a lot of work and feeling hungry much of the time is not desirable so many will instead opt for diet plans. One popular diet is the Atkin's ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Dec 5 2019 - 5:30am

War On Fun: Rutgers Shows Us All How To Scaremonger Halloween

Rutgers University wants kids to be afraid this year. Not of ghosts and goblins, but Halloween itself. So they have published 7 hyperbolic risks designed to terrify parents. Allergies! Marijuana brownies! Makeup! Getting advice from a poison control center ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Dec 6 2019 - 12:23pm