Public Health

Limitations Of Cross-Sectional Epidemiology Studies And What That Means For Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals

Although I’m a trained and credentialed epidemiologist, and an ardent supporter of the professional discipline as a foundational science that underlies legitimate public health efforts, several of my past blogs (Bond 2016 and Bond 2017) have remarked on t ...

Article - Gregory Bond - Dec 9 2019 - 11:21am

How Injuries Related To Cell Phone Use Changed Over 20 Years

A cross-sectional study has found that head and neck injuries related to cell phone use increased steadily over a recent 20-year period. But that may not be meaningful in a relative risk way. The sample was just over 2,500 cases from 1998 through 2017. Med ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Dec 9 2019 - 2:00pm

Would You Change The Way You Wee To Save The World?

The critical links between water, sanitation, and our global consumption of energy – the “ energy-water nexus ” are more obvious than ever before. But how many of us will take direct action at the most basic level of all? It turns out that the way we use ...

Article - The Conversation - Dec 12 2019 - 8:10am

Operation Vapor Lock: DEA Cracks Down On 44 Websites Advertising Illicit THC Vaping Cartridges

The CDC has updated its fatality and illness list due to illicit marijuana vaping. Now there have been 54 deaths and 2,506 hospitalizations. The culprit is Vitamin E acetate, needed to make marijuana tetrahydrocannabinol (THC)products into a vapor because, ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 20 2019 - 12:55pm

Diet Influences Sperm Motility After Two Weeks- Especially High Sugar

Sperm quality can be reduced by several lifestyle factors, like obesity and related diseases such as type 2 diabetes, but a new examination of epigenetic phenomena- gene expression changing even if the DNA sequence is not changed-  finds that even diet can ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 27 2019 - 11:33am

Study Says Transcendental Meditation Reduces Congestive Heart Failure

A meditation technique promoted by the controversial Maharishi organization of Iowa claims significant decreases the severity of congestive heart failure in a small pilot study published in Ethnicity&Disease (Winter 2007). The authors from the Universi ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 30 2019 - 9:49am

Oregon Makes Goat Yoga Into A Thing

On the American Council on Science and Health Facebook page, you just never know what you are going to find, but if you had told me I would find goat yoga I'd have made...goat noises at you. Yet there it is, courtesy of the state of Oregon, the place ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Jan 7 2020 - 12:01pm

Defensive Medicine And Kids: Millions Of Children Get Unnecessary Treatment

With health insurance costs having gone up for many Americans by 300 percent since the implementation of the Affordable Care Act, there is concern about ways to contain costs. No one is willing to contain costs when it comes to children, a new study shows. ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 7 2020 - 1:11pm

Is Perrier Bad For Your Teeth?

For many people, the start of a year is a time for new health resolutions – be it eat more vegetables, consume less sugar or drink more water. Keeping hydrated is essential for body functions such as temperature regulation, transporting nutrients and remo ...

Article - The Conversation - Jan 8 2020 - 7:00am

'Processed' Food Causes Obesity It Says, But The Paper Ignores Obvious Confounders

In a Current Treatment Options in Gastroenterology review, a nutritionist and a gastroenterologist claim that "ultra-processed" food causes obesity. If you are not familiar with ultra-processed food, that is a new-ish designation, an arbitrary me ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jan 10 2020 - 11:56am