Public Health

Longitudinal Study Shows Vaping Is Not As Harmful As Smoking

Smoking is on the decline, and that's a good thing. The evidence is clear that smoking kills. But what about tobacco? A few years ago groups like the U.S. Centers for Disease Control began to suggest nicotine was as harmful as smoking; meaning it was ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 5 2021 - 4:29pm

Judge Issues Decree Against Valley Processing, Inc. For Contamination Of Juice Sent To Schools, Safeway, And More

In 2019, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration went after  Valley Processing, Inc. of Sunnyside, Washington, along with the company’s owner and president, Mary Ann Bliesner, due to inorganic arsenic and patulin toxins at levels that can pose health risks t ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jan 15 2021 - 3:05pm

Deaths From COVID-19 Are Different From Other Respiratory Distress, But ICU Practices Are The Same

If someone elderly with blood clots and cancer treatment dies from respiratory distress, the federal government is generous about calling it a COVID-19 death. Even gunshot victims are considered COVID-19 related if they had tested positive for the virus in ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jan 20 2021 - 2:16pm

Poor Kids In Developing Nations Are Getting Fatter Too- Because Food Is More Affordable

In 1975, four percent of school-age kids were overweight and the NCD Risk Factor Collaboration says that was up to 18 percent in 2016. Like with smoking and alcoholism, obesity is often a pediatric disease- people who start early are far more likely to kee ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jan 26 2021 - 10:56am

Do You Know These 10 Ways To Protect Yourself And Loved Ones From COVID? How We Can All Help Stop Our Outbreaks

I base this on the advice of the WHO, the US CDC and other such reliable sources. Check the links to find out more. Here I talk about this article in a video: (click to watch on Youtube) 1. Most people don’t know to isolate from their own household and th ...

Article - Robert Walker - Jan 30 2021 - 3:18pm

It's Just Correlation, But Linking Coffee To Reduced Heart Disease Is At Least Delicious Wishful Thinking

There are a few known risk factors for heart disease; age is the big one, and then genetics and smoking. Everything else is instead a risk factor for a risk factor for heart disease or even more circumstantial. So butter was a risk factor for cholesterol w ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Feb 10 2021 - 1:44pm

New RAND Paper Argues Government Control Of Health Care Pricing Will Reduce Costs Better Than Competition

Rather than making affordable health care reality, the Affordable Care Act sent costs for many privately-insured people up as much as 700 percent. The federal government allowed insurers to pass through their new losses to everyone else and even with that, ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Feb 23 2021 - 11:29am

Vaping Helps Smokers Quit- Including People With Schizophrenia

Schizophrenia can cause hallucinations, delusions, trouble with thinking and other behaviors that impact daily functioning. Though it affects less than 1% of the public, 60% of schizophrenic smoke cigarettes, a known carcinogen and risk factor for numerous ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 16 2021 - 12:53pm

Like And Trust Your Doctor? It May Lead To More PSA Tests Even If The Government Wants Otherwise

Having a single primary care physician is statistically correlated to increased treatment adherence and decreased hospital admissions and mortality risk. A new paper finds it may also lead to costly unnecessary tests. Male patients who have a single genera ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 22 2021 - 1:54pm

UCSF Publishes Its Annual 'Science May Be Killing Us' Paper

Tracey Woodruff, PhD, MPH, of the University of California San Francisco, frequent collaborator of anti-vaccine activist and organic industry trade group head Gary Ruskin (US Right to Know) and sue-and-settle attorney Raphael Metzger, is back with a new pa ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Mar 24 2021 - 10:22am