Public Health

Though nearly everyone recognizes that smoking cigarettes is a known carcinogen, many marijuana users think marijuana smoke is safe. They may not realize it is inhaling the smoke, not that the smoke is from one plant or another, that is the worry. Nicotine ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Apr 1 2022 - 12:35pm

COVID-19 Telemedicine Caused The Racial Gap In Completed Doctor Visits To Disappear

Seeing a doctor can be crucial to managing and preventing chronic disease but there has long been a racial gap in routine visits that can't be explained by racism or income. Maybe people didn't like like going to the doctor because the COVID-19 ...

Article - News Staff - May 9 2022 - 5:13pm

Was FDA’s Recent Statement On BPA Premature?

A few weeks ago the U.S. National Toxicology Program (NTP) released the results of the largest study ever conducted on bisphenol A (BPA). The CLARITY Core study was conducted by senior scientists with the U.S. ...

Article - Steve Hentges - May 18 2022 - 12:18pm

5 Food Tips That Could Save Your Life After A Heart Attack

Every ten minutes in Australia someone has a heart attack. For 17% this will be fatal; the rest get a second chance. If you have had a close call, these five food tips will help get your health back on track. ...

Article - The Conversation - Jun 2 2022 - 2:41pm

Stop Eating Affordable Vegetables, It’s Just Too Dangerous, Claims Organic Industry Funded Paper

There is some produce advice coming from the activist camp yet again, but what they are selling is rotten. A recent paper senior authored by famed organic industry proponent Dr. Michael N. Antoniou raised an alarm about insecticide and herbicide residues f ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jun 3 2022 - 6:15pm

Survey Results Show That For Many, Vaping Was A Fad And Not An Addiction

Vaping devices, e.g. the unfortunately named e-cigarettes, were a valuable tool for smoking cessation and harm reduction, with better results in ending smoking than nicotine patches and gums. Then suddenly they were everywhere, a market so large that a tob ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jul 25 2022 - 3:05pm

Vaping Isn't A Gateway To Smoking But Marijuana May Be A Gateway To Vaping

WNBA star Brittney Griner is in a Russian jail because the laws of the country you enter no matter what country you live in. A visitor to the US with banned substances is going to jail the same way. Yet to many Americans, what she had is no problem. She wa ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 9 2022 - 4:02pm

Physician Reluctance To Discuss Anal Sex Puts Patients At Risk

Hot on the heels of COVID-19, Monkeypox is in the news for an alarming spread among people who engage in risky sexual behavior, because it is transmitted primarily through direct contact with infectious sores, scabs, or body fluids. Healthcare professional ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 12 2022 - 8:21am

Forced Vaccination Versus Body Autonomy In Germany

There is concern about US states making their own abortion laws in the US, but in Germany most abortion is illegal. It is only allowed for medical or criminal reasons within 12 weeks of conception, and lack of body autonomy may be why most Germans are fine ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 18 2022 - 7:35am

Marijuana And Hallucinogen Use Reached All-Time High In 2021

The good news for public health is that there have been significant decreases in past-month cigarette smoking by young adults and recreational use of opioid medications in the past year compared to 10 years ago. The same goes with alcohol, which is still t ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 22 2022 - 1:21pm