Public Health

In the last few weeks there has been a sugar tsunami in the media. CBS reported about sugar toxicity. Mayor Bloomberg banned the serving of sugary drinks greater than 16 fluid ounces in New York City…

Withania somnifera is one of the most valued medicinal plant in Ayurveda and other traditional systems of medicine (Shivani and Kumar, 2000). In Ayurveda, W. somnifera is regarded as one of the most…

Taylor Farms Retail, Inc. of Salinas, California is initiating a voluntary recall of Organic Baby Spinach following a random test conducted on a finished package by the USDA that found salmonella.…

Sometimes you set out to test for antibiotics but get a bonus; in this case, diphenhydramine, arsenic, and fluoxetine. Yikes. Well, there is a science basis to some of what sounds pretty horrid…

I'll tell you a secret a chef told me. That secret is...butter. There is a reason restaurants that seek to charge the same for 'healthy' fare end up being big flops; people feel cheated eating bean…

News papers don’t stop reporting anyone get side effects of herbal drugs or side effects of taking uncontrolled amount of herbal drug. Allopathic drugs also harm or give reactions sometime but I have…

“What really determines whether fluoride is safe, is the amount that is swallowed,” says Amid I. Ismail, BDS, MPH, MBA, DrPH, and Dean, Temple University, School of Dentistry in Dear Doctor Magazine…

I was away from the site for a while now. I have a good excuse for it since all this while- I got my Ph.D. award, my work recognized by my peers and took up a new job – all at one time. Dynamics of…

Many of you, especially in the UK will have undoubtedly heard of the collapse of Fabrice Muamba. A Bolton Wanderer's football player, who at the time was playing in a FA cup football match watched by…

Close to supermarkets or not, fat poor kids are different than fat rich kids Over the past decade, the American obesity epidemic has provoked a wide range of possible solutions, from soda-pop bans in…