Public Health

Please spare me the anti-biotech crowd’s Argumentum ad Monsantum (the “Appeal to Monsanto” argument) over Genetically Engineered (GE) foods. I’m speaking, of course, of the anti-GMO push back to my…

In Europe, there is a rush to ban and label things regardless of information. In America, there is a movement to do the same. In Asia, it is open season on the public regarding bizarre supplements,…

Type-2 diabetes has dramatically spread in the last decade and is most often associated with being overweight and suffering from obesity. Moreover, nutritionists believe that inactive and sedentary…

A comparison of the genomes of polar bears and brown bears reveals that the polar bear is a much younger species than previously believed, having diverged from brown bears less than 500,000 years ago…

Patients whose lost red blood cells are recycled and given back to them during heart surgery have healthier blood cells compared to those who get transfusions of blood stored in a blood bank,…

In California, Hawaii and Washington, the percentage of fatally injured drivers with cannabis in their systems grew an average 6.6 percent after medical marijuana laws increased access to the drug.…

If you are obese when you are young, it's likely to get worse when you are older. A recent paper examined the relationship between BMI at age 25, obesity later in life, and biological indicators of…

Cigarette smoking, overuse of screen media and even poor diet have been significantly associated with weekly consumption of sports drinks and energy drinks by adolescents.  Data for the study…

Skin cancer is a common and growing problem, accounting for one in every three cancers diagnosed worldwide, according to the World Health Organization. Recent findings suggest that malignant melanoma…

A presentation at the annual meeting of the Pediatric Academic Societies in Vancouver discussed the risk of nutritional deficiencies in severely obese teens – including in those who had…