Disease

Mention high blood pressure and most of the diet-conscious among us think "lower salt intake" to manage it.

My colleague, ACSH Senior Nutrition Fellow Dr.

One of the more controversial moves during the administration of former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg was the banning of synthetic trans-fatty acids (TFAs) from NYC eateries (in 2007) because of concern about deleterious influence

A few years ago we profiled a meta-analysis in The Lancet that supported the notion that even healthy adults could benefit from taking statin drugs (which lower L

Bacteria are living infectious microbes that exist in the environment independent of hosts, although some clearly exist in host organisms (the gut microbiome). Some of the truly massive plagues in human history were bacterial in origin.

Iceland is a small island in the North Atlantic Ocean with a total population of about 330,000. Its relatively small size belies what may turn out to be its great importance to the world's aging population.

Smallpox, rabies, Spanish flu, polio, AIDS and Ebola are all viruses that evoke great fear, having demonstrated catastrophic impacts on humans, including wiping out entire populations.  The evolution and emergence of viral infectious diseases

Prion diseases are rare progressive neurodegenerative disorders that affect both humans and animals.

Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a particularly nasty form of arthritis.

As if on cue, two articles on transmission of diseases came across my computer screen simultaneously.