It seems so easy. In fact, it really is. Infections in hospital intensive-care units were cut by nearly a quarter when patients were washed daily with antiseptic wipes, a new study has found.
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is telling a White House doctor who worried about his weight to shut up. Dr. Connie Mariano, the White House physician from 1992 to 2001, told CNN she d like to see Christie run for president but fears he d die in office.
Are viruses alive? Dead? Dead-alive? ACSH's Dr. Josh Bloom posed this question last night on the new ACSH-sponsored Facebook page, Infectious Diseases and Vaccines, with the promise of a Snickers bar for the best answer. He got a ton of responses, including one woman who wrote, They don t contain all of the structures and biosynthetic machinery necessary for reproduction. Their genome is mostly DNA or RNA, but not both like most organisms.
A new international study is suggesting that pregnant women exposed to smog have a greater risk of having a baby with low birth weight.
Researchers led jointly by Tracey J. Woodruff, professor of obstetrics and gynecology and reproductive sciences at University of California San Francisco and Jennifer Parker, of the National Center for Health Statistics at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, published their findings this week in Environmental Health Perspectives.
Dichloro-Diphenyl-Trichloroethane (DDT) continues to be used in South Africa in the hopes of eliminating the spread of malaria in the country by 2018. DDT has proved to be a vital tool in working to reach this goal, and South Africa was praised for its efforts in dealing with the spread of malaria at an African Union event.
New York Times columnist Mark Bittman isn t content just to scare people on food issues he s now branched out into other topics. Today he writes in The Cosmetics Wars, about how American consumers are purportedly covering their faces, lips and hair with a long list of toxins.
Some 400 hair dyes and lipsticks contain lead ¦ you might not want to kiss your kids if you re wearing lead-tainted lipstick, Bittman warns.
Experts have looked at the evidence condemning the weedkiller atrazine as a carcinogen and found it wanting.
Many more individuals with diagnosable mental disorders are smokers as compared to the rest of the population. It turns out that mentally ill adults in the United States smoke cigarettes at a rate 70 percent higher than adults without mental illness, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
We d also like to give a hat-tip to Caroline Scott-Thomas, whose article on genetic engineering is online at FoodNavigator.
In it, Scott-Thomas discusses how we must remember that genetic engineering is an issue of technology and should not be an ideology.
Health care professionals and researchers are scrambling to understand why there is a sharp increase in the number of cases reported of children with type 1 diabetes.
Type 1 diabetes, previously known as juvenile or insulin-dependent diabetes, typically strikes those whose immune systems have killed off insulin-producing cells in the pancreas. The disease tends to start in adolescence, but in light of the rising number of cases in very young children, experts have stated that parents need to be aware that toddlers and preschoolers are also at risk.
