Researchers from the Center for Global Tobacco Control at the Harvard School of Public Health are suggesting that electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) adversely affect users airways, thus raising concern about the safety of these products.
Yet they ignored the relative dangers of actual smoking.

Health care providers can serve as a critical link between smokers and the resources and motivation they need to quit. But many opportunities to encourage smokers to kick the habit are missed, reports a new survey, because more than one in 10 smokers do not tell their doctors that they smoke.

Andrew Wakefield, the original architect of the phony autism-vaccine scare, has had the chutzpah to file a defamation suit against the journal BMJ, its editor, and a journalist for printing a scathing series of articles last January that attacked him for the ethical flaws in his retracted paper.

About 8 percent of kids have to cope with a food allergy a reality brought to the fore this week by the death of a seven-year-old girl in Virginia, whose heart stopped due to an allergic reaction brought on by a peanut. The child s death, however, could most likely have been prevented with a simple injection of the hormone epinephrine (adrenaline).

Women who have undergone surgical menopause do not have a greater risk of bone fracture than women undergoing natural menopause, according to a new study in the journal Menopause.

An initially promising vaccine against herpes (HSV-1 and HSV-2) has failed in a large clinical trial, the results of which were just published in The New England Journal of Medicine. Researchers, led by a specialist in infectious diseases at St. Louis University in Missouri, are especially disappointed, given that two earlier but smaller trials for this new vaccine had found it effective.

ACSH is happy to report on the latest American Cancer Society (ACS) statistics, which show that U.S. cancer death rates continue to fall. We reported on similar findings in June and April but confirmation of this downward trend is welcome news.

When it comes to packing on the pounds, it turns out that not all excess weight gain is the same. At least those are the results of a new study from the Pennington Biomedical Research Center in Baton Rouge, which found that, when it comes to consuming excess calories, diets low in protein actually lead to loss of lean body mass (muscle and organ tissue), unlike normal or high-protein diets, which increase lean body mass.

When the FDA rejected two petitions in November that aimed to ban a number of antibiotics from animal production, ACSH s Dr. Josh Bloom expressed concern that continued use of certain antibiotics in animals may promote the growth of drug-resistant bacteria that could affect humans. So, when the agency announced yesterday that it would prohibit the use of a class of antibiotics called cephalosporins in cattle, swine, chickens, and turkeys, Dr.

For those who are considering bariatric surgery, a new study from the University of Gothenburg in Sweden provides a compelling reason to undergo the procedure: It lowers the incidence of heart attack and stroke and decreases the number of cardiovascular-related deaths among patients.