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Narcan can be lifesaving for someone who's overdosed on opioids, and it should certainly be made available to at-risk people. But putting it into every single pharmacy in the country, or suggesting that all New Yorkers should carry it on them, doesn't make a lot of sense. 

A recent article in Newsweek would have you believe that you're being poisoned by pesticides on apples. But you're not. It's just another example of "scare by omission of dose." Nothing new here. Nothing to worry about either. 

China may have a gigantic, looming health crisis on its hands. According to a new and startling study conducted by Yale University and Chinese researchers, more than 1 in 3 adults have high pressure – with 95 percent not receiving the proper treatment or medication for the condition, placing hundreds of millions at significant risk.

Furans, a broad category of chemicals found in nature and also used in manufacturing, may or may not be in your food. But they gave some rats cancer when injected into them. Does that make it a health concern for humans? Science says no, but the European Food Safety Authority says yes.

Philadelphia has opted to tax sugar-sweetened beverages, which, one might expect, will raise the price consumers must pay. But at the city's airport, at least, stores that aren't in the taxation area also raised their prices.
 

A case report of 22-month-old conjoined twins evaluated and operated on last year at Massachusetts General Hospital was published in today’s New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM). The staff and family faced impossible choices requiring a bioethics committee's input.

Few economic opportunities, poor health outcomes, and higher death rates (both natural and self-inflicted). It is difficult to overstate the severity of the crisis facing rural America.

Leverage. Leveraging. While these might seem like terms associated with Hollywood movies like "Wall Street", "Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps" or "The Wolf of Wall Street", the reality is that leveraging is an integral part of academic science and policy research in the 21st century. With fiscal demands upon governments at the state/provincial and federal levels having increased dramatically over the past 20-30 years, innovative strategies were needed to ensure that the public sector’s high level of research (not to mention quality and importance) were not sacrificed.

Actor Sean Hayes of television’s Will & Grace fame disclosed on The Ellen DeGeneres Show his recent health scare. His "small intestine burst open." Learn more about gastrointestinal perforations here.

A recent report on a pilot program to increase the availability of Advanced Practice Registered Nurses underscores the current anti-doctor climate in healthcare. Under-valuing physicians, and replacing them with substandard care, ultimately places the patient at risk. And that, my friends, is unethical.

People with or recovering from pancreatic diseases may develop a third type of diabetes — diabetes 3c. But a recent English study suggests that clinicians often misdiagnose this condition, and thus might not treat it appropriately.

Do massages stimulate a chemical reaction in the body? Is there a scientific basis to explain why customers feel better, or relaxed, or energized by the experience? While massages feel great and produce short-term satisfaction, specific evidence supporting claims of longer-term health benefits is harder to come by.
 

Roughly 50 percent of patients with mild cognitive impairments develop Alzheimer's dementia. A recent study sheds some light on what physicians can tell their patients.

Time Magazine's Alice Park wrote a bizarre "letter' in JAMA, which apparently hoped to scare us about a group that found more glyphosate in urine samples than they expected. Her primary source: A guy with a "Ph.D" from an unaccredited institution who writes about yogic flying and ghosts.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo has signed legislation banning the use of electronic cigarettes indoors. It's a move that ensures his position as being pro-cancer and anti-science.

The glyphosate scandal involving the International Agency for Research on Cancer has severely – and perhaps irreparably – damaged the reputation of the World Health Organization. Sixteen scientists contacted by Reuters refused to answer any questions about the glyphosate document. That's not how science operates; that's how Fight Club operates.

In a 1965 address, epidemiologist Austin Bradford Hill introduced nine criteria that researchers should consider before declaring that A causes B. Here's a concise summary of his presentation.

Just three business days after getting the FDA's green light, Shingrix, a more effective shingles vaccine, will go before the Centers for Disease Control on Wednesday. A committee is expected to vote, formally recommending how often the vaccine should be administered, and to what age group.

Financial conflicts of interest are of increasing concern. And when this occurs, the response from medical leadership, authors and publishers must be disclosure. Here we shed some sunlight on how well we adhere to our self-imposed standards.

Another underwater birth, another near-fatal consequence. This time the imperiled, septic newborn endured unnecessary multi-organ failure, which necessitated a two-month hospitalization in intensive care.

People who see corporate shills everywhere they look are no different from run-of-the-mill conspiracy theorists. And some of them are MDs.

Know your bill of rights as a patient, especially in teaching hospitals. 

Jockeys race thunderously in tight packs at 30 miles an hour on 1,000-pound thoroughbreds – every day – and sometimes frightening spills occur. So it seems reasonable to ask whether progress in concussion prevention is also taking place at the track, as it is in other sports. Climb aboard and give this a read.

Two months after the first gene therapy for cancer was approved by the Food and Drug Administration, there is now another. Known as Yescarta, it will be used to treat adults with a type of non-Hodgkin lymphoma, large B-cell lymphoma, who have failed to respond to other treatments.

We're pleased to announce the latest edition of our publication, which is sent to donors at no charge and is available as a free download to all. Here's the Table of Contents listing the magazine's seven insightful articles.