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In today s just when you think you understand stuff news, the FDA dropped a bomb on Bayer and released an advisory that is certain to confuse the millions of people who have been religiously taking aspirin to ward off heart disease and strokes.

Following the 1994 enactment of the Vaccines for Children program which was aimed to provide vaccinations for children whose parents

Dr. Gilbert Ross in the Detroit Free Press, May 5, 2014.
As the nation continues its fight against smoking

The latest news on saturated fats and heart disease, misleading study on UV lamps and skin cancer, and the staggering number of preventable deaths in the U.S.

Talk of a rapidly accelerating diabetes epidemic has settled into our medical and public health

The science of the complex interaction between fat and carbohydrate intake and health outcomes is explained almost simply in Nina Teicholz Wall Street Journal Saturday Essay. Suffice it to say that the bacon leads to heart disease theory is on its last legs.

Although a very high percentage of children in the United States receive a vaccination protecting them against pertussis, cases of pertussis have been on the rise. And infants younger than six months who are

New CDC report explores the toll of preventable deaths in our nation. The figures are staggering, but parsing the immediate vs. underlying causes, plus geographic distributions may help reduce the loss.

Antibiotic resistance is no longer a far a distant threat of the future, rather a major obstacle

How s this for irony? Over 100 attendees of a food safety summit in Baltimore reported suffering from gastrointestinal problems after attending the conference. The

It's been a big day for screening discussions. Screening: good! No--screening bad! Depends on who's doing the evaluations of risk/benefit, it seems.

Although he is still a still a journalism student at the University of New Haven, Brandon Bisceglia s op-ed on the Science 2.0 website is dead on, and well worth the read.
He begins, Philadelphia was under attack through the winter and spring of 1991.The name of the enemy? Measles. The Philadelphia outbreak the city s first since 1954 - began in October 1990, and quickly spread throughout the unvaccinated population. Within six months, 938 cases of the highly contagious disease had been reported to the city's health department.

A typical scenario for getting a professional manicure involves exposing the freshly painted nails to a fan and ultraviolet (UV) light to dry and harden the polish. But there has been some

A British survey of thousands of e-cigarette users found out that vapers vape to quit smoking; and while such use is skyrocketing, the number of non-smoking teens who have tried them is minuscule.

A poll conducted by Pew Research Center last fall highlights the national debate over

Concussions are a major concern among athletes and individuals in the military. The long-term effects of sustaining a concussion are not definitively known at this point, but concern about

According to a recent article in the New England Journal of Medicine, there is both good and bad news about diabetes. The bad news is that the occurrence of diabetes tripled between1990 and 2010 in the United States. We shouldn t be surprised at this, since obesity prevalence a major risk factor for diabetes has also increased. The good news, however, is that the rate of the major complications of diabetes has dropped significantly over that same period of time.

Diisononyl Phthalate (DINP) was added to California's ever-growing Proposition 65 list of known carcinogens late last year. However, Elissa Sterry, VP for ExxonMobil s Intermediates

The always dead-on Trevor Butterworth once again hit the bullseye in his op-ed in Forbes.com. And in his unique way, he makes the perennial critics of BPA a component of the plastic that seals canned foods look rather foolish.

Gestational diabetes and pre-term babies, the phony autism treatments, and why our health care is so expensive. Get the latest health news here!

When a drug or medical device becomes available in the marketplace, few if any experts (including doctors) or individual patients question its price. In her article in the NYTimes,

As if parents with autistic children don t have enough to worry about, there are a number of vultures out there who are all too willing to take advantage of these parents by selling treatments that are ineffective and dangerous, according to a report by the FDA.

A new study by Dr. Ivan Ngai and colleagues from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Montefiore Medical Center in New York City suggests that women who are diagnosed with

Today marks the 8th annual official recognition, via World Malaria Day, of the horrendous toll taken by the mosquito-born infection. Although we have seen significant declines in the death toll worldwide from malaria over the past 10 years, much work remains to be done to get these numbers even lower. The theme of World Malaria Day this year is "Invest in the Future: Defeat Malaria," which is a reminder of the challenges we still face in the future.

The Vaccine for Children program was established in 1994 in response to the measles outbreak of 1989, when uninsured