Health and Medicine

Better than well By | January 3, 2015
Part 2: "A Walking Nightmare"-- Antidepressants and suicidality
“They’re very safe” By | January 2, 2015
"A Walking Nightmare": Antidepressants and suicidality
An Experiment that should get everyone’s Attention By | December 29, 2014
The hard truth is that the war on obesity and Type 2 diabetes is being lost
How Much Did You Learn in 2014? By | December 22, 2014
Cancer, heart disease, vitamins and more...
Expert Says, “It’s The Worst Dirty Trick of Aging” By | December 21, 2014
The hard truth is we have to eat less as we age.
Take a Look Before You Flush the Toilet By | December 14, 2014
Course 101 on Poop
New ‘electronic skin’ for prosthetics, robotics detects pressure from different directions By Hyunhyub Ko, Ph.D. | December 10, 2014
A new kind of stretchy "electronic skin" (blue patch) is the first to be able to detect directional pressure.
Questions remain about Ebola’s survival in the environment By Kyle Bibby, Ph.D. | December 10, 2014
Scientists say we know little about the Ebola virus' persistence in the environment..
A strong, year-end finish for the pharmaceutical industry By | December 10, 2014
Mixed Signals
Heroin for Addicts? Or Send Them to Northern Canada? By | December 7, 2014
In 1984 the use of medical heroin was made legal for terminal cancer patients. But bureaucratic regulations attached to its prescription made it so difficult for doctors to prescribe that little was used
Glaucoma: Could Low Blood Pressure be a Cause? By | November 30, 2014
“Silent thief of sight”
Coenzyme Q10 Needed For 100 Trillion Cells By | November 23, 2014
Clinical studies show that CoQ10 supplements can increase the strength of the heart’s muscle in patients suffering from congestive heart failure
EP = a2 Has Killed More People than E=mc2 By | November 16, 2014
A simple, natural way to put a dent in the progress of the nation’s number one killer, heart attack
Appendicitis: It Strikes Kings and Us Mortals By | November 9, 2014
This year, about 300,000 appendectomies will be done in North America. But every year patients die because of a ruptured appendix.
How to Prevent Dying the Tough Way By | November 2, 2014
Basically, millions and millions of dollars are being wasted on mammograms that cannot detect early breast cancers and cause tremendous anxiety when false positives are diagnosed
‘Electronic skin’ could improve early breast cancer detection By Ravi F. Saraf, Ph.D. | October 29, 2014
Using a silicone model of a breast and embedding objects representing lumps, scientists have successfully tested an electronic skin that can accurately "feel" and image lumps much smaller than those detectable by manual exams.
How To Protect Your Family From Ebola Infection By | October 26, 2014
There’s a proven way to treat viral diseases successfully, such as Ebola
ACS Ebola resources available to journalists By | October 22, 2014
Scientists play a major part in stemming any infectious disease outbreak, including the current one
Olive oil more stable and healthful than seed oils for frying food By Mohamed Bouaziz, Ph.D. | October 22, 2014
There's yet another reason to like olive oil — it stands up to the heat of frying.
Skin patch could replace the syringe for disease diagnosis By Simon R. Corrie, Ph.D. | October 22, 2014
For some diagnostic tests, drawing blood by syringe could someday be replaced by a simple skin patch.
Health Canada and CBC Television Distort Medical Facts By | October 19, 2014
More of us should get mad as hell about asinine bureaucracy
Tonsil stem cells could someday help repair liver damage without surgery By Byeongmoon Jeong, Ph.D. | October 15, 2014
Liver damage could one day be treated with adult stem cells from tonsils.
Losing Keys May be a Stomach, not a Brain Problem By | October 12, 2014
Those who are confused, forgetful, depressed, concerned they can’t find their keys and worried they may be developing Alzheimers’s Disease, the cure may lie in the stomach, not in the head.
BioSil: A Natural Remedy Fights Arthritis and Osteoporosis By | October 5, 2014
It’s not often that a natural remedy such as BioSil helps so many diverse problems.
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Health Canada bans drugs from two Apotex factories in India By | October 2, 2014
Regulator cites “significant concerns” and “serious doubts” about safety of drugs imported by Toronto-based company, but no recall has been issued.
What`s Red and Protects Cardiovascular Health? By | September 28, 2014
Lycopene, anti-oxidants
How to Stay Safe in Hospital By | September 21, 2014
Errors in medication; risk of infections; hospital stay risks
New study throws into question long-held belief about depression By | September 17, 2014
The latest research shores up a recent — and controversial — shift in thinking about serotonin's role in depression.
Not All Lunatics Are in the Asylum By | September 14, 2014
This fight for the right to assisted death won’t be easy
From 1600 T0 400 Calories in 40,000 Years! By | September 7, 2014
Nutritional anthropologists can pinpoint what stone-age people ate by analyzing their bones and fossilized human waste