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Showing posts with label disease. Show all posts
Showing posts with label disease. Show all posts
You may have the flu and not know it (NPR)
Wow, this was news to me. The flu is more common than we think, and we think that it's pretty dang ubiquitous. This article now has ...
Around the web: obesity, food, and exercise
Bacchus by Peter Paul Reubens, 1638-40, Hermitage, St. Petersburg Press release : the FDA wants to change how food labels look. They a...
How nutrition in one generation can change genetics in the next (PopSci & The Telegraph)
If studies are done the right (or wrong) way, researchers could probably link anything during a person's life to an event that occurred...
Obesity takes hold early in life, study finds (New York Times)
It is a rare study that tracks children for many years to see how their life turns out when they grow up. One study found that for all ...
A new player in obesity (Tufts)
Fat mouse via MNT It looks like scientists are still uncovering the biochemical causes of obesity. In January, a team of researchers at...
Babies' skinny moment (Daily Beast)
To counter last weekend's sobering update on a post-antibiotic world in the foreseeable future, here's some promising news : ...
Damage caused by the anti-vaccination movement
Source: Council on Foreign Relations via IFLS An interactive map shows outbreaks of measles, mumps, rubella, polio, and whooping cough...
CVS will stop selling tobacco products starting Oct 1!!!
What wonderful news! CVS, the second largest drugstore chain in America, announced yesterday that they will stop selling cigarettes and tob...
A doctor with terminal cancer (NYT)
One of my favorite bloggers revealed that her brother-in-law was diagnosed with incurable lung cancer last year. He is a chief resident...
Evidence-based medicine's six dangerous words (JAMA)
Image via Proto "There is no evidence to suggest" may indirectly cause adverse consequences by leading to false inferences f...
Ever heard of the rhinovirus?
It’s a virus! The caped crusader has stepped up to the challenge of medicine to defend against inappropriate antibiotic use. I...
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