Public Health
The nation who passes the ball to the fellow players wins the world cup ? Its team work and working together. Come together to win. Its friendship and brother hood that will win in the world and so is the case with world cup. Now can you tell who is the winner
Aschner and Ceccatelli (2010) review the relevant data for thimerosal as a cause of autism. They conclude there is "no reliable data indicating that administration of vaccines containing thimerosal is a primary cause of autism. However, one cannot rule out the possibility that the individual gene profile and/or gene- environment interactions may play a role in modulating the response to acquired risk by modifying the individual susceptibility."
Aschner and Ceccatelli first discuss all the possible exposures to mercury that occur in the environment. There's a lot of potential exposures to…
With an increasing trend toward what marketing groups call 'natural' food, some companies have reduced preservatives. A common preservative, acetic acid, is used to stop bacterial growth in dressings, sauces, cheese and pickles, but new research shows that a reduced amount of acetic acid may be worse than none at all – it increases the amount of toxin from the harmful bacteria in the food.
Nina Wallin Carlquist, PhD in the Engineering at the Division of Applied Microbiology, Lund University, recently defended her thesis on the topic. She studied two of the most common food…
My mother used to keep fasts on holy 11th day of the moon calender called Ekadashi. We waited as c hildren that she will make her special meal for fasting day. It consisted of Kutu ka atta a sort of coarse grain with low calorific value. Besides this she will also use flour from Trapa bispinosa. A plant growing in ponds and its fruits had two spines which gave it the name of T. bispinosa. Stragely enough on my recent visit to Germany a saw the flour of the Trapa bispinosa being sold for some euro ( in India would be some rupees) in nicely packed bottle in reform house or natural food house.…
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Dengue fever has emerged as a worldwide problem only since the 1950s.
The name ‘dengue’ is thought to have origins in the Swahili language, “Ki-Dinga pepo” used to describe a dengue-like illness reported in Africa during the 19th century.
The Dengue is cause of illness and death in the tropics and subtropics.
There are four types of viruses that cause dengue-fever worldwide. A person infected with one type of dengue will subsequently only be immune to that type.
Dengue is caused by any one of four related viruses transmitted by mosquitoes. Dengue and chickungunya two diseases are…
What is the best way to address the obesity epidemic? Several experts debated the subject in the most recent issue of the British Medical Journal.
Researchers from the Children's Hospital at Westmead and the University of Sydney in Australia argue that physical inactivity is just one marker and that there is substantial evidence that unhealthy diets low in fibre and high in sugar and large portion size are also responsible for obesity and the diseases associated with it.
However, Dr Richard Weiler, a specialist registrar in sport and exercise medicine at Imperial College…
The more TV parents watch, the more their children watch and are less active as a result, say the authors of a new study in BMC Public Health.
The study found that higher parental TV viewing was associated with an increased risk of high levels of TV viewing for both boys and girls. For girls, the relative risk of watching more than four hours of TV per day was 3.67 times higher if the girl's parent watched two-four hours of TV per day, when compared to girls who watched less than two hours of TV per day.
For boys, the relative risk of watching more than four hours of TV per day was 10.…
For some people, raising "good" cholesterol levels isn't necessarily a healthy choice, according to a new study in Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology. The study is the first to find that a high level of the supposedly good cholesterol places a subgroup of patients at high risk for recurrent coronary events, such as chest pain, heart attack, and death.
The findings could help explain disappointing results from a high-profile Pfizer clinical trial testing torcetrapib, an experimental drug designed to increase levels of HDL cholesterol, that some predicted would become a…
A Body Mass Index (BMI) of 30 or above, a standard indicator of obesity, is not associated with poorer health among adults under age 40, according to a new study.
In addition, researchers found that across all age groups studied, from 25 to 70 years, there was little difference in the current health status in normal-weight vs. overweight people based on the medications they took.
The study was published in the International Journal of Obesity.
The researchers acknowledge that health problems in older adults with BMIs of 30 or higher might be traced back to carrying extra weight in young…
Thanks to his fearmongering, as Josh notes in his blog, the UK stripped Andrew Wakefield of his medical license.
Not only did Wakefield act unethically, dishonestly and irresponsibly, Britain's General Medical Council said, but he also diverted a lot of time and money that could have been spent researching treatments for autism instead into the anti-vaccine movement that was eagerly adopted by parents searching for answers.
USNews reports, "The effect of this one medical paper on the health of children has been extraordinary. Vaccination rates for children in the United States and the United…