Article Archive for July 2008
Nobody likes secondhand smoke (SHS). It’s annoying, nasty, and it can make nonsmokers sick. Being around it a lot can increase a nonsmoker’s risk of coronary heart disease. A newly released study provides evidence it …
Recent news reports have told us to beware those trendy granite countertops installed in kitchens across America but those stories are based on junk science, according to the Marble Institute of America (MIA). And …
The myth of the male mid-life crisis has been dispelled by a transatlantic team of researchers comparing degrees of happiness throughout the adult lives of men and women. It seems 20-something men are saddest but …
Knee injuries can be severe enough to sideline even the most well-trained athletes and women athletes seem especially prone to a type of noncontact knee injury caused by sudden stops, turns, or jumps. The US …
The dangers of an overdose of prescription medications made headlines around the world when the 28-year-old Australian actor, Heath Ledger, died last January. A team of sociologists in California have just released the findings of …
The summer sun is scorching hot in Texas these days but Dr. Jayaprakash Sreenarasimhaiah is keeping things cool inside the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, where he is actually using liquid nitrogen …
Some medical situations increase the risk of developing dementia as we age but a University of Michigan (UM) study has proven that individuals taking the statin class of drugs to reduce “bad” cholesterol levels did …
Health Grades, Inc., has just released its third annual report on bariatric surgeries performed at surgical facilities across the nation. It seems top-rated hospitals perform more of this increasingly popular surgery and they do so …
With 65% or more of the adults in the United States tipping the scales at the overweight (or beyond) point, losing excess weight and keeping it off is a mission most of us wish we …
The US Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) issued a press release that describes the financial cost of medical errors related to surgery. It seems that, in addition to these errors costing lives, …
