A Q&A with Addiction and Compulsive Behaviors Expert
Psychiatrist Omar Manejwala shares his expertise on addiction and compulsive behaviors and why recovery from cravings is mostly about what you start doing, and much less about what you stop doing.
View ArticleBeware--the Meat and Seafood's Healthy Glow May Be Artificial
Despite media exposes and a public backlash, a lot of meat and seafood is treated with less than savory methods to keep it looking fresh.
View ArticleSanitation and Disease Concerns Linked to U.S. Pork
You know things are bad in the pork industry when the whistleblowers aren't animal rights activists but the government itself. In May, the US Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Office of the Inspector...
View ArticleFood Insecurity's Lingering Impact on Children
For a nation that produces more food per person than any other in the world, the United States has a major problem with hunger — and it only grew worse during the recent recession and its aftermath.
View ArticleAnti-Osteoporosis Drugs May Recreate Industrial Scourge, Says Researcher
Bisphosphonates, to prevent postmenopausal osteoporosis, have been linked to jawbone death (osteonecrosis) and atypical fractures. Recently, Dr. William Banks Hinshaw, a gynecologist and chemist in...
View ArticleAntibiotics Have Gone From Wonder Drugs To Wonder-if-They'll-Work-Drugs
Since the discovery of penicillin in 1928 and its first use in the 1930s and 1940s, antibiotics have been life-saving wonder drugs. But in some senses, we have killed the goose that laid the golden egg.
View ArticleGovernment "Washes its Hands" of Meat and Poultry Safety Inspections
Federal meat inspection stands to get even more lax. And it has nothing to do with the government shutdown.
View ArticleFamily Planning: Keep in Mind People Living With HIV
Ahead of the third International Conference on Family Planning to be held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, from Nov. 12–15, 2013, people living with HIV in Luwero Uganda have called for all major...
View ArticleQuestions Surface About US Chicken Wholesomeness
Could there be anything worse for the chicken industry than this month's outbreak of an antibiotic-resistant strain of salmonella that hospitalized 42 percent of everyone who got it -- almost 300 in 18...
View ArticleUnder Two Shadows: Immigration and Domestic Violence Part 3
Living in the United States without a legal immigration status has millions of people living in shadows. They are confronted by mounting obstacles on a daily basis that provoke serious negative effects...
View ArticleIs Pharma Money Behind Health News Reporting?
How well is the media doing its job to vet sources' ties to pharmaceutical funding? New research shows that academics who promoted the use of antiviral drugs for swine flu were eight times more likely...
View ArticleThe American Heart Association--Protecting Industry Not Patients by Barbara...
The American Heart Association (AHA) and the American College of Cardiology (ACC) recently released new cardiovascular disease prevention guidelines. They are an egregious example of much that is wrong...
View ArticleA Year After Newtown, No New Federal Laws Despite Public Health Crisis
The gun lobby loves the short memory of the American public and the news media. Who remembers that Aaron Alexis killed 12 at Washington's Navy Yard just three months ago, legally buying a shotgun two...
View ArticleFrom eggs to beef, U.S. consumers often in the dark about production practices
According to an expose this week in The New York Times, the USDA uses tax dollars to help private industry develop more "profitable" animals in a semi-clandestine operation called the U.S. Meat Animal...
View ArticleSanitation and Disease Concerns Linked to U.S. Pork
You know things are bad in the pork industry when the whistleblowers aren't animal rights activists but the government itself. In May, the US Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Office of the Inspector...
View ArticleFood Insecurity's Lingering Impact on Children
For a nation that produces more food per person than any other in the world, the United States has a major problem with hunger — and it only grew worse during the recent recession and its aftermath.
View ArticleAnti-Osteoporosis Drugs May Recreate Industrial Scourge, Says Researcher
Bisphosphonates, to prevent postmenopausal osteoporosis, have been linked to jawbone death (osteonecrosis) and atypical fractures. Recently, Dr. William Banks Hinshaw, a gynecologist and chemist in...
View ArticleAntibiotics Have Gone From Wonder Drugs To Wonder-if-They'll-Work-Drugs
Since the discovery of penicillin in 1928 and its first use in the 1930s and 1940s, antibiotics have been life-saving wonder drugs. But in some senses, we have killed the goose that laid the golden egg.
View ArticleGovernment "Washes its Hands" of Meat and Poultry Safety Inspections
Federal meat inspection stands to get even more lax. And it has nothing to do with the government shutdown.
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