Month: September 2015

The Boston Globe reports on its front page that the Rhode Island mandate to vaccinate both girls and boys against HPV “sparked protests from parents, who resented a school requirement to immunize against a disease that spreads through sex rather than anything that could be transmitted in the classroom.” (more…)

The New York Times “Well” blog reported that a study published in Pediatrics suggests that “siblings, not mothers, are now the most common source of pertussis infection in newborns.” (more…)

USA Today reports that the use of stem cell treatments to repair athletes’ injuries, while “an exploding field,” comes with a “catch,” since “nobody knows if this type of treatment really works." (more…)

NBC Nightly News reported that “a new CDC report says your heart might actually be older than you are.” Researchers “estimate what they’re calling heart age based on risk factors like high blood pressure, obesity, smoking and diabetes.” (more…)

The Washington Post reports that “in a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, researchers found that the number of traumatic injuries related to bikes in adults age 18 and older nearly doubled from 1998-99 to 2012-2013 – going from 8,791 to 15,427.” (more…)

Reuters reports that a study published in JAMA Internal Medicine found that healthcare professionals discuss religion or spirituality in less than 20 percent of family meetings in the intensive care unit. (more…)

CNN in an article titled, "Out on a limb: Pioneering scientists grow monkey arms in the lab," reports, "In a U.S. laboratory, a monkey arm is stripped down as far as its individual cells. All that's left behind is a bare, frail scaffold. But that's not the end of the road for this arm. The scaffold is rebuilt with infusions of cells from another being -- be it a monkey, or a human -- which grow and transform the limb." (more…)

In a Federalist commentary, Mollie Hemingway points out that Chris Cuomo, like most liberal journalists has no idea when human life begins. (more…)

According to a report in HealthDay News, “Marijuana's gain in popularity may be due to widespread notion that it's harmless, researchers say.” In fact, a new study shows that, for the first time, more U.S. college students (6 percent) now smoke a joint each day than light up a cigarette (5 percent). (more…)

Reuters reports that daily marijuana use among US college students is greater than it has been in 35 years, according to the University of Michigan’s Monitoring the Future study. (more…)

The Los Angeles Times reports that consumption of spicy foods may be linked to a longer life. (more…)

The Washington Post “To Your Health” blog reports that research published in Sleep suggests that individuals “who sleep six hours a night or less are four times more likely to catch a cold than those who” sleep “for more than seven hours.” (more…)

The Washington Post reports that a recent study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended that all middle and high schools delay start times to at least 8:30 a.m. “so that more teens will get the minimum 8.5 to 9.5 hours of sleep they need.” (more…)

The New York Times reports that new data released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention “showed that the nutritional profile of meals in the nation’s public schools had improved substantially since higher government standards went into effect in 2012.” (more…)

The Los Angeles Times reported in “Science Now” that “by the time they were 18, Britons who self-identified as ‘goth’ at the age of 15 were three times more likely to be clinically depressed and five times more likely to cut, burn or intentionally inflict injury on themselves than were young people who did not identify with goth subculture.” (more…)

Reuters reports that in a study released in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, the CDC found that most US children of kindergarten age have been vaccinated. Nevertheless, a public health threat is still posed by groups of unvaccinated youngsters. (more…)

On the front of its Business & Tech section, the Wall Street Journal reports that sales of bottled water are anticipated to outsell soda by 2017. (more…)

TIME reports that according to a study published in the journal Obesity, drinking water before meals may help obese adults lose weight. (more…)

The Los Angeles Times reports in “Science Now” that “having to wake up and” perform surgery in the “middle of the night” appeared not to affect surgeons’ “performance the next day.” (more…)

The Freedom2Care blog, in an article titled, "New book encourages and equips people of faith to engage on controversial issues," writes, "How can we remain true to the core teachings of our faith and winsomely engage others on controversial issues like sex, marriage, abortion, religious freedom, human trafficking and end of life issues?" (more…)

In an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal, my dear friend and colleague, Dr. William Toffler, an Oregon-based physician and national director of Physicians for Compassionate Care criticizes the state’s legalization of physician-assisted suicide, saying it has been detrimental to medical care and the patient-physician relationship. (more…)

The Weekly Standard, in an article titled, "Senate Dems Divided Over Revoking Charitable Tax Status of Religious Schools," writes, "Will religious schools be punished by the government in the wake of the Supreme Court's decision declaring a constitutional right to same-sex marriage?" (more…)

Bloomberg News reports that a new study in Science indicates that researchers “are getting closer to developing a universal flu vaccine that could work against a number of strains of the virus.” (more…)

CBS News reports that research suggests that “weeks or even months before there is evidence of a tumor in scans or biopsies, a simple blood test could detect the risk of relapse in survivors of early stage breast cancer.” (more…)

I just found this MUST READ article for anyone interested in both the truth about vaccines and some of the falsehoods about vaccination spread at the Republican Debate at the Reagan Library two days ago. This one's long, but well worth the read. And, pass it along to your friends. (more…)

The Los Angeles Times reports in a front-page story on the “new cadre of ‘community paramedics’ working in a dozen pilot programs across California.” (more…)

TIME reports that, according to a new study published in Public Health Nutrition, people who “eat at regular times and pack lunches” generally have healthier diets overall. (more…)

The New York Times “Well” blog reports that while “steroid shots are commonly used for back pain ... evidence that they work no better than placebos is mounting.” (more…)

The New York Times “Well” blog reports that according to the National Athletic Trainers’ Association, a child’s brain is “especially susceptible to concussion,” and “sports-related concussions account for more than half of all emergency room visits by children aged 8 through 13.” (more…)

The New York Times’ “Well” blog discusses hospital rooms that are designed specifically to accommodate the growing number of obese and morbidly obese patients. (more…)