FDA Is Urged To Toughen Rules on Salt
A consumer group prodded the Food and Medicine Administration yesterday to regulate salt as a food additive, arguing that excessive salt consumption by Americans may be responsible for more than 100,000 deaths a year.
URL: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/29/AR2007112902080.html?nav=rss_health
Experts ‘Fail’ Risk Analysis for Boston Bioterror Lab
An expert panel of the nation’s premier science advisory organization yesterday gave a failing grade to a federal risk analysis used to justify construction of a controversial high-security bioterror laboratory in inner-city Boston.
URL: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/29/AR2007112902133.html?nav=rss_health
Protest, Forums To Mark AIDS Day
Vigils, curbside HIV screening, public forums with District teens and a demonstration across from the White House are planned for today and this weekend to mark World AIDS Day in the city with the worst rate of infection in the United States.
URL: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/29/AR2007112901981.html?nav=rss_health
New Rooms Afford Privacy in Stressful Times
They call them “frequent fliers” at Children’s Hospital: families with children so sick they’ve spent weeks, even months, at the medical center. They’ve come for complicated treatments: chemo for cancer, heart surgery, kidney transplants. The list goes on.
URL: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/29/AR2007112901940.html?nav=rss_health
Protest, Forums To Mark AIDS Day
Vigils, curbside HIV screening, public forums with District teens and a demonstration across from the White House are planned for today and this weekend to mark World AIDS Day in the city with the worst rate of infection in the United States.
URL: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/29/AR2007112901981.html?nav=rss_health
CT Scans May Cause Cancer
This one gives us pause. CT scans, that amazing x-ray procedure that gives docs a good, clear look at our innards, may cause cancer.
And kids are especially at risk, since radiation tends to affect them more than it does adults.
A report in this week’s New England Journal of Medicine estimates that […]
The Big, Fat Obesity News
So the CDC says this morning that rates of obesity have leveled off.
Hurrah! Break out the Oreos!
Not so fast. This is good news, not great news.
The report stems from figures gathered from 2005 and 2006. It was found that 34.3 percent of American adults were obese. It’s the first time […]
The Red-Wine Pill
Here’s the latest on scientists efforts to pour the health benefits of red wine into a pill.
Researchers at the company working on this published an article about their studies in Nature this week, then stepped back to watch their stock price climb.
Problem is, the pill, which would provide the benefits of resveratrol, won’t […]
MRSA and PJ’s?
Here’s some creative thinking: pajamas that help fight infection, like the MRSA bacterium.
The PJ’s are woven with bits of silver, which is known for fighting infections. Would it help? Well, the manufacturers certainly think so, but some docs are skeptical, calling it a gimmick.
Hey, maybe Hugh Hefner would like some for Christmas. After […]
CT Scans May Cause Cancer
This one gives us pause. CT scans, that amazing x-ray procedure that gives docs a good, clear look at our innards, may cause cancer.
And kids are especially at risk, since radiation tends to affect them more than it does adults.
A report in this week’s New England Journal of Medicine estimates that […]