NEW YORK, May 30 /U.S. Newswire/ — A new American Lung Association report, ‘Alcohol-Flavored Cigarettes — Continuing the Flavored Cigarette Trend’, shows that the tobacco industry continues to target the nation’s youth and young adults with their deadly products using underhanded marketing tactics. With the world prepared to celebrate World No Tobacco Day tomorrow the […]
The prevalence of diagnosed diabetes in U.S. adults age 20 and older has risen from about 5.1 percent to 6.5 percent, according to researchers at […]
LOS ANGELES, California (Reuters) — Marijuana smoking does not increase a person’s risk of developing lung cancer, according to the findings of a new study at the University of California Los Angeles that surprised even the researchers.
They had expected to find that a history of heavy marijuana use, like cigarette smoking, would increase the risk […]
A few years ago, in 2000 to be precise, I met an Electric Engineer TA who had hooked up with a Personal Development Coach, they hired a computer programmer and tried to develop a handy little coach to help people overcome obstacles, challenges and the like. The “proof of concept” was always to help people […]
Personalized Treatment Trial for Breast Cancer Launched
The Trial Assigning IndividuaLized Options for Treatment (Rx), or TAILORx, was launched today to examine whether genes that are […]
Google might be out new competition. I’m kidding, well, sort of.
Google will be launching a Health category.
The url is as of now still not showing anything, but it will be interesting if this Google one step closer towards a portal or a Looksmart in terms of vertical search.
How are we in competition with them?
Try MetaMojo.com’s […]
This is certainly true for me. I pass / fail (depending on how you see it) every test here.
We live in the Information Age, when a vast resource of facts, opinions and personal accounts is available to anyone at any time. In the field of health alone there are hundreds of TV programs, radio talk […]
Federal health officials say they would like HIV testing to be as common as a cholesterol check.
The guidelines for routine testing would apply to every American ages 13 to 64, according to the proposed plan by the U.S. Centers for Disease control and Prevention.
One-quarter of the 1 million Americans with the AIDS virus don’t know […]
First they tell us that BBQ increases the risk of prostate cancer, then we are told that the USDA says 156,235 pounds beef recalled for e-coli, the last thing the meat industry needs is Oprah Winfrey right now.
More than 60 years after autism was first described by American psychiatrist Leo Kanner, there are still more questions than answers about this complex disorder. But slowly, steadily, many myths about autism are falling away, and researchers are finding some surprises.
Autism is almost certainly, like cancer, many diseases with many distinct causes. It’s well known […]