FOIA as a weapon - If you think climate scientists can't be bought off by
fossil fuel companies because they are too ethical but biologists are being
bought off by much-smaller Monsanto, you have all the logic you need to work at
or financially support groups like Natural Resources Defense Council and USRTK.
Read more.
NJ Township to PennEast: None shall
Pass! - Hopewell Township, New Jersey has
decided to block an expansion of the PennEast Pipeline through the township.
What were their reasons to object? The same tired anti-fracking rhetoric that
has been spun by activists who have somehow forgotten they lobbied for more
natural gas just two decades ago. Read more.
Evidence is soft that condoms cause
ED - Humans have used some form of condom
as a prevention against pregnancy and infection for centuries. They have been
an instrumental tool in the public health arena. However, fears they may cause
erectile dysfunction threaten their use. Read more.
Clean Energy: A
Juggernaut, Leaving Environmentalists Behind - It used to be that clean energy was something
that environmental lobbyists pretended to care about, at least when it came to
raising money. Now that clean energy is becoming normalized across the
spectrum: will it change the political landscape? Read more.
The Dying Gasp Of Chuck Benbrook's
Credibility - A bizarre, rambling diatribe
against genetically modified organisms (GMOs) has been published in the New
England Journal of Medicine. It really is extraordinary in how random and
disjointed and its written by the infamous Charles Benbrook. Read more.
EPA
EPA Earned Its Animas River Backlash
- Which organization threatened a man with a
$75,000-per-day fine because he built a pond on his own property and declared
water a pollutant after encouraging the American Canoe Association to sue them
over rapids in a river and then settled by telling one county they had to pay
up to $500 million to fix the problem? Read more.
Health
That perennial question — low
fat or low carb — addressed - Its the age old question: what’s
better for weight loss — low fat or low carb? According to a new,
well-controlled study, it may not really matter. But if your goal is to shed
some body fat loss there may be a winner. Read more.
FDA adding confusion with “added
sugars” label - FDA VS Health Canada: One
gets it right on sugars on food labels, the other doesn’t. Guess which is
which? The FDA is set to make the Food Label even more confusing for consumers
— it won’t help people choose healthier diets. Read more.
Medicine
Privacy rights for the dying?
Not on ABC - A show on ABC called NY Med is the latest example of
questionable behavior by medical shows. The show aired footage of a man's final
moments without receiving consent from the wife or family. The show claims the
dead don't have any rights, but the family is devastated. Read more.
Algorithm allows docs to predict
septic shock - Sepsis: it’s a little
discussed condition that packs a deadly and quick punch. There are currently no
good way to predict the condition's onset which can happen in a matter of
hours. But scientists believe they have developed an algorithm to solve this
issue. Read more.
Pain Management
Another kind of pain for patients and
doctors - Both aspirin and heroin were
discovered in the 1800s. Ironically, Bayer developed and marketed heroin as a
“less addictive” version of morphine and other opium products. That didn’t work
out so well, and by the 1920s, it was banned from use and sale. Read more.
Research
Have we taken the microbiome too far?
-The details of science, how to interpret empirical
data, are more of a debate than lay people may know and scientists may care to
admit, and it is not as cut and dry as the media sometimes present it. This
often leads to corruption of trendy topics. One example of this is the
microbiome. Read more.
Freeing Up Money For Science, Without
Funding Waste - Congress has decided to
boost funding for the National Institutes of Health by $9.3 billion over five
years, and that is welcome news to researchers. But there are two ways we could
have prevented life sciences researchers from feeling like they were being
disrespected by the current White House administration. Read more.
Smoking
Wages Of Sin (Taxes) - A Boost For
Smoking Cessation Tools - ACSH has led the
nation in efforts to stop people from smoking so it's no surprise we have
embraced patches, gums, e-cigarettes and products like "snus" made in
Sweden as ways to ease people off of cigarettes, because they replace nicotine.
Smoking kills but it is the nicotine that makes people want to smoke. Read more.
British Agency: E-Cigs 95 Percent
Less Harmful Than Tobacco - Britain's
Department of Health announced electronic cigarettes are around 95 percent less
harmful than tobacco and should be promoted smoking cessation device, according
to the results of a new study released Wednesday. Read more.
Social Commentary
Green Fatigue – Are People
Finally Tired Of Being Scared? - The public has increasingly become
jaded about the efforts of anti-science activists to raise money by promoting
fear and doubt. Since Rachel Carson first shot to popularity with a book
claiming that DDT was ruining the environment no effort has been spared to get
a lot of things banned. Read more.
Tell your boss those extra hours may
kill you - A large meta-analysis by
researchers working in the United Kingdom found what we already knew: stress
might be bad for your health. The study, published in The Lancet was a
meta-analysis that examined the effects of working long hours on both risk of
coronary heart disease and risk for stroke. Read more.
Vaccines
Childhood vaccines: Separating myth
from fact - Standing among the greatest
achievements in public health, vaccines have had a greater impact on reducing
death and disability from infectious diseases than almost any other public
health intervention. And yet, lingering fear keeps some parents from vaccinating
their children, putting them and others in danger. Read more.
New study confirms the obvious:
chickenpox vaccine works- Well this isn’t
surprising at all. Since the chickenpox vaccine became available in the US in
1995, there has been a significant reduction in chickenpox cases, according to
a new study published in the Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases
Society. Read more.
Women’s medicine
The little pink pill is approved:
Here's The Real Story - A drug called
“Female Viagra” had been languishing the clinic since before 2010. Flibanserin
is supposed to be a treatment for women who suffer from sexual dysfunction,
(mostly lower libidos) as they age. After twice being unanimously rejected by
the FDA, they turned around an approved it. Why? Read more.
Female Viagra Stinks a Little More
Every Day - The comedian Jerry Seinfeld
has a very funny bit about what happens when couples who break up, try to get
back together again. Paraphrasing: “Do you ever take milk out of the refrigerator,
sniff it and it’s starting to smell sour? So you put it back and think ‘Hmm.
Maybe this will smell better tomorrow?’ Read more.
New DCIS Cancer Data Should Ease
Womens’ Worry - Ductal Carcinoma In Situ (DCIS) is a cancer we’ve addressed
frequently, particularly in recent weeks while tracking the medical
developments of Food Network star Sandra Lee. She chose double mastectomy,
which we questioned. Now we’re seeing that there’s more data supporting our
original position. Read more.
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