The Washington Post reported today that the FDA is being blasted from all sides for allowing the Melamine food poisoning crisis to spin out of control. The story identifies sources of Melamine…
The general approach to cancer research is to treat each cancer as a unique disease. Now Hartmut Hucky Land, Ph.D., is taking the opposite approach: what do all cancers have in common and how can…
Daniel A. Menchik and Xiaoli Tian of the University of Chicago) have published a new study in the current issue of American Journal of Sociology on how we use emoticons, subject lines, and…
Acute kidney injury (AKI) is often caused by trauma, illness, or surgery. Research now shows that people who have suffered AKI have a higher risk later in life of getting the most serious form of…
Yes we have three branches of Government: Executive (president, governor and mayor) Legislative (Congress, state legislature and county/city council) Judicial (the courts) In the first…
HEADLINE: Consumers Union Calls on the FDA to Immediately Release All Results of Its Tests for Melamine Contamination in Food Products. Group ‘Deeply Concerned’ About Reports of FDA Test…
Why would a person book mark and regularly visit the Center For Disease Control (CDC) website? There are many reasons from protecting yourself and your family from food poisoning to being vigilant…
Vaccine Layering Extra Risky You’re planning a trip to Central Africa so you need a vaccination for Yellow Fever… your doctor has urged you to get immunized against shingles… and you still…
I am stepping outside of the normal topics on this Blog because I care about getting Jim Martin elected in the Georgia Senate run-off election. The race is close and national attention is focused on…
According to an editorial report from the European Journal of Lipid Science and Technology that unless proof can be established that there are no health problems from mineral oil, people should…
No this isn’t about how to poison a turkey, or the people who will eat the turkey on Thanksgiving. Its about how to prevent that from happening. Why worry you ask? Here are the facts according to…
Any discussion of food poisoning should start with where a person can find out about the subject and where to report suspected food poisoning. The State of Hawaii Department of Health (DOH) has…