ANALYSIS AND COMMENTS

July 2019 theStar;In 2010, humanity passed an important milestone. Obesity became a bigger public health problem than hunger. One hungry child is still one too many. Eradicating hunger remains a priority. But the rising rates of obesity and diabetes can no longer be ignored. A recent review by the Ministry …

June 2019 npr; As a group, surgeons are not well known for their bedside manner. “The stereotype of the abrasive, technically gifted … surgeon is ubiquitous among members of the public and the medical profession,” write the authors of a 2018 article in the AMA Journal of Ethics. While poor manners aren’t …

June 2019 Medicalnewstoday; Energy drinks are popular, especially among teenagers and young adults. But a clinical trial reports that energy drinks caused disturbances to the volunteers’ heart rhythms and blood pressure. Energy drinks are the second most popular dietary supplement of choice for teenagers and young adults in the United …

May 2019 YahooNews;Country folks have driven the recent global rise in obesity, a study published Wednesday suggests.  This contradicts the predominant thinking that links being overweight with urban living. “The results of this massive global study overturn commonly held perceptions that more people living in cities is the main cause of the …

April 2019 DailyMail;It’s bad news for hipsters but men with beards harbour more germs in their whiskers than dogs carry in their fur, scientists say. The alarming news follows a study that found every sampled beard was crawling with bacteria, and nearly half had bugs that were hazardous to human …

April 2019 Yahoo news; The over-the-counter herbal drug kratom has been linked to an increasing number of overdose deaths, federal health officials said this week. Kratom was a cause of death in at least 91 fatal overdoses in the United States from July 2016 to December 2017, and 152 tested positive for the substance …

March 2019 YahooNews; After a raft of studies reassuring consumers that eggs are OK to eat, a new report associates an increasing risk of heart disease with the increasing consumption of eggs. The report, combining data from six earlier studies, found a 6 percent increased risk of cardiovascular disease when …

March 2019 voanews; The death rate among women undergoing a C-section to deliver a baby is about 50 times higher in Africa than in most wealthy nations, researchers said Friday. One in 200 women dies during or soon after a cesarean in a sampling of nearly 3,700 births across 22 …

March 2019 Yahoo news; NEWS How childbirth cost one mother her hands and legs Shantel Smith developed an infection after a stillbirth at Touro Infirmary in New Orleans in 2011. In an ongoing lawsuit, Smith alleges that delayed diagnosis and treatment resulted in devastating amputations of her legs and hands. …

March 2019 Yahoo News;U.S. health regulators said on Friday that a third cancer-causing toxin was found in some blood pressure pills recalled by India’s Hetero Labs a day earlier, adding to a global recall of commonly used drugs to tr.S. health regulators said on Friday a third cancer-causing toxin was …