from some of the 4,800 inmates. The administrators say the health hazard from arsenic, a chemical used in industry and farming, is insignificant, and they promise to filter the water some time in the next few years.
“It’s not that major of an issue,” said Kelly Harrington, the prison’s new warden.
, common in Central Valley communities, has been linked to cancer of the lungs, skin, kidneys, liver and bladder and to other maladies.
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The most basic way to prevent infections is to keep patients from being colonized by C.-diff. The Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Guidelines for Infection Control in Health Care Facilities notes that proper hand hygiene is the single most important factor in protecting patients from C.-diff. and other hospital-acquired infections. To complicate matters, the CDC advises that hands must be washed with soap and water when caring for Read the rest of this entry »
The researchers from Rockefeller University in New York City said their finding is an important advance in understanding mechanisms of fetal programming. It also sheds light on the production of new brain cells, helping to explain the dramatic rise of childhood obesity in the United States over the past three decades.
“We’ve shown that short-term exposure to a high-fat diet in utero produces permanent neurons in the fetal brain that later increase Read the rest of this entry »
By using motivational signs and offering free nutrition seminars, fitness tutorials and health screenings, Kempton says Presidential Towers is on its way to becoming the healthiest high-rise in the city.
But what really makes a healthy living space? We took a broader approach and came up with our own five criteria (see accompanying story). Then we rated the city’s five largest high-rises based on the number of residential units according to Appraisal Read the rest of this entry »
Quantities of mercury have been found in high fructose corn syrup, the ingredient that has replaced sugar in many of our processed foods. Reports have also come out that the
about traces of the toxic substance in food, and sat on the information. This news comes out just as we’ve learned that the peanut butter factory responsible for the salmonella outbreak has a
. What a week for food safety.
Mercury in high fructose corn syrup affects many Read the rest of this entry »
Sharfstein came to Baltimore in 2005 after four years as a health policy adviser to Rep.
. Waxman, a California Democrat with close ties to the incoming Obama administration, will take over the House committee that oversees the FDA in January.
Sharfstein wouldn’t comment yesterday on the speculation. “I love my job and I’m looking forward to another year of public health progress in the city,” he said.
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Although the variant was found in members of the genetically homogeneous Old Order Amish community in Pennsylvania, it is carried by about one of every five white Americans, said Yen-Pei Christy Chang, assistant professor of medicine, epidemiology and preventive medicine at the University of Maryland. Chang is a leader of the research group reporting the new finding in the current issue of the
.
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We should focus attention not only on the “enforcement gap,” but on the areas where current law offers little or no protection. In short, the law should impose further regulation on hunting, scientific experiments, entertainment, and (above all) farming to ensure against unnecessary animal suffering. It is easy to imagine a set of initiatives that would do a great deal here, and indeed European nations have moved in just this direction.
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American
study has revealed that high levels of insulin increase the risk of breast
cancer in women.
Lead researchers Marc Gunter and
Howard Strickler, of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York,
revealed that they examined the role of insulin in breast cancer while
controlling for oestrogen levels.
This attains significance because,
while the proneness to breast cancer has been attributed to high oestrogen
levels in many obese Read the rest of this entry »