How Finland Stops Bullying
Finland's anti-bullying program is called KiVa, "kiusaamista vastaan," which means "against bullying." KiVa includes many different resources, like tools for teachers and parents and in-clas...(more)
A Host of Common Chemicals Endanger Child Brain Development
Scientists are calling for renewed attention to the evidence that many common chemicals endanger neurodevelopment in fetus and children. The chemicals that are of most concern include lead, mercu...(more)
Why French Children Don’t Have ADHD
Child psychiatrists in the States consider ADHD as a biological order.French child psychiatrists, on the other hand, see ADHD being linked to psycho-social and situational causes. Instead of drug...(more)
Indonesian Fake Vaccine Syndicate Busted
Fifteen people have been arrested in Indonesia for their involvement in a criminal syndicate that has been distributing fake vaccines to hospitals across the country for 13 years. The fake vaccin...(more)
Move Over Zika, It’s Yellow Fever’s Turn
The World Health Organization released a situation report regarding yellow fever outbreak in West Africa, saying this could be the next global health emergency, and it may happen very quickly. Ye...(more)
At Last, Some Sense about Vitamin D Supplementation
Researchers at the University of Alberta, Canada, negated the evidence provided by 800 studies about the benefits of vitamin D. They found that it cannot treat or prevent conditions such as cance...(more)
Weight-Loss Device Approved by FDA Leaves Doctors Appalled
A weight-loss device approved by FDA recently has some doctors up in arms, because the device, which lets patients pump some of the food they've just eaten directly from their stomachs into ...(more)
Patent Granted to Potential Cure for Type1 Diabetes
A US patent has been approved for type I diabetes cure. Developed by scientists from the University of Technology Sydney, the cure involves combining cells that deliver insulin with a technology ...(more)
Mysterious Disease That's Killing Farm Workers in India
Researchers are witnessing the spread of a chronic kidney disease of non-traditional cause, in farmers in Nicaragua and rural India. Although there is still uncertainty about the causes, heat str...(more)
A Transplanted Uterus Offers Hope, But Sparks Debate
Though the uterine transplant from a deceased donor into 26-year-old Lindsey was initially thought successful, a yeast infection forced removal of the organ within weeks. The doctors at Cleveland...(more)
WHO Chief Blames Governments for Zika Outbreak
Holding the governments responsible for Zika epidemic along with the associated birth defects, Dr. Margaret Chan, said the resurgence of the threat is because of the abandoned programs to control...(more)
Social Media to Help Detect Mental Health Risk in Users
347,000 tweets, 293,000 Facebook statuses and 400 hours of YouTube videos are uploaded to the web every minute that reveal social media users’ lives and habits. Now, researchers are working on ...(more)
Neurosurgeon Sergio Canavero Plotting Human Head Transplant
It may sound like something from a horror show but, if it works, a head transplant could greatly improve quality of life or even save people who are paraplegic or have advanced cancer. Canavero p...(more)
FDA Approves New Drug to Treat Bladder Cancer
The Food and Drug Administration approved a new immunotherapy drug developed by Roche to treat bladder cancer. The drug, called Tecentriq, works by unleashing the body’s immune system to attack...(more)
The Woman Who Cared for Abandoned Gay Men Dying of AIDS
Between 1984 and the mid-1990s, before better HIV drugs effectively rendered her obsolete, Ruth Coker Burks cared for hundreds of dying people, many of them gay men who had been abandoned by thei...(more)
Both, Mother and Father Contribute to Fetal Health: Study
The father contributes far more to the health and well-being of his offspring than was previously thought. Father’s lifestyle, and how old he is, can be reflected in molecules that control gene...(more)
Acetaminophen Dulls Your Pain and Also Your Empathy: Study
In addition to reducing physical pain, acetaminophen can also reduce a person’s ability to empathize with other people. Not just pain and empathy, the experience of positive emotions such as jo...(more)
Google Gains Access to NHS Patient Records for New App
Despite NHS Trust assurance that patient data provided for the app is to help hospitals keep tabs on patients with kidney problems, privacy groups fear that collaborators DeepMind could use its D...(more)
Catholic Hospitals Deny Women Emergency Services
Even though Catholic hospitals receive billions in taxpayer dollars, they deny critical care such as miscarriage treatment and sterilization, even in cases where the patient’s life is threatene...(more)
Greater the Social Media Use Higher the Body Image Concern
Spending hours trolling various social feeds during the day is linked to a greater risk of young adults developing eating and body image concerns, irrespective of their gender, age, race and inco...(more)
Psych Doctors Favor Electroshock Treatment for Children
Watchdog groups are protesting against the American Psychiatric Association recommendation that electroshock therapy be used on children unresponsive to psychiatric drugs. Eight million U.S. chil...(more)
The Gateway Drug Marijuana: Myth or Reality?
Research suggests that cannabis users who started smoking between 12–17 years of age are 85 times more likely to use cocaine than kids who have never smoked pot. Citing inconclusive evidence, s...(more)
Scientists May Have Found a Way to Erase Painful Memories
Researchers at Stony Brook University found a way to manipulate memories by stimulating cholinergic neurons in the amygdala, part of the brain associated with memory. The finding will have enormo...(more)
Even Light-Use Hookahs May Damage Your Lungs: Study
Bubbling tobacco smoke through water before inhaling it does not “clean” it, according to a new study in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. The tobacco smoke trea...(more)
EPA Final Report on Glyphosate Safety Report Disappears
The Environmental Protection Agency, on April 29, 2016, published online a ‘final’ 87-page document that shuts down a 30-year debate on herbicide glyphosate by classifying it - “Not Likely...(more)
Scientists to Resurrect A 30,000-Year-Old Virus
A a 30,000-year-old ‘monster’ virus which has lain dormant in the frozen wastelands of northeastern Russia is about to be resurrected by researchers curious of its potential effects, to learn...(more)
Farmer Suicides: Could GMO Be Responsible Too?
Mounting debt and crop failure are not the only reasons for suicides. Mass farmer suicides in India are now linked to GMO pesticide chemicals. Toxic agricultural chemicals, sprayed on the crops h...(more)
Cell Phone’s Radiation Releases Mercury from Dental Fillings
When you hold a mobile phone next to your jaw, you are driving electromagnetic energy into the mercury fillings in your mouth, heating them up just enough to accelerate their release of mercury. ...(more)
New Alzheimer’s Treatment Fully Restores Memory Function
Australian researchers have discovered a non-invasive ultrasound technology that clears the brain of the plaques that are responsible for memory loss and a decline in cognitive function in Alzhei...(more)
Artificial Wombs: The Coming Era of Motherless Births?
Ectogenesis is pregnancy occurring in an artificial environment, from fertilization to birth. Two areas of biotechnology are working on what potentially can enable ectogenesis in humans, and what...(more)
Brazil Approves Hemp Cannabidiol Oil for Cancer Treatment
In a medical breakthrough, Real Scientific Hemp Oil (RSHO), has been approved by Brazil government for cancer treatment. The decision to use cannabis for medical necessities signals its continued...(more)
The Girl that Fled the U.S. to Escape Forced Chemotherapy
When Sarah was diagnosed with cancer in 2013 her parents initially agreed to chemotherapy, but they withdrew after their daughter’s condition worsened. The hospital legally tried to strip their...(more)
Exercise Is Not a Vaccine against Heart Disease: Mayoclinic
Though the benefits of exercise far outweigh the risks when it comes to heart health, the risk increases with rigorous exercise. Rigorous exercise triggers arrhythmia which causes the heart to st...(more)
The Dangerous Chemicals in Your Cosmetics
From sodium lauryl sulphate in your shampoo to polythylene tetrophilathalate in eye shadows and aluminum compounds in antiperspirants that block the sweat glands, these chemicals are dangerous to...(more)
Activist Doctors Expose the Rot in Indian Healthcare
Dissenting Diagnosis. a book by Dr Arun Gadre, a gynaecologist, and Dr Abhay Shukla, a physician, both activists, is an investigation into the murky world of healthcare. Based on a national surve...(more)
Do Not Get Pregnant if Using Acne Drug
Common acne drug Accutane manufactured by Roche causes severe birth defects and miscarriages. But it is still legal. The drug which can affect the way in which the body reads genes, is known to h...(more)
Indian Experts Question Universal Immunization Program
Ten Indian health experts have written to the PMO with concern on the implementation of a pentavalent (5 actives in one vaccine) into the Indian health system. Expensive vaccines with no utility ...(more)
Pharmaceutical Won't Patent Medicines in Poor Countries
A British pharmaceutical giant took a laudable step towards broadening the access to important new medicines in the developing world by allowing manufacturers in the world's poorest countrie...(more)
What’s Healthy Food for Me May Not Be Healthy for You
Until recently we knew that glycemic index (GI), a standard to rank foods based on how they affect blood sugar level, is a factor that helps us develop healthy diets. Now, an Israeli study found ...(more)
Energy Efficient Bulbs Causing Anxiety, Migrain even Cancer?
Energy efficient light bulbs can cause a multitude of health problems like migraines, anxiety and even cancer. If these bulbs are broken indoors they will release a gas that is 20 times more tox...(more)
Brazil Gives Access to People to Use Untested Cancer ‘Drug’
Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff has sidestepped the country’s drug regulators, signing into law a bill that guarantees people with cancer access to an unapproved ‘miracle drug&rsqu...(more)
How Our Brains Become More Active When We Tell Stories
We all enjoy a good story. But why do we feel so much more engaged when we hear a narrative about events? When we are being told a story, things change dramatically. Our brain activates the langu...(more)
A Country Where Toilets Are a Sign of Hope
Congo has been ravaged by war,corruption, poverty and poor governance. Many villagers of this country consider it a fortune to own a lavatory. The Community Health Club,an initiative that trains ...(more)
Researchers Speed Up Whole Human Genome Sequencing
Genetic diseases are the leading cause of death for infants in the United States. Doctors rely on whole-genome sequencing for timely diagnosis and treatment. However, even the fastest sequencing ...(more)
Pharmaceutical Giant Alleged of Falsifying Data in Clinical Trials of Psychiatric Drugs
In what has been termed "one of the biggest frauds in American healthcare history," pharmaceutical giant SmithKline Beecham – now GlaxoSmithKline – has been alleged to have falsified ...(more)
A New Era in Medical Marijuana Research
Marijuana remains illegal at the federal level in the U.S., but 23 states and the district of Columbia have legalized its use for chronic pain, nausea, glaucoma, migraine and more. Researchers be...(more)
Want to live longer, move to this Italian city
Acciaroli — a small village on the southern end of Italy’s Amalfi Coast —has a population of only 2,000, yet the village boasts some 300 elders who have reached the age of 100 &...(more)
Cancer Cure You Are Not Supposed to Know About
Many verifiably effective and affordable treatments for cancer exist, but seems to be unwanted or outright prohibited by the medical establishment. Mebendazole is a widely used anti-parasite medi...(more)
Pedophiles Could Be Corrected Yet, Clinical Trial Commences
Swedish researchers have started a clinical trial to assess whether a prostate cancer drug could help prevent pedophilic behavior. They hope to show that the drug, which lowers testosterone level...(more)
FDA Proposes Arsenic Limit in Baby Food
After an extensive study of arsenic levels in food, the US FDA proposed a limit of 100 parts per billion (ppb) for inorganic arsenic in infant rice cereal. The agency has already set limits for l...(more)
Food for Work Returns
Able-bodied people in Zimbabwe's drought-stricken districts have been helping themselves to aid meant for vulnerable groups and will now earn their keep under a massive food-for-work program...(more)
Yellow Fever outbreak in Angola worries Health Organisations
Angola is experiencing a major urban yellow fever outbreak that threatens other countries, including China, and is exposing how poorly prepared the world is to fight two mosquito-borne epidemics ...(more)
Environmental Threat of Animal-to-Man Diseases Rising: UN
Ebola, Zika, bird flu, and other zoonotic diseases, constitute 60 percent of all infectious diseases in humans, and one new infectious disease emerges in humans every 4 months. Dramatic reduction...(more)
Surgery to Control Obesity May Help Diabetics: Study
A first-of-its-kind study by a Mumbai doctor on 80 patients in the city to control type-2 diabetes has shown that gastric bariatric surgery can also treat diabetes. Even as the American Diabetes ...(more)
WHO: Coffee No Longer Deemed Possible Carcinogen
Twenty-five years after classifying coffee as a possible carcinogen leading to bladder cancer, the World Health Organization’s cancer research arm, IARC, has reversed course, saying that coffee...(more)
Polio Strain Found in Hyderabad Prompts Vaccination Drive
Government says India continues to be polio free, after a strain of polio virus found in samples of sewage water in Hyderabad turned out to be a vaccine derived polio virus, and its transmission ...(more)
India Must Tackle High Obesity Rate: Global Nutrition Report
The Global Nutrition Report 2016 noted that obesity is fast approaching the scale of other forms of malnutrition. The Report highlighted that India must pay attention to its growing rate of obesi...(more)
Alzheimer’s & Aluminum Link Can No Longer Be Ignored
A new case study from Keele University in the UK unequivocally shows high levels of aluminum in the brain of an individual exposed to aluminum at work, who later died from Alzheimer’s disease. ...(more)
Landmark Study Shows Nature Can Effectively Treat PTSD
UC Berkeley researchers suggest that nature is a viable, infinitely safer, and a more effective alternative treatment for PTSD than SSRIs. Post-traumatic stress disorder, a condition that wreaks...(more)
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