I shouldn’t laugh but I did find this story funny when I read it. First, as horrible as leprosy is only 5 % of the population is susceptible and that’s with very close and repeated contact with it. Secondly, researchers just found that while it was once thought to transmit only person to person, they’ve…
Category Archives: Studies and Research
Cost of Food Pathogens by Rank
Meat contains the food pathogens that cost us the most money which includes doctor and hospital care, lost work days and lasting health problems. This includes poultry, pork, beef among other products. Researchers used data from the feds to link the parasites, bacteria, and viruses with the food that has the most of them the…
Light It Up Blue Campaign
April is autism awareness month and blue is the color that some large buildings will be displaying throughout the month for the disorder. The numbers are now one in 110 nation wide and one in 98 in the state of Georgia. These are the numbers of autism and related disorders in children. I’m sure that…
Disease Clusters
Disease clusters are being discovered among 15 states in our country. This should be of no surprise to researchers in my opinion as we’ve seen in movies such as the most famous one Erin Brockovich. The thing that the researchers don’t know is what is causing these clusters. I suspect that many industries would not…
Organ Donation
I am very surprised to learn that only about 26 in a million people are organ donors. I know this is something we don’t like to think about but eventually we are each and all called to our maker and the decision should not be left to the loved ones we leave behind. In Texas…
Pregnant Women Deny Smoking
What will they study next you ask? How about the fact that they’ve just discovered that a lot of pregnant women deny that they smoke while they are pregnant. They say it’s mostly non-Hispanic women who deny it and one of the possible reasons is that if a pregnant women is getting governmental medical assistance,…
Obese Babies
Latest research has shown that 1/3 of babies are overweight, and by age 2 they don’t get any thinner. It’s been suggested that breastfeeding alone not combined with bottle feeding will help keep a baby normal weight. They also say that putting cereal in with the formula is a bad idea as it will help…
Thyroid Cancer Drug Is Toxic
Astra Zeneca is a thyroid cancer drug which is waiting to get the OK to be sold and fully approved, however studies have shown that the drug itself is toxic. From what I understand, which is very little about chemo for cancer is that it’s supposed to be toxic and kill the cancer cells. It’s…
More Smoking Evils
A study of over 3000 people recently revealed to researchers that there could possibly be a link between secondhand smoke and other peoples hearing loss. However the study may not have painted a fair picture of the situation as it seemed to only measure a certain nicotine chemical that folks were exposed to the previous…
Overusing CT Scans
It seems there was a study done about the frequency of using CT scans in hospital emergency rooms, and it was found that since 1995 the use has gone up significantly. This is cause for some concern about people being exposed to radiation from the test itself, the expense which they say is about $400,…