Even if you exercise regularly, it might not be enough to counteract the effects of too much sitting. Many people have sedentary jobs and also engage in sedentary leisure activities after work, with the result that a lot more time is spent sitting than moving. A study calculated how much time a group of men [...]

Robert MacNeil, former anchor of the PBS program NewsHour, takes viewers on a visit with his 6-year-old autistic grandson, Nick, to see how autism affects the whole family. In the video Nick’s mother, Alison McNeil, states: “… So we went from a 15-month appointment where this child was A-OK, supposedly, and given the MMR, the [...]

Telegraph.co.uk FDA to Regulate E-Cigarettes as TobaccoCSP Daily NewsROCKVILLE, Md. — The US Food & Drug Administration's Center for Tobacco Products (CTP) will be looking at e-cigarettes as tobacco products and not as drug delivery device, the agency reported yesterday. …FDA to regulate e-cigs as tobacco productsWinston-Salem JournalFDA To Treat E-Cigs as Tobacco ProductsNACS OnlineE-cigarettes [...]

Severely straightened hair ala Hollywood movie star-style may be wildly popular right now, but there’s a downside to the “Brazilian blowout” that the Office of Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) wants you to know about. According to Time Healthland, the chemicals needed to achieve this ultra-straight-hair look include formaldehyde, which has [...]

In another illustration of mind over matter, a researcher at Nottingham University, England found that simply creating an optical illusion for arthritic pain sufferers can ease the pain. For the illusion to work, patients place their hand inside a box containing a camera, which then projects the image in realtime onto a screen in front [...]

A drug-safety watchdog group is calling for the ban of the popular diet drug Alli, one of the nation’s most marketed over-the-counter (OTC) weight loss drugs. According to Cleveland.com, Public Citizen sent a 31-page letter to the FDA summarizing its concerns about the drug. Alli’s active ingredient is orlistat, which Public Citizen says can “expose [...]

A video on YouTube on the biochemistry of fructose and posted in July 2009 has gone viral, with more than 800,000 views so far. People are going to the site at the rate of 50,000 a month, even though it’s 90 minutes long, The New York Times reports. Calling sugar a “toxin” or a “poison” [...]

What’s the truth about radiation risks? Yahoo News assembles a list of radiation exposures that you face, and attempts to separate fact from fiction: 1. Radiation from the Japanese nuclear disaster. An earthquake and tsunami has left officials struggling to contain radiation from the Fukushima Daiichi power plant. If you live in the U.S., there’s [...]

The U.S. military’s medical system is flooded with prescription drugs, and the condquences have been deadly for some soldiers.  By some estimates, over 300,000 troops have come back from Iraq or Afghanistan with PTSD, depression, or a traumatic brain injury.  The Pentagon has turned to drugs to treat these complex problems. But these drugs, which [...]

A changing climate means allergy-causing ragweed pollen has a longer season that extends further north than it did just 16 years ago, U.S. scientists reported on Monday. In research that gibes with projections by the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, plant and allergy experts found that ragweed pollen season lasted as much as 27 [...]