What’s in vapes? Toxins, heavy metals, maybe radioactive polonium
If you asked me what’s in e-cigarettes, disposable vapes or e-liquids, my short answer would be “we don’t fully know”.
The huge and increasing range...
Ticks and Lyme disease: symptoms, treatment, and prevention
Tick-borne diseases, such as Lyme disease, are on the rise in people and dogs.
Reported cases in people in the U.S. increased from about 12,000...
Marijuana use linked to surprising genetic changes, new study finds
Marijuana is becoming increasingly popular and legal in various parts of the United States.
According to recent data, about 18% of all Americans have tried...
As e-cigarette use grows, more research needed on long-term effects of vaping
As the number of young people using electronic nicotine delivery systems grows, so does evidence that e-cigarettes may be harmful to human health.
More studies...
Community health workers boost blood pressure control, study finds
A recent study led by the NYU Grossman School of Medicine has shown that patients with hypertension who are paired with a community health...
Arsenic contamination of food and water is a global public health concern – researchers...
Up to 200 million people worldwide are exposed to arsenic-contaminated drinking water at levels above the legal limit of 10 parts per billion.
An uptick in ticks: Don’t let ticks make you sick
Bites from infected ticks are responsible for about a half-million new illnesses each year in the U.S. And those numbers are rising.
Could ‘new’ antibiotic treatment prevent chronic Lyme disease?
Every year, tens of thousands of new Lyme disease patients find that their symptoms persist even after the standard course of antibiotic treatment.
Instead of...
Some mixed-fruit juices and soft drinks have higher level of toxic metals
A new study from Tulane University has found that some commonly consumed beverages contain levels of toxic metals that exceed federal drinking water standards.
The...
No, vapes aren’t 95% less harmful than cigarettes. Here’s how this decade-old myth took...
It’s 2013. The Harlem Shake is on the radio and e-cigarettes are becoming a thing. A group of researchers convene to discuss these and...