Consuming gluten might not exactly be one of the seven deadly sins. But for people living with celiac disease and other health concerns, the protein that shares its name with the vice of excess is one of the last ingredients they want to read on a food ingredients label. Gluten, found commonly in wheat, barley […]
AAP recommends kids get vaccinated by Halloween Folks, don’t blame the messenger, but the shadow of the most miserable time of the year is closing in. Although it seems the flu season just ended, health officials are warning parents that another unpredictable influenza season is looming, and recommending families get vaccinated early in the season. […]
If you listen closely, you can hear a school bell already ringing. You can already make out the joyful noise coming from the playground at recess and smell the goulash in the cafeteria. It’s Back To School Season in America. This month, most of America’s 56.6 million elementary school students will return to the classroom. […]
Triclosan is a word no one wants to read on the ingredient label of their antibacterial soap today. The Food and Drug Administration has banned the widely used and disputed antiseptic chemical, along with triclocarban and 17 other chemicals from being used in hand and body washes. Companies nationwide have been instructed to take these […]
Our best defense against influenza needs better stopping power against the scariest name in the flu game: H3N2. That’s the unanimous verdict of health experts after the flu vaccine had another rough season fighting off the flu. The vaccine was incompletely ineffective against the powerful H3N2 strain that dominated the end of the 2018-19 flu […]
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has given alcohol-based hand sanitizer a fundamental vote of confidence in an April ruling deeming three crucial and debated ingredients safe for use. The FDA’s ruling allows three active ingredients – benzalkonium chloride, ethyl alcohol and isopropyl alcohol – to remain in hand sanitizer formulas. While deferring them from […]
The Earth is flat, Big Foot is real, we never really landed on the moon, Elvis drives trucks these days incognito in Texas and eating two Big Macs a day can actually help you lose weight. The world is full of popular, but silly myths that have been debunked through science and research. With numerous […]
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This Year’s Initiate Focuses On Reducing Hospital Infections Take a look at your hands. No matter how big or small, they have tremendous power. For with two hands comes great ability and great responsibility, especially if those hands belong to doctors and nurses. That’s the message the World Health Organization is sending with the theme […]
Productivity’s Public Enemy No. 1 will cost country 100 million lost work days, 32 million school days and $10.4B in hospitalizations this year Influenza is a freight train that breaks for no one, especially wallets. The high cost of the flu is as miserable as the sickly hurt its puts on millions of Americans each […]
