USA Ban on HIV-Positive Visitors, Immigrants Expires
In a move public health and human rights advocates have hailed as a “victory,” the so-called HIV travel ban, which barred entry to the U.S. by people living with HIV or AIDS, has been officially revoked, bringing to a close years of work to end the measure. “I think there’s reason to be joyful that [...]
Drinking Coffee May Reduce the Risk of Stroke
This could be great news for older women who over the years have loved to sip their cappuccinos. Studies seem to indicate that as long as a woman does not smoke, drinking coffee may actually lower the risk for a stroke. After a 24 year study using data and charts from Nurses Health it was [...]
Health ratings for New York Restaurants
For the first time, the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene will compel nearly 25,000 New York restaurants to publicly post inspectors’ cleanliness ratings, which have previously been available only online or at the department. Rating signs, to be supplied by the city, will be required to be visible from the street, [...]
Dangers of Pharmaceutical Drugs
Did you know that there are some dangers associated with the use of pharmaceuticals. Did you know that the number of people in the US killed by pharmaceutical drugs is double the number who die annually in car wrecks!! Another frightening statistic is that around a million people every year are severely injured by their [...]
Rethinking Saturated Fats
Should we be reconsidering the conventional wisdom on saturated fat? Yes, according to Gary Taubes’s interpretation of the new report in The New England Journal of Medicine on a two-year diet experiment in Israel. The Israeli researchers found that people on a relatively low-fat diet lost less weight (6 pounds) than those who ate a [...]
