Archive: 01/04/2016
Label understanding affects perception of poultry quality, researchers find
A doctoral student and her professor at the University of Arkansas have found consumer's knowledge of food labels affects the consumer's perception of product quality.
Apr 1, 2016
Rising global temperatures may threaten diabetics
The World Health Organization estimates that of the 500 million people worldwide thought to have diabetes, 90 percent have type 2 diabetes and the number diagnosed with diabetes by 2020 will increase dramatically. As the ...
Apr 1, 2016
Sports-related brain injuries: 12 new articles in April issue of Neurosurgical Focus
Sports-related concussion (also known as mild traumatic brain injury [TBI]) and possible sequelae such as CTE (chronic traumatic encephalopathy) are hot topics that can be found daily in news outlets and often as story lines ...
Apr 1, 2016
More Latinas screened for breast cancer after 'Promotora' visits
Latina women were nearly twice as likely to be screened for breast cancer after they were visited in their homes by trained community health workers, known as Promotoras, according to a study published in Cancer Epidemiology, ...
Apr 1, 2016
'Concern' over GPs prescribing unnecessary antibiotics for toothache
Over half of all patients who visited their GP with a dental problem in the last 10 years were not offered a long-term treatment for their pain and were instead prescribed antibiotics, often unnecessarily, new research has ...
Apr 1, 2016
We now live in a world in which more people are obese than underweight, major global analysis reveals
In the past 40 years, there has been a startling increase in the number of obese people worldwide—rising from 105 million in 1975 to 641 million in 2014, according to the most comprehensive analysis of trends in body mass ...
Apr 1, 2016