16:14, 03/09/2018

In “The Special Ed Epidemic” series, World Mercury Project’s partner, Focus for Health (FFH), examined the special education epidemic, its crippling effects on the US economy, as well as housing and e...

20:05, 30/08/2018

Imagine your doctor telling you that you have Alzheimer’s disease or some other type of dementia. Then, imagine being told, “I’m sorry, there’s nothing we can do. You might want to start getting your ...

15:30, 23/08/2018

When I was very young, five or six, my parents always told me: “Tommy, be good.” But all I wanted to do was run in the woods, play in puddles, eat fast, swim, and have fun. I didn’t have time for mann...

19:11, 13/08/2018

More and more people are either swapping traditional cigarettes for e-cigarettes or simply picking up an e-cigarette habit, causing this trend to grow in popularity. The appeal of e-cigarettes is that...

16:13, 08/08/2018

There is a common belief that the air outside your front door is much worse to breathe than the air inside your home. But studies show the air inside your home is actually more polluted. How did your ...

17:32, 04/08/2018

Many women going through menopause describe often experiencing brain fog. For years, there was not enough evidence to support such claims. In recent years, however, research has begun to reveal that b...

14:44, 03/08/2018

Being a mom may be the most all-inclusive and demanding job in the world. It’s impossible to capture what running a family with school-age children entails these days, but here’s a very short list of ...

10:42, 19/07/2018

When we wake up in the morning, many of us automatically go on our phones or computers and start reading, checking messages, responding to things, and moving through our online world on autopilot. We ...

11:53, 18/07/2018

To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest. ~Pema Chodron Life has its down periods: your boss is unhappy with you, your business is struggling, y...

21:04, 11/07/2018

Oh, joy! That happy, buoyant emotion is a great feeling, whether it’s brought on by a wedding or birth or something as simple as finding the perfect fruit at the farmer’s market. On an emotional level...

16:03, 26/06/2018

Let’s face it: beauty can be a complex subject, especially when it comes to choosing safe, effective, and reasonably priced cosmetics and other beauty related products. It can be a guessing game: what...

16:30, 21/06/2018

When we think of cooking with herbs and spices, we usually reach for the fresh or dry versions of those ingredients to add flavor and depth to our culinary dishes. Now imagine enjoying those herbs and...

15:48, 20/06/2018

Avoiding genetically modified (GM) foods is a challenge, as mostly they remain unlabeled. Many consumers are also confused about what these foods are, or are under the persistent misconception that &#...

17:29, 15/06/2018

Pineapple (Ananas comosus) is a delicious and healthy tropical fruit. It’s believed to have originated in South America, where early European explorers named it after its resemblance to a pinecone (1)...

13:46, 05/09/2018

Mangoes are more than a delicious fruit you can add to smoothies for a delightful summer treat. Aside from being delicious, mangoes are also really good for your heart. New research finds eating two c...

13:21, 04/09/2018

We all have times when we’re not sticking to our plans and know we need to get some motivation to get moving. The usual motivational tips aren’t always very helpful. But there are three motivations th...

15:11, 31/08/2018

You may think that because you’re older, having strong muscles doesn’t matter, but you’re wrong. Researchers at King’s College London have found that muscle fitness is closely related to brain aging. ...

13:03, 27/08/2018

There seems to be a lot of confusion regarding the value of muscle stretching to accelerate recovery after exercise. “Stretching clears out your lactic acid,” and other similar claims abound. Is any o...

17:30, 18/08/2018

Low-carb diets might be popular now, but they could also be deadly over time, a long-term study shows. Esteemed British medical publication The Lancet Public Health released a study of the diets and h...

18:42, 17/08/2018

Chronic illness is at epidemic levels in the United States as well as other wealthy nations. Autoimmune diseases, though tending to receive less attention than headline-grabbing afflictions such as ca...

12:02, 10/08/2018

It’s a beautiful day. The sun is shining, you’re headed to the beach, and you don’t have to work all weekend. The world is your oyster and nothing could bring you down. And then, out of the blue, you ...

16:06, 09/08/2018

A healthy diet has been scientifically proven to provide numerous health benefits, such as reducing your risk of several chronic diseases and keeping your body healthy. However, making major changes t...

09:21, 02/08/2018

When I was growing up, we usually thought of all bacteria as the bad guys; microscopic organisms that cause disease and symptoms and therefore should be avoided. Times have changed as experts have unc...

16:45, 31/07/2018

Many of us may be considering “burning some fat” so we feel better in our bathing suits out on the beach or at the pool. What does that actually mean, though? The normal fat cell exists primarily to s...

16:08, 30/07/2018

Many of us have the intention of eating healthy, which is an important part of supporting good health. Yet, without knowing it, we could be secretly sabotaging our healthy diet. Even with small mistak...

13:06, 20/07/2018

Most of the carbohydrates in your diet are starches. Starches are long chains of glucose that are found in grains, potatoes and various foods. But not all of the starch you eat gets digested. Sometime...

14:16, 14/07/2018

Vitamin B12, also known as cobalamin, is an essential vitamin that your body needs but cannot produce. It’s found naturally in animal products, but also added to certain foods and available as an oral...

13:53, 13/07/2018

The instances of kidney stones have risen dramatically in new demographics like children, women, and African Americans and a newly released study from the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia has found...

21:35, 10/07/2018

If you live with an autoimmune disease, you’re well aware that food can relieve pain or make it worse. That’s because of the role food plays in fighting or aiding inflammation.                        ...

14:58, 08/07/2018

Moments after Neo eats the red pill in “The Matrix,” he touches a liquefied mirror that takes over his skin, penetrating the innards of his body with computer code. When I first learned about the cont...

11:28, 06/07/2018

Millions of Americans have replaced dairy milk with soy, rice, oat, coconut, pea, almond, cashew, hemp, flax, hazelnut and quinoa milks. Non-dairy milks generated $1.4 billion in U.S. sales last year,...

14:28, 29/06/2018

If you want to get stronger and feel better after exercising—which is important because it encourages you to keep exercising—you don’t need a fancy gym, our recent study shows. Earlier studies have sh...

07:51, 28/06/2018

In the United States, childhood obesity is a big concern—and it’s growing bigger. Children are at a greater risk of being obese than ever before. A recent study found that lack of exercise, fast food,...

16:19, 25/06/2018

Research has finally unveiled the five best ways to extend your lifespan by up to a decade. The study findings, which were published in the journal Circulation, suggests that having a healthy body mas...

18:30, 06/09/2018

The business world is salivating at the potential $22.6 billion recreational marijuana market in Canada, with more new pot users expected after legalization on Oct. 17. But public-health officials wan...

15:17, 29/08/2018

Many U.S. doctors don’t discuss the harms of lung cancer screening or the potential for overdiagnosis in conversations with current and former smokers about whether tests are necessary, two new studie...

14:37, 24/08/2018

To help combat a modern prevalence of diet-based disease, Oldways looks back to how our ancestors ate. In that spirit, the nonprofit organization, which is dedicated to promoting public health by pres...

18:10, 21/08/2018

Stanford Medicine hired Dr. Tait Shanafelt as chief wellness officer last year, not so much for the well-being of the patients as for the well-being of the physicians. An oncologist and hematologist b...

15:07, 20/08/2018

When Lucy Howard was pregnant with her second child, she felt like she was walking through fog. “It was a struggle to get up most [days]… I would spend mornings just sitting on the sofa crying. Everyt...

12:04, 16/08/2018

A recent survey shows that shoe wearing among young boys isn’t universal. German children and teenagers spend most of their day in shoes, while about 90 percent of their South African counterparts go ...

19:08, 14/08/2018

A Victorian man has been diagnosed with an uncommon fungal superbug that can cause serious infections and possibly cause death. Health authorities in Victoria said in an alert on Aug. 7 that they beli...

18:07, 12/08/2018

A new scientific advisory examines science to look at the health risks associated with a growing use of screen-based devices among children. The advisory looks at how sedentary behavior, like sitting ...

17:24, 06/08/2018

Wearing a maroon sweatshirt with “San Leandro Rebels” emblazoned on the front, 17-year-old Gail Punongbayan didn’t flinch when a physician’s assistant drew blood. “One, two, three, four, showtime!” Jo...

18:37, 01/08/2018

The NSW Government issued a public warning about a brand of eyeliner on July 24 after tests showed increased levels of lead in the Hashmi branded products. Testing of the imported eyeliners Hashmi Sur...

18:41, 24/07/2018

LONDON—The UK’s National Health Service is the world’s largest purchaser of fax machines, with a “farcical” reliance on outdated technology, medical experts have said. The report from the Royal Colleg...

12:35, 17/07/2018

Earlier this month, one of us visited a prominent U.S. medical school to give a lecture on the topic of burnout and how physicians can find more fulfillment in the medical profession. Sadly, that very...

19:21, 16/07/2018

A landmark experiment in north Queensland could hold the key to combating the spread of mosquito-borne diseases including dengue and Zika. Australian scientists managed to wipe out more than 80 per ce...

17:19, 09/07/2018

Immunotherapy boosts the immune system. It helps the immune system to find cancer and attack it. ...

16:32, 07/07/2018

LONDON—Many people swear by the wisdom of always going to the same family doctor who knows them inside and out. Researchers have now proven them right, demonstrating that having the same doctor for li...

08:30, 04/07/2018

World Mercury Project Note: WMP has internal documents in which the FDA acknowledges that technology that allows for the creation of these new vaccines has outpaced their ability to predict adverse ev...

03:51, 02/07/2018

Less than a quarter of Americans meet the national physical activity guidelines, according to findings (pdf) from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) National Center for Health Stati...

14:02, 27/06/2018

As a country and a society, we’ve never been anywhere close to “herd immunity” through vaccination, but where are all the epidemics? That doesn’t keep vaccine makers from using herd immunity as a weap...

08:06, 24/06/2018

By any measure, modern medicine is a miracle. Countless lives have been saved, epidemics averted, and suffering eased thanks to medical advances of the past century. But this miracle comes with misera...

02:51, 18/06/2018

World Mercury Project Team Note: The lessons learned from the ongoing saga of thimerosal are significant to all who care about vaccine safety, want justice for the injured, and to prevent future harm....

14:10, 07/09/2018

It can seem like there’s never enough time—not enough for sleep and not enough for play, not enough for cooking. and not enough for exercise. There’s a relatively new term to describe this feeling: ti...

19:14, 01/09/2018

Caroline Tupcienko would rather have a needle in her eye than tilt her head back for drops several times a day to prevent the blinding effects of glaucoma. The 73-year-old received an experimental ocu...

13:00, 28/08/2018

“I took him to every specialist imaginable. I had sleepless nights. All I could do was cry because I said, ‘There’s something wrong with my son and they can’t figure it out,’” said L...

18:17, 22/08/2018

Good habits can compel us when motivation does not, like well-trod steps that lead to success. Bad habits, meanwhile, can hold us in ruts that leave us repeating unwanted patterns. Changing our habits...

18:37, 15/08/2018

I’m no stranger to rushing around, operating on overload, and essentially resembling a chicken with no head. In my previous corporate life, I lived life at light speed and in complete chaos for sixtee...

16:24, 28/07/2018

  Looking a little dull? You could try tricks like scrubbing your skin with exfoliants or put a higher watt bulb above the bathroom mirror to brighten your complexion. But, your skin will never f...

17:33, 26/07/2018

Why do many problems in life seem to stubbornly stick around, no matter how hard people work to fix them? It turns out that a quirk in the way human brains process information means that when somethin...

13:44, 23/07/2018

Have you heard of BDNF—brain-derived neurotrophic factor? I hadn’t until recently my friend Dr. Bryce Wylde taught me what it was. Brain-derived neurotrophic factor is a growth hormone produced ...

10:06, 21/07/2018

Everyone experiences occasional digestive symptoms such as upset stomach, gas, heartburn, nausea, constipation or diarrhea. However, when these symptoms occur frequently, they can cause major disrupti...

10:00, 12/07/2018

Adults are spending more time sitting than ever, and few pay attention to how they sit throughout the day. Take a moment to think about all the reasons we sit. First off, you’re probably sitting while...

15:11, 05/07/2018

There’s a part of us that wants to find peace from all the chaos in our lives, all the busyness and distractions and complications and stress and overwhelmingness of it all. We want to get away from i...

09:36, 01/07/2018

Most of us want a greater sense of peace and ease in our lives, but life can be stressful, chaotic, overwhelming, full of distractions, and exhausting. We want to get away from all of that, exit the m...

07:55, 18/06/2018

We tend to view our minds as our whole being. But through meditation, we learn to watch our thoughts as if they were leaves floating by on a river. You can’t watch yourself, so that must mean that you...

08:39, 16/06/2018

Cleanliness has become an American obsession. We want to scrub everything until it sparkles and smells like lemon and lavender. But what if this desire for cleanliness is harmful? Keeping our bodies c...

09:06, 13/06/2018

People today live in a world that thrives on being busy, productive, and overscheduled. Further, they have developed the technological means to be constantly connected to others and to vast options fo...