Imagine you just walked into a convenience store to get a bottle of soda and the cashier asks for your ID before she will ring up your purchase. Then, imagine going out to your car and handing the soda to your child. The next thing you know, you’re in handcuffs for providing sugar to a [...]

Welcome to the jungle. According to a recent press release from the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (1), the United States is home to 747,408 registered sex offenders. If you think that number is scary, consider that about 100,000 of them are currently considered ‘missing’. Any one of those sex offenders could be [...]

The former drug advisor for the UK, Professor David Nutt, feels that government regulations against mind-altering drugs should be relaxed in order to allow scientific study into the possible benefits of those drugs. Because he expressed his opinion, Professor Nutt lost his job. Has Professor Nutt been experimenting on himself, and acting in an altered [...]

The FDA has declared that Gulf seafood is now as safe as it was before the Deepwater Horizon oil spill of April 2010. This accident caused an unbelievable amount of damage. Could it really be restored in less than two years? In order to determine the safety of Gulf seafood, the FDA has tested polycyclic [...]

If you are concerned about the effects of greenhouse gases on the environment, you may find new data from the EPA very interesting. For the first time, greenhouse gas emissions data is available to the public in a format that is easy to understand. Through a new EPA reporting program, you can see who the [...]

Scientists have known for quite some time that the overuse of antibiotics is creating superbugs that are extremely difficult to treat. It looks like the government has finally decided to act on that knowledge by banning cephalosporin drugs in animals raised as food for humans. There is no denying the discovery of antibiotics was a [...]

A study done in 2004 discovered that nearly 200,000 people died each year in the U.S. because of preventable medical errors. (1) While this number is staggering, it doesn’t even address the number of patients who are harmed, either permanently or temporarily, by medical errors. According to a new study, this number may be even [...]

The influenza epidemic of 1918 is perhaps one of the deadliest natural disasters our planet has ever experienced. With an estimated 50 million deaths or more, the 1918 flu, which some believe was actually an H1N1 epidemic, killed more people than World War I. (1) Could something so devastating happen to us again? In 1918, [...]

For many people, the new year is a new beginning. It is an opportunity to make changes and have a fresh start. You may be one of those people that resolve to improve your health this year by exercising and eating better. You can also improve your health by avoiding some of the many toxins [...]

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan has formed a partnership with St. John Health System to implement a new performance-based reimbursement program. The goal of this innovative partnership is to improve patient care while reducing healthcare costs. The five hospitals in the St. John Providence health System serve the southeast Michigan area. (1) In theory, [...]