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Latest blog posts from Dr. Buttery's Public Health Blog

Ban On Fast Food TV Advertising Would Reverse Childhood Obesity Trends.
A ban on fast food advertisements in the United States could reduce the number of overweight children by as much as 18 percent, according to a new study from Lehigh University being published this month in the Journal of Law and Economics. The study also reports that eliminating the tax...
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Published 20 hours ago

Data suggest physician shortage could exceed 124,000 by 2025.
Congressional Quarterly reported, "The nation's health system will have to rely on nurse practitioners and physician assistants to cope with a shortage of doctors that will climb to 124,000 physicians by the year 2025, according to new projections [released] by a medical school lobby. This...
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Published 20 hours ago

Overweight women at increased risk of advanced breast cancer
A nationwide study of over 280,000 women showed that postmenopausal women who are overweight or obese have advanced breast cancer at significantly higher rates than women of normal weight or less than normal weight. From 1996 to 2005, researchers collected ongoing mammography data on 287,115...
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Published 4 days ago

Global DIsease Alert Map
Google.org’s investment of “More than $14Million for genetic and digital detection” is the title of a blog post that I recently came across. Under a program called Predict and Prevent, Google is working with Healthmap.org and Promed-mail.org to tract the outbreak of infectious diseases...
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Published 4 days ago

Test for up to 5,000 different allergens from just one drop of blood.
The new basophil-microarray based allergy assay is the brainchild of researchers in The University of Nottingham’s Schools of Pharmacy and Biosciences. The new technology developed at Nottingham is a lab-based, in-vitro test to mimic human allergic reaction that could be used as an alternative...
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Published 4 days ago

Transporting Broiler Chickens Could Spread Antibiotic-resistant Organisms
Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health have found evidence of a novel pathway for potential human exposure to antibiotic-resistant bacteria from intensively raised poultry�"driving behind the trucks transporting broiler chickens from farm to slaughterhouse. A study by...
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Published 6 days ago

Grow old in good health �" vast disparity between European countries.
Although life expectancy is constantly growing in the countries of the EU, living longer isn’t always the same as living well, and knowing to what age someone will live in good health remains a different question altogether. Carol Jagger, Professor of Epidemiology at the University of...
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Published 6 days ago

Cancer Death Rates Decrease
The cancer death rate in the United States continues to go down, a new report from the nation's leading cancer organizations says. What's more, cancer incidence also appears to be dropping. The findings come from the Annual Report to the Nation on the Status of Cancer, 1975-2005, Featuring...
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Published 6 days ago

You cannot win for loosing.
A federal regulation aimed at preventing mad cow disease from getting into the food supply (a very rare occurrence) could create health risks of its own: many thousands of cattle carcasses rotting on farms, spreading germs, attracting vermin and polluting the water. The new rule could lead...
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Published a week ago

Children born in fall may have increased risk of developing asthma.
According to a study in American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine children born in fall have increased risk of developing asthma. The "risk for childhood asthma was higher for babies who suffered from a respiratory tract infection early in life. Further, the risk for developing...
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Published a week ago

The Health of Presidents.
Today’s NEJM contains a must read editorial discussing the health of presidents and candidates. The issue is whether the media should have access to genetic scans of candidates. The media is incapable of understanding scientific analysis and reporting research correctly. One of the final...
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Published 2 weeks ago

Robots may some day medically assist American seniors, researchers say.
HealthDay reported that "in the not-so-distant future, American seniors may turn to helpful, uncomplaining robots to fill the worrisome 'care gap' that many face today." Already, University of Massachusetts researchers have created the uBOT-5, which is "capable of carrying out simple tasks, while...
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Published 2 weeks ago