• Firearms as a Public Health Crisis

    Updated: 2024-06-26 00:06:18
    The US Surgeon General, Vivek Murthy, recently put out a 40 page report titled: “Firearm Violence: A Public Health Crisis in America.” The report is entirely informational, without any policy force, but Murthy is hoping it will have the same long term cultural effect as the Surgeon General’s warning about the health risks of tobacco. I wrote about this exact issue in […] The post Firearms as a Public Health Crisis first appeared on Science-Based Medicine.

  • Motherhood, Wet-Nursing and Nation: Nineteenth-Century Brazilian Medical Perspectives

    Updated: 2024-06-25 09:00:37
    , : Skip to content Journal Latest Top Categories Global Health Book Reviews CFPs and Conference Reports Interviews Issue Index Submissions About Motherhood , Wet-Nursing and Nation : Nineteenth-Century Brazilian Medical Perspectives Posted on June 25, 2024 by Chris Pak Article Summary by Tiago Fernandes Maranhão “A black woman with white child on her back,” Bahia , 1860 Public domain images sourced from the collection of Leibniz-Institut fuer Laenderkunde , Leipzig Instituto Moreira . Salles The paper explores how doctors in nineteenth-century Brazil viewed women†s roles , especially in terms of having and raising children . It looks at their ideas about pregnancy , breastfeeding , and the use of enslaved wet nurses during a time when the country was trying to modernize . It also

  • Pertussis Cases are Rising Sharply in 2024

    Updated: 2024-06-07 11:00:00
    As the pandemic "winds down", cases of whooping cough are on the rise in dramatic fashion. The post Pertussis Cases are Rising Sharply in 2024 first appeared on Science-Based Medicine.

  • Collagen Supplementation: Hype and Hope

    Updated: 2024-06-06 14:00:00
    Collagen is an expensive protein supplement - nothing more. The post Collagen Supplementation: Hype and Hope first appeared on Science-Based Medicine.

  • What are “Adaptogens”?

    Updated: 2024-06-05 00:22:27
    The multi-billion dollar “snake oil” industry is nothing if not good at marketing. This is probably because this is not one or even a small number of companies, but likely thousands of companies and millions of individuals crowdsourcing many different marketing strategies. Those that work tend to prosper and proliferate, spawning variations. The rhetoric has been evolving in this way for at […] The post What are “Adaptogens”? first appeared on Science-Based Medicine.

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