One Conclusion Emerges From Interphone Study: Controversy Will Continue

One conclusion emerges from Interphone study: controversy will continue.

The 13-nation Interphone study was supposed to establish, once and for all, whether a link between cell phone use and brain tumors exists. But after 10 years and more than $25 million, the only clear message to emerge was that more research was needed. The study, which the International Agency for Research on Cancer sponsored and the International Journal of Epidemiology reported last month, sp...

Fructose and Cardiometabolic Disorders: The Controversy Will, and Must, Continue

The present review updates the current knowledge on the question of whether high fructose consumption is harmful or not and details new findings which further pushes this old debate. Due to large differences in its metabolic handling when compared to glucose, fructose was indeed suggested to be beneficial for the diet of diabetic patients. However its growing industrial use as a sweetener, espe...

The beatings will continue until morale improves.

Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis made good on her brash announcement that “there‟s a new sheriff in town” by choosing David Michaels as her Assistant Secretary for OSHA, and Jordan Barab as his Deputy Assistant. Both are mounting a national posse to round up and hang employers. Michaels hit the ground running, calling for – among other things – increased penalties and more aggressive enforcement ...

An unfounded conclusion from a confounded study.

CANCER: First Combined Analysis from INTERPHONE Inconclusive

biofilm Dispersing Agent rejuvenates older Antibiotics An estimated 75% of bacterial infections involve biofilms, surface-attached colonies of bacteria that are protected by an extracellular matrix. Bacteria protected within biofilms are up to 1,000 times more resistant to antibiotics than if they were freefloating (planktonic), which severely complicates treatment options. Rather than searchin...