Archive for July 25th, 2012
Too Much Medical Care?
July 25th, 2012 | 
Author: The United States spends an estimated $210 billion annually on unnecessary medical services. For patients, this often means getting pulled into a cycle of repeated lab work, scans and other medical tests.
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Unplanned pregnancy rates remain steady in U.S.
The Ford Foundation's recent $1 million grant to the Los Angeles Times to cover inequality recognizes two important truths about the state of news media, according to this article. One is that newspapers, much diminished though they be, are still the best way to reach a broad audience. And the second is that society needs to find a new way forward to preserve the vital civic function performed by traditional newsrooms, the authors argue.
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Ford’s inequality coverage grant to L.A. Times has broader message
The Ford Foundation's recent $1 million grant to the Los Angeles Times to cover inequality recognizes two important truths about the state of news media, according to this article. One is that newspapers, much diminished though they be, are still the best way to reach a broad audience. And the second is that society needs to find a new way forward to preserve the vital civic function performed by traditional newsrooms, the authors argue.
“Clean food” is all about natural, unprocessed ingredients
The "clean food" movement of eating food close to its natural state, without artificial additives, is gaining popularity as a way to improve health. Lauren Niemes of the Nutritional Council of Greater Cincinnati says it means eating minimally processed and fresh foods, which are more nutritionally dense, affordable and environmentally friendly.
Melanoma on Rise with Indoor Tanning
"Powerful ultraviolet tanning units may be 10 to 15 times stronger than the midday sunlight on the Mediterranean Sea, and repeated exposure to large amounts of ultraviolet A delivered to the skin in relatively short periods (typically 10 to 20 minutes) constitutes a new experience for humans" …
Reporter’s Note: UVA = 320-400nm. Only the wavelengths below 340nm are responsible for burning the skin & producing a tan. Since that’s what tanning parlors' sell, rays that tan, most of the waves they provide customers are <340nm.
UVA2 (320-340nm) offers the same photo-biological effects, including tanning ability, as does UVB (280-320nm), while UVA1 (340-400nm) does not.
That said, repeated exposure to UVA1 delivered to the skin in relatively short periods at 2.2 times stronger than the midday sun "constitutes a new experience for humans" as well.
While we have no research on this new experience for humans, SLE patients seem to like it.
People eat less when food is “segmented”
Segmenting food — providing a visual cue to divide up food — results in people eating less of the food offered, U.S. researchers found.