A review in Surgical Neurology pooled 11 qualifying studies and found that using a cell phone for 10 years or more roughly doubled the risk of a brain tumor on the side of the head usually held to the phone. The link reached significance for glioma and acoustic neuroma, not meningioma.
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Lifestyle
10 Reasons Why Exercise is Good for Your Weight
Answering a Time article that said exercise won't make you thin, Mercola lists reasons working out matters for weight: aerobic exercise targets abdominal fat, burns excess calories, preserves muscle and metabolism, and helps curb emotional eating.
Lifestyle
Limit your exposure to cell phone radiation
Environmental Working Group urges consumers to buy low-emission phones while the science is unsettled, and publishes an interactive guide ranking radiation output for more than 1,000 models. It also wants the government to require radiation labeling at the point of sale.
Miscellaneous
Carter's White House press secretary Jody Powell dies
Jody Powell, press secretary to President Jimmy Carter, died Monday of a heart attack at his Maryland home at age 65. A friend said Powell had been working with firewood and collapsed while his helper was away; he had suffered a heart attack in recent years.
Disease
Update: Influenza Activity --- United States, April--August 2009
Pandemic H1N1 activity peaked in May and June 2009, fell through July and early August, then rose in some areas late in August, which CDC says might signal an early start to the 2009-10 season. From mid-April to 30 August it counted 9,079 hospitalizations and 593 deaths.
Disease
How did the Spanish Flu Enter the United States?
The 1918 Spanish flu reached American soil at Fort Riley, Kansas in March, with a case in Queens two weeks later. Wartime mobilization sped its spread, and unusually it killed young, able-bodied adults, attacking lung tissue the flu normally spares.
Disease
What's the Difference Between a Cold and the Flu?
A cold builds over several days, starting with a scratchy throat and running nose, while flu strikes after a 3-4 day incubation with severe body aches, high fever, sore throat and cough. Cold sufferers can still function minimally; flu patients are left helpless.
Disease
Type 1 Diabetes Explained
A writer recalls a family friend whose irritability and slurred speech turned out to be Type 1 diabetes, then explains the disease as an autoimmune attack on the pancreatic beta cells that make insulin. It is usually diagnosed young and accounts for 5 to 10 percent of diabetes cases.
Disease
Can Animals Catch the Flu?
Flu viruses have infected ducks, chickens, pigs, whales, horses and seals, but only avian and swine strains readily reach people, sometimes through an intermediate host such as a pig, as in the 1968 Hong Kong pandemic and the 1976 Fort Dix outbreak.
Miscellaneous
The Health and Emotional Risks of Perfectionism
A personal essay arguing that perfectionism, unlike the pursuit of excellence it resembles from outside, produces anxiety, hypertension, heartache and a sense of never being good enough, and that thought patterns show up as bodily ailments.
Environment
Beaches harbor deadly MRSA
University of Washington researchers found Staph on nine of 10 Puget Sound public beaches, with seven of 13 Staph aureus samples from five beaches multidrug-resistant, the first such report from marine water and beach sand. Earlier Florida work found Staph in 37 percent of water samples.
Government
Message for you from the President
A 2009 Organizing for America campaign email relaying President Obama's request that supporters watch a video and add their names in support of his health reform plan, with his own message to supporters appended.
Disease
University student dies from h1n1 complications
Warren Schor, a 20-year-old Cornell junior, died at Cayuga Medical Center of H1N1 complications, the first such death in Tompkins County. About 70 people in the US had died by then, most with underlying conditions; whether Schor had any was not clear.
Lifestyle
High Risk Dieting
A young British woman died while on the 500-calorie LighterLIfe diet, and her inquest heard she wanted to lose weight before her wedding. The piece notes she had her doctor's approval, that guidance sets a 1,200-calorie floor for women, and that obesity itself strains the heart.
Lifestyle
Live Near a Busy Freeway? It May be Raising Your Blood Pressure
A Lund University study in Environmental Health, based on 28,000 questionnaires from one Swedish province, found young and middle-aged adults tended to have higher blood pressure where home road noise reached 60 decibels, rising with each decibel above that.
Miscellaneous
Huge Giveaways In White House Deal With Big Pharma
A leaked memo shows the White House agreed to oppose congressional efforts to bargain for lower drug prices or import drugs from Canada, while PhRMA agreed to cut $80 billion in projected costs over ten years and back the bill with a $150-million ad campaign. Both sides deny the deal.
Miscellaneous
FREE Book Documenting the Horrors of Vaccination
Mercola links to a free PDF of Horrors of Vaccination Exposed and Illustrated, a 1920 book that claimed vaccination was killing more people than smallpox and petitioned President Wilson to end compulsory vaccination. Google Books offers it and a million others in EPUB.
Miscellaneous
Mercury Fillings Battle Heats Up in D.C.
Dr. Mercola thanks readers whose calls and letters to the FDA over mercury dental amalgam drew what an FDA publication called unprecedented organized opposition to a final rule, and quotes Michael Bender of the Mercury Policy Project calling the ruling inconsistent.
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