A new campaign “Read ‘em before you eat ‘em” led by NYC’s Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, hopes to make a dent in the preventable health problems and early deaths caused by obesity each year.
This campaign comprises a series of ads being but up in New York Subway cars and is designed to help New Yorkers see how quickly fast-food calories add up.
Here are the initial set of ads:
Does this come as a surprise!
Over half of all supporting trials for FDA-approved drugs remained unpublished greater than 5 y after approval. Pivotal trials and trials with statistically significant results and larger sample sizes are more likely to be published. Selective reporting of trial results exists for commonly marketed drugs.
Reference: Public Library of Science
Comments from the author:
We found that there was indeed a pattern that favorable studies were more likely to be published than unfavorable trials,” said Ida Sim, associate professor of internal medicine at UCSF and the lead author.
Reference: Bloomberg Science
Further Reading: The Great Beyond, Bad Science, Respectful Insolence, Science Based Medicine
How far can we go before the health system breaks down? What is the government doing to prevent it?
This chart shows the national expenditure on health care (in billions) since 1960. In 2004, the $1.87 trillion spent on health care represented 16 percent of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP). In other words, health care took 16 cents of each dollar spent in 2006. By 2015 some forecast that 1 out of every 5 dollars in America will go to health care.
Reference: Kaiser Family Foundation
New York Times has an excellent in depth review of anemia which everyone should read.
Thanks to advertisements for the once-popular tonic Geritol, most people of a certain age know about “tired blood,” a disorder more accurately called anemia, involving a shortage of healthy red blood cells to carry oxygen to body tissues and cleanse them of carbon dioxide.
Reference: Anemia – Reporter’s File – ‘Tired Blood’ Warning: Ignore It at Your Peril – NY Times Health
The red blood cells of a person suffering from anemia (right) are a very light pink when stained, and they are often less round and full when viewed under a microscope. The round, plump bodies of normal red blood cells (left), when stained, are a bright pinkish-red. Hemoglobin is the substance that gives normal cells their bright color.
Reference: Anemia | medical health
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