The study’s authors say airport scanner radiation is minimal compared to the levels of background radiation we’re exposed to daily. Going through one airport body scan delivers as much radiation as six to nine minutes of living, or one or two minutes of flying in an airplane. So what’s the cancer risk of the scans? [...]
There are laws in this country about not discriminating against people with disabilities. So I find it completely confusing that Abbie Dorn, who was left brain-damaged after the birth of her triplets in 2006, has been prohibited from seeing her children because her husband fears the kids will be traumatized.
As I learned at South by Southwest, one way that blogueros like me can turn their little passion project into something resembling an income stream is to write a book that builds on their blog.
With traces of radioactive material from Fukushima appearing in rainwater as far away as Boston, concerns about radiation exposure are at an all-time high. But even if you’re not anxious about contamination from Japan, you may be wondering about the health risks associated with everyday sources of radiation — from the sun to airport scanners [...]
Given the choice between a hot dog and a rotisserie chicken, any self-respecting health-conscious eater would choose the chicken. But according to a new study in the excellently named journal Meat Science, the chicken would be the riskier option, at least when it comes to cancer-causing agents.
Number of food products, including wasabi, cucumbers and green onions, found to be tainted with radioactive iodine-131 or cesium-137 in Tokyo and five other prefectures. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has said that fruits, vegetables and dairy products manufactured in the Fukushima, Ibaraki, Tochigi and Gunma prefectures will be held at U.S. ports [...]
There are only a lucky few among us who can’t relate to the intense pain of being rejected by a significant other. If a breakup is unexpected, it’s all the more painful — it can hurt with such intensity that you can’t breathe, as if you’ve been punched in the gut.
Many kids think cheese is naturally orange and strawberry juice a bright red — thanks to a collection of widely used artificial food dyes that a Food and Drug Administration advisory panel (FDA) will now re-examine for safety.
Of course, we think Healthland has the most happening Twitter feed around, but there’s a whole other world of worthwhile tweeting from the science and health community that we think is too good to miss. In celebration of the microblogging site’s fifth birthday, we’ve compiled our list of top 10 health and science feeds (it’s [...]
—JULIE MENNELLA, a researcher at Monell Chemical Senses Center who is studying the sweet and salty taste preferences of children. In an experiment demonstrating the “bliss point” — the level of sweetness that makes food products most desirable — a first-grader tasted several puddings of various sweetness before choosing one that was 24% sucrose, twice [...]
