Joseph Keon

Radiation and Mercury in Fish: Should Americans Be Concerned?

The May 29th issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences reported that fish caught off the California coast in 2011 by researchers from Stony Brook University in New York were contaminated with radioactive waste from the crippled Fukushima nuclear power facility. The radioactive isotopes cesium-137 and cesium-134 were found in blue fin

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Nuclear Power: Not the Answer to Climate Change

Is nuclear energy really part of the answer to preventing the devastating effects of climate change? Until the earthquake and subsequent tsunami in Japan, even some ardent environmentalists who’d previously rejected the technology had warmed to the idea. Nuclear Renaissance? Recent years have witnessed a renewed interest in nuclear power as people search for ways

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Blood Test Can Accurately Predict Future Alzheimer’s Disease

A new prognostic blood test can accurately predict who will develop Alzheimer’s disease in the future.   A Dutch-German research team led by biophysics professor, Klaus Gerwert, and Julia Stockmann, from Bochum Research Center for Protein Diagnostics, has found that their blood test, called the Immuno-Infrared Sensor, can accurately detect who will develop Alzheimer’s disease based upon the presence

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Milk and Prostate Cancer Risk: Have You Been Left in the Dark?

Last year, the American Urological Association (AUA) announced a dramatic shift in its stance on screening for prostate cancer using the prostate-specific antigen (PSA) blood test. The AUA decided to stop recommending the test for men aged 40 to 54 years or over 70. This follows the United States Preventive Services Task Force, which one

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After its $200 million campaign suggesting milk drinking aided in weight loss failed to gain traction, and a review of 41 randomized clinical trials, including a Harvard Medical School study, demonstrated it did nothing of the sort, the dairy industry proceeded to spin a new, albeit short-lived, tale. The “Everything I Do Is Wrong” Campaign

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