Analysis: Plain soap as effective as antibacterial but without the risk

A team from the University of Michigan School of Public health examined 27 studies conducted between 1980 and 2006 on anti-bacterial and plain soaps. The conclusion: both soaps are effective, but plain soap comes without the risk of making harmful bacteria resistant.

Air pollution leads to low birth weight

A study conducted by the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and the Yale School of Medicine correlates high ambient air pollution levels with low birth weight. The study was conducted in Massachusetts and Connecticut.

Transferring juveniles to adult prison systems a bad move

Review of an article from the American Journal of Preventive Medicine. The response to move violent juvenile to the adult prison system appears to have backfired.

Urban air pollution's health effects worse than Chernobyl

According to a study completed in the U.K.


"One of my reasons for comparing everyday risks with those of radiation contamination was the way in which contaminated Chernobyl refugees felt rejected by society. Our understandable fear of radiation needs to be placed in the context of other risks we encounter in our daily lives if we are to properly understand, and respond to, the potential impacts of any future radiation incidents."
--Dr. Jim Smith, study author