tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-39790670735980490422012-02-17T02:15:35.614Zhealthy distrusthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06896169062878872518noreply@blogger.comBlogger111100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3979067073598049042.post-25691125889463034872008-08-31T16:59:00.002+01:002008-08-31T17:31:56.657+01:00

Last month I wrote about a 'pregnancy increases your risk of heart attack three to four fold' story in The Sun, The Star and The Daily Telegraph. Rereading the 2006 study from which the papers took their soundbite the significance of this stood out where it hadn't before: We found a higher incidence (6.2 versus 2.8 per 100 000 deliveries) and a lower case fatality rate (5.1% versus 7.3%),

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Or why journalists should read the original research paper and not just quote a scientist looking to hype up their own research. MHC-correlated odour preferences in humans and the use of oral contraceptive was published last week in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B. Studies, in animals and in humans, have shown that genes in the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) influence

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Clumsy children more likely to become obese as adults, study finds. Physical control and coordination in childhood and adult obesity: longitudinal birth cohort study by Walter Osika and Scott M. Montgomery was published yesterday in the BMJ. It's part of the National child development study in Great Britain, a longitudinal cohort study of children born between 3rd and 9th March 1958 and living

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'The pill that lets dieters eat what they like'. 'A pill which may 'lock in' the benefits of dieting...has been discovered by scientists'.Point the first: the pill in question is alpha-lipoic acid, a dietary supplement that has been around for quite a while (here it is at drugstore.com; there's even a book about it which shows up 10th on the google search page if you type 'alpha lipoic acid'

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'Pregnancy heart risk' says The Star(site under redevelopment); 'Mums in heart attack risk' as The Sun has it; 'Pregnant women 'four times as likely to have a heart attack' for The Daily Telegraph (note the quote marks for something that is being said for the first time. By The Daily Telegraph). The NHS's Behind The Headlines service has a better analysis of the science behind the study than I

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Newspapers, newspapers, newspapers...The Irish Independent, reporting on a new survey from the employment law firm, Peninsula, tell us that, 77% of males in the Irish workplace experience sexual harassment from women, with 84pc of them too afraid to complain to their employerYuk, granted, (freely).But.Neither the Irish nor the UK Peninsula websites publish either the methods or results of the

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RTE.ie and The Irish Independent carry the story thatOne-third of Irish adults are not getting their "three a day" servings of dairy to help protect teeth and bones, according to a new surveyOn foot of this finding,The National Dairy Council is now to embark on a 15-week advertising campaign to show people how to improve their calcium intake by eating a range of dairy productsGood for them. What

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The Times (June 20th) along with 407 others (according to Google News) reports that Australians are...leading the way as the heavyweight champions of the world - with arguably a greater proportion of obese citizens than even the notoriously supersized Americans60% of the Australian population is overweight, apparently. That's nine million people, according to the study, 'Australia's Future Fat

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Significance of science in the media Numerous studies have shown that the media is the primary source of scientific information for the public after they leave school (Detjen, 1995; Nelkin, 1995; in an Irish context, Trench, 2007 - although he admits that this claim is difficult to test rigorously). Conrad (1999, p. 285) says 'Science journalists [are] gatekeepers for the infusion of scientific

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On June 20th The Irish Independent lifted a piece from the London Times reporting on a new study investigating differential gene expression in male and female brains. The Times manages to include the caveat, from the study's authors, that 'their work needed to be followed up to examine whether any human behavioural or health differences were related to the sex-specific gene expression profiles

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W=[1+(bd)–s+(m-2c)+(v+p]100+/ 6.5 2 7t 100 where W equals the thickness of Cheddar in millimetres, b the thickness of bread, d the dough flavour modifier, s the thickness of margarine or butter, m the thickness of mayonnaise, c the creaminess modifier, v the thickness of tomato, p the depth of pickle and l the thickness of the lettuce layer.The Star has it: 'Boffins' cheesy formula'

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