by Andrew Maynard | Dec 27, 2014 | Health, Risk Bites
Forget Dr. Oz and The Food Babe – the Risk Bites Holiday Video has enough risks du jour for everyone, and then some. With a tongue in cheek tip of the hat to Tom Lehrer’s Elements Song, we’ve crammed 108 risks into a mere 80 seconds –...
by Andrew Maynard | Dec 15, 2014 | Communication, Health, Risk Bites
The health impacts of concussions suffered while playing sports have been receiving increased attention in recent years. According to the National Athletic Trainers’ Association, An estimated 3.8 million concussions occur each year as a result of sport and...
by Andrew Maynard | Nov 26, 2014 | Health
Two related news items caught my eye this morning: First, the World Health Organization International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) has just published a new study in The Lancet claiming that in 2012, between 3% – 6% of all cancers around the world were...
by Andrew Maynard | Oct 26, 2014 | Health, Public Health
I’m a bit of a cash register receipt junkie. I obsessively stuff my wallet with those little slips of thermal paper telling me how much I’ve spent. And it has to be paper – none of this e-receipt nonsense. But an article published last week in the...
by Andrew Maynard | Oct 24, 2014 | Ebola, Health
As of October 19, over 9,000 cases of Ebola had been reported, with close to 5,000 deaths, almost exclusively in West Africa. And while there have been success stories such as the elimination of Ebola infections from Nigeria and Senegal, the numbers of cases in...
by Andrew Maynard | Oct 23, 2014 | Ebola, Health
There’s something rather human about being scared of the ebola virus. It’s a “bogeyman” virus – the stuff of nightmares; hovering in the shadows of our imagination like a half-glimpsed specter. Like most imagined horrors though, the...
