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Celebrities Kill More than Vaccines Do
• Public Health • Feb 09 10
When Jim Carrey and his girlfriend appear on Larry King Live spewing inanities about vaccinations and links to autism and presenting it as a…
Obama says healthcare may be 2010 election issue
• Public Health • Feb 08 10
President Barack Obama vowed on Thursday not to quit in his quest for a healthcare overhaul and said if the effort fails this year,…
Obesity remains a problem for some county students
• Obesity • • Public Health • Feb 07 10
The number of obese and overweight third, fifth and eighth grade students in the Beaufort County School District has remained generally unchanged since…
Health stories by experts more credible than blogs
• Public Health • Feb 05 10
Health information written by a doctor is rated as more credible when it appears on a Web site than in a blog or a…
More than half of Americans use Internet for health
• Public Health • Feb 03 10
More than half of Americans looked up health information on the Internet last year, U.S. government researchers reported on Tuesday.
But only 5 percent…
No ‘weekend effect’ seen in trauma cases
• Public Health • Feb 03 10
People who suffer a traumatic injury during the weekend or at night will fare just as well as people injured during the day or…
Many physicians not using established criteria
• Public Health • Feb 03 10
A new study led by Mark Zimmerman, MD, of Rhode Island Hospital indicates that a majority of non-psychiatrist physicians and a substantial minority of…
Month of birth determines who becomes a sports star
• Children's Health • • Pregnancy • • Public Health • Feb 02 10
The month of your birth influences your chances of becoming a professional sportsperson, an Australian researcher has found.
Senior research fellow Dr. Adrian Barnett…
U.S. first lady leads charge against obesity
• Obesity • • Public Health • Feb 01 10
U.S. health officials have leveraged the star power of first lady Michelle Obama to roll out a new campaign against obesity, a preventable condition…
Most travellers say obese passengers should pay more
• Obesity • • Public Health • Feb 01 10
Should airlines charge overweight passengers more if they need an extra seat? Yes, according to more than three-quarters of travellers in a poll.
A…
FLOTUS Promises “Ambitious” Childhood Obesity Program To Come
• Obesity • • Public Health • Jan 29 10
Taking one more step toward the expected formal launch of what her aides describe as a “major program” aimed at targeting childhood obesity, First…
SC senators approve healthier meals in schools
• Public Health • Jan 28 10
A South Carolina bill barring honey buns, greasy pizza and chocolate bars from being sold to students during the school day received tentative approval…
How bad is childhood obesity in the United States?
• Children's Health • • Obesity • • Public Health • Jan 26 10
The problem of childhood obesity in the United States has held fast during the past decade, according to research published in the January 20…
‘Fake’ swine flu pandemic? WHO slams charges
• Public Health • • Swine Flu • Jan 26 10
The World Health Organization on Monday slammed as “irresponsible” critics who claim swine flu is a fake pandemic created for the benefit of drug…
Canada’s food safety system fails international comparisons
• Food & Nutrition • • Public Health • Jan 26 10
Canada’s food safety system is reactive, lags behind other countries, and investment is needed to ensure it can adequately protect Canadians, states an article…
Physical Activity Associated With Healthier Aging
• Aging and Gerontology • • Public Health • Jan 26 10
Physical activity appears to be associated with a reduced risk or slower progression of several age-related conditions as well as improvements in overall…
Grant targets obesity, health in border towns
• Obesity • • Public Health • Jan 25 10
More than $3.9 million from the federal government will help the UA research obesity. It will also go toward promoting community health advocacy in…
Plea Rejected in Case of Hepatitis Infections
• Infections • • Public Health • Jan 23 10
Suggesting that 20 years in prison was not enough punishment for the crime, a federal judge on Friday rejected a plea agreement for a…
New Plan Puts Heart Attacks on Fast Track
• Heart • • Public Health • Jan 22 10
Heart attack patients won’t go to the emergency room as part of a new University of Kentucky plan designed to reduce those patients’ risk…
2009 H1N1 Influenza
• Public Health • • Swine Flu • Jan 20 10
Within 2 months of its discovery last spring, a novel influenza A (H1N1) virus, currently referred to as 2009 H1N1, caused the first influenza…
Flu pandemic remains moderate, easing in areas: WHO
• Flu • • Public Health • Jan 18 10
The H1N1 flu pandemic remains moderate and its effects are probably closer to those of 1957 and 1968 than the far more deadly 1918…
Water, drugs are big need now for Haiti
• Public Health • Jan 17 10
Clean water and antibiotics are among the biggest needs for Haiti, where the capital was devastated by a huge quake that killed up to…
US judge OKs imports of e-cigarettes, blasts FDA
• Public Health • • Tobacco & Marijuana • Jan 15 10
A U.S. judge on Thursday granted a preliminary injunction barring the Obama administration from trying to regulate electronic cigarettes and prevent them from being…
Health in middle age affects life expectancy
• Public Health • • Tobacco & Marijuana • Jan 15 10
Poor health and habits such as smoking in middle age too often lead to early death for men, researchers warn today.
The research shows…
Poor people smoke more
• Public Health • • Tobacco & Marijuana • Jan 15 10
Social status is intimately linked with health-related risk factors. In the current issue of Deutsches Ärzteblatt International, Thomas Lampert, of the Robert Koch Institute…