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Bill Moyers Interviews author of OUR DAILY MEDS, and how drug companies market medication


PBS
Fri, 16 May 2008 11:37 UTC
Melody Petersen talks with Bill Moyers about her new book OUR DAILY MEDS, and how drug companies market medication.

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Alarm Clock

US: Worrisome rise in underweight babies


Associated Press
Thu, 12 Jun 2008 11:39 UTC
NEW YORK - The percentage of underweight babies born in the U.S. has increased to its highest rate in 40 years, according to a new report that also documents a recent rise in the number of children living in poverty.
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Ambulance

Snowboarding Accounts For Most Outdoor Injuries


RedOrbit
Thu, 12 Jun 2008 09:36 UTC
An unprecedented review of recreational injuries found that most injuries occur during snowboarding than any other outdoor activity.

Broken bones and sprains accounted for half of all cases studied. About 7 percent of ER visits were for concussions or other brain injuries.

Sledding and hiking were the second and third most dangerous activities, researchers said.

"We want people to participate in outdoor recreational activities. But we want people to recognize that there's cause for concern and people can and do get injured," study co-author Arlene Greenspan said Tuesday.
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Hong Kong Slaughters ALL Chickens After Bird Flu Found

Kyunghee Park and Nipa Piboontanasawat
Bloomberg
Thu, 12 Jun 2008 06:10 UTC
Hong Kong ordered the slaughter of all chickens in the city's markets and retail outlets after the H5N1 bird flu virus was detected in three more markets.

The H5N1 avian influenza virus has been found in four markets since the first outbreak last week, the government said at a press briefing today. Hong Kong banned poultry imports from mainland China and suspended exports from local farms for as long as 21 days on June 7.

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Hong Kong authorities to slaughter ALL chickens
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Briefcase

Big Pharma Reaches Out To Higher Learning

Jane Akre
InjuryBoard.com
Wed, 04 Jun 2008 04:19 UTC


Medical conflicts of interest
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Tight budgets affect almost everyone at home and in the workplace. But when does a tight budget at a university invite corporate conflicts of interest that potentially taint professors and their curriculum?
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Health

How Do Microbial Communities On Human Bodies Affect Human Health?


ScienceDaily
Thu, 05 Jun 2008 03:59 UTC
The number of bacteria living within the body of the average healthy adult human are estimated to outnumber human cells 10 to 1. Changes in these microbial communities may be responsible for digestive disorders, skin diseases, gum disease and even obesity. Despite their vital imporance in human health and disease, these communities residing within us remain largely unstudied and a concerted research effort needs to be made to better understand them, say researchers June 3 at the 108th General Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology in Boston.
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Binge drinking in Britain and its health price

Don Shenker
Yorkshire Post
Mon, 02 Jun 2008 03:28 UTC
The figures released a short while ago by the NHS tell a strange story. On the one hand, the total amount the country drinks appears to have fallen, somewhat challenging the view popular in the media that the entire nation is heading to an early, drink-soaked grave.

Yet, at the same time, the number of people drinking heavily is rising.

Binge drinking incidents are up by five per cent for men and seven per cent for women on the year before. The number of people drinking at chronic levels has also gone up by three per cent for men and four per cent for women.
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Health

Poor housing worsens epidemic in indigenous Australians


Cooperative Research Centre for Aboriginal Health
Mon, 02 Jun 2008 02:48 UTC
One of the world's most prestigious medical journals has reported a new and serious threat to the health of Indigenous Australians.

The June 2008 edition of the Chicago-based Clinical Infectious Diseases journal featured a report by Northern Territory-based researchers on the emergence of antibiotic-resistant infections in Aboriginal communities.
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Hay Belly Nation

Deborah Rich
CounterPunch
Wed, 11 Jun 2008 01:48 UTC
Mum's the word among federal officials about the health benefits of eating organic foods.

The Department of Health and Human Services defers questions about organic foods to the Food and Drug Administration. But the FDA has no policy on organics because it says they're the domain of the Department of Agriculture, which will admit to using the "o-word," but says its mandate is simply to regulate use of the certified organic label, not to judge the relative benefits of organic versus conventional foods.
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UW study reaffirms nature's stress relieving powers

Kyung M. Song
Seattle Times
Wed, 11 Jun 2008 19:48 UTC
In a study that reaffirms the restorative powers of nature, researchers at the University of Washington report that for stress relief, looking outside trumps toiling away in a windowless room or viewing a digital version of that outdoor scene.

UW researchers found that plasma screens displaying an outdoor scene were about as effective as a blank wall in reducing test subjects' tension, as measured by a drop in heart rates.
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