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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2009
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public health stories: 176 news summaries

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Brits Plotting Battle of Bulge on Plumpies

Europe's fattest nation could rack up millions in health care

Oct 25, 07 3:49 AM CDT
(Newser) - Two sobering reports have frantic Brits casting about for ways to combat their obesity epidemic, reports the Christian Science Monitor. England is the fattest country in Europe and half of its population could be obese by 2050, the reports warn. Now the country is looking into everything from regulating junk... More »

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obesity • obesity epidemic • England • public health • junk food • exercise • healthy eating

Parents Leaning on Religion to Dodge Vaccines for Children

Faith often used to cover other objections

Oct 18, 07 12:51 PM CDT
(Newser) - Parents are turning to state laws allowing religious exemptions to keep their children from being vaccinated, the Associated Press reports. Such shots are often required for children to attend preschool; though sects such as the Christian Scientists have real religious objections to medicine, some parents distrustful of the science behind... More »

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religion • public health • vaccination

Study Finds Rats Are Winning the Rat Race

New York rated most vulnerable to boom in rodent population

Oct 4, 07 1:15 PM CDT
(Newser) - Rodent experts labeled New York the US city most open to large-scale rat infestation today, after conducting a nationwide survey that took into account climate, waste management, population density, and age of infrastructure, Reuters reports. New York's appearance atop comes months after a KFC/Taco Bell restaurant was overrun by rats... More »

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New York City • public health • rats • infestation

City OKs Day of Public Toking

Ban on smoking in Santa Cruz parks lifted for medical-marijuana fest

Sep 20, 07 7:09 PM CDT
(Newser) - Two kinds of "green laws" collided in Santa Cruz, Calif., when a local group that distributes free medical marijuana came up against a smoking ban in the park where the group holds its annual festival. The city council reached a healthy compromise, providing attendees in need of self-medication with... More »

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medical marijuana • public health • marijuana • smoking ban

SF Pioneers Health Care
for All

Groundbreaking plan targets city's 82K uninsured adults

Sep 14, 07 11:50 AM CDT
(Newser) - San Francisco will provide health care for every uninsured adult in the city, pioneering an approach that works around the limits of the federal system. The program goes citywide on Monday and will serve adults under the poverty line through November; after that, it will be open to everyone regardless... More »

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health care • San Francisco • public health • universal health care • insurance

Brits Will Pay Moms-to-Be to Eat for Two

Pregnant women in the UK will be given $240 to support a healthy diet

Sep 9, 07 10:23 AM CDT
(Newser) - Starting 2009, all expecting moms in the UK will receive a lump sum of $240, intended to be spent on a healthy diet of fruits and vegetables to help prevent low-birth-weight complications in newborn children. The "pregnancy grants" are part of Britain's new health secretary's plan to close the... More »

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food • pregnancy • health • women's health • England • public health • parents • diet • mothers • prenatal care

Worst Chronic Disease Is Depression

Docs tie better mental health treatment to better overall health

Sep 7, 07 4:19 PM CDT
(Newser) - Depression is more debilitating than diabetes, asthma, arthritis, or angina—and people suffering from chronic illness and depression are in worse health than those diagnosed with any other combination of diseases, the BBC reports. "These results indicate the urgency of addressing depression as a public health priority," says... More »

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health • depression • mental health • public health • chronic illness • World Health Organization • health study

Online Daters Get Hotter on First Night

Women take more sexual risks with men they've 'met' online

Aug 30, 07 6:37 PM CDT
(Newser) - A third of women have sex on the first date with men they've previously met online, and 77% of those don't use condoms, a new study reports. "They may not think of it as being risky sex," the survey's author tells the Houston Chronicle, citing "virtual intimacy"... More »

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Internet • public health • safe sex • online dating

Asthma Hits 9/11 Rescuers at 12 Times Normal Rate

Rates highest for those who arrived first, worked longest and didn't wear masks

Aug 29, 07 5:05 AM CDT
(Newser) - Ground Zero rescue and cleanup workers are developing asthma at 12 times the normal rate, a New York City health report has found. Among 25,000 workers interviewed, 3.6% of them—926 firefighters, police officers, construction workers and volunteers—have been diagnosed with the respiratory illness since 2001. The... More »

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health • New York City • Ground Zero • public health • September 11 • rescue • asthma

Go Easy on Pregnancy Weight Gain, Say Docs

Review of current guidelines in the works

Aug 15, 07 12:03 PM CDT
(Newser) - The current guidelines for weight gain during pregnancy may be contributing to the nation's obesity epidemic, some doctors say, and radical changes in the recommendations are under consideration. Docs say a revision is long overdue, the AP reports. "Most of us think overall the weight gain recommendations are too... More »

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obesity • medicine • pregnancy • health • women's health • women • public health • weight

Ex-Surgeon General Alleges Censorship

Former top doc says administration plays politics with science

Jul 10, 07 7:54 PM CDT
(Newser) - The Bush administration "did not want to hear the science" on subjects such as stem-cell research and abstinence-only sex ed, the ex-surgeon general says, and he was muzzled and marginalized when he tried "to be the doctor of the nation—not the doctor of a political party."... More »

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stem cell research • public health • sex education • Richard Carmona • Surgeon General • George W. Bush

Doctors Give
TB Fugitive Good News

Runaway lawyer's disease less dangerous than initially thought

Jul 3, 07 5:21 PM CDT
(Newser) - TB patient Andrew Speaker is not quite as sick as planeloads of people feared, Reuters reports. A doctor from Speaker's Denver hospital says the Atlanta lawyer, who flew to Europe despite warnings that he was highly contagious, doesn't have XDR—or extensively drug-resistant—tuberculosis, but rather the more treatable multi-drug-resistant... More »

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health • disease • Tuberculosis • Andrew Speaker • public health • safety • TB

Docs Close to Stamping Out Guinea Worm

Worldwide campaign may eradicate the second disease ever

Jun 23, 07 1:42 PM CDT
(Newser) - In a campaign led by Jimmy Carter, world public health authorities have decreased the incidence of guinea worm disease (formally known as dracunculiasis) from 3.5 million cases in 1986 to just over 25,000 in 2006. Guinea worm is a parasite transmitted through water to humans that causes excruciating... More »

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health • Jimmy Carter • disease • public health • dracunculiasis • guinea worm • parasite • larvae

China to Test Controversial Malaria Treatment

Researchers aim to eradicate disease on African island

Jun 6, 07 7:24 AM CDT
(Newser) - A Chinese researcher will test a radical new strategy designed to wipe out malaria on a small African island, the International Herald Tribune reports. Mass treatment with a highly effective antimalarial drug would virtually clear the parasite from patients' blood, but critics fear the plan could backfire, causing drug resistance... More »

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China • Africa • health • drugs • malaria • public health • artemisinin • treatment • Indian Ocean • Moheli • Comoros

Gates Gives $105 Mil to Track Global Public Health

UW center will eye effectiveness of giving

Jun 5, 07 4:59 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has given $105 million to the  University of Washington to study the effectiveness of public health programs around the world. The money will be used to create a center to track such measures as child mortality, the prevalence of major diseases  and the availability... More »

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health • Bill Gates • public health • research • donation • University of Washington • World Health Organization • Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

'Outbreak' Morphs Into 'Rashomon'

Finger-pointing over TB patient's travels spreads across two continents

Jun 2, 07 12:13 PM CDT
(Newser) - The Atlanta lawyer whose honeymoon baggage included a dangerous strain of TB is at the center of a contentious international public-health dispute. The Times reports on the conflicting accounts of warnings issued to Andrew Speaker and the governments of the countries he visited. Meanwhile, other American passengers on his flights... More »

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health • disease • Tuberculosis • Andrew Speaker • public health • infection • outbreak

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