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AOL Partners with TOMS One Day Without Shoes Challenge
AOL has joined up with TOMS "One Day Without Shoes" as a corporate partner for the third year in a row. The unique movement by TOMS "One Day Without Shoes" involves a pledge to go barefoot for a day on April 16, and enter a chance to win TOMS gear. "One Day Without Shoes" is a day to raise awareness about the impact that a pair of shoes can have on a child's future. The event spreads global awareness about children's health and education by encouraging participants to go without shoes for a day. Apart from spreading awareness around the world about the importance of shoes, TOMS initiates conversations about various causes it is closely...
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Better Meningitis Vaccine
Scientists have found a way to make the meningococcal meningitis vaccine more effective. They have discovered a way to...
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Japan Earthquake on Twitter: Social Media Trends During Disaster
The tragic magnitude 8.9 earthquake that struck Japan at 12:46 a.m. EST this morning has not only left its mark on the...
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Comedy of Social Media Errors: Pharma's Lame Take on Glee
With nearly 600 million people on Facebook, 175 million on Twitter, and 75 percent of the worlds 2 billion internet use...
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Personal Health Records In Action: Google Health and Microsoft HealthVault
Personal Health Records (PHRs) offer an interesting way for patients to access an electronic health record, or at l...
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Weathering the Health Impact of Climate Change With Social Media Technology
Two new papers point to the pressing need for public and clinical health efforts to pay attention to the effects of cli...
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Drug Development Cost: Does the $1 Billion Pill Actually Cost $50 Million?
While surveys find that the public generally holds pharmaceutical manufacturers in low esteem--trusting them about as m...
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Soft Drinks Linked to Hypertension
A new study this week in _Hypertension_ has found a correlation between sweetened beverages and high blood pressure. Th...
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Diabetics to Check Blood Pressure at Home
A team of researchers in Massachusetts are developing technology that will allow diabetics to test their blood pressure...
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Are Primary Care Docs Ignoring Treatment Guidelines?
A small survey from Germany raises interesting questions about how well primary care physicians follow the latest pract...
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Use Mhealth and Personal Health Records to Reduce Adverse Drug Events, Harms, and Costs
New research from Vancouver, published this month in the Annals of Emergency Medicine, underscores the complexities, co...
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H. 1 Cuts to Title X Would Increase Abortions, and Death from Cancer & HIV
Among the funding placed on the chopping block by the House of Representatives' recent passing of the H. 1 bill is Titl...
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Public Health Indicators in Libya Higher than Expected, but Revolt Disrupts Services
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) finally has an eight-person team inside Libya, and reached t...
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New Premiums Reduce Participation in Children's Health Insurance Plan
New premiums were blamed when families took more than 3000 children out of the Children's Health Insurance program i...
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Partnership to Protect Brazil's Small-Holders
_(Meet Meet Michael Conroy, Chairman Emeritus, from Fair Trade USA and learn more about the organization at the Certif...
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Would mHealth Profit From Cost-Effectiveness Research?
A respected health economist from the University of Chicago argued recently that cost-effectiveness research should be...
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Facebook for Health: Could Social Media Lead to Functional Personal Health Records?
This month's issue of Health Affairs discusses a representative survey of physicians reporting that 64% had never used...
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Regenerative Medicine Technique Speeds Healing of Burn Wounds
A new medical technique can dramatically improve healing time for severe burn wounds. The device looks more like a gad...
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Health Lessons from Somali Pirates?
Online opinions have been flowing freely about the recent murder of four American sailors aboard the private yacht Ques...
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Opportunity for Doctor and Patient Education
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Biological Warfare to Control Malaria: Sustainable and Sensible?
A recent Justmeans posting by Tove Rasmussen looked at George Clooney's run-in with malaria and the advocacy efforts of...
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