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The schism between health care and informed consent
Health: The form hospitals typically use to garner "informed consent" from patients weighing major health care procedures seems almost as complicated as the
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New international health study measures global mortality
Health: A new international health study in The Lancet attempts to answer a seemingly simple question: What are the leading causes of death for children unde
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Asthma and obesity: Linked by high fat diet?
Health: Asthma is one of the most common chronic diseases we face, and one whose prevalence is rising. Most of us know someone suffering from the condition,
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Is health care quality threatened by manufacturer-funded drug research?
Health: Health care researchers from the Drug Commission of the German Medical Association have concluded that published pharmaceutical research sponsored by
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Michelle Obama Unveils Public Health Childhood Obesity Plan
Health: Back in February, First Lady Michelle Obama launched the Let's Move! program to tackle the public health epidemic of childhood obesity, which the "Mo
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New international health tools track disease online
Health: The New England Journal of Medicine recently reported on the use of a new online international health tool tracking disease outbreaks around the glob
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Slashing international health barriers with Skype
Health: Health research is often hampered in surprising ways. For example, international health data on mortality in most of Africa and Asia is based on educ
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Risk of asthma linked to neighborhood location
Health: Fellow blogger Alisa Ulfert recently wrote about The American Lung Association's new report on the state of the air we breath, or more specifically t
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Goals matter in the fight to improve international health
Health: Setting goals is a common undertaking for individuals, groups, companies, etc. to make inroads as to what can be accomplished in the future. But when
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Occupational and public health risks from Big Oil
Health: Justmeans has provided extensive coverage of BPs Deep Water Horizon oil-rig disaster currently unfolding off the coast of Louisiana, including its ro
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Just in time for Mother's Day: a slew of mom-related health studies
Health: Researchers must have Mother's Day on the brain, because this week a seeming flood of new reports and studies relating to mothers and health has been
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Health care insurance status influences emergency medical care
Health: Does your insurance status really affect the quality of health care youre likely to receive in an American hospital? After all, hospitals that receiv
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A boost for epigenetics: The science of interaction and influence in human health
Health: The young health science of epigenetics is getting a boost, thanks in part to an $8.5 million grant that Oregon State Universitys Linus Pauling Insti
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Australia has an easier go of health reform
Health: He's the leader of a large industrial country who was swept into office after promising to reform the nation's health care system. And just recently,
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The science of health care delivery. What is it?
Health: A presentation I heard this week about reducing maternal and child mortality, two of the UNs Millennium Development Goals, coalesced with something t
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Huge Los Angeles free clinic provides free health care to the needy
Health: For the second time in eight months, a mobile health clinic in Los Angeles has demonstrated the enormous need for access to affordable medical care.
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Health care data and hospital quality:Is "not dead" good enough?
Health: Dueling interpretations of health care quality data in the UK is leading to a review of the use of death rates as indicators of hospital quality. I r
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Mmmmm-health: Appetizing human health solutions that boost behavior change
Health: Ive been reading with great interest all the ways that m-health (mobile-phone health technology) is being put to use, in the words of m-health innova
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Earth Day: health reminders from a plastic planet
Health: Earth day reminds us to be better stewards of our impressionable planet. Its about food, development, sustainability, political action, climate chang
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FDA could put legal limits on salt consumption
Health: Over the last year, seemingly a barrage of study after study after study has examined the negative health effects of high sodium intake. In January,
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