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Health: Iron deficiency during pregnancy may directly impact infant and childhood breathing health. According to a study recently published in Annals of Alle

Health: Two new papers point to the pressing need for public and clinical health efforts to pay attention to the effects of climate change when working to pr

Health: This months issue of Health Affairs discusses a representative survey of physicians reporting that 64% had never used personal health records, but 42

Health: Researchers at the University of Illinois Family Resilience Center videotaped mealtimes in 200 families with children aged 5 to 12 suffering from ast

Health: Findings published recently in the journal European Psychiatry point to a potential reservoir of unmet mhealth (mobile health) need in the area of de

Health: Can Facebook trigger asthma attacks? Apparently so. Italian doctors report in The Lancet on a new and previously unreported health risk associated wi

Health: The first ever randomized controlled trial of telemonitoring medication use among asthma patients has rendered encouraging results. The study demonst

Health: A week ago, international health researchers in The Lancet estimated the causes and numbers of death among the worlds children. Its been followed by

Health: As the number of people developing diabetes continues to grow, the health care challenges and costs of managing this chronic condition also grow. 23

Health: Have the public health watchdogs finally thrown in the towel when it comes to natural, vigorous exercise? A recent deal between the American Heart As

Health: In 2005 the nation watched while the Florida health care facility housing a young woman named Terri Schiavo endured a barrage of contradictory, whipl

Health: The form hospitals typically use to garner "informed consent" from patients weighing major health care procedures seems almost as complicated as the

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

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,

Health: Health care researchers from the Drug Commission of the German Medical Association have concluded that published pharmaceutical research sponsored by

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

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

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

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