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It's Not Too Late to Have Your Say
Health: You still have a little less than two weeks to comment on how the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) can best implement new school lunch
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Twitter vs. FDA for health and patient safety
Health: Governments general inability to adequately regulate drug safety raises the need for private and perhaps crowdsourced solutions to monitor drug-and p
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Simple, effective health innovations: Color, size, placement in nutrition delivery
Health: If you invented a nutritional delivery system that could increase the consumption of fruit by elementary students by 100%, triple the amount of salad
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Innovative health, technology, and social support tools needed
Health: Two new studies in the Journal of Hospital Medicine highlight the need for better management of chronic health conditions. Research over the past dec
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Social Media, Technology, and Change: The feedback loop for health
Health: In a few short weeks Ill be attending Justmeans Social Media, Technology and Change conference in the Big Apple. Will you be there? It offers a numbe
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True cost of health risks: $170 per pound overweight, $150 per cigarette pack
Health: In an effort to understand how much we should allocate to disease prevention and health promotion, researchers have been striving to figure out the r
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Place and public health, part 2: Proximity to restaurants vs. mass transit for weight loss
Health: In public health, place matters. And researchers from the University of Buffalo have underscored this assertion with a new study this week that begin
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Place and public health: Neighborhood characteristics tied to obesity
Health: When it comes to public health, place matters. Theres even a specialty within public health that studies this called spatial epidemiology. Recent hea
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Fighting obesity with hot peppers and olive oil
Health: Despite the burgeoning obesity epidemic we face, weight loss studies are generally a dime a dozen and not worth paying a much attention to. As a form
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The TV diet: Pushing diabetes, obesity & poor nutrition
Health: A recent posting raised the prospect that shoppers at health food establishments may be less likely to be obese, and therefore at lower risk for chro
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Supermarkets study reveals public health's close ties to the economy
Health: It turns out the pin-thin actresses I see stalking the aisles of Whole Foods in Hollywood aren't just outliers - people who shop at Whole Foods and o
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Too many people lack access to physical activity, public health experts say
Health: A majority of states are not providing their residents with the opportunity to get the recommended level of physical activity, according to a new pub
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New international health estimates reduce global death rates
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
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Can digital photography enhance health care delivery?
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
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Public health's questionable endorsement of video games
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
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Who gets to decide on end-of-life health care?
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
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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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