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Health News

Vital Signs: Exercise: Tying Neighborhoods to Fitness Efforts
2008-03-26 04:51 - A recent study finds that the neighborhood that poorer people live in may play just as big a role as their income in how likely they are to exercise.

Global Update: Indonesia: Warnings on Failure to Contain Avian Flu and...
2008-03-26 04:51 - The avian flu situation in Indonesia is grave, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization warned last week.

Vital Signs: Disparities: Wealth Factor Seen in Mammogram Rates
2008-03-26 04:50 - A new study found that wealthier women were more likely to get mammograms than poorer ones were.

TB Patients Chafe Under Lockdown in South Africa
2008-03-26 04:50 - South Africa is trying to balance the liberty of patients with tuberculosis against the need to protect society.

Guidelines for Epidemics: Who Gets a Ventilator?
2008-03-26 04:50 - A new report says doctors, health care workers and the public need to start thinking about the idea of denying life support to some people during a public health disaster.

Cases: When the Disease Eludes a Diagnosis
2008-03-26 04:50 - Why do doctors and patients often approach the diagnosis of disease so differently?

Skipping Cereal and Eggs, and Packing on Pounds
2008-03-26 04:50 - A new study reports that the more often adolescents eat breakfast, the less likely they are to be overweight.

Books: From Forgotten Luggage, Stories of Mental Illness
2008-03-26 04:50 - Hundreds of pieces of patients? luggage left behind at Willard State Hospital included items that carry pathos and power in their very plainness.

Under New Management: The Tension Builds (It’s Almost Monday)
2008-03-24 06:01 - The most commonly cited source of stress by respondents in a recent survey was work. Since stress is a drag on productivity, why don?t more employers face the topic?

What if a Flu Like 1918’s Broke Out Now?
2008-03-24 06:01 - Five years after an avian flu outbreak in Asia made pandemic flu planning a priority, some experts are concerned that states in the region have not been equally vigilant about preparing.


 
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