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Should Smoking Be Allowed in Public Places?

Should smoking be*allowed* in public pl/spaces? Yes. All the time? No. Does it depend on circumstances and context? Yes. Does having the*right* to do something mean that it is always "right" to...

Did you know that you could easily decrease infections drastically?

it would be very easy to decrease infection drastically by simply getting people to cough and sneeze properly. Take a look and watch the...

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The Politics of Pet Food

By Sarah Arnquist In a new book "Pet Food Politics," Marion Nestle uses last year's pet food safety scare to highlight the importance of a sound food safety regulation system. As she puts it,...

Handcuffs not only kinky, also deadly

Okay, Jake or anyone else out there with medical training--is this for real? Apparently there may be a new syndrome whereby young men suddenly and inexplicably die following police arrest. The...

Herd immunity -- vaccinations protect us all

By Sarah Arnquist I'm currently in the masters in public health program at Johns Hopkins University and am taking my first course in epidemiology. I have my first midterm tomorrow and among the many...

Obesity Rising In China

Like the United States, China is grappling with a serious obesity epidemic, with more than 25 percent of its adults considered overweight or obese, according to a study out today in Health Affairs....

Rising or Falling Food-borne Illnesses, And Who is to Blame? (edited)

There have been a lot of salmonella outbreaks in food in the news lately, but who is to blame? Last year, Paul Krugman set the responsibility squarely on the Bush administration and ideological...

Rising or Falling Food-borne Illnesses, And Who is to Blame?

There have been a lot of salmonella outbreaks in food in the news lately, but who is to blame? Last year, Paul Krugman set the responsibility squarely on the Bush administration and ideological...

Blendon, Laszewski, And Rovner On Health Reform In The 2008 Election

Editor’s Note: In connection with the publication of its May/June issue, a thematic issue on health reform, Health Affairs organized a May 5 conference call on the role of health reform in the...

Violence as a Public Health Issue

Can we think of issues related to violent crime as basically similar to that of a contagious disease?  This is the question an article in the N.Y. Times Magazine (”Blocking the Transmission of...

Your Kid is Overweight? Blame The Tan-Bark

Kristen Copeland, M.D. of the Cincinnati Children's Hospital is lead author on a study that seeks to determine why kids in day-care aren't playing outside enough. A central culprit was the importance...

LifeStraw Family: Cheap Water Filtration for World's Poor

Poor access to safe drinking water may be the biggest health issue for hundreds of millions of people around the world. Vestergaard Frandsen, the Swiss company that released everyone's favorite...