11 hours ago by falmanac

(LoC) Emma Goldman, American anarchist and feminist, compelling advocate of free speech, the eight-hour work day, and birth control, was arrested in New York City on February 11, 1916, just prior to giving another public lecture on family planning. She was charged with violating the Comstock Act, an ...

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20 hours ago by admin

Drug abuse and obesity in the highest rank in a recent survey of health problems for children. These health problems were assessed as “serious problem” 33 percent of adults surveyed. The results of the survey also found that 25 percent of adult smokers seen as a major problem for the health of child ...

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20 hours ago by bayenmd

This week, I traveled for the first time to Samar to visit two towns: Calbiga and Motiong. From Tacloban, I crossed the San Juanico Bridge and traveled first to Calbiga where, together with the team from Zuellig Family Foundation, we conducted a field visit, a training for RHU staff and a mortality ...

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1 day ago by Paul Whitefield

When it comes to contraception, it's still a man's world. President Obama offered a compromise Friday on health insurance coverage for contraceptives. (For a thoughtful take on how that's likely to work, read my colleague Jon Healey's post, "The White House wishes away the cost of contraception cove ...

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1 day ago by thorax232

Image via Wikipedia Given the ready availability particularly in the West and in the relatively richer parts of the developing world of vegetables, fruit and other foods high in dietary fiber it is a matter of recommending that people eat more dietary fiber rather than consistently taking the unheal ...

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1 day ago by Alan Carr

The National Institutes of Health has created a new web site, NIH Clinical Research Trials and You, to help people learn more about clinical trials, why they matter, and how to participate. Clinical trials are essential for identifying and understanding ways to prevent, diagnose, and treat disease. ...

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1 day ago by Ivy Brashear

Methamphetamine use and production is running rampant in many rural places, with some "cookers" using increasingly dangerous methods. Meth cooking leaves behind toxic residue that sickens residents long after labs are dismantled. Crisis Cleaning, a rural Indiana company, specializes in meth-lab clea ...

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1 day ago by Bill Lindeke

If you're around the University of Minnesota campus this afternoon, the Geography Department is hosting a good talk as part of its weekly coffee hour series. The speaker is Julian Marshall of the Department of Civil Engineering. Here are the details: Urban Sustainability: Design of Clean, Healthy Ci ...

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1 day ago by Nina Bjerglund Andersen

My new bedtime reading is made of dramatic stuff. It is about children with dangerously high fevers, about parents fearing for the life of their offspring, and about healthy maids milking cows. It is about the enthusiastic joy of getting closer to immortality and the birth of fears so great that peo ...

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1 day ago by therestdoctor

Cutting Out Deaths from Heart Attacks In the last eight years , from 2002 to 2010, Britain has more than halved its heart attack death rate. According to recent data published in the British Medical Journal, over half the decrease occurred in the number of attacks. The rest of the improvement was du ...

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