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Health Headlines
Fish
oil supplements may be linked to reduced breast cancer.
Cancer Biomarkers, Epidem & Prev. July 2010
British study suggests physical inactivity a result of, rather than
cause of child obesity.
BBC; Arch
Dis Child 6/23/10
California exhumes Dept of Public Health after 30 years.
Calif Healthline 7/25/07.
Swedish analysis shows harm reduction benefit of snus for former smokers.
Lancet 6/16/07
Diabetes rates 1988-2005 up >50% for over 65 and 18-44 age groups.
MMWR 6/15/07.
US last in comparison of 6
nations' health care systems, first in prevention.
Brit.
Med. Jour. 5/26/07
Exposure to secondhand smoke worldwide, ages 13-15. MMWR,
5/25/07.
Evidence that aspirin works to prevent colon cancer. Lancet,
5/12/07.
TV food advertisements double children's intake. Science
Daily, 4/28/07.
No reduction in occupational injuries since 1996. MMWR,
4/27/07.
IOM panel
urges junk food ban in schools. National Academies Press,
4/25/07.
Federal ad campaign to get patients to ask more questions.
AHRQ, 3/7/07.
Indonesia to sell flu viruses, not give them to WHO. New
York Times, 2/7/07.
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States Rate "A" on Obesity Report Card. Univ of Baltimore,
1/30/07
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Women >40 mammogram use declined after 1990s increases.
MMWR,1/26/07.
Homicides linked to states with more guns. New York
Times, 1/23/07. Soc Sci & Med. Feb '07.
Fast food more accessible than healthful fare in California.
Calif Health Policy Advocacy Inst. study,
Policy Brief, 1/19/07.
Chlorine exposure & increased risk of bladder cancer. Am
J Epidemiology 165(2), 1/07.
Cancer deaths drop for
2nd straight year. ACS, 1/18/07.
For past milestones by topic,
see
chapters of Community & Population Health ,
and search on previous
headlines (1999-2006 chronology).
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