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Public Health
A weblog featuring news, events, and resources from the Institute of Public Health and Georgia State University Library.NPR: Magazine Led to Database's 'Abortion' Search Block
New York Times: Database Was Set Up To Ignore 'Abortion'
New York Time: Johns Hopkins University said Friday that it had programmed its computers to ignore the word "abortion" in searches of a large, publicly financed database of information on reproductive health after federal officials raised questions about two articles in the database.
Bristol-Myers Squibb to pay $0.5bn to settle US lawsuits
The department said that from about 2000 to mid-2003 Bristol-Myers Squibb made illegal payments to doctors and other healthcare providers to induce them to purchase the company's drugs. The payments were made in the form of consulting fees and expenses to participate in consulting programmes, advisory boards, and preceptorships. Some programmes involved trips to luxury resorts.
Cat seems to know when patients are dying.
The Spread of Obesity in a Large Social Network over 32 Years. Have a fat friend? You may also be fat.
Chief medical officer names hand hygiene and organ donation as public health priorities
Health Literacy and Mortality Among Elderly Persons
Macular Hemorrhage from Bungee Jumping
Interested in Politics, Policy and Public Health?
They're the theme of the 2007 American Public Health Association annual meeting in Washington, DC November 3-7.
The Grace and Harold Sewell Memorial Fund, Inc. is offering stipends to librarians and other information professionals to help cover the costs of their attending and/or participating in this meeting. Successful applicants from the greater Washington DC area will receive a stipend of $650. Successful applicants from outside greater Washington will receive $1,000. Though significant, these amounts will NOT cover all costs, so stipend recipients will need to find additional monies to cover remaining costs.
Completed applications are due July 30, 2007--about 3 weeks from today. To apply, read and complete the application form attached or download the Word application form at
http://depts.washington.edu/hswork/mla/stipend/mla-crc-call-2007.doc . Add all required application materials to the completed form and send as a single email attachment to Joey Nicholson jnicholson@nyam.org or Nancy Schaefer NancyS@library.health.ufl.edu .For more information, contact Joey Nicholson at
jnicholson@nyam.org or Nancy Schaefer at NancyS@library.health.ufl.edu .Please forward this message to others who may be interested.
Hope you'll join us at this colorful and fascinating meeting!
Joey Nicholson and Nancy Schaefer, Co-Chairs
Client Relations Committee
Public Health/Health Administration Section
Medical Library Association
Politics, Parents, and Prophylaxis — Mandating HPV Vaccination in the United States
NEJM: Cancer prevention has fallen victim to the culture wars.
Free access to MD Consult in May
The database MD Consult is free for May.
http://www.eresourcesonline.com/mdcopenhouse/2/
AJC: New Nursing students on critical list
Britney tears
Prevalence of HPV Infection Among Females in the United States
Peer review will become "the job of the many, not the select few"
Many Teens Abusing Medications
Allergy to hair dye: Its incidence is rising, as more and younger people dye their hair
Childhood intelligence and being a vegetarian
BMJ: Do bright children grow up to make healthy choices? Evidence increasingly suggests that intelligence is associated with health and survival...
Rich, young, educated women get better breast cancer care than poor, older women
Medical journals: past their sell by date?
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