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• in Entertainment
  The Grove Premieres on PBS on World AIDS Day, December 1
  AIDS and the politics of remembrance.
  by missbobetier / on Nov 30, 2011
• in Family
  Measles In Maryland
  Andrew Wakefield's Junk Science Spreads Measles!
  by layllah / on Jul 11, 2011
• in Blogging
  Is the Zombie Apocalypse Coming? Preparing for the Zombie Pandemic
  Gather an Emergency Preparedness Kit and Plan for an Emergency
  by hausman / on May 24, 2011

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “epidemic”

 

• How Carbs Make You Fat

  
  Diet Doctor — Authority: 102
  Despite the slightly too wild headline this is a nice new infographic about carbs, insulin and obesity . It’s simplified of course – it focuses only on the peripheral effects of insulin: growing fat cells. Chronically high levels of insulin also induces something called leptin resistance in the brain. What that ...
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• The Loneliness Epidemic

  
  Seven Sentences — Authority: 109
  Underneath the physical world there is a vast network of connections that we cannot see. A river of private meaning runs under the surface of all human lives. So much of what is important in each person’s life can never be seen, felt, known, or understood by any other person. Between me and the person next to me ...
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• Hypocrisy to the fore as protesters persecuted

  
  Paternal Prose — Authority: 146
  LETTERS Illustration: John Shakespeare Your paper reports that environmental activists peacefully protesting at coal and gas mining sites are being put under increased surveillance by authorities (”AFP spies targeting green activists”, January 7-8). Isn’t this the sort of thing one should expect only in an ...
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• Youth Publicizing Crimes on YouTube is National Epidemic

  
  EUR This N That | Urban Black News Blog — Authority: 466
  Media outlets of all kinds are talking about the worldwide distribution of various crimes committed by the youth of America.  A lot of the people in the YouTube videos have been arrested and detained.  The crimes range from beat downs to armed robbery.  What is the fascination with walking the line of adventures ...
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• U.S. OBESITY EPIDEMIC SHOWS NO HINT OF SHRINKING

  
  DAILY NEWS - GNEWSTODAY.INFO — Authority: 435
  CHICAGO — America’s plumpness widespread is proof to be as realistic as those infuriating adore handles, and shows no pointer of reversing course. More than one-third of adults and roughly seventeen percent of young kids were portly in 2009-2010, echoing formula given 2003, a sovereign Centers for Disease Control ...
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• Obesity Epidemic May Have Peaked In U.S.

  
  newsaddicts — Authority: 144
  The obesity epidemic appears to have reached a plateau, according to the latest federal statistics. » E-Mail This     » Add to Del.icio.us News
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• US obesity epidemic shows no hint of shrinking

  
  Health Fitness & Beauty - health-fitness.marc8.com — Authority: 135
  CHICAGO (AP) -- Americas obesity epidemic is proving to be as stubborn as those maddening love handles, and shows no sign of reversing course....
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• US obesity epidemic shows no hint of shrinking

  
  Health Fitness & Beauty - health-fitness.marc8.com — Authority: 135
  US obesity epidemic shows no hint of shrinking Associated Press read more
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• Parent Involvement, Coping Skills Reduce Gang Allure

  
  Psych Central News — Authority: 600
  Researchers have found that moderate levels of parental monitoring combined with good coping skills can keep high-risk kids out of gangs. Experts say that gangs accounted for 20 percent of the murders in 88 of the largest cities in the U.S. between 2002 and 2006. Researchers looked at methods to actively discourage ...
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• Clean water infrastructure desperately needed in Haiti say IDP advocates

  
  Women News Network - WNN — Authority: 510
  Camilo Ramirez  - WNN Opinion (WNN) Port-au-Prince, HAITI: As Haiti marks the two-year anniversary of the devastating January 12, 2010 earthquake, TransAfrica, the Institute for Justice & Democracy in Haiti, Let Haiti Live and the Center for Constitutional Rights are recommending immediate changes to recovery ...
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• A Public Health Rant

  
  DiabetesMine: the all things diabetes blog — Authority: 459
  Happy Martin Luther King Day, Nation! In the spirit of speaking up for what you believe in and speaking out on injustice, I have a little rant to share today:My town of New York City really likes to get…
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• Haiti: Twitter data accurately tracked cholera outbreak

  
  Sanitation Updates — Authority: 104
  Twitter messages were providing data that would have been a quicker way of detecting and tracking the 2010 cholera outbreak in Haiti than traditional methods, according to a study [1] published in the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. The study found that online social media and news feeds were ...
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• Ukraine declares measles outbreak

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 534
  Kiev, Jan 16 (IANS) Ukraine Monday declared an outbreak of measles, with at least 883 cases of the infectious disease reported across the country so far.Sergey Platov, a top official in the health ministry, however, said it was still too early to talk about the epidemic, according to Xinhua.Platov told the press that ...
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• Safer Sex and Drug Use (Claremont Symposium on Applied Social Psychology) By Stuart Oskamp & Suzanne C. Thompson

  
  Online Store For Adult — Authority: 103
  In almost 20 years of tackling the AIDS epidemic, one theme has consistently emerged: the solution to stopping the spread of the AIDS virus, HIV, rests with individual behaviour. The critical question is: how can people be influenced to change risk behaviours related to sexual activity and drug use? This volume brings ...
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• Could the London Olympics cause a deadly epidemic?

  
  Ruby Room — Authority: 127
  Filed under: Health & wellbeing Getty Health experts have said the forthcoming Olympics Games in London could increase the risk of diseases spreading. Viruses such as swine flu can be spread through close contact with other people and mass events provide the perfect breeding ground for diseases. ...
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• Obesity moves upscale…

  
  Scenarios and Strategy — Authority: 85
  source It’s become conventional to blame fast food for the epidemic of obesity afflicting the poorest Americans.  But, as GOOD reports, a UC Davis study of thousands of adults found that McDonalds, Burger King, et al. are shoveling the fat higher up the income chain… The relationship between fast-food ...
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• The Battle of the Diets: Is Anyone Winning (At Losing?)

  
  Your Weight Loss Headquarters — Authority: 129
  January 17, 2008 presentation by Christopher Gardner for the Stanford School of Medicine Medcast lecture series. The case for low-carbohydrate diets is gaining weight. Christopher Gardner, PhD, assistant professor of medicine at the Stanford Prevention Research Center, has completed the largest and longest-ever ...
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• Dörte Siedentopf on Fukushima nuclear disaster: ‘They haven’t learned anything from Chernobyl’

  
  Desdemona Despair: Blogging the End of the World — Authority: 122
  By arevamirpal::laprimavera 7 January 2012 (UPDATE: Second part of the translation is posted , translation done by the reader Florian Zschage.) (H/T to the readers who did the translation and the summary of the original German article on TAZ . Thank you.) What struck me about the article interviewing Dr. ...
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• The “You’re Fat” Tax Is Coming!

  
  The Nerdel News Blog - Graehm Gray on Childhood Obesity, Kids Nutrition and Fitness — Authority: 85
  Okay my friends, I don’t want to be the “I told you” type but I did! The “you’re fat” tax is coming soon. So you ask, what in the world is a “fat tax”? I am glad you asked. As we all are aware, obesity is growing at an alarming rate. Most of us are already overweight and some of us are way ...
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• The Asbestos Cancer Epidemic

  
  Boston Mesothelioma Lawyers — Authority: 119
  The asbestos cancer epidemic Asbestos is a general term for certain fibrous minerals long popular for their thermal resistance, strength and acoustic properties. Serpentine and amphibole: Asbestos minerals are divided into two groups. Chrysotile, white asbestos, as well known: Only one type of asbestos derived from ...
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