| 1-13-10 Jonathan M. Samet (National Advisory Committee) Frontpagemag.com - Politicizing Smog Last Thursday, the United States Environmental Protection Agency announced plans to lower its standard for urban ozone, popularly known as smog, to a level between 60 and 70 parts per billion. This would be the fourth such reduction since the implementation of the Clean Air Act in the 1970s.…Read More |
| 1-08-10 Dominick Frosch (Cohort 1) - The Huffington Post We've all seen the ads on television telling us to be ready when the moment is right, to guard against the evils of HPV and cervical cancer, to talk to our doctor about Plavix, and on and on and on.…Read More |
| 1-06-10 Zoe Donaldson (Cohort 7) - Psychology Today The Divorce Gene Explored - Should you get your partners DNA before saying "I do"?…Read More |
| 1-06-09 Sacoby Wilson (Cohort 3) Questions farmers and how they raise the meat we eat Duplin County, N.C. stinks. And no wonder. Its human population is just under 50,000 people, but it is also home to 2.2 million of North Carolina's 10 million hogs.…Read More |
| 12-31-09 Gina Lovasi (Cohort 4) - The Palm Beach Post Children who are around smokers face a higher risk of early emphysema when they become nonsmoking adults, perhaps because their lungs never totally recovered from secondhand smoke exposure, new research suggests.…Read More |
| 12-20-09 Jo Ivey Boufford (National Program Director) - The New York Times The daunting challenges facing the rural elderly highlight America’s failure to embrace the overwhelming needs of this rapidly growing population. |
| 12-18-09 Michael Bader (Cohort 7) Health Reforms True Colors - The Philadelphia Inquirer The "tea party" protests that started last spring sparked a debate over whether racism was motivating the opposition to President Obama's health-care reform proposals.…Read More |
| 12-22-09 Amani Nuru-Jeter (Cohort 1) - UCBerkeley News Disability rates among non-institutionalized older Americans increased between 2000 and 2005, a trend that could seriously impact the quality of life of seniors in the coming decades if it continues, according to a study led by researchers at the University of Toronto and the University of California, Berkeley.…Read More |
| 12-16-09 Allison Aiello (Cohort 1) The Wall Street Journal A decade of pesky germs, from SARS to avian flu to H1N1, has given rise to dozens of products bragging about their microbe-killing properties.…Read More |
| 12-15-09 Harvey Fineberg (National Advisory Committee - CHAIR) America has quite a lot to learn from Israel on how to provide high-level medical care to all citizens equitably, but Israel can only envy the US for its massive funding for biomedical research - which in turn leads to better health care for its people.…Read More |
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