http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/publichealth/ en-us Sun, 30 Nov 2008 21:53:00 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2140509/posts Sunday, November 30, 2008 Reaping The Consequences The latest article posted by the AP (Associated Press) stated that about 26 percent of New York City adults have genital herpes, compared to about 19 percent nationwide. My friend, this is only the tip of the decadent iceberg! The New York Health Department stated that genital herpes can double a person's risk for contracting HIV. The rate of contracting herpes is highest among New Yorkers, women, gay men and black people. My beloved, one-in-four New Yorkers has herpes!!! That's 2,000,000 individuals! This statistic should frighten and alarm any sane individual. How can... The Ignorant Fisherman http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2140509/posts#comment Sun, 30 Nov 2008 21:53:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2139008/posts (CNSNews.com) – Religious leaders and AIDS activists told CNSNNews.com Tuesday that labeling sex outside of marriage as sinful or having multiple partners as immoral behavior is “biased” – something society has “moved beyond.” At a telephone news conference in advance of World AIDS Day, AIDS activist groups and representatives of various religious groups said that counseling teens and others to be abstinent and restricting sex to marriage just isn’t “realistic,” and called on churches and the incoming Obama administration to deal with HIV/AIDS in a “truthful” and “medically accurate way.” The Rev. Michael Schuenemeyer, executive for health and wholeness advocacy... CNSNews http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2139008/posts#comment Thu, 27 Nov 2008 02:20:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2138501/posts An Indonesian bill that includes a bylaw requiring "sexually aggressive" people living with HIV/AIDS to be implanted with microchips is causing debate between some lawmakers, who argue that the bill is necessary to curb the spread of the virus, and advocates, who say the bylaw is discriminatory and a violation of human rights, the AP/Minneapolis Star Tribune reports. According to John Manangsang, a lawmaker who supports the bill, authorities would be able to identify, track and punish people living with HIV/AIDS in the country's province of Papua who intentionally spread the virus with a $5,000 fine or up to six... Emax Health http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2138501/posts#comment Wed, 26 Nov 2008 04:44:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2137021/posts A United Airlines flight was temporarily held at Los Angeles International Airport after a passenger fell ill and had to be diagnosed for a possible infectious disease. City Fire Department spokesman Cecil Manresa said the Boeing 747 jet was held at the gate after arriving from Tokyo around 8 a.m. Sunday. Crew members and 334 passengers were ordered to stay on board while investigators from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention evaluated the 28-year-old male passenger. Manresa said health officials determined that he suffered from food poisoning or some type of stomach illness. United Airlines spokesman Jeff Kovick said... cbs2 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2137021/posts#comment Sun, 23 Nov 2008 18:28:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2115215/posts A vaccine against rotavirus, the leading cause of diarrhea in infants, has led to a dramatic drop in hospitalization and emergency room visits since it came on the market two years ago, doctors reported Saturday. A bonus: the vaccine seems to be preventing illness even in unvaccinated children by cutting the number of infections in the community that kids can pick up and spread. "We're a little surprised by the degree of impact given the coverage we've achieved," said Jane Seward of the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Only about half of young children had received the vaccine... Associated Press http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2115215/posts#comment Sat, 25 Oct 2008 21:08:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2099886/posts Gun violence is a leading cause of death and injury in America, and it is steadily increasing. There are now 38,000 gun deaths a year in America, a number that continues to climb. Gun deaths of young people are increasing at an especially high rate. While the Surgion General of the United States and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have acknowledged gun violence as a public health epidemic, most laws and public policies treat gun violence as a purely criminal problem. The Foundation's focus is on reframing gun violence as a public health issue. Joyce Foundation http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2099886/posts#comment Tue, 7 Oct 2008 21:10:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2096564/posts Ontario health officials are searching for 27 people who may have been exposed to tuberculosis while travelling on a Greyhound bus from Toronto to Windsor on Aug. 31. There's a "moderate risk" they contracted the disease, public health officials said Thursday. A passenger on the bus was sick with the tuberculosis and may have spread it by coughing while in close proximity to the other bus passengers. The passenger, identified only as a woman with a Canadian passport, was detained by American custom officials at the border between Windsor and Detroit. Ontario's Chief Medical Officer of Health Dr. David Williams... CTV.ca http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2096564/posts#comment Fri, 3 Oct 2008 12:54:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2094104/posts -snip- The Iowa Department of Public Health says the woman reported a bat in her house but wasn't too worried about it. She turned on her automatic coffee maker before bedtime and drank her coffee the next morning. She discovered the bat in the filter when she went to clean it that night. The woman has undergone treatment for possible rabies. Health officials say that the bat was sent to a lab but that its brain was too cooked by the hot water to determine whether it had rabies. Fox http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2094104/posts#comment Tue, 30 Sep 2008 17:53:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2081122/posts ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- Young black gay men, black women and white gay men in their 30s and 40s are much more likely to be newly infected with HIV than other groups in the United States, according to a new analysis from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The analysis -- based on figures showing that the HIV infection rate for 2006 is much worse than previously thought -- looks at the number of new HIV infections and who gets them. The study appears in this week's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. It shows 53 percent of the estimated... CNN http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2081122/posts#comment Fri, 12 Sep 2008 21:17:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2077701/posts Chelsea Clinton. The former First Daughter is also starting a master's program at Columbia, majoring in public health policy, according to a source. NY Daily News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2077701/posts#comment Mon, 8 Sep 2008 22:59:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2066750/posts http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQD3B9vEe_M Interesting video where he announces that he and Obama have been tested for AIDS, while Al Sharpton gives Biden the "evil eye" afterward. YouTube http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2066750/posts#comment Sat, 23 Aug 2008 16:16:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2055457/posts Updated federal estimates of the annual number of new HIV infections in the United States, released today, reveal that while the AIDS epidemic here is worse than previously thought, prevention efforts appear to be having some effect. Even though the number of Americans living with HIV has risen by more than a quarter million people since 1998 -- largely the result of life-extending antiretroviral drugs -- the number of new cases each year has declined slightly over that period. That suggests that a person's likelihood of transmitting the virus to someone else is substantially lower now than it was a... Washington Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2055457/posts#comment Sat, 2 Aug 2008 19:22:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050049/posts Gun regulation is not a public health issue, according to more than 80% of some 2,000 respondents to a MedPage Today poll. When the editors of the New England Journal of Medicine decried the recent Supreme Court decision overturning the District of Columbia's handgun law, they did so claiming the issue is a matter of public health. Now doctors in the trenches have weighed in with their own views. The responses from physicians who are registered members of the site was remarkbly evenly divided. Just over half (52%) said Yes, that gun control is a public health issue. But for... Medpage Today http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050049/posts#comment Wed, 23 Jul 2008 17:59:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2046718/posts "Is gun regulation a public health issue?" http://broadcaster.medpagetoday.com/t?r=2&c=1898&l=15&ctl=CA06:5D21AFF7DD791D1C59086A13CA638538 MedPage Today http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2046718/posts#comment Thu, 17 Jul 2008 03:48:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2037591/posts Source of Largest Salmonella Outbreak in U.S. History May Never Be Found, Says FDA The salmonella outbreak in tomatoes isn't over and it's already the largest salmonella outbreak the CDC has ever tracked, in terms of lab-confirmed reported illness. Since the outbreak began in April, the CDC has gotten reports of 810 people in 36 states and Washington, D.C., sickened by Salmonella saintpaul, the outbreak's rare strain of salmonella. The most recent onset of illness was June 15, and that may not be the last case, since the CDC gets reports of illness about 16 days after an illness starts,... WebMD Health News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2037591/posts#comment Sat, 28 Jun 2008 02:34:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2033757/posts I know there are people out there who may disagree with me on this one. But here I go anyway. Mind you this is not an issue that affects me personally as I am not a smoker. First and foremost, because any article dealing with smoking must add in a few caveats I will take this opportunity to state what should already be obvious. I obviously believe that those addicted to smoking should try their harderst to quit. No doubt about that. You will not hear arguments from me disputing the dangers of cigarette addiction. Now that I got that... STEVELACKNER.COM http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2033757/posts#comment Fri, 20 Jun 2008 07:31:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2028661/posts <p> FDA Home Page | Search FDA Site | FDA A-Z Index | Contact FDA Salmonellosis Outbreak in Certain Types of Tomatoes Updated: June 9, 2008 Topics on this Page IntroductionUpdate on the OutbreakNews UpdatesAdvice for Retailers, Restaurateurs and Food Service Operators Consumer Health Information What Is FDA Doing?Information About Salmonella How Do I Report a Tomato Complaint? Introduction The Food and Drug Administration is alerting consumers nationwide that a salmonellosis outbreak appears to be linked to consumption of certain types of raw red tomatoes and products containing raw red tomatoes. The bacteria causing the illnesses are Salmonella serotype Saintpaul,... US Food and Drug Administration http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2028661/posts#comment Tue, 10 Jun 2008 02:46:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2026389/posts View the video at this link, and be prepared to get very angry: http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid1329217643?bctid=1329232712 This is a public health issue. Send this link to everyone you know. Brightcove.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2026389/posts#comment Thu, 5 Jun 2008 12:42:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2024276/posts "No longer a social hub of white convalescents, about one-third of the patients are from Latin America, Haiti or other parts of the Third World -- where TB claims 3 million lives yearly. Half suffer from AIDS, a disease that has "partnered up" with the TB bacterium that thrives in a weakened immune system, Ashkin said." ... "Jim Green of the American Civil Liberties Union filed a constitutional challenge to the state's TB statutes in the late 1980s. He said the state regularly detained patients and banished them to A.G. Holley without access to attorneys or other freedoms. "There were... MarcoEagle marconews.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2024276/posts#comment Sun, 1 Jun 2008 05:04:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2019628/posts Gambian President Yahya Jammeh says he will “cut off the head” of any homosexual caught in his country. Addressing supporters at the end of his meet the farmers tour here Sunday, Jammeh also ordered any hotel or motel housing homosexuals to close down, adding that owners of such facilities would also be in trouble. He said the Gambia was a country of believers, indicating that no sinful and immoral act as homosexual would be tolerated in the country. He warned all homosexuals in the country to leave, noting that a legislation “stricter than those in Iran ” concerning the vice... Afrik http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2019628/posts#comment Thu, 22 May 2008 12:25:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2016534/posts LOS ANGELES — Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and the Department of Water and Power are expected to announce on May 15 a revised water use and management plan for this city that includes using recycled wastewater to recharge drinking water aquifers, according to a May 15 Los Angeles Times article. The new plan allocates about $1 billion for the proposed reclamation system, also known as “toilet-to-tap” or “sewer-to-spigot.” The city would recycle about 4.9 billion gallons of treated wastewater to drinking standards by 2019, The Wall Street Journal reported on May 15. Villaraigosa, who less than a decade ago opposed such... WaterTechnology http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2016534/posts#comment Thu, 15 May 2008 22:09:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2014399/posts What initially looked to be a frightening infectious disease outbreak that led to the death of one woman aboard a Via Rail train turned out to be a remarkable series of unconnected coincidences, Ontario's Chief Medical Officer of Health, Dr. David Williams, explained during a Friday afternoon press conference. The elderly woman died during the train ride from Vancouver to Toronto, but health officials say she likely didn't have an infectious disease. Six other passengers also fell ill, with the most serious being rushed to hospital with a respiratory illness of some sort. Officials, however, believe that passenger was suffering... CityNews http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2014399/posts#comment Sun, 11 May 2008 14:02:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2013584/posts A Via Rail train, carrying more than 260 passengers to Toronto, has been quarantined in Foleyet, Ont. after one person died and several people fell ill. "Currently there are a few people who are seriously ill on the train and one person is being airlifted right now," OPP Sgt. Laura Nichols told CTV.ca from the North Bay Communications Centre. The train was quarantined at the train depot in Foleyet, a community near Sudbury, Ont., after officials notified police that someone was feeling ill. More than 260 people were aboard the train when it stopped in Foleyet. Police believe there are... CTV.ca http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2013584/posts#comment Fri, 9 May 2008 15:04:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2013311/posts Your Very Good Health (UK COI, 1948) The Internet Archive http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2013311/posts#comment Thu, 8 May 2008 23:24:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2011220/posts BEIJING (AP) - A highly infectious virus that has killed 24 children in China is unlikely to be a threat to the Beijing Olympics, although it is too early to tell whether it has peaked, the World Health Organization said Sunday. The death toll from the virus, which mostly sickens children, rose to 24 Sunday as two more deaths were reported in a new province amid heightened efforts by China's Health Ministry to contain it. The outbreak of enterovirus 71—which causes a severe type of hand, foot and mouth disease—is another headache for the Communist government as it prepares for... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2011220/posts#comment Sun, 4 May 2008 23:48:30 GMT