Saturday, September 12, 2009

Health news below the fold

Infant Mortality going down in the Philippines.

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Public health statistics in Afghanistan ...still bad..
Not as high as in post civil war Sierra Leone...more here....most of these easily preventable deaths are in sub Sahara Africa, but many other countries have dropped their child mortality rates by half

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Fact check on abortion in the health care bill:
The problem: it's the Capp amendment...
The LATimes insists it's a "reasonable compromise" but the US Bishops say it's a ruse, and at least one bluedog Democrat agrees....

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Herd immunity is the best defense against an influenza epidemic...

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and the most important medical research of the day:

How alcohol blunts the ability of hamsters to 'rise and shine'


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