Practitioners from Third Root Community Health Center in Brooklyn
will facilitate two workshops
on Wednesday, April 8, 2009
Access to Healthcare = Access to Health, Wellbeing, and Justice
Exley 137, 4:15 p.m.
The national dialogue concerning healthcare concerns access to emergency care, but not actually maintaining good health in an ongoing, holistic, daily way. Additionally, the holistic care that does exist [...]
From CNN Health…
The perception is that 20-somethings are youthful and robust, in the peak of their health.
But a report released Wednesday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention indicates that young adults have their fair share of health woes.
A third of 18- to 29-year-olds, a demographic the insurance industry calls “young invincibles,” are cigarette [...]
From the BACCHUS Blog…
The Lane Medical Library at Stanford University’s School of Medicine has compiled an extensive gallery of cigarette advertising over the years. Many of these ads date back to the 1950s and earlier. For an especially disturbing experience, look through the collection marked “Then and Now.” This will show you precisely how many [...]
The WebMD column Sex Matters shared an interesting item recently — televison shows can effectively be used to educate on health issues. Read on…
The Kaiser Family Foundation, in collaboration with the writers and producers of Grey’s Anatomy, conducted a study of how information about health could affect the accuracy of knowledge of the show’s viewers. They [...]
As posted on Wesleying…
Do-it-all Beta lecture series chair Tim Devane ‘09 writes:
Tomorrow night at 8 pm we are hosting Charles Barber as a speaker. Mr. Barber is formerly a visiting writing professor at Wes as well as an author and lecturer on psychiatry at Yale.
He is also the author of Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry is Medicating a Nation, [...]
You are invited to a short screening of the documentary
Diagnosis: NOW!
regarding health care reform in the United States. There will be a discussion following the screening with guests from the community, including:
Paul Wessel, Wesleyan ‘82, Healthcare4every1 campaign
Suzanne Haviland, Health care policy expert
A representative from Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro’s office
Tuesday, Oct. 14th
7 PM
Woodhead Lounge
Feel free to [...]
Posted in health consumerism on May. 30, 2008 by Lisa Currie
The Internet can be a valuable tool for finding information on virtually any topic. When it comes to medical and health information though, it’s easy to get overwhelmed by the vast array of information.. At times, it can be difficult to differentiate between a credible source and someone’s personal opinion without doing a bit of detective work.
CNN.com’s Empowered Patient [...]
Posted in health consumerism on May. 28, 2008 by Lisa Currie
Not at all. Adults are in need of vaccines to protect them from a variety of communicable diseases, including pneumonia, HPV and hepatitis. Which are best to receive varies with age and a number of other risk factors, such as where you travel, previous exposure and the current status of your immune system. Review this information from the [...]
Posted in health consumerism on May. 8, 2008 by Lisa Currie
MedLine Plus has information available on dozens of health topics in dozens of languages. The information can be browsed by language or by health topic.
The languages included are:
Amharic(amarunya)
Arabic (العربية)
Armenian (Հայերեն)
Bengali(Bangla)
Bosnian(Bosanski)
Burmese(myanmasa)
Chamorro(chamoru)
Chinese – Simplified (简体中文)
Chinese – Traditional (繁體中文)
Chuukese(Trukese)
Croatian(Hrvatski)
Farsi (فارسی)
French(français)
French Creole(Kreyol)
German(Deutsch)
Gujarathi [...]
From Slate.com…
Last month, the London Independent ran a sensationalist story about cell phones causing brain tumors, and the Breast Cancer Fund released a comprehensive report on carcinogenic chemicals women should avoid. Other recent cancer-causing culprits in the news include pesticides, power lines, and solvents.
This thinking cleaves to a popular motif: The natural world is less toxic [...]
