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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

From Newsweek…
We’re all the products of our environment and our genes. But when it comes to health, which factor is the trump card? Would a woman with a family propensity for ovarian cancer avoid coming down with the disease if she were raised on a macrobiotic diet in pollution-free rural North Dakota? Or on the [...]

Being a knowledgeable consumer when it comes to your own health care, especially post-graduation, can make all the difference in ensuring your health needs are being met.  This article from CNN.com offers suggestions for helping your doctor help you.
Dr. Adam Dimitrov doesn’t play favorites with patients. But he does have a few favorite patients — ones who [...]