[sotd] October 22, 2003 [World Health News]
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Site of the Day for Wednesday, October 22, 2003
World Health News
Today's site from Harvard University's School of Public Health provides
important health stories from around the globe. Gentle Members who like to
keep in touch with health news from a variety of reputable sources may find
this site an excellent source of information and one to add to any
collection of sites visited on a regular basis.
"Welcome to World Health News, an online news digest from the Center for
Health Communication at the Harvard School of Public Health. The site
covers critical public health issues from around the world. ... World
Health News offers a combination of original reporting and a digest of news
stories and commentaries from newspapers and magazines worldwide on
pressing issues in public health. It includes special features prepared by
the Harvard School of Public Health, such as videotaped interviews with
experts, as well as access to radio and television coverage of important
breaking public health news stories from websites of leading news
organizations." - from the website
The site's current feature reports on Great Lakes' pollution while
additional categories range from obesity to environmental health. Among the
sidebar offerings are news items on the startling results of a recent Dutch
study on the long term affects of NSAIDs, a reappraisal of the role of fats
and particularly, nuts in the diet and "nutrition labels for dummies".
Although some links refer to newspaper articles which require registration,
in most cases registration is free.
Travel to the site for up-to-date health features with a global perspective
at:
http://www.worldhealthnews.harvard.edu/
A.M. Holm
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