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Harvard World Health News Highlights:
Dark Cloud Over Good Works of Gates Foundation
Charles Piller, Edmund Sanders and Robyn Dixon, Los Angeles Times (Jan. 7, 2007)
"In a contradiction between its grants and its endowment holdings, a Times investigation has found, the foundation reaps vast financial gains every year from investments that contravene its good works."
Beverage Research Tied to Corporate Dollars
Stephen Smith (The Boston Globe, Jan. 9, 2007)
"Scientific research on soft drinks, juices, and milk was four to eight times more likely to yield health results favorable to companies if it was sponsored by the food industry than research with no corporate ties, a study released last night found. The report suggests that nutrition research, like drug research, may be tainted by special-interest dollars." Free registration required.
Maine City Bans Smoking in Cars with Kids
(Associated Press, Jan. 10, 2007)
"For the second year running, Maine is the only state in the country to get a straight-A report card from the American Lung Association for its anti-smoking efforts. The health group announced Maine's high rating on Tuesday, a day after Bangor City Council broadened the state's war on smoking by passing an ordinance that prohibits people from smoking in vehicles when children are present."
Life After Prison Is Short, Finds Study
Karen Augé (The Denver Post, Jan. 11, 2007)
"If there is anything more risky than going to prison, it may be getting out of prison, a new study shows. In the first two weeks after release, former inmates die at a rate 13 times that of the general population, a University of Colorado researcher has found."
A Smoking Tradition Snuffed Out By Pelosi
(The Washington Post, Jan. 11, 2007)
"Some fresh air blew into the Capitol yesterday, after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi banned smoking from the most venerable nicotine haven on the hill -- the Speaker's Lobby outside the entrance to the House floor." Free registration required.
Attack of the Aliens
Mac Margolis, Newsweek (Jan. 7, 2007)
"Biologists somewhat quaintly call them exotic species. The rest of the world knows them for what they are: bioinvaders...Like so much else in the global marketplace, the burden of bioinvasion falls unevenly across the world. The human toll is often devastating to the poorest nations, where a failed crop can start a famine."
Dark Cloud Over Good Works of Gates Foundation
Charles Piller, Edmund Sanders and Robyn Dixon, Los Angeles Times (Jan. 7, 2007)
"In a contradiction between its grants and its endowment holdings, a Times investigation has found, the foundation reaps vast financial gains every year from investments that contravene its good works."
Beverage Research Tied to Corporate Dollars
Stephen Smith (The Boston Globe, Jan. 9, 2007)
"Scientific research on soft drinks, juices, and milk was four to eight times more likely to yield health results favorable to companies if it was sponsored by the food industry than research with no corporate ties, a study released last night found. The report suggests that nutrition research, like drug research, may be tainted by special-interest dollars." Free registration required.
Maine City Bans Smoking in Cars with Kids
(Associated Press, Jan. 10, 2007)
"For the second year running, Maine is the only state in the country to get a straight-A report card from the American Lung Association for its anti-smoking efforts. The health group announced Maine's high rating on Tuesday, a day after Bangor City Council broadened the state's war on smoking by passing an ordinance that prohibits people from smoking in vehicles when children are present."
Life After Prison Is Short, Finds Study
Karen Augé (The Denver Post, Jan. 11, 2007)
"If there is anything more risky than going to prison, it may be getting out of prison, a new study shows. In the first two weeks after release, former inmates die at a rate 13 times that of the general population, a University of Colorado researcher has found."
A Smoking Tradition Snuffed Out By Pelosi
(The Washington Post, Jan. 11, 2007)
"Some fresh air blew into the Capitol yesterday, after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi banned smoking from the most venerable nicotine haven on the hill -- the Speaker's Lobby outside the entrance to the House floor." Free registration required.
Attack of the Aliens
Mac Margolis, Newsweek (Jan. 7, 2007)
"Biologists somewhat quaintly call them exotic species. The rest of the world knows them for what they are: bioinvaders...Like so much else in the global marketplace, the burden of bioinvasion falls unevenly across the world. The human toll is often devastating to the poorest nations, where a failed crop can start a famine."
