Harvard World Health News - Multidrug resistant Bacteria, Mad Cow, Eating Disorders, and Poverty

Harvard World Health News Highlights:

The Invisible Enemy in Iraq
Steve Silberman (Wired magazine)
"The Pentagon created the perfect machine for saving the lives of soldiers wounded in Iraq. But then GIs started getting sick. The culprit: a drug-resistant supergerm infecting the military's evacuation chain."

Virus May Be the Cause of Mad Cow
Jia-Rui Chong (Los Angeles Times, Jan. 31, 2007)
"Mad cow disease and other related brain disorders may be caused by a virus and not the weird, misshapen proteins, known as prions, that scientists think are responsible, according to a study released Monday." Free registration required.

Eating Disorders a Guy Thing Too, Study Finds
Denise Gellene (Los Angeles Times, Feb. 1, 2007)
"Contrary to the long-held belief that anorexia and bulimia are female afflictions, the first national survey on eating disorders has found that one-quarter of adults with the conditions are men." Free registration required.

Seattle: Poor Are Priced Out of Healthful Eating
(Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Jan. 29, 2007)
"A researcher compared food prices in Seattle's Rainier Valley and Queen Anne neighborhoods and found that a family of four living on the maximum allowable amount of food stamps can barely afford the basics here."

Some "EnviroHealth" articles on Global Warming

Who's Funding Global Warming?
Tara Lohan, AlterNet. February 5, 2007.
Find out which banks are part of the problem, and which are part of the solution, in the fight against global climate change.

The Most Important Thing You Can Do To Stop Global Warming
Tara Lohan, AlterNet. February 1, 2007.
Environmentalist Bill McKibben explains that forcing Congress to take action on climate change is the top priority. Fortunately, he has a plan.

ExxonMobil's War on Science
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., HuffingtonPost.com. January 31, 2007.
With an elaborate network of phony think tanks and slick public relations firms, ExxonMobil has become today's Big Tobacco, defrauding the public and waging a war on science.

What Al Gore Hasn't Told You About Global Warming
David Morris, AlterNet. January 9, 2007.
George Monbiot's new book Heat picks up where Al Gore left off on global warming, offering real solutions without sugar-coating the large personal sacrifices they will require.

And then, just because I hate Apple:

Apple Computers: Fun for You, Toxic for the Environment
Jess Hemerly, AlterNet. January 30, 2007.
Apple positions itself as the technological haven for the hip, the progressive and the revolutionary. But when it comes to the environment, Apple is quite out of touch.