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Buy a Red T-Shirt To Fight AIDS. But Does It Really Help?
Ben Arnoldy (The Christian Science Monitor, Mar. 12, 2007)
"(RED), launched by rock star Bono and Bobby Shriver last year, has drawn praise for raising $25 million for AIDS medications in Africa, as well as some reservations about marketing costs and a lack of transparency."
In California, a Potentially Tough Town for Smokers
Diana Walsh (San Francisco Chronicle, Mar. 13, 2007)
"The most sweeping anti-smoking law in the world gets its first public airing tonight in the Peninsula city of Belmont, which aims to curb the harmful effects of second-hand smoke. Lighting up on a sidewalk in the city of 25,000 residents: verboten. Puffing away in an apartment building: no way. Smoking in the company car: sorry. Even smoking in your own home could be a nuisance if a neighbor complained about the wafting smoke."
Tennessee: Where Tobacco Ruled, Smoking Ban Gains Ground
Theo Emery (The New York Times, Mar. 12, 2007)
"Tennessee will probably become the first major tobacco-growing state to pass a comprehensive smoke-free-workplace law. Gov. Phil Bredesen, a Democrat, proposed the ban in February. He also wants to triple taxes on cigarette sales and to use some of the money for smoking prevention. The proposals show how far public policy toward smoking has shifted, even in tobacco-friendly Robertson County..." Free registration required.
CDC Study Unmasks Much More
Jodi S. Cohen (Chicago Tribune, Mar. 11, 2007)
"Around the Ann Arbor campus [of the University of Michigan] this winter, 1,400 students have been participating in a study to learn whether wearing masks makes a difference in who gets the flu...The $2 million study, funded by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, is one of several worldwide intended to evaluate the feasibility and effectiveness of non-pharmaceutical measures in containing the next deadly flu pandemic." Free registration required.
A Place to Turn When a Newborn Is Fated to Die
Neela Banerjee (The New York Times, Mar. 13, 2007)
"Traditionally, doctors and nurses dealt with babies born with fatal anomalies by whisking them away from their mothers to die. But in the 1970s, a perinatal bereavement movement began offering parents another way to deal with the death of a child at birth, by acknowledging the grief they feel and by creating family and religious rituals around a stillbirth or early death." Free registration required.
