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Harvard World Health News Highlights:


Mental Health and Guns: Do Background Checks Do Enough?
Michael Luo (The New York Times, Apr. 19, 2007)
"Revelations about Cho Seung-Hui’s 2005 stay in a psychiatric center under a magistrate’s order have raised questions about whether background checks adequately scrutinize the mental health history of potential gun buyers." Free registration required.

New Push Likely for Restrictions Over Abortions
Kirk Johnson (The New York Times, Apr. 20, 2007)
"Some scholars of the abortion debate say that all the tilting and jousting of politics and the technical legal issues raised by the Supreme Court in upholding, by a 5-to-4 vote, the federal Partial-Birth Abortion Act are beside the point.
What the court really did, said Anne Hendershott, a professor of sociology at the University of San Diego, was reframe the debate about how abortion should be discussed." Free registration required.

U.S. Baby Boomers Appear To Be Less Healthy Than Parents
Rob Stein (The Washington Post, Apr. 20, 2007)
"As the first wave of baby boomers edges toward retirement, a growing body of evidence suggests that they may be the first generation to enter their golden years in worse health than their parents. While not definitive, the data sketch a startlingly different picture than the popular image of health-obsessed workout fanatics who know their antioxidants from their trans fats and look 10 years younger than their age." Free registration required.

Study Warns of Health Risks from Ethanol
Keay Davidson (San Francisco Chronicle, Apr. 18, 2007)
"A new study out of Stanford says pollution from ethanol could end up creating a worse health hazard than gasoline, especially for people with asthma and other respiratory diseases."


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