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• Car Crashes Far More Deadly for Obese Drivers - EurekAlert!
• Federal Scientists Can Again Research Gun Violence - Joe Davidson, WaPo
• Big Food's Big, Silent Salt Experiment - Dan Charles, NPR
• People Are Living Longer, But Dying in Much Different Ways - Economist
• Overeating Bigger Problem Than Malnutrition - Jessica Hamzelou, NewSci
• Verbal Autopsy: The Corpse Whisperer - Michaeleen Doucleff, NPR
• Homicide Spreads Like Infectious Disease - Michigan State University
• Diagnostic Tests Ironically Hinder Epidemiology - Clare Leschin, SciAm
• Bad Journalism Reports on Bad Health Studies - Baylen Linnekin, Reason
• Global Warming as a Public Health Threat - Richard Harris, NPR
• Don't Ban Unhealthy Foods, Label Them - Brian Fung, The Atlantic
• Preventing an Olympic-Size Pandemic - Clay Dillow, Popular Science
• The Family Meal: A Cure for Obesity? - Steven Shapin, Project Syndicate
• Poor Countries Are Unhealthy Ones, Even Cuba - Roger Bate, RCMarkets
• Cigarette Tax: The Unintended Consequences - Ross Pomeroy, RCScience
• Withholding Research Can Be Deadly - Iain Chambers, Project Syndicate
• Minimal Health Risk from Fukushima Radiation - Geoff Brumfiel, Nature
• Locked in the Eternal Hour of Lead - Deborah Blum, PLoS Blogs
• Will Soda Tax Really Save 26,000 Lives? - Trevor Butterworth, Forbes
• Do-Gooder Mentality Can Blind Scientists - Trevor Butterworth, The Daily
• Air Pollution: Bad for Health But Good for Climate? - Richard Harris, NPR
• Don't Let 'Food Police' Ruin Halloween - Justin Wilson, Wash. Examiner
• Climate Change is Harming Your Health - Paul Epstein, The Atlantic
• Does Public Nudity Spread Disease? - Michael Thomsen, Slate
• Immigrant Tuberculosis Is Threat - Madhu Venkataramanan, Scienceline
• U.S. Learned Wrong Health Lessons From 9/11 - Brandon Keim, Wired
• Public Health: You Are What You Tweet - Johns Hopkins University
• Fight Science Illiteracy to Curb Food Outbreaks - Babbage, The Economist
• Europe E. coli Outbreak: Global Lessons - Gretchen Goetz, Food Safety News
• Epidemics Breed Distrust of Scientists, Pols - Richard Evans, Guardian
• Food Pathogens Hurt Tummy and Wallet - Katherine Hobson, WSJ
• Noise Pollution Serious Threat to Health - Andy Coghlan, NewScientist
• Battling Bedbug Epidemic - William G. Schulz, Chemical & Engineering News
• Doctors, Time to Hang Up the White Coats - William W. Motley, PLoS Blogs
• Truth Behind Health Scare Headlines - Freiberger & Thomas, NewScientist
• Pesticides May Block Male Hormones - Marla Cone, Scientific American
• Medical School Must Teach Prevention - Alan Blum, Birmingham News
• Livestock Plagues Spread in Developing World - Natasha Gilbert, Nature
• Swine Flu Lessons: Stopping the Next Pandemic - Tevi Troy, New Atlantis
• GM Chicken Does Not Spread Bird Flu - Steve Connor, The Independent
• Breastfeeding Alone for 6 Mo. May Harm Baby - Sarah Boseley, Guardian
• Reduction in Salt Consumption Recommended - American Heart Assoc.
• Obama Signs Biggest Food Safety Overhaul Since 1938 - CNN
• Why Do People Get Sick During the Holidays? - Madison Park, CNN
• Staph. Bacteria: Friendly to Some, Deadly for Others - Gina Kolata, NYT
• Get Your Flu Shot: UK Doctors Warn of Crisis - Denis Campbell, Guardian
• Evidence Suggests E-Cigarettes Safer Than Cigarettes - Boston University