Poverty | -Poverty and America: The Four Lost Decades-

From an article by the New Yorker's John CassidyThe latest poverty and income figures came out this week, and boy are they disturbing. It’s not so much the headline figures, which have been well covered in the Times and elsewhere: 46 million Americans living under the poverty line in 2010, the highest number since the Commerce Department started collecting [...]

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Employment | -Working-Age Adults Now Constitute Record Share Of U.S. Poor-

First Posted: 9/6/11 05:04 PM ET Updated: 9/6/11 06:13 PM ET By HOPE YEN, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Working-age America is the new face of poverty. Counting adults 18-64 who were laid off in the recent recession as well as single twenty-somethings still looking for jobs, the new working-age poor represent nearly 3 out of [...]

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Poverty | -The New Face of Poverty-

This morning while getting my daily dose of Knowledge I came across this article with alarming statistics: 1 in 5 Children In U.S. Lives In Poverty, Hard-Hit By Recession: Study. According to IBTIMES: A national study on child well-being was published on Wednesday, finding that 14.7 million children were poor in 2009 across the United [...]

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Public Health Newswire.

http://www.publichealthnewswire.org/ APHA launches a new online portal – Public Health Newswire – the essential resource for up-to-date information and opinions on the top issues affecting public health. News and events from a wide range of leading publications and events across the industry. The latest research from the American Journal of Public Health and other top [...]

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Global Health News Last Week (via IH – BLOG)

The Supercourse team at the University of Pittsburgh has taken the initiative to spread the WHO’s definition of health, “a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.” They have translated the definition into over 60 different languages using Google translate and have asked health professionals [...]

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FDA Approves Lazanda – First Fentanyl Nasal Spray – for the Management of Breakthrough Pain in Cancer Patients.

FDA Approves Lazanda – First Fentanyl Nasal Spray – for the Management of Breakthrough Pain in Cancer Patients “Lazanda is an important new option for patients with cancer who experience excruciating breakthrough pain,” says Jeffrey H. Buchalter, chief executive officer of Archimedes Pharma. “Lazanda, which uses our patented PecSys® drug delivery system, is designed to [...]

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Ruling stands that benzene caused laborer’s leukemia.

Occupational health and safety lawsuits have become a serious threat to many companies and workplaces that work with harmful chemicals and substances. A recent lawsuit showed that in Louisiana, a worker can establish that chemical exposure caused an occupational disease by showing medical studies and internal … Read More via Electrocorp 

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CDC Links Obesity, Arthritis, and Lack of Exercise.

CDC Links Obesity, Arthritis, and Lack of Exercise Study Shows Obese Adults Who Have Arthritis Are More Likely to Skip Exercise By Bill Hendrick WebMD Health News Reviewed by Laura J. Martin, MD May 19, 2011 — Obese adults with arthritis are 44% more likely to be physically inactive than obese people who do not [...]

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