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By not in system - AOL News(April 22) -- Editor's note: Below is a sampling of reader feedback we received to op-eds published on AOL News over the past week. The comments have been edited for length and clarity. A Modest Proposal for Anti-Government Crowd -- By Alan Colmes Alan seems to be under the false impression that tea party members in general are, as he refers to them, "anti-government" and should secede from participating in anything that requires federal funding. I can assure Mr. Colmes that tea party members are NOT anti-government. We believe an effective government should be limited in power, and reminded ...
Report: India Has More Cell Phones Than Toilets
By David Knowles - AOL News(April 19) -- In the global rush toward modernization, some luxuries are outpacing the necessities. According to a new study released by the United Nations University, more people in India now own cell phones than have access to proper sanitation, including the use of a toilet. In 2008, just 366 million of India's 1.2 billion people had access to a toilet, the report said, while 563.73 million were subscribers to a cell phone plan. "It is a tragic irony to think that in India, a country now wealthy enough that roughly half of the people own phones, about half cannot afford the basic ...
Maternal Death Studies Spark Public Health Debate
By Katie Drummond - AOL News(April 14) -- Editors of a prestigious medical journal and experts at the United Nations are clashing over global maternal death rates, with the dispute revealing how politics can play into public health issues. On Monday, researchers at the University of Washington published surprising findings in The Lancet medical journal, concluding that maternal deaths worldwide have dropped 35 percent in the last three decades, going from 526,300 in 1980 to 342,900 in 2008. The team, led by Dr. Christopher Murray at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, used death records, census ...
WHO Admits Errors in Handling H1N1
By Katie Drummond - AOL News(April 12) -- The World Health Organization has admitted to errors and a lack of clear communication in handling the H1N1 pandemic last year, but its top influenza expert says the agency doesn't regret proclaiming the flu a pandemic. "The reality is there is a huge amount of uncertainty [in a pandemic]. I think we did not convey the uncertainty. That was interpreted by many as a nontransparent process," Keiji Fukuda, the WHO's leading influenza expert, told a panel of experts convening this week for a post-pandemic analysis of the organization's response to H1N1. The agency uses a six-stage ...
Hyping H1N1: Did It Create a Dangerous Flu Fatigue?
By Katie Drummond - AOL News(Feb. 27) -- With the World Health Organization warning yet again this week that the H1N1 virus has yet to reach its peak, a flu season that's milder than average hardly seems that way. Now, the nearly yearlong coverage of H1N1 has left some worried that future influenza outbreaks will be met with ambivalent flu fatigue among the public. "It's inevitable that there's H1N1 fatigue," Dr. Robert Daum, an infectious disease specialist at the University of Chicago Medical Center, told AOL News. "Health officials, the media and the public are all stuck between a rock and a hard place on this one." ...
First Case of Fearsome TB Strain Found in US
By not in system - AOL NewsLANTANA, Fla. (Dec. 27) -- It started with a cough, an autumn hack that refused to go away. Then came the fevers. They bathed and chilled the skinny frame of Oswaldo Juarez, a 19-year-old Peruvian visiting to study English. His lungs clattered, his chest tightened, and he ached with every gasp. During a wheezing fit at 4 a.m., Juarez felt a warm knot rise from his throat. He ran to the bathroom sink and spewed a mouthful of blood. I'm dying, he told himself, "because when you cough blood, it's something really bad." It was really bad, and not just for him. Doctors say Juarez's incessant ...
Smoking Blamed in 5 Million Deaths a Year
By not in system - AOL NewsLONDON (Dec. 9) -- Tobacco use kills at least 5 million people every year, a figure that could rise if countries don't take stronger measures to combat smoking, the World Health Organization said Wednesday. In a new report on tobacco use and control, the U.N. agency said nearly 95 percent of the global population is unprotected by laws banning smoking. WHO said secondhand smoking kills about 600,000 people every year. The report describes countries' various strategies to curb smoking, including protecting people from smoke, enforcing bans on tobacco advertising and raising taxes on tobacco ...
The Circumcision Debate: Is the Procedure Necessary?
By David Sessions - Politics DailyPublic health officials announced this week that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention might advise circumcision for all baby boys in the U.S. as protection against sexually transmitted diseases. The formal recommendation will be released later this year, but hints at its contents have already inflamed critics of the procedure, who say it is unnecessary and forces surgery on boys without their consent. ...
Swine Flu a Global Pandemic
By Ria Misra - Politics DailyWorld Health Organization officials emerged from an emergency meeting today and announced that swine flu has reached the level of a global pandemic, its first such determination in more than 40 years. ...
World Health Organization Raises Pandemic Alert Level to Phase 5
By Tommy Christopher - Politics DailyAmid calls for calm and simple precautions, the World Health Organization raised its pandemic alert level to Phase 5 late yesterday, one shy of the most serious phase, a full-blown pandemic:"It really is all of humanity that is under threat during a pandemic," Margaret Chan, WHO's director general, said in Geneva. "We do not have all the answers right now, but we will get them." It was the first time that WHO has declared a Phase 5 outbreak, the second-highest on its threat scale, indicating that a pandemic could be imminent.While the death toll in Mexico rose by 1, to 160, reports of new ...
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