A Public Health Quandary: When Should the Public Be Told?
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Doctors and public health officials must weigh the benefits of knowledge against the risk of alarm.
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Comment is free: Libby Brooks: To cut offences like Chris Langham's, we should treat sexual abuse as a public health issue and discuss it without taboo
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By Grand Forks Herald, N.D.  Feb. 14--There is a slope. And it is slippery.   Especially, it seems, regarding issues of public health.   Lawmakers in North Dakota and Minnesota have spent lots of time on health  proposals -- bills that protect us from ourselves.
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There's an open secret in medicine: Patients lie. They lie about how much they smoke and whether they're taking their medicine. They understate how much they drink and overstate how much they exercise. They feign symptoms to get appointments quicker and ask doctors to hide the truth from insurance companies.
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HERNDON, Va., March 2  /PRNewswire/ -- The federal government's American Health Information Community is providing funds and encouraging private industry to participate in the government's increasing use of electronic records and systems for the creation, storage and sharing of health information.
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Health officials are urging the public to stay patient -- even as some states are reporting a shortage of flu shots for their high-risk populations.
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The public shouldn&#39;t have to wonder if the medicines they take are going to cure them or kill them. Recent suspicions that a number of painkillers carry potential health risks suggests the agency responsible
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In an attempt to raise the nation's historically low rate of breast-feeding, federal health officials commissioned an attention-grabbing advertising campaign a few years ago to convince mothers that their babies faced real health risks if they did not breast-feed. It featured striking photos of...
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Why is it that when a doctor weighs in on the medical malpractice crisis [&quot;Dispelling Malpractice Myths,&quot; op-ed, Nov. 14], the solution never includes giving the public access to the National Practitioner
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Issues of privacy  -  and bureaucracy  -  have hampered health officials trying to avert an outbreak of the disease
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Description: The world&#39;s first public health treaty is set to become international law, but the United States has yet to ratify it.
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Federal whistle-blower laws have helped protect public health and safety as far back as Abraham Lincoln&#39;s presidency, and now they need to be bolstered and wielded again.
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The federal government's voluminous plans for dealing with pandemic flu do not adequately account for the overwhelming strain an outbreak would place on hospitals and public health systems trying to cope with millions of seriously ill Americans, some public health experts and local health officia...
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The British government will launch a  long-awaited policy paper on public health next week with plans  to curb public smoking, tackle obesity and address the way food  companies target children through advertising.
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Â· Government failed to follow up patients at riskÂ· Danger of wider infection a 'serious problem'
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People are being asked to report their concerns about children they think are at risk.
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There are certain topics in public life where the stakes are so high that told-you-sos are inappropriate. So it happened this week, when the World Health Organization announced that Indian