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The saga continues
A victory for the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) came this week in the form of a court ruling upholding the constitutionality of a rule requiring cigarette packs to have graphic warning labels. Several lawsuits have been fought over this law across the country, which we at Upstream have covered from the beginning before the [...]
Jargon
In a world of texting and writing ideas in 140 characters of less, abbreviations are essential. However, recently, I was in a public health meeting that I had no idea what was going on. I realized that when I (a person pretty familiar with common public health acronyms) required a cheat sheet of acronyms being used in [...]
Environmental and cancer advocacy: Partners in health?
Can advocates “fighting for the environment” and advocates “fighting for health” team up together, productively? Possibilities for this important partnership are illuminated in a récent Los Angeles Times article on environmental carcinogens and cancer, where breast cancer risk is linked to cadmium, a heavy metal found in processed whole grains, potatoes, vegetables and shellfish unprotected from cropland-leaching [...]
Who uses health communication resources?
In my health communication google news alert, I recently received a message about a site dedicated to health communication resources: C-Hub. The site hosts a number of these materials, related to health and development and focusing on areas such as HIV and AIDS, Sexual and Reproductive Health, Environmental Health, Maternal and Child Health and others. [...]
Talking WITH teens
Tomorrow evening I and a team of colleagues/community collaborators are hosting a community forum with teens and adults living in a rural North Carolina county. Our goal is to talk about health in this rural community, and how we can improve the health of everyone in an area weighed down by obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and stroke. [...]
