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    May 21, 2012 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  1. Can Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution solve our obesity epidemic?

    "We're losing the war against obesity in the U.S.," says chef Jamie Oliver. "Our kids are growing up overweight and malnourished from a diet of processed foods, and today's children will be the first generation ever to live shorter lives than their parents."
    "We're losing the war against obesity in the U.S.," says chef Jamie Oliver. "Our kids are growing up overweight and malnourished from a diet of processed foods, and today's children will be the first generation ever to live shorter lives than their...

    Tags: Foods and Beverages, Weight, Adrian Grenier, HBO (tv network), Healthy Diet

    2. May 21, 2012 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  2. Ban Ki-moon: Eradicate polio, finally

    As the World Health Assembly convenes in Geneva this week, one item on the agenda will be polio, or more specifically, how to finally deliver on an epic promise made a quarter-century ago: to liberate humankind from one of the world's most deadly and debilitating diseases.
    As the World Health Assembly convenes in Geneva this week, one item on the agenda will be polio, or more specifically, how to finally deliver on an epic promise made a quarter-century ago: to liberate humankind from one of the world's most deadly and...

    Tags: Afghanistan, Ban Ki-moon, Smallpox , Diseases and Illnesses, Hamid Karzai

    3. May 11, 2012 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  3. Letters: Weighty matters for Americans

    Re "No end in sight to obesity epidemic," May 8 Of course there is no end in sight to the obesity epidemic. If the government can hold a conference that might suggest that Americans consume less junk food, then what makes us believe that the government...

    Tags: Weight, Overweight, Obesity, Health

    4. May 3, 2012 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  4. Bird flu can spread in mammals, study finds

    In a long-awaited study that helped prompt a contentious debate over the wisdom of conducting research that has the potential to help as well as harm, scientists reported Wednesday that they had engineered a mutant strain of bird flu that can spread easily between ferrets — a laboratory animal that responds to flu viruses much as people do.
    In a long-awaited study that helped prompt a contentious debate over the wisdom of conducting research that has the potential to help as well as harm, scientists reported Wednesday that they had engineered a mutant strain of bird flu that can spread...

    Tags: Health Organizations, Genes and Chromosomes, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Science and Technology, Health

    5. Apr 18, 2012 | Los Angeles Times

  5. A South African rape, captured on video, exposes an epidemic

    World Now
    A typical South African rape - captured on cell phone video: South African radio and social media lit up with outrage after a cell phone video showed the gang rape of a 17 year old girl by a group of adolescents. They offered her 25 cents to keep silent...
    6. Apr 19, 2012 | Los Angeles Times

  6. An interview with National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward

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    An extended interview with Jesmyn Ward, whose novel "Salvage the Bones" won the 2011 National Book Award....
    7. Apr 5, 2012 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  7. Painkiller addiction: Is it really an epidemic?

    Prescription painkillers are growing in popularity in new parts of the country, according to <a href=&quot;http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/ap-enterprise-sales-of-addictive-painkillers-exploding-in-previously-unaffected-areas/2012/04/05/gIQA0YhjwS_story.html">a new Associated Press analysis</a> that has experts sounding alarms of a new addiction epidemic. &ldquo;Pharmacies, hospitals and physicians dispensed the equivalent of 69 tons of pure oxycodone and 42 tons of pure hydrocodone in 2010,&rdquo; according to the study. &ldquo;That&rsquo;s enough to give 40 5-mg Percocets and 24 5-mg Vicodins to every man, woman and child in the United States.&rdquo; In some parts of the country, the report found that sales increased sixteenfold between 2000 and 2010. Meanwhile, the rise in popularity of prescription painkillers has <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504763_162-57409827-10391704/analysis-high-prevalence-of-painkiller-sales-turning-america-into-painkiller-nation/">coincided with overdose deaths and pharmacy robberies</a>.
    Prescription painkillers are growing in popularity in new parts of the country, according to a new Associated Press analysis that has experts sounding alarms of a new addiction epidemic. “Pharmacies, hospitals and physicians dispensed the equivalent...

    Tags: Substance Abuse, The Huffington Post, Chemicals, OxyContin (drug), Prosecution

    8. Mar 19, 2012 | Los Angeles Times

  8. Case of convicted French kidnapper roils Mexico -- again

    World Now
    Six years after French national Florence Cassez was sent off to serve decades in a Mexican prison for her alleged role in a kidnapping ring, her case is once again stirring heated debate here and abroad....
    9. Mar 16, 2012 | Los Angeles Times

  9. This Sunday: John Leonard, AIDS and Carl Hiaasen, too

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    John Leonard's collected essays, a book on genesis of the AIDS pandemic and another YA book by Carl Hiassen are all part of our Sunday coverage....
    10. Mar 8, 2012 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  10. HIV rates in U.S. black women much higher than thought

    HIV infection rates among black women in some parts of the United States are similar to the incidence seen in sub-Saharan Africa, researchers reported Thursday.
    HIV infection rates among black women in some parts of the United States are similar to the incidence seen in sub-Saharan Africa, researchers reported Thursday. The study found a rate of HIV infection of 0.24% in a group of almost 2,100 women, most of...

    Tags: Wake County, HIV, Health, AIDS, Retroviruses

    11. Mar 18, 2012 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  11. Book Review: 'Tinderbox' by Craig Timberg and Daniel Halperin

    Tinderbox: How the West Sparked the AIDS Epidemic and the How the World Can Finally Overcome It
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    Tinderbox: How the West Sparked the AIDS Epidemic and the How the World Can Finally Overcome It By Craig Timberg and Daniel Halperin Penguin Press, 421 pp., $29.95 Few diseases have been the subject of more books than the HIV/AIDS pandemic, with such...

    Tags: Genes and Chromosomes, The Washington Post, Diseases and Illnesses, Human Body, HIV

    12. Mar 27, 2012 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  12. To Britain's metal thieves, nothing is sacred

    Naomi Wormell is a vicar, not a vigilante. But these days, she finds it hard to choose Christian charity over some swift &#8212; and terrible &#8212; retribution.
    Naomi Wormell is a vicar, not a vigilante. But these days, she finds it hard to choose Christian charity over some swift — and terrible — retribution. The centuries-old church she leads in this quiet English village has fallen victim to a...

    Tags: United Kingdom, London (England), England, Human Interest, World War II (1939-1945)

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