April 2012
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“A slender person with overweight friends is more likely to gain weight than one...”
– 3quarksdaily: Six Degrees of Obesity? (note: I saved that link when it came out, in 2007; since then, there has been a lot of work from Andrew Gelman and others to show that the findings of Fowler and Christakis are less robust than claimed in some parts of their analysis)
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“Le chômage, perçu comme principal problème social, a tendance à masquer les...”
– Le travail, lieu de violence et de mort, par Annie Thébaud-Mony (Le Monde diplomatique)
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“1 confirmed case: “pandemic”; all domestic news except high-profile...”
– Dull in a New Way: Swine Flu Cataclysm
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“Baths especially were reserved for those with enough servants to bring the tub...”
– Those sexy, smelly Victorians
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“Finally, should we leave public health promotion to other arenas? Here is what...”
– Doctors as Agents of Public Health Promotion | Inequalities
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“Les vaccins constituent avec les antibiotiques, les deux classes de médicaments...”
– Que penser des controverses sur les vaccinations ? - L’actualité médicale vue par le professeur Claude Béraud
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“Pour conclure, il n’est pas incroyable que la récente interdiction de...”
– Tabagisme passif et risque d’infarctus : nous prend-on pour des demeurés? - Le blog des Bactéries et de l’Evolution
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“Bribing smokers with cash incentives helps them stop, US research suggests.”
– BBC NEWS | Americas | Cash bribes ‘help smokers quit’
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“The risk of dying from a shark attack anywhere in the world in 2004 was 1 in...”
– Risk of death from shark attack (via srqm)
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“When a dozen consumers gathered over the weekend to discuss health care at the...”
– Back in December 2008: At House Party on Health Care, the Diagnosis Is It’s Broken - NYTimes.com
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“The OECD Health Care Quality Indicators project, initiated in 2002, aims to...”
– Health Care Quality Indicators
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