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		<title>“The Deadliest Artifact in the History of Civilization” – And the Worst is Yet to Come</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From Stanford University; The Book Haven The cigarette industry is not dying. It continues to reap unimaginable profits. It’s still winning lawsuits. And cigarettes still kill millions every year. So says Stanford’s Robert Proctor, author of the new bombshell study, Golden Holocaust: Origins of the Cigarette Catastrophe and the Case for Abolition, a book the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Recently published in the Health and Wellness Journal</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently published papers in The International Journal of Health, Wellness and Society include: Evaluating the Design of Two Government and Two Non-Government HIV/AIDS Websites by Rupananda Misra and Barbara C. Wallace. Stigma and Social Exclusion among Tuberculosis Patients: A Study of Ladakh, India by Sonal Mobar and A.K. Sharma. Cureland: The Spa as Metaphor by John Horrocks. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bacon Linked to Higher Risk of Pancreatic Cancer, Says Report</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From the Guardian Eating two rashers of bacon a day can increase the risk of pancreatic cancer by 19% and the risk goes up if a person eats more, experts have said. Eating 50g of processed meat every day – the equivalent to one sausage or two rashers of bacon – increases the risk by [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://healthandsociety.com/2012/01/25/bacon-linked-to-higher-risk-of-pancreatic-cancer-says-report/</link>
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		<title>Will Knowing your DNA Motivate you to Lose Weight?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Art Caplan from MSNBC The claim by Ion Torrent on Tuesday that a reasonably affordable machine capable of mapping an individual’s complete genetic makeup for $1,000 will be ready by the end of the year has technology geeks in a tizzy. The $1,000 genome has been hotly sought ever since a crude map of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Health and Wellness Journal, Volume 1 now complete</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The final issue of volume 1 of  The International Journal of Health, Wellness and Society. has now been published. Volume 1, Issue 4 contains: Interprofessional Primary Care Practices Addressing Diabetes Prevention and Management by Lesley Beagrie. Social Work Practice: One Avenue of Health Promotion by Maria Huddleston and Deborah West. The Louisiana Aging Network: Analyzing an Organizational [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Announcing Plenary Speaker, Joan Wolf for the 2012 Health and Wellness in Society Conference</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We are pleased to announce Joan Wolf as a plenary speaker for the 2012 Health, Wellness and Society Conference, Chicago, IL, USA 10-11 March. Joan Wolf received her Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Chicago and is currently Associate Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies Texas A&#38;M University.  Her research focuses on the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://healthandsociety.com/2012/01/19/announcing-plenary-speaker-joan-wolf-for-the-2012-health-and-wellness-in-society-conference/</link>
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		<title>Unnatural Selection: Is Evolving Reproductive Technology Ushering in a New Age of Eugenics?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Carolyn Abraham from the Globe and Mail Humanity has long dreamed of perfection, striving to be faster, stronger and brighter, pushing nature to the limit. Four centuries before people were conceived in a petri dish, Swiss alchemist Paracelsus claimed flawless little beings could be grown in pumpkins filled with urine and horse dung, but [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://healthandsociety.com/2012/01/16/unnatural-selection-is-evolving-reproductive-technology-ushering-in-a-new-age-of-eugenics/</link>
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		<title>French Study Suggests Maggots May Clean Wounds Faster than Surgery</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From Medical Xpress For thousands of years, people have used maggots to clean out wounds, particularly in battlefield situations when there were few other options. Use of maggots (fly larvae) virtually disappeared in the modern world though once antibiotics arrived on the scene, but that may change as a new study conducted by a team [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://healthandsociety.com/2012/01/07/french-study-suggests-maggots-may-clean-wounds-faster-than-surgery/</link>
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		<title>Eating Animals</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From the Atlantic As Americans gather around holiday tables this year, many of us will be setting places for vegetarians and vegans. In some families, diverse diets co-exist peacefully. In others, well &#8230; maybe there&#8217;s a health-obsessed uncle who relishes warning that &#8220;Meat will kill you!&#8221; Or an idealistic college student, eager to regale her [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Women&#8217;s Response to Alcohol Suggests Need for Gender-Specific Treatment Programs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#160; By Dirk Hanson from Scientific American Alcohol abuse does its neurological damage more quickly in women than in men, new research suggests. The finding adds to a growing body of evidence that is prompting researchers to consider whether the time is ripe for single-gender treatment programs for alcohol-dependent women and men. Over the past [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://healthandsociety.com/2012/01/01/womens-response-to-alcohol-suggests-need-for-gender-specific-treatment-programs/</link>
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