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Sat Jul 4

• Foodborne Illness & Health Inspection Information & Analysis : Environ Health Associates : Farm to Fork : Food Safety and Environmental Health Blog: Food safety blog
• Alex Kotlowitz, "Blocking the transmission of violence", single page, May 2008, New York Times: "CeaseFir e's founder, Gary Slutkin, is an epidemiologist and a physician who for 10 years battled infectious diseases in Africa. He says that violence directly mimics infections like tuberculosis and AIDS, and so, he suggests, the treatment ought to mimic the regimen applied to these diseases: go after the most infected, and stop the infection at its source. [...] Slutkin wants to shift how we think about violence from a moral issue (good and bad people) to a public health one (healthful and unhealthful behavior). [...] The fact that there's no vaccine or medical cure for violence doesn't dissuade him. He points out that in the early days of AIDS, there was no treatment either. In the short run, he's just trying to halt the spread of violence. In the long run, though, he says he hopes to alter behavior and what's considered socially acceptable.&qu ot;
• Andy Coghlan, "Treat killing like a disease to slash shootings", New Scientist: "Shooting s and killings in deprived areas of Chicago and Baltimore have plummeted by between 41 and 73 per cent thanks to a programme that treats violence as if it is an infectious disease. [...] 'Violence gets transmitted the same way as other communicable diseases, so we train "violence interruptors&q uot; to prevent escalation,� 39; says Gary Slutkin, founder and executive director of CeaseFire. 'They change the norm from "violence is what's expected of me" to "violence will make me look stupid",& #039; says Slutkin. [...] A three-year independent evaluation of CeaseFire published by the Department of Justice last year found that in Chicago, it reduced violence in every community where it was deployed." ;
• My Former Colleague/Comp etitor Fights the Good Fight: I was pleasantly surprised to see this note in my hometown newspaper, the Clinton Herald, when I Googled up some Parky news this morning. A former colleague of mine in my hometown who also has Parkinson' ;s is doing his best to raise awareness about the disease.
• Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Overview: With no known definite cause, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome is a popular name
• How to Prevent Mosquito Borne Disease | eHow.com: Excellent information on preventing mosquito borne diseases.
• PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases: Toxocariasis: America's Most Common Neglected Infection of Poverty and a Helminthiasis of Global Importance?

Fri Jul 3

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• Miracle Cure For HIV?: What if I told you that in the year 2004 there were 3,000 patients diagnosed with early onset HIV, and that each took a supplement of a rare mushroom extract, which mushroom only grows in the Himalaya' s, and after taking this for 6 months all were found to have no traces of HIV infection? Well, this study took place in Ghana, in Africa. Would you think that Jesus came back to perform another miracle? Or was it the very poor diet the people were used to?
• Chronic Urticaria - Ayurvedic Herbal Treatment: Urticaria, commonly known as "hives&qu ot; typically develops as rash on the skin, accompanied by severe itching. Acute urticaria is of short duration, up to six weeks, and is usually caused by certain food products, medicines, insect bites and infections. This usually responds well to standard treatment like antihistamines .

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