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Rise In Computer-Related Injuries
While back pain, blurred vision and mouse-related injuries are now well-documented hazards of long-term computer use, the number of acute injuries connected to computers is rising rapidly. According to a study published in the July 2009 issue of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, researchers from the Center for Injury Research and Policy and The Research Institute at Nationwide Children"s Hospital; and The Ohio State University College of Medicine, Columbus have found a more-than-sevenfold increase in computer-related injuries due to tripping over computer equipment, head injuries due to computer monitor falls and other physical incidents.
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Drop In Access To Abortion Would Reward Antiabortion-Rights Violence, Opinion Piece Says
After the murder last month of Kansas abortion provider George Tiller, "there is a very real danger" that the availability of abortion later in pregnancy "will end in this country -- not after public deliberation, legislative debate and majority vote, but because antiabortion absolutists on the fringe have intimidated and blacklisted doctors and successfully threatened violence against them," Jim Buie, author of the blog The Buie Knife, writes in a Newsweek.com opinion piece. Buie writes that his parents in the early 1950s chose to institutionalize his three-year-old-brother, who was born with severe Down syndrome, after their attempts to care for him left them with "severe emotional distress" and unable "to meet the needs of their healthy children."Buie continues that he "cannot say that the option of a late-term abortion would have been the right one for my parents." However, "some of the arguments advanced by pro-life forces disturb me," he says, especially a "tendency to romanticize, sentimentalize and idealize life with a cute, forever-young Down-syndrome "angel child."" Buie adds, "It"s an argument I find off-putting, especially when it"s espoused by people who have never been through the wringer trying to care for a child whose disability level is on the most severe end of the scale." He continues, "At the same time, it is very disturbing that until recently, the majority of Down-syndrome fetuses were aborted without expectant mothers receiving proper information or support."Because of Tiller"s murder, it is "possible there won"t be any doctors in the country willing to perform" abortion later in pregnancy, "even if prenatal tests indicate severe retardation," according to Buie, who adds that this would mean that "domestic terrorism could win." He concludes, "It would mean that parents like my own would no longer have a choice, and would instead be forced to endure the same harsh realities that were present in the 1950s" (Buie, Newsweek.com, 6/17).
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New Poll Finds Disease Prevention Is Top Priority For Americans In Health Reform
Trust for America"s Health (TFAH) and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) released a new public opinion survey today which finds that Americans rank prevention as the most important health care reform priority, and overwhelmingly support increasing funding for prevention programs to reduce disease and keep people healthy.
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World Food Programme Commends G8 Leaders' Focus On Food Security; Urges Support For Hunger Needs Of World's Poorest

As leaders at the G8 summit in L"Aquila gather to discuss global food security, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is urging a twin-track approach to food security, supporting long-term agricultural production with continued support for immediate hunger assistance. "We applaud the G8 focus on food security," said Josette Sheeran, Executive Director of the World Food Programme, headquartered in Rome. "We learned a lesson last year when rising food prices caused an epidemic of hunger leading to food riots in more than 30 countries. Without food people revolt, migrate or die. None of these are acceptable options." In figures released two weeks ago by the UN"s Food and Agriculture Organization the number of hungry people is now projected to top 1.02 billion, and with the global economic crisis compounding the ongoing food price crisis in the developing world, causing loss of jobs, remittances and slowed exports and investment, this number is expected to climb further. This reverses a four-decade trend where the number of hungry has declined. At the same time, global food aid supplies last year were at a 34 year low and 18 percent lower than in 2005. Food aid has dropped 35 percent since 1995. "We cannot afford to lose a generation to malnutrition, starvation and despair," said Sheeran. "Addressing immediate hunger needs is a critical long-term investment in healthy, stable societies." WFP depends entirely on voluntary donations, and has raised less than one quarter of its US$6.4 billion budget for 2009 at the halfway point of the year. "WFP is the safety net for the most vulnerable people in the world," Sheeran said. "It"s a false logic for the world to say that we will either invest in tomorrow"s agriculture or today"s urgent food needs. There is no question that we must do both." World Food Programme


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