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		<title>Today is Bike to Work Day</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 13:34:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Audrey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bike to Work Day events are being held today in other cities across the country in support of this healthy, alternative commute option.]]></description>
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		<title>Today’s news: Dietary findings, lead levels, suicide prevention</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 13:11:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[HDL’s ‘good cholesterol’ nickname a misnomer; nurses to protest NATO in advocacy of ‘Robin Hood’ tax for public health funding; CDC exposes dangerous lead exposure numbers; and might coffee drinkers actually live longer? Those stories and more topping public health headlines today, Friday, May 18, 2012.]]></description>
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		<title>D.C. health advocates meet to discuss women’s health</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 21:34:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Audrey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[All things APHA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[HIV/AIDS]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Congress]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the marble halls of Congress to the kitchen tables across the country, there has been much talk about women’s health in recent months. And in the city that is home to the U.S. Capitol – and some of the nation’s poorest health outcomes – the same issue took center stage this week.]]></description>
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		<title>Required PE in schools helps kids meet physical activity recommendations,  a new study reports</title>
		<link>http://www.publichealthnewswire.org/?p=3538</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 20:04:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Child Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Findings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[obesity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[American Journal of Public Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[childhood obesity]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As many schools eliminate physical education classes, even while childhood obesity and diabetes rates skyrocket in this country, a national study published today in the American Journal of Public Health finds that state laws that require schools to offer PE for a specific amount of time help  ensure that daily physical activity recommendations among children are met. 

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		<title>Webinar: How climate control will lower health costs</title>
		<link>http://www.publichealthnewswire.org/?p=3528</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 14:53:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[environment]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Increasingly dangerous shifts in climate worldwide — including an unprecedented national number of extreme weather events last year such as fatal heat waves, droughts, floods and snowstorms — are threatening the livelihoods of local communities everywhere. ]]></description>
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		<title>Today’s news: Education’s link to health, calorie labeling, Hepatitis C</title>
		<link>http://www.publichealthnewswire.org/?p=3524</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 12:58:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Audrey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Higher education and income levels keys to better health, according to annual report on nation's health; health groups calls on President Obama to strengthen calorie labeling rules; Philadelphia Department of Public Health encourages public to get tested for Hepatitis C. Those tops stories and more in today’s public health headlines for, Thursday, May 17, 2012.
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		<title>Portion size me</title>
		<link>http://www.publichealthnewswire.org/?p=3522</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 12:43:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Audrey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[obesity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nutrition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[USDA]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new report released by the USDA Wednesday debunks the notion that eating on the cheap means eating unhealthily. ]]></description>
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		<title>Behind the scenes in the racketeering case against the tobacco industry</title>
		<link>http://www.publichealthnewswire.org/?p=3497</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 14:08:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Donya</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[All things APHA]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[tobacco]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sharon Eubanks, the attorney who took on the tobacco industry and won, talks about the case, attacks from the industry and how to prevent history from repeating itself in a Q&#038;A with Public Health Newswire. Eubanks is co-author of "Bad Acts: The Racketeering Case Against the Tobacco Industry."]]></description>
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		<title>Obama administration to budget additional $100 million to Alzheimer’s prevention, treatment</title>
		<link>http://www.publichealthnewswire.org/?p=3503</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 13:41:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Prevention]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alzheimer's]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[HHS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kathleen Sebelius]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services unveiled a national blueprint Tuesday to develop effective prevention and treatment approaches for Alzheimer’s disease. The plan, as directed by the National Alzheimer’s Project Act, will dedicate $100 million in additional funding to fight the disease and related dementias by 2025.
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		<title>Today’s news: Obamacare, childhood obesity aid, sexual health</title>
		<link>http://www.publichealthnewswire.org/?p=3489</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 13:29:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sunscreen companies given new marketing regulations to educate consumers; NFL star tackles diabetes; APHA‘s Georges Benjamin discusses single-payer health coverage; plus a fun computer game may solve childhood obesity. Those stories and more topping public health headlines today, Wednesday, May 16, 2012.]]></description>
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