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November 17, 2014
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IN THE NEWS
We've always known that our genes shape our lives. But we're learning now that our lives shape our genes. This gives us one more reason to make sure that the early lives of our children are free of bullying and other unnecessary or potentially damaging stressors. By doing so, we may be helping not only our children but our ancestors for generations to come.
How traumatic experiences - violence, drugs, emotional abuse, and neglect - can rearrange the way our brain works.
Understand how these neurological changes make a person more vulnerable to emotional disorders and mental illness, knowledge that could open up new possibilities for prevention and treatment.
Physicians should collect more information about patients' behavior and social environment in their electronic health records, according to an Institute of Medicine panel. SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS
Personalized Medicine, Vol. 12, No. 1, Pages 1-3.
August 2014, Vol. 46, No. 5 , Pages 247-252
Personalized Medicine, Vol. 12, No. 1, Pages 43-51.
JAMA Intern Med. Published online December 29, 2014. doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2014.6888
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BOOKS & REPORTS
The Spirit Level
Epidemiologists Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett don't soft-soap their message. It is brave to write a book arguing that economies should stop growing when millions of jobs are being lost, though they may be pushing at an open door in public consciousness. We know there is something wrong, and this book goes a long way towards explaining what and why.
The authors point out that the life-diminishing results of valuing growth above equality in rich societies can be seen all around us. Inequality causes shorter, unhealthier and unhappier lives; it increases the rate of teenage pregnancy, violence, obesity, imprisonment and addiction; it destroys relationships between individuals born in the same society but into different classes; and its function as a driver of consumption depletes the planet's resources. Source: The Guardian
Missing Microbes: How the Overuse of Antibiotics is Fueling Our Modern Plagues
Dr. Martin Blaser reaches back to the discovery of antibiotics, which ushered in a golden age of medicine, and then traces how our subsequent overuse of these seeming wonder drugs has left its mark on our systems, contributing to the rise of what Blaser calls our modern plagues: obesity, asthma, allergies, diabetes, and certain forms of cancer. Blaser's studies suggest antibiotic use during early childhood poses the greatest risk to long-term health, and, alarmingly, American children receive on average seventeen courses of antibiotics before they are twenty years old. At the same time, C-sections deprive babies of important contact with their mothers' microbiomes.
EVENTS
March 17-18, 2015 10th Annual UAB Health Disparities Research SymposiumThe Science of Health Disparities: From Social Causes to Personalized Medicine
San Francisco, CA
EDUCATION TOOLS Collective Impact
Collective impact refers to the commitment of a group of important actors from different sectors to a common agenda for solving a specific social problem at scale. Learn more: Community Toolbox How economic inequality harms societies We feel instinctively that societies with huge income gaps are somehow going wrong. Richard Wilkinson charts the hard data on economic inequality, and shows what gets worse when rich and poor are too far apart: real effects on health, lifespan, even such basic values as trust.
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