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New Information Shouldn't Alter Good Health Practices
Recently a friend—let's call her Zelda—told me she has stopped flossing her teeth. She heard that flossing makes no difference to dental health, so she's done with it.
Like most people, Zelda doesn't read science books, watch PBS science programming, or engage in any such activity. Instead, what new science-related opinions she forms come by way of the grapevine, digital or otherwise—a Facebook post here, a 30-second snippet on the TV news there, etc. In other words, she has little idea what she's talking about.
To be fair, while she couldn't trace its origin, her new belief about flossing didn't come out of the vacuum. Last year, an industrious Associated Press reporter…
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New Information Shouldn't Alter Good Health Practices
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KHN
Kaiser Health News (KHN) is a nonprofit news organization committed to in-depth coverage of health care policy and politics.
Popular Science
Gene-editing. Cancer vaccines. Microbiome hacking. Welcome to health in the 21st century.
Slate
Slate is a daily magazine on the Web. Founded in 1996, we are a general-interest publication offering analysis and commentary...
STAT
We take you inside the science labs and hospitals, biotech boardrooms and political backrooms. We dissect crucial discoveries. We examine controversies and puncture hype. We hold individuals and institutions accountable. We introduce you to the power brokers and personalities who are driving a revolution in human health. These are the stories that matter to us all.
The Atlantic
Since 1857, The Atlantic has shaped the national debate...
The Conversation
Access to independent, high quality, authenticated, explanatory journalism underpins a functioning democracy. Our aim is to promote better understanding of current affairs and complex issues. And hopefully allow for a better quality of public discourse and conversation.
The New York Times
The New York Times features an extensive Health section including late breaking news.
The Wall Street Journal
Breaking news, investigative reporting...
Vice
VICE is a global media channel focusing on investigative journalism and enlightening videos about everything...
Vox
News and updates from the health and science team. Topics include genetics, infectious disease, psychology, and more.
Wired
Medical Discoveries, News and Information from Wired Magazine.
C-Health
Extensive health network with loads of information.
eHealthNews.eu
The main service provided by eHealthNews.EU portal is the dissemination of the European eHealth related news articles.
FoodConsumer
Foodconsumer.org is here to provide those who care about their diet with worthy food and diet information. We hope readers can benefit from this unique magazine.
Healthcare Daily Online
Your source for healthcare news and current events, education and degrees, and job and career options for healthcare professionals.
HealthCentral
HealthCentral's mission is to empower millions of people to improve and take control of their health and well-being.
HealthDay
News for healthier living...HealthDay specializes in producing and licensing daily health news for consumers and professionals and delivering the news several times a day.
HealthNewsDigest.com
Current and Breaking News for Professionals, Consumers and Media.
HealthNewsReview.org
HealthNewsReview.org is a website dedicated to improving the accuracy of news stories about medical treatments, tests, products and procedures and in helping consumers evaluate the evidence for and against new ideas in health care.
IrishHealth
Irishhealth.com is Ireland's independent health website, designed to offer users a comprehensive yet easy to use online source of medical and healthcare information and up-to-the-minute health news. We have details on hundreds of common conditions, as well as resources, tools, links and online user discussion channels, all written and developed in Ireland for Irish users.
Medical Daily
Medical Daily is dedicated to covering health and science news that matters most to our generation. We cover a wide range of stories, but ultimately we are driven by two core values: first, to contribute to our readers’ understanding of what is a very complex and constantly changing field of information, and second, to keep in mind the ultimate “smell test” —we want our stories to be the kind of things you talk about at a bar with your friends.
MobiHealthNews
MobiHealthNews, founded in 2008, has quickly become the leading provider of news, commentary, online events and research for the global mobile health community. Our team works hard to deliver one of the best curated and most insightful publications focused on digital health today.
Natural News
The NaturalNews Network is a non-profit collection of public education websites covering topics that empower individuals to make positive changes in their health, environmental sensitivity, consumer choices and informed skepticism.
News Now
Today NewsNow monitors breaking news in 22 languages from the Internet's most important online publications, including international, national and regional titles, newswires, magazines, press releases and exclusively online news sources spanning 139 countries.
NPR
NPR (National Public Radio) is an internationally acclaimed producer and distributor of noncommercial news, talk, and entertainment programming. A privately supported, not-for-profit membership organization, NPR serves a growing audience of 26 million Americans each week in partnership with more than 860 independently operated, noncommercial public radio stations.
RedOrbit
RedOrbit, Inc., headquartered in Texas, was founded in November 2002. The web site, RedOrbit.com, was launched in May 2003, with the goal of creating the largest, most unique internet community, with the strongest consumer brand, in the most underserved niche on the Web. RedOrbit.com has since become the premier internet destination for space, science, health, and technology enthusiasts around the globe.
ScienceDaily
ScienceDaily is one of the Internet's leading online magazines and Web portals devoted to science, technology, and medicine. The free, advertising-supported service brings you breaking news about the latest discoveries and hottest research projects in everything from astrophysics to zoology.
WHO
WHO is the directing and coordinating authority for health within the United Nations system. It is responsible for providing leadership on global health matters, shaping the health research agenda, setting norms and standards, articulating evidence-based policy options, providing technical support to countries and monitoring and assessing health trends.
ABCNews
Late breaking health and medical news.
allAfrica
allAfrica Global Media is a multi-media content service provider, systems technology developer and the largest electronic distributor of African news and information worldwide.
Axcess News
AXcess News is a network of news sites designed to give readers free local access to news and information from major metropolitan areas.
BBC
Welcome to the BBC News website - the best of BBC News on the Web and an unrivalled resource of authoritative fact and comment.
CBC
Since the 1930s, CBC News services have kept Canadians at home and abroad informed about their communities, their country and the world. CBC/Radio-Canada is the country's largest news organization, employing more than 800 journalists in Canada and around the globe.
Chron
The Houston Chronicle website features health news and other information.
CNN
CNN.com is among the world's leaders in online news and information delivery.
DailyMail
Mail Online features a health section which includes news, a health directory and health boards.
Fox
Current health news.
HuffPost
Health news is one of the categories featured in Healthy Living from HuffPost.
Medindia
Medindia.com (or .net) is Asia''s premier health portal providing a range of services to both healthcare consumers and the medical professionals.Medindia has a net presence of seven years and was started as a social mission to provide the consumers with essential health related information in simple language. Over the years it has evolved into Asian regions most comprehensive portal in the health sector in terms of content, viewer ship, technology leadership and domain expertise.
MSN
News from MSN...
NewKerala.com
When we thought of starting an Online Newspaper, our friends in the print media discouraged us pointing out the difficulty to get visitors as there are lot of traditional newspapers and websites. But, the strong enthusiasm and determination of our team of writers to start a digital newspaper led to the foundation of newkerala.com and it is growing day-by-day with flying colors.
Reuters
Reuters Health (RH) is the world's leading provider of medical and healthcare news. Reuters Health news services are internationally recognized as unbiased, authoritative, timely and dependable, with the reputation for quality that one expects from a Reuters company.
SFGate
SFGate features a health section which provides late breaking news including AP Health news and other health information.
The Globe and Mail
Extensive coverage of health and fitness by Canada's national newspaper.
The Jerusalem Post
The Jerusalem Post features health and science technology news.
Time
The latest international health news and analysis.
Times Of India
The Times of India features late breaking health and science news.
UPI
Since 1907, United Press International (UPI) has been a leading provider of critical information to media outlets, businesses, governments and researchers worldwide. UPI is a global operation headquartered in Washington, DC with offices in Beirut, Hong Kong, London, Santiago, Seoul and Tokyo.
Xinhuanet
Xinhuanet was launched in 1997 as the online news service of Xinhua News Agency. It releases important news about China and the world around the clock without stop by relying on the agency's worldwide information-gathering network.
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