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In response to the report "A Commitment to Health" published by the British Retail Consortium Alex Callaghan, Policy Officer at the British Heart Foundation (BHF) said:
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Rising Lifestyle Illnesses And Potential Swine Flu Catastrophe For Indigenous Populations
The first of two reviews in this week"s edition of The Lancet discusses the standards of health and lifestyles of Indigenous people. It is the work of Professor Michael Gracey, of the Unity of First People of Australia, Perth, WA, Australia, and Professor Malcolm King, of the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada. There are almost 400 million Indigenous people in the world with low standards of health that are usually linked to malnutrition, poverty, environmental contamination, and prevalent infections. However, as those people shift to more modern or "western" lifestyles, conditions such as obesity, cardiovascular diseases, and type 2 diabetes have been on the rise. Physical, social and mental disorders related to misuse of alcohol and other drugs are also increasing. Indigenous people must be encouraged and given the means to take responsibility for issues that affect their health. In this review, the authors discuss indigenous people worldwide but focus on Aboriginal Australians.
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Med Schools Improve Conflict Of Interest Policies, But Widespread Problems Remain

According to the latest ratings of two watchdog groups, medical schools are "improving their conflict-of-interest policies to police their ties with drug and medical-device makers. But more than half the schools still have inadequate policies or no policies at all," the Wall Street Journal"s Health Blog reports. The American Medical Student Association and the Pew Prescription Project said the number of schools earning top marks had more than doubled, in part because of pressure from lawmakers like Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa. But, "there are a lot of schools that are yet to look seriously at these issues," the director of the Pew project said. Grassley, meanwhile, "has demanded more information about the financial health of UC San Francisco"s medical school, raising questions about whether the entire University of California system may be mismanaging federal research funds," the Los Angeles Times reports. The school is in the midst of a law suit with former FDA administrator David Kessler, who alleged that the school had misused hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funds before he was fired for what university officials called "performance" problems. Grassley requested details of federal funds UCSF has received over five years from the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, the Department of Energy and the Department of Defense in an April letter (Oliphant, 6/17). This information was reprinted from kaiserhealthnews.org with kind permission from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. You can view the entire Kaiser Daily Health Policy Report, search the archives and sign up for email delivery at kaiserhealthnews.org. © Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. All rights reserved.


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