Health Promotion: Can Scare Tactics Work?
...niversity found that the key to ensuringsuccessful scare tactic campaigns is to give individuals specific i... given about a desired health behavior change,then scare tactic campaigns may cause people to deny they're at risk forexperiencing health hazards, says Kim W......itteddiseases. "The purpose of this book is not to scare people, but rather to arm them withknowledge," said Infections of Leisure editor Dr. David Schlossberg, a professorof medicine at the Jefferson Medical College and Episcopal Hospital inPhiladelphia, Pa. "While the majority of us will not get sick wh......arnyx approximately 2,000 years ago in attempts to scare off hostileRoman troops (4pAA3). -- Sensing Aircraft Ice with "Love Waves." Vasundara V. Varadan( vvvesm@engr.psu.edu ) and colleagues at Penn State have come up with a newdevice for detecting the freezing of water on surfaces. The device gener...A new strain of flu has turned up in Hong Kong
...5). Hong Kong was the scene of a major flu scare two years ago, when astrain of flu from chickens struck 18 people, killing six of them. Fortunately,the outbreak was contained and there was no evidence of human-to-human spread.But in the wake of that scare, Peter Patriarca, a senior official with t......roducers are increasingly aware, one contamination scare would do their food export trade a great deal of damage. In the wine industry, it could be devastating. Already, a giant UK supermarket chain is uestioning Australia's biggest wine producers about their use of herbicides that are known to conta...Study suggests that potential Alzheimer drugs might be dangerous
...ells differentiate into subtypes. We dont want to scare the public about these exciting therapeutic advances, says Kopan. Quite the contrarywere offering a way to evaluate potential Alzheimer drugs for toxicity before human testing. Doses that reduce gamma-secretase activity without eliminating it might b...Food irradiation is focus of two-day symposium, Aug. 19-20
...hat have been irradiated due to the recent anthrax scare in the Washington, D.C., area. (The paper on this research, AGFD 130, will be presented at 1:10 p.m., Tuesday, Aug. 20, at Marriott Copley Place, Salon D.) Kristina Paquette, Ph.D., of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's Office of Food Addit...Sandia helps public health officials with anti-terror 'decision analysis' tool
...nts of September 2001 - and the subsequent anthrax scare - added a sense of urgency to the work. Officials with the Department of Energy and Department of Defense, anticipating the next wave of attacks, sought new strategies to protect citizens, and the current WMD-DAC approach was accelerated. First pilot...Amid food safety concerns, K-State professor believes consumers ready for irradiated meat products
...ord 'irradiation' it is very easy for opponents to scare consumers away from the process, just because of the negative connotations associated with irradiation. But again, when consumers have been informed and they know the facts, a majority of them are expressing a preference for the irradiated product. I...Couple carries research links to the limit
...ical event, whether it's a workplace accident or a scare involving a dirty bomb. We're coordinating with the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security." Camille has not pinned down a permanent position as of yet, but will be doing some consulting with the Natio...Researchers explore gene treatment to obliterate HIV before it does damage
... and found no safety concerns. Merigan discussed a scare a few years ago when two babies undergoing gene therapy developed leukemia, which was successfully treated. He noted that the HIV trial had been delayed for two years while the trial's safety design was examined by the National Institutes of Health, ......s a foodborne illness not only created a worldwide scare but also focused attention on the mechanisms of transmission of the infective agent, the scrapie prion protein (PrP Sc ). Mishra et al. were surprised to find PrP Sc associated with ferritin, a protein clearly abundant in muscle tissue associated wi...