Gnat Line News Briefing & Gnats illustration by Mike Luckovich.

Gnat Lines News Briefing:
Real Health and Medical News for Working Reporters

Sunday, February 19, 2006

Keynote: Reporting on outbreaks, attacks, and other public health emergencies.

Maryn McKenna, National-desk science and medical writer, Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Monday, February 20, 2006

Prostate cancer and health disparities between black and white men.

Otis W. Brawley, M.D., Chief, Hematolody and Oncology Service, Grady Memorial Hospital, Professor of Hematology and Oncology and Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine and K. Sean Kimbro, Ph.D., Program Director, Georgia Center for Health Equality, Winship Cancer Institute at Emory University, Assistant Professor of Hematology, Oncology, and Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine

Where is U.S. health care headed, and do we want to go there?

Jonathan Oberlander, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Social Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Obesity in children and teens.

William H. Dietz, M.D., Ph.D., Director, Division of Nutrition and Physical Activity, Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Race, risk, and the health care of migrant workers in South Georgia.

Mary Anne Shepherd, N.P., Director, Ellaville Primary Medicine Center.

Shrinking the impact of stroke: new ways to prevent and treat “brain attacks.”

Robert J. Adams, M.D., Presidential Distinguished Chair and Regents Professor, Professor of Neurology and of Pediatrics, Medical College of Georgia

Advances in heart attack prevention and treatment: are women and African Americans reaping the benefits?

Elizabeth Ofili, M.D., Associate Dean for Clinical Research and Director of the Clinical Research Center, Chief of Cardiology and Professor of Medicine, Morehouse School of Medicine

Getting kids moving: how communities and schools can help.

Allison Balling, M.P.H., Behavioral Scientist, Obesity Prevention, Division of Adolescent and School Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Teenagers, trucks, guns and trauma care in rural Georgia.

Eric Ossman, M.D., Assistant Professor and Co-Section Director of the Prehospital and Disaster Medicine Section, Department of Emergency Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine

The Perception of Risk: Why Our Fears Don’t Match the Facts.

David Ropeik, Instructor in Risk Communication, Harvard School of Public Health

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