InnerNet Weekly: Why Do Social Work?

InnerNet Weekly: Why Do Social Work?
Email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser. Why Do Social Work? by J. Krishnamurti [ Listen to Audio!] Q: “I want to do social work, but I don’t know how to start.” Krishnamurti: I think it is very important to find out not how to start, but why you want to do social work at all. Why do …
Tue, 24 Jan 2012 00:47:00 CST
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Rare kidney disease shows how salt, potassium levels are moderated
High blood pressure (hypertension) is a principal risk factor for heart disease and affects 1 billion people. At least half of them are estimated to be salt-sensitive; their blood pressure rises with sodium intake. New research released today shows important aspects of how sodium and potassium are regulated in the kidney.
Mon, 23 Jan 2012 10:21:36 -0800
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Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England) - Why not get off the couch and run your way to back to health? Health Reporter HELEN RAE explains why people in the North East are being encouraged to take up running to improve their fitness and help prevent illness
January 16, 2012 —

TAKING up running can seem like a scary prospect, especially if you feel out of shape or unfit.

But regular running can help reduce…
Mon, 16 Jan 2012 00:00:00 PST
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Should Healthy People Take Cholesterol Drugs to Prevent Heart Disease? - Wall Street Journal

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Should Healthy People Take Cholesterol Drugs to Prevent Heart Disease?
Wall Street Journal
Heart disease is the biggest killer in the country. But an argument is raging about a popular way of preventing it. Most of the medical community thinks that a good approach is to prescribe cholesterol-lowering drugs, or statins, to patients who have …
Debate on statin use by people without history of heart disease gets an airingMinnPost.com (blog)
To prescribe or not to prescribe: That is the statin question, experts debateTheHeart.Org
Rita Redberg and Roger Blumenthal Clash Over Statins for Primary Prevention in …Forbes
FiercePharma -South Asia Mail
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Sun, 22 Jan 2012 21:45:19 GMT
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