Monthly Archives: March 2014

Public Health Fun is back!

“Was it ever gone”? I hear you ask. Hopefully not from our lives; but it was gone from the blog so I thought it was about time for an update! (if you have missed the previous posts go here, here, and here. And make sure you come back here afterwards). I have some new public… Read more »

More good news on the smoking ban front!

    After our papers showing that smoking ban in workplaces reduces cardiovascular risk for workers and that smoking ban had no impact on gastronomy revenues, we are back with more good news regarding smoking ban! According to a study we just published, there is high and increasing compliance with the smoking ban in Italy… Read more »

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Modifying nutrition and lifestyle on HIV-infected patients slows down the rate of CD4 decline: a study from Cameroon

  Could a nutrition and lifestyle intervention have an effect on immunological parameters in treatment-naive HIV patients? This is what a recently published study in the International Journal of Public Health sought to investigate. The authors conducted a cluster-randomized trial in Yaoundé, Cameroon. The experimental group underwent a 6 month intervention which consisted of 2… Read more »