Date
Speaker/ Topic
Discussion leader
Feb. 5 U. Kitron Introduction.
Feb. 12 Discussion Risk & Epidemiology/Items from the popular Media
Feb. 19 U. Kitron Frontline Video - Gulf War Syndrome
Feb. 26 U.Kitron Drinking and heart disease
Mar. 4 Discussion Lyme Disease and AIDS
Mar. 11
How scientific information
makes it to the popular press
Greg
Kline Science
Reporter, The News-Gazette
Read: Exercise
tones up mind, too; C-U News Gazette, 2/29/2004
Chris
Beuoy Director
of Communications, CVM
Mar. 18 Dr. Amy Aidman Effects
of Reducing Children's Television and Video
Game Use on Aggressive Behavior
Mar. 25 Spring
break
Apr. 1 Students Drug advertising
Apr. 8
David Swedler Ebola
Apr. 15
Megan Mustaffof Breastfeeding
and formula advertising
Popular
press report: Baby
milk marketing 'breaks rules'
Original
article:
(Aguayo et al): Monitoring compliance with
the
International
Code of Marketing of Breastmilk
Tony Cappa
Virginity pledges and STD acquisition
Popular
press report (CNN)
Original
scientific communication (Bearman et al)
Apr. 22
Lyn Wancket Chemical
contaminants in fish
Main
Scientific Article:
Hites
RA, Foran JA, Carpenter DO, Hamilton MC, Knuth BA,
Schwager
SJ. Global assessment of organic contaminants in
farmed
salmon. Science. 2004 Jan 9;303(5655): 226-9.
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/reprint/303/5655/226.pdf
Popular
Media Article
Do risks of farmed salmon outweigh benefits? (Daniel DeNoon)
http://my.webmd.com/content/article/79/96144.htm
(Optional) Accompanying Commentary in Science
Salmon
Survey Stokes Debate About Farmed Fish (Erik Stokstad)
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/303/5655/154a
Lynette Wellen Avian
Influenza
Popular
Media Article (Compares Avian Influenza to the
Spanish Flu pandemic of 1918).
Scientific
Article (An Update from WHO on Avian Influenza
Spread)
TUESDAY
April 27 Stacey
Walk Roctopamine
and bovine somatotropin (BST)
4 p.m. Background
- Bovine Somatotropin (BST)
- IFST
ROOM 2406 Background
- Article from
Niagara Falls Reporter
Popular
Press - Waterloo/Cedar Falls Courier
Scientific
article - Evaluation of four Ractopamine Use
Programs
on Pig Growth and Carcass Characteristics.
Brandi Barnes Peridontal disease and
its link to heart disease.
Popular media source: "Gum disease
linked to heart
illness"
Tim Friend, Feb. 17, 1998. USA Today
Scientific
article: O'Connor S et al. Potential Infectious Etiologies
of
Atherosclerosis:
A Multifactorial Perspective. EID 7, 780-788, 2001
Apr. 29 Kristopher
De Young Bovine TB
Scientific
article: Epidemiology of Mycobacterium bovis in
free-ranging
white-tailed deer, Michigan, USA, 1995-2000
Newspaper
article: "State's success vs. bovine TB
has
Limits." Holand (MI) Sentinel, 2004
More
about Bovine TB:
Paula Roney Coverage
of the BSE case in the U.S.
Scientific
information: CDC statements and information about BSE/vCJD:
CDC
Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report article/editorial
on
BSE in the United States
CDC
Questions and Answers about BSE and vCJD
Popular
Media: CNN.com. First Apparent U.S. Case of Mad Cow Disease
Discovered