<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<rss version="2.0"
	xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"
	xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"
	xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
	xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"
	xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/"
	xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/"
	xmlns:georss="http://www.georss.org/georss" xmlns:geo="http://www.w3.org/2003/01/geo/wgs84_pos#" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/"
	>

<channel>
	<title>Poked and Prodded Blog &#187; Health Beat</title>
	<atom:link href="http://pokedandprodded.health.com/category/health-beat/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" />
	<link>http://pokedandprodded.health.com</link>
	<description>Adventures in being sick, getting better, staying well, from the editors of Health.com</description>
	<lastBuildDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 15:19:18 +0000</lastBuildDate>
	<generator>http://wordpress.com/</generator>
	<language>en</language>
	<sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod>
	<sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency>
	<cloud domain='pokedandprodded.health.com' port='80' path='/?rsscloud=notify' registerProcedure='' protocol='http-post' />
<image>
		<url>http://www.gravatar.com/blavatar/ba3ab640159364302915925e8f44a57b?s=96&#038;d=http://s.wordpress.com/i/buttonw-com.png</url>
		<title>Poked and Prodded Blog &#187; Health Beat</title>
		<link>http://pokedandprodded.health.com</link>
	</image>
			<item>
		<title>Need to Get Screened? Find a Van</title>
		<link>http://pokedandprodded.health.com/2009/03/10/need-to-get-screened-find-a-van/</link>
		<comments>http://pokedandprodded.health.com/2009/03/10/need-to-get-screened-find-a-van/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2009 20:23:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mara Betsch</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health Beat]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[screening]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[vans]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://pokedandprodded.health.com/?p=5544</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[


At my morning meeting I noticed something peculiar outside the building. Though I&#8217;ve seen strange things on our corner—Dalai Lama protests, Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition-themed buses, and Radio City Music Hall performances—I&#8217;ve never seen a van offering screening tests for deep vein thrombosis. I guess it makes sense, since it is National Deep Vein Thrombosis [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pokedandprodded.health.com&blog=2779996&post=5544&subd=healthpoked&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://pokedandprodded.health.com/2009/03/10/need-to-get-screened-find-a-van/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
	
		<media:content url="http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/6ddbebcdc5c0adf3c9bc3b0649dd219a?s=96&#38;d=http%3A%2F%2Fa.wordpress.com%2Fi%2Fmu.gif&#38;r=G" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Mara</media:title>
		</media:content>

		<media:content url="http://img2.timeinc.net/health/images/poked-and-prodded/npr-early-detection-200.jpg" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">npr-early-detection</media:title>
		</media:content>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title>CDC Scientists ID New Killer Germ, but What Should They Call It?</title>
		<link>http://pokedandprodded.health.com/2008/12/08/cdc-scientists-id-new-killer-germ/</link>
		<comments>http://pokedandprodded.health.com/2008/12/08/cdc-scientists-id-new-killer-germ/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2008 04:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Theresa Tamkins</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health Beat]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CDC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[virus]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://pokedandprodded.health.com/?p=4880</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[

I just returned from the sprawling campus of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta. This huge federal agency is on the front line of fighting just about every kind of health threat, from biological weapons to dengue fever to obesity—both in the United States and abroad. (They have 14,000 employees in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pokedandprodded.health.com&blog=2779996&post=4880&subd=healthpoked&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://pokedandprodded.health.com/2008/12/08/cdc-scientists-id-new-killer-germ/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
	
		<media:content url="http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/ac192291535fa554b50064dabe133869?s=96&#38;d=http%3A%2F%2Fa.wordpress.com%2Fi%2Fmu.gif&#38;r=G" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">theresatamkins1271</media:title>
		</media:content>

		<media:content url="http://img2.timeinc.net/health/images/poked-and-prodded/cdc-scientists-id-killer-germ-200.jpg" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">cdc-scientists-id-killer-germ</media:title>
		</media:content>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title>Have a Happy Holiday, Despite the Gloom</title>
		<link>http://pokedandprodded.health.com/2008/11/26/have-a-happy-holiday-despite-the-gloom/</link>
		<comments>http://pokedandprodded.health.com/2008/11/26/have-a-happy-holiday-despite-the-gloom/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Nov 2008 04:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy O'Connor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health Beat]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Amy O'Connor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Depression]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gifts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health relates to economic status]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[holiday]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[holidays]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://healthpoked.wordpress.com/?p=4626</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[

This holiday season is shaping up to be an anxious time for my family because of the lousy economy, and I bet you are feeling the pressure too. Sky-high airfares are keeping my extended family apart for the first time in years (my mom and brother in California, my sister and extended family in Chicago, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pokedandprodded.health.com&blog=2779996&post=4626&subd=healthpoked&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://pokedandprodded.health.com/2008/11/26/have-a-happy-holiday-despite-the-gloom/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
	
		<media:content url="http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/e804c5f875e288e875944acb825ad806?s=96&#38;d=http%3A%2F%2Fa.wordpress.com%2Fi%2Fmu.gif&#38;r=G" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">amyoc</media:title>
		</media:content>

		<media:content url="http://img2.timeinc.net/health/images/poked-and-prodded/holiday-gift-idea-150.jpg" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">holiday-gift-idea</media:title>
		</media:content>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title>Is This Your Brain on Cell Phones?</title>
		<link>http://pokedandprodded.health.com/2008/07/22/is-this-is-your-brain-on-cell-phones/</link>
		<comments>http://pokedandprodded.health.com/2008/07/22/is-this-is-your-brain-on-cell-phones/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 11:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sally Chew</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health Beat]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cell phones]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sally Chew]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://healthpoked.wordpress.com/?p=424</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[
Have you seen the YouTube video with the cell phones popping popcorn? (Or subsequent videos that appear to repeat the experiment?) What seemed like a viral, grassroots phenomenon in culinary cell phone experimentation was quickly debunked and turned out to be a marketing campaign by the makers of Bluetooth headsets. But it got me thinking: [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pokedandprodded.health.com&blog=2779996&post=424&subd=healthpoked&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://pokedandprodded.health.com/2008/07/22/is-this-is-your-brain-on-cell-phones/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
	
		<media:content url="http://1.gravatar.com/avatar/37b31eb224d3da46eca1cdcd8f9b39ff?s=96&#38;d=http%3A%2F%2Fa.wordpress.com%2Fi%2Fmu.gif&#38;r=G" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Sally Chew</media:title>
		</media:content>

		<media:content url="http://img2.timeinc.net/health/images/poked-and-prodded/popcorn-youtube-200.jpg" medium="image" />
	</item>
		<item>
		<title>What Tiger Woods and My 82-Year-Old Mom Have in Common</title>
		<link>http://pokedandprodded.health.com/2008/06/23/getting-older-but-staying-fit/</link>
		<comments>http://pokedandprodded.health.com/2008/06/23/getting-older-but-staying-fit/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2008 13:30:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Mowbray</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health Beat]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[knee surgery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Scott Mowbray]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://healthpoked.wordpress.com/?p=376</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A few days ago I went to the driving range with my 82-year-old mother and hit 100 golf balls while she hit 50. She drove the ball straight, about 75 yards. I&#8217;m hopeless: 200 yards, but the ball flies east, west, north, or straight up in an homage to chaos theory. What&#8217;s remarkable is that, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pokedandprodded.health.com&blog=2779996&post=376&subd=healthpoked&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://pokedandprodded.health.com/2008/06/23/getting-older-but-staying-fit/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
	
		<media:content url="http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/42350c1f62b6be3a3bf73261fbfd83e0?s=96&#38;d=http%3A%2F%2Fa.wordpress.com%2Fi%2Fmu.gif&#38;r=G" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Scott Mowbray</media:title>
		</media:content>

		<media:content url="http://img2.timeinc.net/health/images/poked-and-prodded/mrs-mowbray-150.jpg" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">mrs-mowbray-</media:title>
		</media:content>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title>Test-Driving the Wii Fit: Whee!</title>
		<link>http://pokedandprodded.health.com/2008/06/15/test-driving-the-wii-fit/</link>
		<comments>http://pokedandprodded.health.com/2008/06/15/test-driving-the-wii-fit/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jun 2008 00:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Mowbray</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health Beat]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[exercise]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Scott Mowbray]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://healthpoked.wordpress.com/?p=340</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Ten minutes after we turned on the Nintendo Wii Fit, my 17-year-old daughter and I reached a verdict: This thing is crazy fun and plausibly healthy. You may be hankering for one of these machines already—there has been no shortage of fuss since the late-May release of the Fit—but I&#8217;m here to validate the hankering. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pokedandprodded.health.com&blog=2779996&post=340&subd=healthpoked&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://pokedandprodded.health.com/2008/06/15/test-driving-the-wii-fit/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>16</slash:comments>
	
		<media:content url="http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/42350c1f62b6be3a3bf73261fbfd83e0?s=96&#38;d=http%3A%2F%2Fa.wordpress.com%2Fi%2Fmu.gif&#38;r=G" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Scott Mowbray</media:title>
		</media:content>

		<media:content url="http://img2.timeinc.net/health/images/poked-and-prodded/nintendo-wii-yoga-200.jpg" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">nintendo-wii-yoga</media:title>
		</media:content>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title>What Those Fast-Food Calorie Signs Actually Look Like</title>
		<link>http://pokedandprodded.health.com/2008/06/02/would-you-order-an-830-calorie-personal-pizza/</link>
		<comments>http://pokedandprodded.health.com/2008/06/02/would-you-order-an-830-calorie-personal-pizza/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2008 15:24:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Mowbray</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health Beat]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Healthy Eating]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[calories]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[consumers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[weight-loss]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://healthpoked.wordpress.com/?p=303</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[





Check out these pictures and ask yourself if in-your-face calorie information would change your chain-restaurant eating habits. I snapped these shots in the concourse of our office building to show Health.com users how restaurants have responded to New York City&#8217;s requirement that calorie counts be prominently posted (something I first blogged about a few weeks [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pokedandprodded.health.com&blog=2779996&post=303&subd=healthpoked&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://pokedandprodded.health.com/2008/06/02/would-you-order-an-830-calorie-personal-pizza/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
	
		<media:content url="http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/42350c1f62b6be3a3bf73261fbfd83e0?s=96&#38;d=http%3A%2F%2Fa.wordpress.com%2Fi%2Fmu.gif&#38;r=G" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Scott Mowbray</media:title>
		</media:content>

		<media:content url="http://img2.timeinc.net/health/images/poked-and-prodded/starbucks-calories-200.jpg" medium="image" />

		<media:content url="http://img2.timeinc.net/health/images/poked-and-prodded/subway-pizza-calorie-200.jpg" medium="image" />

		<media:content url="http://img2.timeinc.net/health/images/poked-and-prodded/starbucks-scone-cal-150.jpg" medium="image" />

		<media:content url="http://img2.timeinc.net/health/images/poked-and-prodded/dunkin-donuts-calories-150.jpg" medium="image" />
	</item>
		<item>
		<title>YouTube Medical Video: The Weird, the Ugly, and the Sometimes Helpful</title>
		<link>http://pokedandprodded.health.com/2008/05/30/youtube-medical-video-the-weird-the-ugly-and-the-sometimes-helpful/</link>
		<comments>http://pokedandprodded.health.com/2008/05/30/youtube-medical-video-the-weird-the-ugly-and-the-sometimes-helpful/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2008 15:08:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Mowbray</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Depression]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health Beat]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[elavil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[medical video]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[psychopharmacology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[thorazine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[YouTube]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://healthpoked.wordpress.com/?p=295</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Want to take the measure of American health obsessions (and those of the rest of the world, for that matter)?  Go fishing in YouTube, the billion-screen multiplex of the video id. The channel contains a deep and often deeply weird vein of health content, ranging from the inspiring to the neurotic, the crackpot to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pokedandprodded.health.com&blog=2779996&post=295&subd=healthpoked&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://pokedandprodded.health.com/2008/05/30/youtube-medical-video-the-weird-the-ugly-and-the-sometimes-helpful/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
	
		<media:content url="http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/42350c1f62b6be3a3bf73261fbfd83e0?s=96&#38;d=http%3A%2F%2Fa.wordpress.com%2Fi%2Fmu.gif&#38;r=G" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Scott Mowbray</media:title>
		</media:content>

		<media:content url="http://img2.timeinc.net/health/images/poked-and-prodded/you-tube-medicine-150.jpg" medium="image" />
	</item>
		<item>
		<title>Marie Quit Smoking, but the Damage Is Done</title>
		<link>http://pokedandprodded.health.com/2008/05/28/i-dont-smoke-anymore-but-the-damage-is-done/</link>
		<comments>http://pokedandprodded.health.com/2008/05/28/i-dont-smoke-anymore-but-the-damage-is-done/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2008 12:47:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sally Chew</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health Beat]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[heart disease]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lung cancer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[public health campaigns]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Smoking]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://healthpoked.wordpress.com/?p=296</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;I don&#8217;t smoke anymore, but the damage is done,&#8221; says Marie from the Bronx, holding up two stumpy rows of partially amputated fingers in a new anti-smoking ad campaign on TV and in the New York City subway system.
As attention-grabbers, her hands are like those blackened lungs that wink back at you from Canadian cigarette [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pokedandprodded.health.com&blog=2779996&post=296&subd=healthpoked&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://pokedandprodded.health.com/2008/05/28/i-dont-smoke-anymore-but-the-damage-is-done/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
	
		<media:content url="http://1.gravatar.com/avatar/37b31eb224d3da46eca1cdcd8f9b39ff?s=96&#38;d=http%3A%2F%2Fa.wordpress.com%2Fi%2Fmu.gif&#38;r=G" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Sally Chew</media:title>
		</media:content>

		<media:content url="http://img2.timeinc.net/health/images/poked-and-prodded/smoking-ad-missing-fingers-200.jpg" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">smoking-ad-missing-fingers</media:title>
		</media:content>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title>When It Comes to Medical Research, We Are All Lab Rats on the Web</title>
		<link>http://pokedandprodded.health.com/2008/05/27/when-it-comes-to-medical-research-were-all-lab-rats-on-the-web/</link>
		<comments>http://pokedandprodded.health.com/2008/05/27/when-it-comes-to-medical-research-were-all-lab-rats-on-the-web/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 May 2008 14:30:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Mowbray</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health Beat]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[consumers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[epidemiology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health community]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[message boards]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://healthpoked.wordpress.com/?p=294</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Web is an ecosystem, and you can bet it&#8217;s being studied. The creatures who live on the Web—you and me, virtually—leave behind tons of data. One example: online health communities, which, as they grow, amass a body of information that medical researchers can mine.
Science has long looked at disease patterns in populations to find [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pokedandprodded.health.com&blog=2779996&post=294&subd=healthpoked&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://pokedandprodded.health.com/2008/05/27/when-it-comes-to-medical-research-were-all-lab-rats-on-the-web/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
	
		<media:content url="http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/42350c1f62b6be3a3bf73261fbfd83e0?s=96&#38;d=http%3A%2F%2Fa.wordpress.com%2Fi%2Fmu.gif&#38;r=G" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Scott Mowbray</media:title>
		</media:content>

		<media:content url="http://img2.timeinc.net/health/images/poked-and-prodded/lab-rat-latex-hand-200.jpg" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">lab-rat-latex-hand</media:title>
		</media:content>
	</item>
	</channel>
</rss>