Applied Health Science Department

Brian Fischer, a senior at Jeffersonville High School in Jeffersonville, Ind., won the KeepRxSafe.com Public Service Announcement Video Contest, which is part of a growing effort statewide to address a rising problem affecting Indiana youth -- prescription drug abuse.
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Beth Meyerson, health policy expert at the Indiana University School of Public Health-Bloomington, said the new screening guidelines by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force represent an important shift in HIV testing and will result in more HIV screenings because they will now be reimbursable. But the availability of the tests remains a big unknown.
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The Indiana Prevention Resource Center, part of the Indiana University School of Public Health-Bloomington, is celebrating its 25th anniversary with a series of activities designed to raise awareness about bullying and provide educators with more tools to address bullying in their schools.
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Indiana University Bloomington's 2012-13 Outstanding Junior Faculty awards will support the creation of innovative textile art and research on public investments in energy, the worldwide loss of coastal mangrove forests, the development of anti-malarial drugs, the relationship between vision and balance, and the appropriateness of cancer screenings.
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Dong-Chul Seo, associate professor in the Department of Applied Health Science at the Indiana University School of Public Health-Bloomington, has been named a fellow as well as president-elect for 2013-14 of the American Academy of Health Behavior.
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American men and women rated sex as highly arousing and pleasurable regardless of whether condoms and/or lubricants were used, according to a nationally representative study led by Indiana University School of Public Health-Bloomington researchers and published in The Journal of Sexual Medicine.
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