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Elderly patients at risk of malnourishment
• Public Health • Aug 30 06
Elderly patients in hospital are at risk of becoming malnourished because nurses do not have enough time to help with feeding, Age Concern said…
Why Are So Many People Dying on Everest?
• Public Health • Aug 25 06
Why are so many people dying on Mount Everest, asks doctor and climber, Andrew Sutherland in this week’s BMJ?
It used to be thought…
Study Demonstrates Effect of Helmet Laws
• Public Health • Aug 25 06
According to a study by Jeffrey Coben, M.D., a researcher at West Virginia University, states that do not require motorcycle riders and passengers to…
Bush prods Congress on medical liability limits
• Public Health • Aug 25 06
President George W. Bush on Tuesday renewed his call for Congress to curb medical malpractice lawsuits and signed an executive order aimed at providing…
Scottish smoking ban hits pub drink sales -survey
• Public Health • Aug 25 06
Scotland’s five-month-old smoking ban has reduced pubs’ drink sales by over 10 percent, a trade body said on Wednesday, giving investors an indication of…
New methods for screening nanoparticles and interaction with human cells
• Public Health • Aug 22 06
Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory have developed a screening method to examine how newly made nanoparticles - particles with…
Croatia arrests local doctor in rare bribe arrest
• Public Health • Aug 21 06
Croatian police have arrested a prominent local surgeon suspected of taking a 5,000 euro ($6,400) bribe from a patient in a rare crackdown on…
Survivors of Childhood Polio Do Well Decades Later As They Age
• Public Health • Aug 21 06
Mayo Clinic researchers have found that years after experiencing childhood polio, most survivors do not experience declines greater than expected in their elderly counterparts,…
$1M Myers Fellowship brings US research techniques to Melbourne
• Public Health • Aug 21 06
The Howard Florey Institute’s inaugural Allan and Maria Myers Travel Fellowship has been awarded to world renowned neuroscientist, Prof Gerard Shaw, from the McKnight…
Nursing-Home Hospice Care Reduces End-of-Life Hospitalizations
• Public Health • Aug 18 06
Nursing-home residents in hospice care have about half the chance of being admitted to a hospital in their last 30 days of life compared…
Prescription drug giveaways draw complaints
• Public Health • Aug 14 06
A free Viagra prescription or a no-cost trial of sleeping pills are examples of growing offers to U.S. consumers, but regulators and critics worry…
Studies Examine Disclosure Of Medical Errors
• Public Health • Aug 03 06
Disclosing medical errors made by physicians is extremely important yet often extremely difficult. Two University of Iowa studies examine why this is the case…
Back-to-School Is Right Around the Corner - Follow These Health Tips
• Public Health • Aug 03 06
Healthy kids make happy kids. Here are some tips for starting off the new school year on the right foot.
Back(pack) to school:
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No Time to Work Out? Follow These Tips for a Ten Minute Workout
• Public Health • Aug 03 06
No time to exercise? No excuse! Phil Tyne, director of the Baylor Tom Landry Fitness Center in Dallas, says anyone can fit in 10…
School-based violence prevention programs effective
• Public Health • Aug 01 06
Children exhibiting or at risk for exhibiting aggressive behavior benefit from attending violence prevention classes at school, according to a new review of published…
New sunscreen protects against both UVA and UVB rays
• Public Health • Jul 27 06
People will now be able to get better protection from the sun with a new sunscreen recently approved by the U.S. Food and Drug…
Improving Livestock Trade and Human Livelihoods in Africa
• Public Health • Jul 26 06
In many parts of Africa, livestock are not only a source of food, but also an underutilized trading commodity. Working with international and…
Midlife physical activity and mobility in older age
• Public Health • Jul 26 06
More physical activity in midlife translates to more physical mobility in old age, researchers conclude in a new study of older adults living in…
Lifestyle of young males leads to higher death rate
• Public Health • Jul 26 06
Young men throughout the world have higher death rates than women because of their riskier lifestyles, researchers said on Tuesday.
Accidents and suicide are…
People who donate a kidney to help someone else often suffer financially to do so
• Public Health • Jul 24 06
People who donate a kidney to help someone else often suffer financially to do so, according to a study done in part by the…
S.Korea wants to strip stem cell scientist of medal
• Public Health • Jul 18 06
South Korea plans to strip disgraced scientist Hwang Woo-suk and six of his collaborators of state medals for their once heralded and now…
Men and women respond very differently to working long hours
• Public Health • Jul 17 06
Researchers in the UK say that women who work long hours are more likely than men to snack, smoke, drink coffee and exercise less.
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What’s Wrong with Selling Kidneys?
• Public Health • Jul 14 06
Doctors in this week’s BMJ debate the issue of selling kidneys.
A personal view article, published earlier this month, asked what’s wrong with a…
Roche wins rights to two Tamiflu Web sites
• Public Health • Jul 13 06
Swiss drugmaker Roche won the rights on Thursday to two Tamiflu-related Web sites in the 32nd dispute resolved by the United Nations on Web…
Turkey must get tough on violence against women
• Public Health • Jul 10 06
Turkey must do more to combat violence against women as part of its bid to join the European Union, the European Commission’s representative in…