WHO says $1.20 a person could curb chronic diseases
• Public Health • Sep 19 11
Poorer countries could introduce measures to prevent and treat millions of cases of cancer, heart disease, diabetes and lung disease for a little as…
Child abuse climbs with recession: study
• Children's Health • Sep 19 11
As the U.S. economy began to tank, the number of abused kids landing in the hospital with severe brain injuries spiked, a new study…
African children face life without healthcare
• Children's Health • • Public Health • Sep 19 11
Hundreds of millions of African children will never see a health care worker in their lifetime, increasing their chances of dying from preventable diseases,…
Apples, Pears May Reduce Stroke Risk
• Dieting • • Stroke • Sep 19 11
Eating lots of white-fleshed fruit such as apples and pears may significantly reduce the risk of stroke.
In a new study, Dutch researchers set…
Causes of Gulf War Illness are complex and vary by deployment area
• Public Health • Sep 19 11
Gulf War Illness (GWI) - the chronic health condition that affects about one in four military veterans of the 1991 Gulf War - appears…
Shake Hands with the Invisible Man
• Public Health • Sep 19 11
Like DNA, fingerprints are unique to each person or set of identical twins. That makes them a valuable identification tool for everything from crime…
Future solutions - Global Cardiovascular Disease
• Treatment and Prevention of chronic disease • • Global Cardiovascular Disease • Sep 17 11
Several next steps toward implementing cardiovascular disease-reduction programs include utilizing the established resources for delivering health care and developing risk assessment tools to target…
Public Health interventions - Global Cardiovascular Disease
• Treatment and Prevention of chronic disease • • Global Cardiovascular Disease • Sep 17 11
As the cardiovascular disease epidemic adds to existing burdens in developing countries, the challenges are great, but a multitude of opportunities also are available…
Global Cardiovascular Disease: An Expanding Burden with Expanding Solutions
• Treatment and Prevention of chronic disease • • Global Cardiovascular Disease • Sep 17 11
Historically, in a country such as India, the vast majority of the population suffered from malnutrition and acute diseases, especially infectious diseases. Chronic diseases,…
Annual Flu Season is Coming – Get Your Flu Shot
• Flu • Sep 16 11
Influenza vaccine is starting to arrive at local health departments, pharmacies and health care facilities around the state. The Illinois Department of Public Health,…
New challenges - Disease Prevention through Vaccination
• Public Health • • Disease Prevention through Vaccination • Sep 16 11
The successful implementation of mass immunization programs and the subsequent eradication or reduction of smallpox, polio, measles, pertussis, meningococcal meningitis, diphtheria, mumps, rubella, and…
Ensuring vaccine safety and monitoring: checks and balances
• Public Health • • Disease Prevention through Vaccination • Sep 16 11
The challenge is to reduce the number of injections and minimize the side effects without compromising effectiveness and patient acceptability. Before the FDA can…
Serotonin levels affect the brain’s response to anger
• Brain • Sep 16 11
Fluctuations of serotonin levels in the brain, which often occur when someone hasn’t eaten or is stressed, affects brain regions that enable people to…
Number of children poisoned by medication rising dramatically, study says
• Public Health • Sep 16 11
The number of young children admitted to hospitals or seen in emergency departments because they unintentionally took a potentially toxic dose of medication has…
For kids with ADHD, regular ‘green time’ is linked to milder symptoms
• Children's Health • • Psychiatry / Psychology • Sep 15 11
A study of more than 400 children diagnosed with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder has found a link between the children’s routine play settings and…
Protesting vaccines: Fact or Myth
• Public Health • • Disease Prevention through Vaccination • Sep 14 11
Antivaccination movements often can have a significant effect on public health, primarily as a result of outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases. But, are the fears…
Study finds healthy hearts in fat bodies
• Fat, Dietary • • Heart • Sep 14 11
Carrying extra pounds doesn’t necessarily mean your heart is ailing, according to Greek researchers.
They found less than 10 percent of healthy obese people…
Counseling may not help pregnant smokers kick habit
• Pregnancy • • Tobacco & Marijuana • Sep 14 11
Counseling alone does not seem to help pregnant women quit smoking, according to a review of previous studies that concludes more research on the…
Michigan to track childhood obesity as part of health push
• Children's Health • • Obesity • Sep 14 11
Michigan’s Republican governor said on Wednesday he will ask doctors in the state to begin reporting information on their young patients’ body fat levels…
More U.S. doctors facing charges over drug abuse
• Drug Abuse • • Public Health • Sep 14 11
Michael Jackson’s doctor, accused of killing the pop star with a powerful anesthetic, has joined a small but growing number of U.S. physicians facing…
Strong leadership necessary to provide more sophisticated care for aging population, study finds
• Aging and Gerontology • Sep 14 11
Strong leadership, communication and teamwork are essential to successful organizations, especially health care facilities. However, how those organizations achieve improvement is not clearly understood,…
Motor memory: The long and short of it
• Brain • • Neurology • Sep 14 11
For the first time, scientists at USC have unlocked a mechanism behind the way short- and long-term motor memory work together and compete against…
Milk-drinking teens reap health benefits through adulthood
• Dieting • • Food & Nutrition • Sep 14 11
Developing healthy habits like drinking milk as a teen could have a long-term effect on a woman’s risk for type 2 diabetes, according to…
The importance of vaccination and resistance to it
• Public Health • • Disease Prevention through Vaccination • Sep 14 11
The marketing of Gardasil and similar prototypes in the pipeline illustrates that pharmaceutical companies and biotech companies are engaged in vaccine research.
With the…
Human papillomavirus (HPV)
• Public Health • • Disease Prevention through Vaccination • Sep 14 11
Human papillomavirus (HPV) is the most common sexually transmitted infections in the United States. Sexually transmitted HPVs, common in adults and sexually active adolescents,…