HIV prevalence in prisons around the world
• AIDS/HIV • • Prison Health Care • Sep 09 11
The number of prisoners living with HIV varies between countries. America has the highest prison population in the world, around 1.5 percent of whom…
Prison Health Care Conclusion
• Prison Health Care • Sep 09 11
A high incarceration rate comes with both an economic and social price. Housing prisoners is expensive regardless of whether the public or private sector…
How should prison health care be provided and funder?
• Prison Health Care • Sep 09 11
The delivery of prison health care ranges from that delivered by prison service employees to care delivered by on-site nurses or doctors. The differences…
Substance Abuse in prisoners
• Prison Health Care • • Cocaine Addiction • Sep 09 11
The United States now incarcerates people at a rate nearly five times the world average primarily because of drug offenses. More than two-thirds of…
Mental Health of Prisoners
• Psychiatry / Psychology • • Prison Health Care • Sep 09 11
Mental health problems are more prevalent among prisoners than the general population both in the United States and in other countries.[21] Whether or not…
HIV/AIDS in prisons
• AIDS/HIV • • Prison Health Care • Sep 09 11
HIV/AIDS in state and federal prisoners was more than 2.5 times higher than that in the U.S. population. Approximately 46 per 10,000 prison inmates…
Sexual Victimization
• Prison Health Care • Sep 09 11
Despite professed zero tolerance for sexual victimization in prison, such activity continues. Public awareness of prison rape and sexual assault (male and female) is…
Medical problems of prisoners
• Prison Health Care • Sep 09 11
In the United States, the Bureau of Justice surveys inmates in state and federal correctional facilities to quantify the incidence and prevalence of medical…
U.S. prison statistics
• Prison Health Care • Sep 09 11
In the United States in 2008, 739 per 100,000 population were either serving time, awaiting trial, or otherwise detained. Local jails held 785,556 persons…
The Purpose of prisons
• Prison Health Care • Sep 09 11
Prisons have long been the place of confinement for the punishment and rehabilitation of criminals. Indeed, incarcerating individuals has a long, sordid history.As long…
Prison Health Care
• Prison Health Care • Sep 09 11
The provision of health care in prisons has mushroomed into a large, often ignored, global issue of concern. While prisoners are secured behind high…
New translator app makes sense of foreign-language food menus
• Food & Nutrition • Sep 08 11
Researchers have created an application that enables cell phones and other portable devices to translate foreign-language food menus for English speakers and could be…
Chronic pain: Watch out before accepting diagnosis and treatment
• Pain • Sep 08 11
A new commentary published online in The FASEB Journal (http://www.fasebj.org) argues that patients should be diligent and demand proof of safety and benefit…
Is Estrogen Going to Your Head?
• Brain • • Endocrinology • Sep 08 11
Girls are growing up faster than ever — and not only when it comes to their taste in fashion and music. Their bodies are…
Have we met before?
• Brain • • Neurology • Sep 08 11
Face and voice are the two main features by which we recognise other people. Researchers at the Max Planck Institute (MPI) for Human Cognitive…
Almost 17 percent of Spanish children suffer tics
• Children's Health • • Neurology • Sep 08 11
Experts have confirmed it: tics are not a rare or uncommon disorder. It is the second study to be conducted in Spain to date,…
Gene that controls chronic pain identified
• Genetics • • Pain • Sep 08 11
Embargoed until 2:00pm U.S. Eastern Time (7:00pm London time), Thursday 8 September 2011
A gene responsible for regulating chronic pain, called HCN2, has been…
Mom better than dad at soothing baby’s pain: study
• Children's Health • • Pain • Sep 08 11
Preemies show less pain when mom holds them than when dad tries to comfort them, according to a new study of babies having blood…
Weight Watchers works, scientific study finds
• Obesity • • Weight Loss • Sep 08 11
Overweight patients told by their doctors to go to Weight Watchers lose around twice as much weight as people receiving standard weight loss care…
Consolidation of health plans may help lower hospital costs, study finds
• Public Health • Sep 08 11
Increased consolidation among health plans nationally may benefit consumers by lowering hospital prices, at least in those regions where health plans are the most…
Healthier living could cut 2.8 million cancer cases
• Cancer • • Public Health • Sep 07 11
Healthier lifestyles and better diets could prevent up to 2.8 million cases of cancer each year, the World Cancer Research Fund (WCRF) said on…
Fewer Americans smoke, pace of decline slowing: CDC
• Tobacco & Marijuana • Sep 07 11
Fewer American adults are smoking cigarettes, and those who still smoke have cut back on the number of cigarettes they smoke, but the rate…
UCSF, UC Merced to Study Effectiveness of Anti-Tobacco Programs
• Public Health • • Tobacco & Marijuana • Sep 07 11
Researchers with the University of California, San Francisco, and UC Merced will examine the effectiveness of state and local antismoking programs across the United…
New ‘bouncer’ molecule halts rheumatoid arthritis
• Arthritis • • Rheumatic Diseases • Sep 07 11
Researchers at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine have discovered why the immune cells of people with rheumatoid arthritis become hyperactive and attack the…
Neonatal and infant feeding disorders program saves infants from lifetime of feeding tubes
• Children's Health • • Childbirth • Sep 06 11
An innovative approach to treating neonatal feeding problems at Nationwide Children’s Hospital has allowed infants who were struggling to feed orally to be discharged…