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Monday, 22 December 2008 |
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Disease/Infection News Scientists are looking to external space for help in their attempt to prevent new outbreaks of the tropical disease schistosomiasis in southern China. |
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Wednesday, 17 December 2008 |
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Child Health News A warning has been issued to Tasmanian cigarette retailers that selling cigarettes to minors will cost them dearly.They have been reminded that selling cigarettes to children carries a $6,000 good for the first offence and $12,000 for the second offence. |
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Tuesday, 16 December 2008 |
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Medical Research News Australia's leading national public health award, the Sidney Sax Public Health Medal, has been awarded to Sydney University's Professor of Public Health and long-time tobacco campaigner and researcher, Professor Simon Chapman. |
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Thursday, 11 December 2008 |
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Medical Research News Living in an affluent neighborhood with a higher educated population and higher valued homes may play a defendive role against fatness for older men and women, according to UMDNJ researchers. |
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Wednesday, 26 November 2008 |
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Disease/Infection News SARS- severe acute respiratory syndrome- alarmed the world five years ago as the first global pandemic of the 21st century. |
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Thursday, 13 November 2008 |
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Women's Health News The HPV vaccine, sold as Gardasil in the U.S., is intended to prevent four strains of the human papillomavirus, the most frequent sexually transmitted infection in the world.The vaccine also prevents against cervical cancer. |
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Thursday, 13 November 2008 |
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Women's Health News Vaccinating girls against the human papillomavirus (HPV) before they are sexually active appears to be successful in defending them against cervical cancer, on the other hand, a Johns Hopkins University researcher and health policy expert warns it would be ill-advised to mandate... |
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Friday, 07 November 2008 |
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Medical Condition News Down syndrome, the most usually identified cause of cognitive impairment, occurs in approximately 1-in-700 births in the United States.Additionally, almost 80 percent of fetuses with Down syndrome are lost before birth. |
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Friday, 07 November 2008 |
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Child Health News With Thanksgiving and end-of-the-year holidays coming soon, many Americans will eat, drink and get heavier.It is a challenging season for those working to control and reverse our nation's fatness epidemic. |
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Thursday, 18 September 2008 |
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Child Health News Newborns can be defended from seasonal flu when their mothers are vaccinated during pregnancy, according to a study led by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. |
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Monday, 15 September 2008 |
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Medical Research News Scientists at Johns Hopkins schools of Public Health and Medicine have, for the first time, identified variants in the gene MYH9 that are associated with increased risk for non-diabetic end stage renal disease (ESRD,) which is the near-loss of kidney function leading to either... |
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Monday, 15 September 2008 |
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Healthcare News Thirty years on from the signing of the historic Alma-Ata declaration, the famous rallying call to the global health community, the concept of Primary Health Care, which put at its heart, is back on the global agenda. |
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Tuesday, 09 September 2008 |
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Friday, 05 September 2008 |
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Disease/Infection News Thousands of African refugees have been released from the Ketziot detention center in the Negev region of Israel without being tested for tuberculosis or receiving preventive treatment in spite of a rise in TB cases among detainees, Haaretz. |
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Wednesday, 03 September 2008 |
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Healthcare News According to a newly released report by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW), spending on public health in Australia grew by 12.5% in 2006-07, and money spent on immunisation programs accounted for most of the increase. |
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Monday, 25 August 2008 |
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Disease/Infection News The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released an online storybook containing narratives from survivors, families, and friends about one of the largest scourges ever on human kind - the 1918 influenza pandemic that killed millions of people around the world. |
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Wednesday, 20 August 2008 |
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Medical Studies/Trials New research suggests that cadmium is one of the critical ingredients causing emphysema, and even low-level exposure attained through second-hand smoke and other means may also increase the chance of developing lung disease. |
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Tuesday, 12 August 2008 |
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Child Health News Sydney University researchers have suggested that children who spend more time outside are less likely to develop short-sightedness.This finding may provide the basis of a public health initiative to prevent the development of myopia in young children and adolescents. |
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Wednesday, 30 July 2008 |
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Disease/Infection News Densely populated cities and increased air travel can be factors which make and spread pandemic disease. But a McMaster University researcher is working with isolated Hutterite communities to understand the transmission of pandemic diseases like influenza. |
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Tuesday, 29 July 2008 |
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Medical Studies/Trials Most adults in the U.S. will be overweight or obese by 2030, with related health care spending projected to be as much as $956. |
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Thursday, 17 July 2008 |
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Miscellaneous News Research released today in the American Journal of Public Health found evidence that the tobacco industry has manipulated menthol levels and built new cigarette brands with the purpose of gaining market share among young adults and adolescents. |
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Tuesday, 15 July 2008 |
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Child Health News Closing coal-fired power plants can have a direct, positive impact on children's cognitive development and health according to a study released by the Columbia Center for Children's Environmental Health (CCCEH) at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health. |
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Thursday, 10 July 2008 |
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Healthcare News A new framework for action on social marketing and public health was published today by the UK's Department of Health. Ambitions for Health sets out how we will use evidence of what motivates people to help them lead healthier lives through targeted action. |
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Tuesday, 08 July 2008 |
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Child Health News A single, oral dose of vitamin A, given to infants shortly after birth in the developing world can decrease their risk of death by 15 percent, according to a study conducted by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. |
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Wednesday, 02 July 2008 |
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Disease/Infection News Public health professionals from across the country will convene July 14-15 in Indianapolis for a national summit on ethical and policy issues faced by public health officials and the medical community while preparing for a large-scale epidemic. |
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Thursday, 26 June 2008 |
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THURSDAY, June 26 More than half of American teens say they've consumed alcohol, and more than 40 percent of those children say they sometimes get their alcohol free from an adult, a new federal survey found. |
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Wednesday, 25 June 2008 |
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WEDNESDAY, June 25 About 234 million major surgeries are performed worldwide each year, and surgery rates are much higher in high-income countries than in low-income countries, U.S. researchers report. |
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Friday, 20 June 2008 |
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FRIDAY, June 20 Hazardous drinking -- drinking more than guidelines recommend -- is usual and requires to be recognized as a genuine public health difficulty, Finnish researchers say. Currently, alcohol-use disorders are separated into 2 categories: alcohol abuse/harmful use and alcohol dependence. |
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Sunday, 15 June 2008 |
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Medical Studies/Trials A type of stroke that can strike at any age, and kills one-third of its victims, appears to be more general in women and Mexican-Americans than in non-Hispanic white men, according to a new study from the University of Michigan Stroke Program. |
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Tuesday, 03 June 2008 |
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Medical Studies/Trials Healthy seniors who are physically active and exercise for more than 60 minutes each week can lessen their chances of disability as they age, finds a new long-term study. |
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