NIH awards USC $8.7 million to study tobacco use in China
Los Angeles, Calif., Feb. 8, 2005-The National Institutes of Health have awarded $8.7 million to the University of Southern California to study genetic and environmental factors that influence tobacco and alcohol use among adolescents in China and the United States....... The new Pacific Rim Transdisciplinary Tobacco & Alcohol Use Research Center (PR TTURC) is conducting the research, under the d...Echinacea not effective in treating colds in children
Echinacea is not effective in shortening the duration or decreasing the severity of upper respiratory tract infections in children, according to a study in the December 3 issue of The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). ... ...Upper respiratory tract infections (URIs) are a significant health burden in childhood, according to background information in the article. The average c...Injuries cost China over $12 billion a year
Injuries from automobile crashes, drowning and other causes cost China $12.5 billion each year in medical expenditures and lost productivity, according a study by researchers from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. They calculate the human toll annually to be 12.6 million years of potentially productive years of life lost (PPYLL), which i...Beijing conference to address lung cancer crisis in China
The first international lung cancer conference to be held in China will take researchers to Beijing October 27-30. UCSF, in collaboration with the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center and the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, is sponsoring the event....... UCSF researchers will be presenting their work on targeted therapies, genomics and other leading-edge science. The conference is d...Award will boost HIV/AIDS research in China
The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) has awarded a Comprehensive International Program for Research on AIDS (CIPRA) grant to China's Center for Disease Control and Prevention. The new grant -- the first multi-project CIPRA -- will strengthen China's HIV/AIDS research infrastructure and increase its capacity for research into promising methods of HIV prevention and tr...Stove improvements associated with reduced lung cancer risk in China
Switching from unvented to vented stoves that burn smoky coal appears to have decreased the risk of lung cancer among farmers in rural China, a new study suggests. The findings appear in the June 5 issue of the ...... Such stove improvement may benefit the health of people in other developing countries as well, conclude Qing Lan, M.D., Ph.D., of the Chinese Academy of Preventive Medicine and the...Suicide the leading cause of death among young adults in China
......A study in this weeks issue of THE LANCET describes the incidence of suicide among people living in China, highlighting that it is the most common cause of death in young adults, three times more frequent in rural areas than urban environments, and 25% more common in women than men. ......A wide range of suicide rates are reported for China because official mortality data are based on an...Echinacea symposium presents new research on Chernobyl victims
.The results from a long-term clinical study in the Ukraine on the use of.Echinacea to treat victims of the Chernobyl disaster are being unveiled at a.press conference on Friday, June 4, 10:30 AM, at the Ritz-Carlton in Kansas.City. . .Dr. Victoriya F. Pochernyayeva, a leading researcher from Ukraine and the former.Soviet Union, will review the results of her long-term studies including:. . An...Preliminary Study Proves Centuries Of Herbalists Right About Echinacea
.GAINESVILLE---Echinacea, an herbal cold remedy used for centuries, does, in.fact, stimulate the immune system, a University of Florida researcher has.found.. .In the first clinical study of the popular herb's effects on healthy men,.UF nutritional scientist Susan Percival found that echinacea stimulated.white blood cells, which fight infection.. ."I expected to find what I found," said Percival...Procter & Gamble Supports Yale University Collaboration For Public Health Training Throughout China
Yale University has received a five-year, $400,000 grant from The...Procter & Gamble Co. to help develop a new public health training program in the...People's Republic of China. Yale's Department of Epidemiology and Public Health...will collaborate with the new Union School of Public Health in Beijing....... The collaboration will strengthen the Union School's curriculum in...public hea...