Study of energy and health in Africa focuses spotlight on charcoal and forest management
...omoted by British Prime Minister Tony Blair at the recent G-8 summit." "If the rapid urbanization continues - and all signs indicate that it will - then the trend is going to be toward greater charcoal use in Africa. It's the most affordable source of household energy," said Robert Bailis, graduate student...Charcoal and forest management could reduce greenhouse gas levels & save lives in Africa
... promised at the 2005 World Economic Forum and the recent G-8 summit. Ezzati said, "This study shows that choosing energy technologies with an eye toward improving health and quality of life in one of the world's most impoverished areas offers us opportunity to significantly reduce premature deaths, especia...Study shows patch therapy may be as effective as oral medications
...se events in the Celebrex group. However, due to recent safety concerns regarding the entire COX-2 inhibitor class, the sponsor of the study, Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc., voluntarily elected to prematurely halt the study prior to reaching the original enrollment target of 200 patients. These results theref...Late developers may run higher risk of infection than sexually mature younger teens
... had specific effects on particular infections. A recent new partner or use of a condom was associated with a lower risk of chlamydial infection, while the use of emergency contraception doubled the risk. Sex during a period also increased the risk of bacterial vaginosis. Smoking conferred protection again...International breast cancer prevention study launches in the United States and Canada
...of women have already beat breast cancer thanks to recent research on aromatase inhibitors. As a result, we think this could be an effective approach to preventing it from developing in the first place." The ExCel research study will follow more than 4,500 postmenopausal women from the U.S., Canada and...Hausman to give keynote address at 'Breastfeeding, Motherhood and Feminism' symposium
...lroom. Dramatic changes in employment patterns in recent decades have brought women many new opportunities. But along with these gains come challenges, including the well-documented work-family dilemma -- the struggle to be employed and provide for a family's health and well being at the same time. A woman...HIV testing should be routine part of primary health care for sexually active
... a review of surveillance reports from the CDC and recent research data. Current guidelines from the Centers... United States continues to increase, according to recent CDC data, and 35 percent of new cases of HIV diagnosed from 1999 to 2002 were acquired heterosexuall...Do minorities survive hospitalization better than others?
...interpretation of clinical observations. While two recent studies showed lower in-hospital mortality for African-Americans than for non-Hispanic whites, in a study published in the current issue of The American Journal of Medicine, researchers from the University of California, San Francisco investigated th...Suppressing the cells that trigger cat allergy
...re frequent in all industrialized countries during recent decades, and there is much debate about exposure to pets in early life and later development of asthma and allergy. Some studies have suggested that keeping pets actually protects against later allergy - i.e., that early exposure may somehow modify a...Professionalism and professional ethics in medicine
...s, oncologists and intensive care physicians about recent ethical dilemmas encountered in practice. Difficulties regarding resource allocations (reported by 18 percent of the 344 respondents) were analyzed to determine the strategies used to resolve them and the physician's rationales. "The situations descr...Economist: Cuba's state-run baseball doesn't go to bat for players
... said, "that defections and 'early retirements' in recent years have improved balance in the Cuban League although I doubt the typical Cuban baseball fan would find much consolation in this."...Corrected metabolism leads to health benefits and weight loss
... average of 15 to 22 pounds per month. But in recent years, Dr. Morin has observed people on the program experience dramatic health benefits as well. "I have seen first-hand, numerous SureSlim clients going off medication for serious ailments including diabetes, high cholesterol, arthritis, high b...Optical technique identifies vulnerable plaques in cardiac patients
...r symptoms. Participants either had experienced a recent heart attack or had acute coronary syndrome (ACS), a set of symptoms associated with reduced blood supply to the heart muscle. A third group had stable angina, chest pain that occurs with physical or mental stress, which is not usually related to pl...Benefits of lung cancer screening with CT questioned
...nd 163,510 people will die from the disease. While recent studies have focused on the benefits of early detection, the Mayo researchers looked more closely at the negative impact of CT screening, including over-diagnosis, expense, changes to quality of life, unnecessary surgical procedures and mortality. Th...NHS target driven culture is failing patients
...ditor. "If this is, as Gannon implies, a result of recent reforms, what can we expect from the next phase of the government's NHS improvement plan unveiled by Nigel Crisp last week?"...Improving access to healthy food has little effect on diet
...etail interventions actually work. For instance, a recent study in Newcastle found that retail provision was not independently associated with diet. Another in Leeds found positive changes in fruit and vegetable consumption, while a similar study in Glasgow found little evidence for an overall effect. Despi...Mental health service costs offset by savings in other public sectors
... narrow the between-site gap still further." In a recent interview, Foster noted that system-of-care approach communities may be spending roughly the same amount of tax dollars as non-system-of care communities but getting more out of them. Foster is continuing his analysis of the 67 system of care commun...Depression linked to insomnia in HIV patients
...rs of participants and inconsistent findings. More recent studies rely on patients' reports about their own sleep habits and disturbances, including whether they had difficulty falling asleep or staying asleep, their frequency of nightmares, whether they were tired in the day or whether they used sleeping p...ESC releases the first European Guidelines on Percutaneous Coronary Interventions (PCI)
...inking and clinical practice". With the wealth of recent landmark studies and developments in the field of ...o acknowledge and present the incredible amount of recent developments, studies and data on PCI. Following this recent peak in activity, it is the optimal mo......to facilitate the learning of self-management. A recent study into the usefulness of the CD-ROM involving 47 sufferers of bulimia revealed significant reductions in binging and self-induced vomiting. The pilot programme, run by the Eating Disorders Unit at South London and Maudsley NHS Trust lasted for 8...