International study of children and adolescents reveals major trend toward overweight and obesity
...In contrast, the incidence of childhood overweight declined by 7% in Russia during the 1990s. The authors examined societal and economic trends that may be responsible for increasing overweight among a large segment of the worlds population of young people. The authors note that large portions of the populati...Prostate cancer is costly for Californians, according to UCSF researchers
...gh the number of deaths and new incident cases has declined recently, prostate cancer remains the most common malignancy among white, black, Hispanic, Filipino, Japanese, Chinese, and Asian Indian males," said Max. She explained that the single greatest risk factor for prostate cancer is age. Prostate cancer...Children's psychological well-being improves after divorce, but test scores do not
...hildren talked to each other - declined before the divorce and were still low a year afterwards. However, by three years after the divorce, these social resources were back up to normal. However, family economic hardship continued...Governments committing 'public health malpractice' over flour fortification
...nited States - deaths from stroke and heart attack declined by 3.4%. Although fortification of flour is long overdue in the United Kingdom and the remainder of Europe, the UK board of the Food Standards Agency recently decided against mandatory folic acid fortification. Ministers should not accept this recomm...N.C. Health Choice program boosting access to dental care for poor children, study shows
...income parents frequently complained that dentists declined to treat their children. Other findings with school-aged children were that prior to enrollment, 77 percent were reported to have a usual source of dental care, and 48 percent received dental services in the previous year. After enrollment, those fig...New practice guidelines focus on neuroimaging of premature and low birth weight babies
...rtunately, the incidence of cerebral palsy has not declined in 10 years, and the population of infants at risk is growing. Neuroimaging of the developing brain has become an important tool for diagnosing, decision-making, and evaluating treatment effectiveness." Although neuroimaging has proven to be extre...Needle-exchange program found to reduce emergency room visits among intravenous drug users
...gram and 256 had not. Emergency department visits declined among the needle-exchange program users and increased among those who did not use the program. There were significant reductions in emergency department use among Hispanics, men, HIV-negative IDUs, and those with mental illness. The study was funded ...Study finds common knee surgery no better than placebo
...o met inclusion criteria for the study, 44 percent declined to participate, demonstrating they understood that they might not receive the actual surgery. Before undergoing surgery, participants also wrote in their chart, "On entering this study, I realize that I may receive only placebo surgery. I further rea...Infant mortality rate drops, children more likely to have working parent, be read to
...mortality rate for children from ages 5 to 14 also declined in 1999. According to the report, among children ...eached a cyclical peak of 22 percent in 1993, then declined through 1999. The current poverty rate for children is at its lowest level since 1979. The report ...Computerized phone chats can motivate couch potatoes
...ll and the number of users in both groups steadily declined over the course of the study. The researchers speculate that participation dropped off as the intervention's novelty wore off. In addition, some participants noted that they preferred human intervention or would have appreciated reminder calls. "We ...Questions arise as more older Americans outlive driving privilege
...this age group drove that year. Driving prevalence declined with age, ranging from 88 percent of men in their early 70s to 55 percent of those 85 or older. Among women, about 70 percent drove in their early 70s compared to 22 percent still driving at age 85 or older. Two years later, 7 percent of the drivers ...Telephone, mail reminders serve as effective mammography motivators
...have been "more motivated to comply than women who declined study participation."...Screening reduces mastectomy rates
... of screening, and the rate of radical surgery has declined significantly, say the authors. Similar reductions in mastectomy rates have been observed elsewhere. This indicates that the introduction of screening brings about a reduction in mastectomy rates, not an increase, they add. Follow up will continue to...Lowering cancer risk in postmenopausal women
...ntile. Risk reduction for breast and colon cancer declined an average of 25% from quintile 1 to quintile 4. The reduction in cancer risk was associated not just with healthy eating, but also with regular exercise and avoidance of overweight and obesity. In an accompanying editorial, McCullough and Stampfer p...Cholesterol-lowering drugs safe and effective in children
... was down 34 percent; very low-density lipoprotein declined 21 percent; and triglycerides fell 9 percent. The drugs didn't affect the growth or maturation of the children. The U.S. National Cholesterol Education Program recommends cholesterol-lowering drugs for children over 10 years old whose LDL remains h...HIV infection rate and risky behavior decline amoung injection drug users in Baltimore
...s showed the incidence of HIV infection among IDUs declined 12 percent a year during the decade-long study per...tudy of drug users, the rates of new HIV infection declined from 4.45 percent per year in 1988-1990 to 3.35 percent in 1991-1994 and 1.84 percent in 1995-1998. ...Selling a kidney does not benefit the seller
...ore they sold a kidney. The income of the sellers declined by one-third after selling a kidney, and 86 percent had a worsening of their health status. Because nearly every country has a shortage of organs for transplantation, providing financial incentives to donate is often proposed or justified as a way t...Most definitive study of its kind shows that sleeping on the stomach increases infant SIDS risk
...paign in 1994, the SIDS rates for both groups have declined by about 50 percent, but a significant disparity still remains. To help eliminate this disparity, the NICHD joined with the non-profit National Black Child Development Institute in a program to reduce SIDS among African American infants in Chicago a...20% of mammogram-detected cancers are in situ lesions of unknown aggressiveness
...ng to the American Cancer Society, mortality rates declined significantly between 1992-1998. The Society attributes the decline to both earlier detection and improved treatment....UNC study uncovers increasing shortage of pharmacists with growing population
...r 10,000 population working in retail settings has declined over the past decade, a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill study shows. The result is an imbalance between the growing demand for retail pharmacy services and the tightening supply of such professionals. The imbalance -- some say shortage -...