Household falls may produce more severe brain injuries in infants than previously thought
... when a baby's head contacts a hard surface during household falls may result in diffuse brain injuries. The f...om heights of one, three and five feet onto common household surfaces: a concrete floor, quarter-inch-thick carpet padding and a four-inch-thick foam pad, simila......00 ingredients contained in more than 4,000 common household products. Some household products contain substances that can pose health risks if they are ingested or inhaled, or if they c...UNC study: Trails, places to excercise, streetlights can boost activity levels
...an Indians and those with less education and lower household incomes were less likely to get the recommended amount of physical activity and reported generally less favorable neighborhood environments and less access to places for physical activity," Huston said. A related study in September's issue of the Am...Most adult survivors of childhood cancer consider themselves in good health
...are or everyday tasks, such as eating, bathing and household chores); activity limitations (such as moving a table or bowling); cancer-related pain; and cancer-related anxieties and fears. The study compared survivor health to that of 2,916 randomly selected siblings of the survivors. None of the siblings were...Data on global vaccination coverage paints overoptimistic picture
... DTP3 coverage with the 'gold standard' method-the household Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) method-in 45 ...ed DTP3 coverage is higher than that reported from household surveys. For example, an officially reported coverage of 16% could be expected at a crude coverage r...Health disparities between racial groups affect joblessness
...ion in public assistance programs slightly lowered household income, especially among those aged 45 to 64. However, Bound says, income is more strongly affected by education: "Differences in education account for between 52 and 84 percent of the race/ethnicity disparities in income."...Sept/Oct Annals of Family Medicine tip sheet
...dividuals switching jobs. The study was based on a household survey conducted between 1996 and 1997. Recognizing the prevalence and possible costs of discontinuity, Franks and colleagues set out to assess the impact of changing insurance by comparing health-care indicators for people newly enrolled in a healt...... of targeted therapy, long before Gleevec became a household word. "From a lung cancer, head and neck cancer point of view, the idea of using an oral drug for treatment, possibly even as a chemoprevention or maintenance therapy, was very attractive," he says. Herbst and his colleagues quickly accrued patients...Daycare will not reduce child poverty
...es an immediate route out of poverty by increasing household income. Tackling low pay, changing the benefit structure, and reducing the costs of day care to poor families may be equally important components of an anti-poverty strategy, they conclude....Outbreak of foodborne botulism traced from food sold at Texas salvage store
Although salvage stores offer discounted prices on household goods, salvage food shoppers may be getting more than they bargained for in the long run. An article published in the December 1 issue of Clinical Infectious Diseases, now available online, reports that an outbreak of foodborne botulism in Texas in 2...Tobacco use common in schools demonstrating poor academic performance
...rsity, Philadelphia, PA. "If a child grows up in a household with smokers, that child is much more likely to experiment with tobacco. Tobacco exposure, whether active or passive, is a major trigger for asthma, and asthma is a known cause of absenteeism in children, which can, in turn, lead to worse academic p...Family's income, education affect depression and obesity in teens
...dulthood," Goodman says. The researchers used 1994 household income data and parents' educational attainment from the families of 15,112 adolescents, surveyed as part of National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health. Goodman's group applied a standard measure of depression and calculated body mass index fro...Outpatient pediatric visits good opportunity to help parents quit smoking
... child's physician whether they or anyone in their household smoked. About 40 percent of smokers were asked whether smoking was allowed inside their homes, and 20 percent were asked about their cars. A third of smokers reported being advised about the health risks of second-hand smoke or the fact that smoker...Farm worker children under 7 exposed to agricultural and home pesticides
...oung enough to play on floors or to place toys and household objects in the mouth." Adults in these farm worker households often apply chemicals and perform hand labor in fields treated with pesticides. "As the first study to screen for a large number of both agricultural and residential pesticides in farm wo...Population surveys - A new 'gold standard' for estimating true incidence of HIV/AIDS?
...ay be improved by newly available information from household surveys. UNAIDS/WHO estimate (2002 figures) that around 42 million people worldwide are infected with HIV-1, with sub-Saharan Africa accounting for just under 30 million infections. Conventional estimates of HIV-1 prevalence are based on the HIV-1 st...Child health costs for behavioral disorders similar to those for physical illnesses
... identified using diagnostic codes determined from household interviews. Researchers compared them to two control groups healthy children and children with common chronic physical disorders such as asthma, epilepsy and diabetes. Among the 3,955 eligible children, almost seven percent were identified wi...SARS outbreak in Beijing spread rapidly, was controlled fairly quickly
...school contacts. The attack rate among quarantined household members increased with age from 5.0 percent in children younger than 10 years to 27.6 percent in adults aged 60 to 69 years. Among almost 14 million people screened for fever at the airport, train stations, and roadside checkpoints, only 12 were foun...Water and sanitation key to health of infants in developing countries
...or increases in height, and data were obtained for household water and sanitation at the beginning of the study. At two years of age, children with the worst conditions for water source, water storage, and sanitation (53 of 230 children) were 1 cm shorter and had 54% more diarrhoeal episodes than children wit...Major risk factors identified for sudden infant death syndrome
...prone position; infant head-covering with bedding; household smoking; bed-sharing with a mother who smoked; bed-sharing with non-smoking mother for infants up to eight weeks of age; and mothers' alcohol consumption over previous 24 hours (if bed-sharing with an infant). Lead investigator Robert Carpenter from ......examined the common influenza season scenario of a household in which a family member is infected with influenz...ly oseltamivir for 10 days; in the other half, the household contacts received treatment only if they developed symptoms of illness. The researchers found that p...