Study of energy and health in Africa focuses spotlight on charcoal and forest management
...for cooking and heating homes. In 2000, nearly 470 million tons of wood were consumed in homes in sub-Saharan... other region in the world. However, more than 1.6 million people, primarily women and children, die prematurely each year worldwide (400,000 in sub-Saharan Af...Charcoal and forest management could reduce greenhouse gas levels & save lives in Africa
...for cooking and heating homes. In 2000, nearly 470 million tons of wood were consumed in homes in sub-Saharan... than any other region in the world. More than 1.6 million people, primarily women and children, die prematurely each year worldwide (400,000 in sub-Saharan Af...First head-to-head study to compare lidoderm patch and Celebrex in treating pain
...ing this type of pain." OA affects more than 20 million Americans annually and generates more than seven million physician visits per year. If left untreated, chronic pain conditions such as OA can have significa...Study shows patch therapy may be as effective as oral medications
...provide future options." OA affects more than 20 million Americans annually and generates more than seven million physician visits per year. If left untreated, chronic pain conditions such as OA can have significa...March/April 2005 Annals of Family Medicine tip sheet
...ion-related disability, affecting an estimated 2.5 million people in the United States. Screening for Glaucoma: Recommendation Statement U.S. Preventive Services Task Force Screening for Primary Open-Angle Glaucoma in the Primary Care Setting: an Update for the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force By Crai...Pitt marks 50th anniversary of its Salk polio vaccine with reunion, scientific symposium
...U.S. clinical trial ever to be conducted, with 1.8 million children from 44 states taking part. Making a special appearance will be Mickey Rooney, who was one of Hollywood's most ardent champions for the March of Dimes (known then as the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis or NFIP) and made passiona...Economist: Cuba's state-run baseball doesn't go to bat for players
...whose six-year deal with the Angels came with a $3 million signing bonus. So Havana recently decided to allow foreign contracts again. Capitalist baseball has its own checkered past of player exploitation through rules that gave club owners near-total control, but that has largely, but not completely, given...Hepatitis C and health-related quality of life
...CID") of 4.2 points on the vitality scale. About 4 million Americans are infected with HCV. While approximately 20 percent of these people eventually develop cirrhosis, the vast majority of people never exhibit clinically significant liver disease. Still evolving data suggests that HCV can diminish quality-o...Optical technique identifies vulnerable plaques in cardiac patients
...http://www.circulationaha.org/ . "More than 1.2 million people die from coronary artery disease every year, a quarter of them before or soon after arriving at the hospital," says Ik-Kyung Jang, MD, PhD, director of cardiovascular clinical research in the MGH Cardiology Division and lead author of the curr...Researchers search for first sign of congestive heart failure
...ing, sometimes lethal condition affecting nearly 5 million Americans. "What we are saying is that long before the pumping chamber of the heart becomes enlarged and dysfunctional a classic sign of congestive heart failure you have early changes in the way the heart is functioning," says Dr. Gaston Kakota Ka...Hopkins begins human trials with donor adult stem cells to repair muscle damaged from heart attack
...cently suffered a heart attack. An estimated 7 million Americans alive today have suffered at least one heart attack and so are at greater risk for chronic heart failure, sudden cardiac death or another, potentially fatal, heart attack. "This is an important milestone on the journey to better cardiovascu...Vaccine against childhood pneumonia shows promise
...tries. Pneumonia causes an estimated 19% of the 10 million childhood deaths worldwide annually. The bacterium Streptococcus pneumoniae is responsible for up to half of all cases of severe childhood pneumonia in developing countries. It also causes serious bloodstream infections, meningitis, and otitis media ...New estimates for the causes of child deaths worldwide
...T, reveal that worldwide more than 70% of the 10.6 million child deaths that occur annually are attributable to six causes: pneumonia (19%), diarrhoea (18%), malaria (8%), neonatal sepsis or pneumonia (10%), preterm delivery (10%), and asphyxia at birth (8%). Robert Black (Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of P...Study provides new estimates of the causes of child mortality worldwide
Seventy-three percent of the 10.6 million child deaths worldwide each year are the result of six causes: pneumonia, diarrhea, malaria, neonatal sepsis, preterm delivery and asphyxia at birth. Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and the World Health Organization...Risky surgery not always necessary to treat cervical disease
...cancer. According to the article, approximately 20 million people in the United States at any given time are infected and the numbers are significantly increasing throughout the world....Stanford patient is first to test new treatment for peripheral arterial disease
...disabling." Peripheral arterial disease afflicts 8 million to 12 million Americans, many of whom have not been diagnosed, according to the American Heart Association. The mo...Opponents of needle-exchange programs should think about their message to drug users
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...al doctor's visit to a specialist for more than 20 million Americans. A typical charge for an office visit to...ever season nearly upon us, anywhere from 20 to 50 million Americans will develop allergic rhinitis. Symptoms include red and watery eyes, irritated nasal pass...Sudan surveys show high rates of death and malnutrition among displaced population
... started in 2003 and has continued. "More than 1.5 million people (25 percent of the population of the region) are now scattered in 127 encampments in Darfur and 15 in neighboring Chad," the authors note. "Mdecins Sans Frontires (MSF) began work in West Darfur in December 2003, and operations in South Darfu......es of Health. With $300,000 awarded and another $2 million anticipated in NIH Small Business Technology Transfer grants over the next 2 years, Professor, and now CEO, Bill Hersman launched Xemed LLC to commercialize the technology he developed for polarizing xenon gas. "Prof. Hersman's initial work was driv...