One in seven adolescents still doesn't have health insurance
... by blacks. The South andthe West had the largest proportions of uninsured adolescents. A new federal program to improve children's health insurance coverage offers anopportunity to reduce inequities, the authors say. The Balanced Budget Act of1997 created the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), ...... HIV,relatively little is known about the relative proportions of different bloodcells in teenagers' immune systems. The study, published in the September 1999issue of the journal AIDS, is the first attempt to establish referencemeasurements for cells that act as immune system markers for both HIV-infectedand he...Drug trends among American teens
...epending on the age of the students). The overall proportions reporting any illicit drug use in the prior year p...om 3 percent in 1998 to 1.9 percent in 1999. (The proportions taking methamphetamines in any form, including ice, is higher---3.2 percent in eighth-grade, 4.6 per...New dental anesthetic promises better pain control for patients
...he sugar alcohol) in different proportions - on more than 200 people. The best results came from a concoction of mannitol and about 64 milligrams of lidocaine - roughly double the amount currently used by dental anesthetists. With th......called stable isotopes, occur naturally, and their proportions can indicate the origins of the lead in a sample. "Lead has a unique isotopic variability that allows us to fingerprint the sources," Steding said. The results showed that gasoline emissions from the 1960s and 1970s still account for most of the lead...Many uninsured adults do not receive needed medical care
...e services," the authors write. "Alarmingly high proportions of long-term uninsured adults in poor or fair health reported forgoing needed care, including about two thirds of those in poor health and half of those in fair health," the authors assert. "These findings challenge the views of a growing proportion...Gender-specific intervention may be needed to improve diets of african-american youth
...ick with it. We are concerned about the epidemic proportions of high blood pressure in the African American community and believe one way to stem the tide is to help young people develop good dietary habits, said lead author Dawn K. Wilson, PhD. We found that positive emotional support had a greater effect on...Practical guidance for treatment of heart failure is launched
...different countries have revealed that substantial proportions of patients who should have been treated with ACE inhibitors were not receiving the treatment. It is thought that one of the main reasons for this is that doctors do not have easy-to-follow advice on the practicalities of prescribing such drugs and ...Study explores the effect of temperature on mortality
...oduced higher mortality risk in cities with higher proportions of elderly, but not in cities with a large fraction of heating systems. Hotter temperatures produced higher mortality risk in cities with larger percentages of persons without a high school education and those living in poverty, two indicators of soc...Landmark study results published in NEJM highlight breakthrough treatment for heart failure
...rtality data". Heart failure is reaching epidemic proportions and is an increasing burden on healthcare systems in Europe. In Germany, it is estimated to cost $5.4 billion/5.7billion Euros to manage chronic heart failure, with over 55% of this figure associated with hospitalisations alone.5 The InSync system i...Cardiac differences in infants born to HIV-positive mothers may persist
...ed the two study groups. The groups had comparable proportions of girls to boys and of white, black, and Hispanic children, as well as of mothers who engaged in high-risk behaviors such as use of illicit drugs and cigarette smoking while pregnant. "When they were born, the hearts of the babies who were not infec...Data reveals Lilly's PKC inhibitor improved symptomatic diabetic peripheral neuropathy
...Health Organization, diabetes is reaching epidemic proportions and is one of the leading causes of death worldwide. Approximately 150 million people globally have diabetes and the prevalence is expected to double by the year 2025. The ADA estimates that 17 million people in the U.S. are living with diabetes and ...Prenatal zinc supplementation could impair childhood mental development
...ous nature of the problem in populations with high proportions of underweight children. Since zinc supplementation in infants has a beneficial effect on growth and morbidity, and supplementation of mothers was associated with reduced morbidity in low birthweight infants in this study, our findings complicate pol...Beijing conference to address lung cancer crisis in China
...ients with lung cancer. Lung cancer is at epidemic proportions in China -- and the worst is yet to come, according to the World Health Organization, which has recently published The Tobacco Atlas. It is estimated that by 2025, two million Chinese men will die annually from smoking. Lung cancer currently kills 28...Life-saving properties of beta blockers extend to more patients
...t. The first group was randomly assigned in equal proportions to antiarrhythmic therapy or no therapy, with asmall number receiving implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs) if they didn't respond to antiarrhythmic drugs. The group without sustained tachycardia received no antiarrhythmic therapy and was r...Northwestern receives $5 million to study polycystic ovary syndrome
...sity and type 2 diabetes have now reached epidemic proportions in the United States, and cardiovascular disease remains the leading cause of death in women, PCOS plays a key role in the foremost causes of death and disability in American women. Moreover, Dunaif and co-investigators have found that the brothers...A global strategy for reducing catastrophic health-care payments
... world can lead to individuals having to pay large proportions of the costs--known as catastrophic expenditure--from their available income; such expenditure can push many households into poverty. The potential impact of how health systems are financed on the wellbeing of households, particularly poor households...Cedars-Sinai researchers detail events that enable brain tumors to weaken immune system
... In contrast, nearly all gliomas exhibited greater proportions of CD4(+) relative to CD8(+) T cells. This manipul...els of endothelial FasL correlated with decreasing proportions of tumor-infiltrating cytotoxic T lymphocytes tumor-killing immune cells. This suggests the possibi...Major new center at UIC to study racial/ethnic disparities in health
...ccording to Warnecke, data show that roughly equal proportions of women in white, black and Hispanic populations receive regular screening mammograms for breast cancer, yet minority women are more often diagnosed with more advanced disease, when treatment is least effective. As a result, compared with Caucasians...