A new method for early detection of disease outbreaks
...detect outbreaks not primarily related to place of residence but, for example, school or workplace. With their new "space time permutation scan statistic," they found four highly unusual clusters of diarrhea cases, three of which heralded citywide gastrointestinal outbreaks due to rotavirus and norovirus. This...Study casts doubt on increased mobility among US population
... mobile society" - that the population is changing residence at increasing levels. However, a new study provides empirical evidence in favor of an opposite trend. In fact, overall mobility has generally declined since about 1950, and interstate mobility has generally not increased during the same period. The d...Campus can be effective site for anti-smoking efforts
...so enlist the help of campus resources among them residence and academic advisors; coaches; and student health centers, the review recommends. "First and foremost, the research shows that even smokers appreciate smoke-free policies," she said. Murphy-Hoefer and colleagues in the Office on Smoking and Health a...Certain gun storage practices can reduce risk of youth firearm injuries, suicide
...und that 75 percent of the guns were stored in the residence of the victim, friend, or relative. Another study found that 35 percent of homes in the United States with children younger than 18 years reported at least 1 firearm, and that 43 percent of these homes had at least 1 unlocked firearm. Many organizat...Study shows strengths, gaps in quality of care for kids in California's public mental health clinics
...e T. Zima, principal investigator and professor in residence of psychiatry and biobehavioral sciences at the UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute and the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. "Our research team looks forward to working with the state and county mental health departments on developing programs to...American Thoracic Society Journal news tips for January 2005 (second issue)
...ticipants. The authors said that, since prolonged residence in the U.S. also increased the prevalence of asthma in the Mexican-born participants, their study results imply that either cumulative environmental exposure and/or lifestyle changes after immigration could have influenced their risk of developing as...Immigrants, beware: Living in the United States is fattening
...ese foreign-born individuals increased with longer residence in the United States. After less than a year in the United States, the prevalence of obesity among foreign-born persons was 8 percent. In contrast, the body mass index of foreign-born respondents living in the United States for at least 15 yea...Prevalence of obesity among immigrants increases with longer residency in US
...ip between prevalence of obesity and years of U.S. residence among immigrants nationally, and explored whether counseling about diet and exercise may differ between immigrants and U.S.-born adults. The researchers used data from the 2000 National Health Interview Survey. Information collected included body m...Studies demonstrate positive data in treatment of hepatitis C
... survive and flourish inside the body by taking up residence in the liver cells, and subsequently using the cells' inner machinery to make more copies of the virus. These in turn, infect other healthy cells. The standard treatment for hepatitis C is a combination of interferon alfa and ribavirin, which act as...ACP announces international medical fellowship
...Ife, Nigeria. Starting May 1, 2004, she will be in residence at Cornell Medical Center, where she will study techniques on the diagnosis and management of patients with HIV/AIDS. "Through this program the American College of Physicians and the Pfizer Medical Humanities Initiative hope to make a positive i...Scientists find HIV-blocking protein in monkeys
... is due to the ability of HIV to take up permanent residence in the body. If we could find a way to disable the virus before it has a chance to replicate, this problem of latent infection would be eliminated." NIAID is a component of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), an agency of the U.S. Department of...Depression on College Campuses conference
...ians, allied health providers, university leaders, residence hall advisers, student leaders, preventive education specialists, third-party payors, mental health advocates, journalists, and parents get involved," says John Greden, M.D., executive director of the U-M Depression Center, the only center in the nat...Ethnicity may affect allergies in children with asthma
...ned the relationship between ethnicity, geographic residence and living conditions, and asthma severity on the prevalence and extent of indoor and outdoor allergens among children with mild to severe asthma living in Hartford, CT. Of the 791 children, ages 4-18, included in the study, 346 (43.7 percent) were ...HHS awards $14 million to support Bioethics Research Center
...yphilis study was conducted, in part, as well as a residence hall in order to consolidate the center into one location and provide space for the Bioethics Living Learning Complex. The complex will house visiting scholars and interns who participate in bioethics programs. Participants will include representat...Premenopausal breast cancer linked with place of birth, residence at time of menarche
...two counties and had provided the address of their residence at birth and menarche, and became the focus of the current project. In future studies, the researchers will combine the GIS results with information on the location of steel mills, chemical factories, gasoline stations, toxic-waste sites and other in...University of Washington developing AI caretakers for Alzheimer's sufferers
...ll, we'll be taking full-time sensor data from the residence home." Individual applications, like the Activity Compass and portions of the Adaptive Prompter, could be developed relatively quickly, Kautz believes. But don't look for a perfected, comprehensive cyber nurse tomorrow. "The question is whether we c...Socioeconomic factors affect blood pressure
...economic characteristics of each person's place of residence obtained from 1990 U.S. census data. This included median household income; median residence value; and percentage of households receiving interest, dividends or net rental income. It also inc...Importance of early environmental exposure pinpointed in study of breast cancer development
...two counties and had provided the address of their residence at birth became the focus of the current research. UB geographers and epidemiologists are entering residential data into a computerized mapping program, along with the location of steel mills, chemical factories, gasoline stations, toxic-waste sites ...Asian immigrants likely to see blood pressure rise
...est five years to nine years. Ten or more years of residence related to more than 13 percent prevalence of hype...lled for in determining the effects of duration of residence on hypertension. One weakness of the study is that the hypertension rates are based on survey respon...New study suggests that tamoxifen does not adversely impact brain chemistry
..., School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH, he served his residence at Cleveland Metropolitan General Hospital, Cleveland, OH followed by a fellowship in medical oncology at University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA. Dr. Chlebowski received his Ph.D. from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, ...