Epilepsy linked to social deprivation
... of epilepsy in 20 general practices in London and south east England over an 18 or 24 month period. All patients were categorised using a standard measure of deprivation, known as a Carstairs score. After adjusting for age and sex, they found that the incidence of epilepsy in the most deprived fifth of th...Housebound elderly benefit from early intervention
...mple lived in a partly urban, partly rural area in south east England....UCI researchers leading the effort to understand the causes and effects of air pollution
...tion's most busy freeway interchange, located just south of downtown Los Angeles, for his tests, where he places mice already exposed to asthma-like allergens in specially developed exposure chambers next to the freeway traffic. He also tests exposures at distances progressively further away, 100 and 500 m...One-off lesson improves teenagers' knowledge of emergency contraception
...old) from 24 mixed sex, state secondary schools in south west England. Trained teachers gave pupils in 12 schools a single lesson on emergency contraception (intervention group). The pupils were actively involved during the lesson. Pupils in the other 12 schools did not receive the lesson until after the s...Mayor Bloomberg proclaims March 11th 'NYU Downtown Hospital'
... Located two blocks east of City Hall, south of Pace University...Microbes and the dust they ride in on pose potential health risks
...r. African dust has produced red-tinged sunsets in south Florida for years. The dust comes every year during northern Africas dry season, when storm activity in the Sahara Desert and Sahel generate clouds of dust. The dust originating from fine particles in the arid topsoil is transported into the atmosp..."Radical" Discovery Advances Medicine and Plastics
...g was born in 1866 in Elizabetgrad, Russia, a town south of Kiev now known as Kirovograd, Ukraine. Because the family was Jewish, it received harsh treatment after the assassination of Tsar Alexander II. In 1884, the government accused Gomberg's father of anti-tsarist activities and confiscated the family ...UCSF study finds many areas in California have a dentist shortage
...e Bay Area regions that have a dentistshortage are south San Jose, San Francisco's Visitation Valley and Oakland'sFruitvale neighborhood. "The study had two goals. The first was to document the geographic distributionof dentists and show, based on federal standards, that there are areas inCalifornia that h...Women in ethnic minorities may be missing benefits of HRT
...cement therapy: community based survey Women of south Asian origin living in the UK are at increased ris...African and South Asian women aged 40-59 living in south London. White women were more than twice as likely to be HRT users compared to South Asian women (2...Doctors are not good at going to see their own doctor!
...ealth services of over 1150 GPs and consultants in south east England, in accordance with the BMA guidelines on the ethical responsibilities of doctors towards themselves and their families. The study, say the authors, was conducted in the context of a current picture of GPs and senior hospital doctors wi......s could be a major issue for the carpetindustry in south Florida and south Texas where the humidity isvery high." Moisture flow in textiles is also important for those whoval...Better psychiatric support needed for children who lose a parent
...that they need, report a team of researchers from south east England in this week's BMJ. Service provision seems to be based on the age of the child and how their parent died rather than on the mental health difficulties they or their surviving parent, might be experiencing say the team. Led by Dr Linda...Alcohol researchers prove brief intervention successful in older problem drinkers
...he clinics were located in rural and urbanareas in south central and southeastern Wisconsin and varied from solo sites tolarge managed care organizations. Of 6,073 patients screened, 656 screened positive as men who consumed more than11 drinks or women who consumed more than 8 drinks a week; men who had co...Strokes Are More Common In The Black Population
...cine found that intheir study of 234,533 people in south London, the incidence of stroke in theblack population (who accounted for 21 per cent of the total population) wasboth higher and occured at a younger age. The authors found that this phenomenon was not explained by confounders suchas social class, a...The Health Consequences Of Nuclear Arms Trade In The Subcontinent Should Not Be Overlooked
...g into the abyss: walking the nuclear tightrope in south Asia) In an editorial in this week's BMJ Profess...e abysmal state of human development and health in south Asia." He notes that the region boasts over half of all the malnourished children in the world and ...Cancer Patients From Deprived Areas of South East England Aren't Receiving Optimum Treatment
...sion for cancers of colorectum, lung and breast in south east England: ecological study) A major reorganisation of cancer services is underway in England and Wales in response to the Calman-Hine Report (1994), with the aim of improving access to and quality of cancer treatment. In this week's BMJ Dr All...