New estimates for the causes of child deaths worldwide
...thiopian child is over 30 times more likely than a western European to die before his or her fifth birthday."...Strengths and failings of U.S. health care 'system' are driven by embedded vested interests
...le, inefficient, and costly systems among those of western industrialized nations. At the same time, the United States delivers some of the finest health care in the world, and yet with more than 16 percent of Americans uninsured, mostly children, many do not have access to or cannot afford this health care....Why North America is not a rhythm nation
...who often struggle with anything other than simple western meter. To gauge the significance of culture influences our ability to process musical patterns, the researchers also conducted experiments with North American infants and found that they too were better than North American adults. It suggests that in...Risk and intimate relationships: Can hope triumph over experience in an age of 'messy' lives?
...wn of relationships. But intimate relationships in western societies are also expected to involve romantic love- 'the triumph of hope over experience'. "Policymakers express anxiety about family breakdown, and often hanker after the old certainties, but to date we know relatively little about the effect of a...Transparent orthodontic brackets by microinjection
...n full swing worldwide for a number of reasons. In western societies this growth is due to the fact that criteria over buccal care have moved on from the merely functional concerned with the conservation of dental elements to take into account aesthetic considerations. It is no longer sufficient to have a ...European study highlights persistent 3 decade increase in childhood cancer incidence
...g 5-year actuarial survival of 75% for children in western Europe and 64% in eastern Europe; with similar findings for adolescents. Dr Steliarova-Foucher comments: "Our results are clear evidence of an increase of cancer incidence in childhood and adolescence during the past decades, and of an acceleration o...Obesity tied to increased risk for dozens of conditions
...ovided by 73,003 adults aged 50 to 76 who lived in western Washington state. The researchers correlated obesity with 41 health conditions, including life-threatening conditions like heart failure; some, like high blood pressure, that increase the risk of more serious diseases; and health complaints that redu...NHS patients 'not fully engaged' with their own healthcare
NHS patients lag behind other western countries in actively involving patients and communities in healthcare, says an editorial in this week's BMJ. According to a new study from the Commonwealth Fund of New York, British patients receive less information about medicines, preventative adv...TIGER Workshop puts focus on space for African water management
...re unevenly distributed across the continent, with western and central Africa enjoying much higher rainfall than Northern Africa, the Horn of Africa and southern Africa. The Democratic Republic of Congo has a quarter of all African freshwater on its territory, while arid Mauritania must manage with just 0.00...New study lays to rest concerns about virtual colonoscopy as a screening tool
...ound that flat adenomas are "uncommon in a typical western screening population, and advanced flat neoplasms are rare," said Dr. Pickhardt. The study found no diminutive flat lesions that were histologically advanced in the 1,233 patients screened with virtual colonoscopy, he said. The study was sponsored ...Global air pollution map produced by Envisat's SCIAMACHY
...mospheric nitrogen dioxide are carried out in many western industrial countries, but ground-based data sources are generally thin on the ground. Space-based sensors are the only way to carry out effective global monitoring: the first satellite sensitivity to tropospheric nitrogen dioxide was demonstrated w...Eating more soy-rich foods could reduce spread of breast cancer UU research
... most common form of cancer affecting women in the western world, with 950 women in Northern Ireland alone suffering from the disease per year. "But among South-East Asian populations, and in areas where soy products are traditionally consumed in high amounts in the diet, incidence of breast cancer is low. ...'Hedgehog' signal distinguishes lethal from localized prostate cancers
...he mid 1960s as the cause of one-eyed sheep in the western U.S.," says Philip Beachy, Ph.D., professor of molecular biology and genetics in Hopkins' Institute for Basic Biomedical Sciences and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator. "But our finding that cyclopamine inhibits Hedgehog signaling has pr...Siberian forest fires partly to blame for Seattle area violating EPA ozone limit
...uman health. It has health implications throughout western North America, and shows that western U.S. cities might have a harder time in the future meeting air quality standards, he said. "Siberia...Envisat's rainbow vision detects ground moving at pace fingernails grow
...oup has recently measured tectonic movement across western Tibet with an accuracy of a few millimetres per year. The results show that slip rates across the major faults in the region are much smaller than had been previously thought and that the Tibetan plateau deforms like a fluid." InSAR can also be used...4 out of 5 eligible patients missing opportunity to benefit from latest HIV breakthrough
...omb. While people continue to die from AIDS in the western world with more than 15,000 patients dying in the US in 2003 alone there is an urgent need to use all drugs currently available to provide the most effective combination treatment for patients," commented Professor Lange....Pediatricians are plentiful, but not in poorer states
...ersey (131) had high distributions. The plains and western states, except California, had the lowest concentrations, with Montana (43), South Dakota (41), Wyoming (35) and Idaho (28) at the bottom. When income was added in, the states with the highest concentrations of pediatricians per capita also tended to...Studies indicate healthy eating may affect cancer development, improve digestive system
...nocarcinoma, one of the fastest growing cancers in western countries." Effect of Eating and Nutrients on Recurrent Abdominal Pain in Children: A Population-Based Study (Abstract 103866*) Recurrent abdominal pain (RAP) is a common condition in children and adolescents that is poorly characterized and often ...Drug for depression helps irritable bowel syndrome, according to Pittsburgh study
... 14-24 percent of women and 5-19 percent of men in western populations and is characterized by abdominal pain, altered bowel habits and abdominal bloating. It generally has been treated with high-fiber diet, drugs or both. The study found that the percentage of participants experiencing an improvement in ove......rs a segment of a movie (in this case, the classic western "the Good, the Bad and the Ugly") while they were undergoing brain scans with state-of-the-art functional MRI equipment. These scans allowed the researchers to see which areas of the subjects' brains were active during love scenes or gunfights. B...