Obesity common among Chinese adults
...und among people from northern China than from the south of the country, and among urban residents compared with people living in rural areas. Professor He comments: "Our results show a high prevalence of the metabolic syndrome and overweight in China. Economic development and consequential changes in life...Health geography study finds health care resources distributed unevenly in Kansas
...re's not a lot of medical help to be had in either south Chicago, for example, or Sharon Springs, Kan. Recent research by a Kansas State University geography graduate student determined there is extremely uneven distribution across the state of the essential health care resources, specifically, medical pra...Ontario's mental health care evaluated
...the north, the east, the Greater Toronto Area, the south and the southwest. In total, these facilities provide almost 1.5 million days of psychiatric care, about 25 per cent of the total days of hospital care provided in Ontario. The results are reported by region, not by individual hospital; the next ment...Study explains why up to eight percent of cancers go undetected
...studies. Diagnosed with melanoma in her torso, the south St. Louis County resident underwent chemotherapy, radiation therapy and endured multiple surgeries. As she fought back from her disease, she underwent a true whole-body scan at Saint Louis University Hospital. No malignancies were found in her torso,...Study aims to help elderly recover after surgery
...The study will draw in volunteers from central and south Edinburgh, who will attend training sessions at the Royal Infirmary. The group of 40 volunteers will help the team from the University's Geriatric Medicine section by learning simple pushing movements designed to train their leg muscles. The voluntee...Black people more likely to survive a stroke than white people
...es in the United Kingdom and the United States. In south London, where this study took place, the average a...udy involved over 2,000 patients registered on the south London stroke register after having a first stroke between 1995 and 2002. Data on ethnicity, socioec...Envisat monitoring China floods as part of Dragon Programme
... has led to serious flooding in the north-east and south of the country. A joint Chinese-European team is gathering Envisat radar imagery of the developing situation to give the authorities a way to swiftly assess affected areas and plan their responses. Summer flooding is nothing new in these regions of t...UCL conference to launch global health institute
...time working with women's groups in populations in south Asia and Africa to improve maternal & child health and an opening address by the author of the book Status Syndrome, Professor Sir Michael Marmot. Professor Richard Blundell, Research Director of the Institute of Fiscal Studies, will join Professor M...Keck School of Medicine pediatric endocrinologist elected to Institute of Medicine
...tors that lead to obesity and diabetes in east and south Los Angeles. Kaufman is not only a physician focusing on the needs of children and teens with diabetes, but she is also a National Institutes of Health-funded researcher, administrator, teacher and advocate for kids. She has invented numerous produc...One new case of dementia arises every seven seconds
...ween 2001 and 2040, but in India, China, and their south Asian and western Pacific neighbours rates will rise by more than 300% during this period. The study, led by Cleusa Ferri and Martin Prince (Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, UK), concludes: "We believe that the detailed estimates conta...Risky sex in Miami, racial influence on children's care in latest Journal of Urban Health
...rotected anal intercourse. MSM who live outside of south Florida most often reported using cocaine and ketamine (a date rape drug also known as "Special K") and engaging in unprotected receptive anal intercourse in the past month. "Tourists may be even more likely than residents to engage in risky sexual ...Internet game provides breakthrough in predicting the spread of epidemics, report scientists
...gue three years to move up the European continent, south to north, with an average rate of spread of about two kilometers a day. "But today people move great distances in short time periods, as well as short distances, and they use variable means of transportation," said Hufnagel. "Thus we can expect that...HIV/AIDS rates in Tijuana, Mexico increasing at alarming rate
...the New York Academy of Medicine. Located directly south of San Diego California, Tijuana is a city of 1.2 million people located amidst the busiest land border crossing in the world. Data in this study suggest that Tijuana's HIV infection rate may be close to three times higher than Mexico's national ave...Lumbee Native Americans have higher cardiovascular risks
The Lumbees of south central North Carolina -- the second largest Native American tribe east of the Mississippi River -- have a significantly higher burden of cardiovascular risk factors than do similar non-Lumbees, according to a new analysis by Duke Clinical Research I...Small birthweight and premature births associated with higher risk of child abuse
... on the child protection register of one county in south east England. Children are placed on the register if they have already endured physical and/or emotional abuse and neglect. But the register may also include children who have not been sexually abused, but who live in a household with a registered se...Ethnic groups need specialist services to tackle alcohol misuse
...al British population. A similar problem exists in south Asian (Sikh) male migrants to the UK and Hispanic men in the United States. Both alcohol misuse and ethnicity are bound to social disadvantage, says the author. Considerable stigma also surrounds alcohol misuse in minority ethnic groups, particularly...Global program to eliminate elephantiasis has early success in Egypt
...am in two villages north of Cairo and two villages south of Cairo. Each village has a population of 3,000 to 5,000. The tests revealed sharply declining infection rates over the course of the MDA program. For example, tests of first graders for an antibody that reveals prior exposure to the parasite decl...HIV-1 prevalence decreasing in southern India
...ors found that HIV-1 prevalence among women in the south fell from 1.7% to 1.1% from 2000 to 2004 (absolute... men aged 20-29 years attending STI clinics in the south there was an absolute reduction of 7.6% (relative reduction 36%) in HIV-1 prevalence. No significant...HIV infection rates down one-third in south India, University of Toronto study
...HIV in young adults appears to be declining in the south -- most likely or perhaps only due to males using ...ansmitted infection (STI) clinics in the north and south from 2000 to 2004. Lead author Professor Rajesh Kumar at the Postgraduate Institute of Medical Educa...Rare form of Alzheimer's disease found in Camelford resident
...discovered in a resident of Camelford, the town in south west England which bore the brunt of the accidental discharge of 20 tonnes of aluminium sulphate into the local water supply almost 20 years ago. The incident occurred In July 1988, resulting in 20,000 residents across a large area of north Cornwall ...