Adverse housing conditions contribute to diabetes risk
...e opportunity to conduct similar research in other cities with large numbers of urban African-Americans such...ely that the findings would be comparable in those cities as well. The researchers say that additional studies are needed to determine what specifically inc...Study suggests nonpharmaceutical interventions may be helpful in severe influenza outbreaks
...non-pharmaceutical interventions implemented in 43 cities in the continental United States from September 19...eath rate [EDR], 500/100,000 population) in the 43 cities during the 24 weeks analyzed. Every city adopted at least one of the three major categories of non-p...Michigan-CDC study supports value of social restrictions during influenza pandemics
...ntion say that social restrictions allowed 43 U.S. cities to save thousands of lives during the Spanish infl...mic gained full force. The new study finds that cities whose NPIs were sustained and layered with multiple tactics had the best outcomes. In addition to qu...Environmental inequality study finds no direct links to segregation, income
...rson, the levels of inequality vary widely between cities and defy simple explanation. In a study of the ...Assistant Professor Liam Downey found that in some cities Hispanics live in the most polluted neighborhoods, but in other cities it is blacks and in still oth...Reduced greenhouse gas emissions required to avoid dangerous increases in heat stress
...des 21 countries in Europe, Africa and Asia. Major cities covered in the study include: Prague, Zurich, Buch...ich is of particular importance because many large cities in the Mediterranean are on the coast," Giorgi said. "This is the first time this amplification sign...New study could bring relief to sweltering city slickers
...pe or the heat released by human activities within cities are considered in standard climate change research... building owners are required in the short term if cities are to avoid becoming ever more vulnerable in the long term. For climate change adaptation strateg...TB test offers patients quicker and easier diagnosis
... in the UK are predominantly confined to the major cities and about 40 per cent of all cases are in London. TB is also a major global problem: an estimated one-third of the world's population - nearly two billion people - are infected. Nine million people a year develop the active disease worldwide, which k...Disadvantaged TB patients urgently need social support to make medical treatment more effective
...d. "TB has risen considerably in major European cities in the last 10 years and London is no exception" says lead researcher Dr Gill Craig from The City Universitys Institute of Health Sciences. "Increased migration, poverty, HIV, poor quality and overcrowded housing, homelessness, the failure of TB co...Veterans exposed to Agent Orange have higher rates of prostate cancer recurrence
...rtment of Veterans Affairs Medical Centers in five cities between 1990 and 2006; 199 had been exposed to Agent Orange, a herbicide and defoliant sprayed on the dense forests of Vietnam during the war. Agent Orange contains the carcinogen, dioxin, which can be stored in body fat and is believed to make its...Vitamin D supplements may offer cheap and effective immune system boost against TB
... in the UK are predominantly confined to the major cities and about 40 per cent of all cases are in London. TB is also a major global problem: an estimated one-third of the world's population nearly two billion people are infected. Nine million people a year develop the active disease worldwide, which kil...Mailman School of Public Health researchers analyze air quality and weather changes by 2050
...Yale University, to extend his results to 50 large cities in the eastern U.S. They found that changes in oz...creases in ozone levels were predicted to occur in cities that already have high pollution levels, meaning that these locations may need to increase their emi...Decrease in breast cancer rates likely reflect HRT reduction and saturation of mammography
...ii, Iowa, New Mexico, and Utah) and 5 metropolitan cities (Atlanta, Detroit, San-Francisco, and Seattle). Almost 400,000 invasive and 60,000 in situ cases of breast cancer were diagnosed in that time. Breast cancer incidence rates increased by almost 40% between 1980 and 1998, and then showed a downward tre...Why GNEP can't jump to the future
... will be transported on rails and highways through cities and farmlands to the reprocessing site, posing unprecedented emergency response and security challenges. Despite DOEs claims that recycling of reactor spent fuel will solve the nuclear waste disposal problem, a small fraction is likely to be recy...First nationwide child health and air pollution study commences
...how the levels of air pollution seen in Australian cities influence the respiratory health of children. "Current Australian air quality standards are based on overseas data. This study will show if these standards adequately protect the health of Australian children. "The results of this study will give...Rapid response was crucial to containing the 1918 flu pandemic
...nish influenza pandemic is why it struck different cities with varying severity. Why were some municipalitie... such as St. Louis spared the fate of the hard-hit cities like Philadelphia when both implemented similar public health measures? What made the difference, ac...London asthma sufferers get space-based help
...p to half the air pollution found in some European cities might have come from elsewhere in the continent. "Previously air pollution forecasts have focused on very large geographical areas and the methods for communicating the information have been poor," CERC atmospheric scientist Dr Iarla Kilbane-Dawe ...Study details catastrophic impact of nuclear attack on US cities
...Public Health, examined four high-profile American cities New York, Chicago, Washington, D.C. and Atlanta ...es away. The researchers note that in all four cities studied, hospitals are concentrated in the area most likely to be destroyed. Another weak link is th...Annals of Internal Medicine tip sheet for March 6, 2007
...e as many procedures on average at those in larger cities and larger hospitals. Editorial writers say, All internists should have access to the training needed to expertly pass needles, catheters, lines, and tubes to diagnoses and treat illnesses and to learn now to use new technology. Internists doing a ...Chronic disease management quality improvement efforts yield better care delivery
...very systems serving low-income residents in inner cities and in rural and isolated areas. The collaborative improvement interventions focused on diabetes, asthma, and hypertension, which together affect more than 25 percent of the U.S. adult population. Health centers provide care for more than 14 millio...Residents in disaster areas face medication adherence dilemmas
...is may have resulted in medical personnel in other cities guessing at what the patients had been taking prior to the disaster. Of the entire study group, 75 percent reported damage to their residences. After adjusting for age, gender and race, those who reported their houses destroyed were nearly twice ...