Air travel and flu: Post-9/11 restrictions delayed start of season
...rnment records on deaths from flu and pneumonia in cities from nine regions of the US between 1996 and 2005. For each year, they determined the time it took for the epidemic to spread across the country and the date of the national peak in flu deaths. They used government estimates of passenger air travel t...Predicting an answer to the threat of flooding
...p to improve the way we protect the UK's towns and cities from flooding will be highlighted at this year's B...ta pinpointing how land in and around UK towns and cities is used, such as for agricultural, industrial or residential purposes. Land-use can have a crucial i...Ground movement risks identified by Terrafirma
...e Terrafirma project some focus has been placed on cities which have a long history of seismic activity, such as Istanbul, Turkey. Turkey's location has made it vulnerable to earthquakes with the 1000-kilometre-long Northern Anatolian fault located just 15 kilometres south of Istanbul. It is also located...New study seeks to lower diabetes risk in youth
...in Cincinnati, Los Angeles, San Antonio, and other cities conclude that cases of type 2 diabetes in youth have risen dramatically since 1994, when less than 5 percent of new childhood diabetes cases were type 2. By 1999, type 2 diabetes accounted for 8 to 45 percent of new childhood diabetes cases, varying...Study finds MRSA most common cause of skin infections in patients presenting in nation's ER's
...proportion of infections caused by MRSA in various cities ranged from 15 to 74 percent. Further characterization of the MRSA samples, performed at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, revealed that one genetic type accounted for 97 percent of the samples. "This one genetic type of MRSA is ap...No butts about it: Unique UH database shows Texas is crushing out smoking
In the last five years, Texas cities have been crushing out cigarettes and other tobacc...xshsord.coe.uh.edu/ Currently there are 240 Texas cities with smoking ordinances. More than a quarter of those were passed since 2000. Users of the Texas ...Extreme heat: Who is most likely to die?
...rvey data included 7,789,655 deaths across 50 U.S. cities from 1989 to 2000 and daily temperatures in those cities. This is the first large-scale study to examine how susceptibility of certain populations to extreme temperatures varies according to the cause of death. The results suggest that public healt...UK record heatwave and rising pollution observed by eyes in the sky: Images reveal hotspots
...mperature and pollution, whilst smaller individual cities such as Leicester show high temperatures but more ...nvironments outside the sphere of influence of the cities display much more pleasant temperatures and moderate pollution levels. Since NO2 is mainly caused b......heat warning systems have been implemented in four cities for which he developed heat warning systems, including Dayton, Ohio, Philadelphia, Phoenix, and Toronto, Ontario. Sheridan surveyed residents 65 and older in each of the four regions about their perception of heat vulnerability, their knowledge of...Using device to give CPR does not improve survival
...randomized study, conducted in five North American cities including Columbus, showed that victims of sudden cardiac arrest were more likely to be discharged alive from the hospital if they received manual cardio-pulmonary resuscitation (CPR) rather than CPR administered by the mechanical device. Results of...New long-distance wireless networking developed at UC Berkeley brings eye care to India
... high-bandwidth connection to computer networks in cities as far as 50 miles away." With high-speed links to the hospital, three of the clinics, also known as vision centers, screen about 1,500 patients each month. (Numbers are not yet available for the two other centers, which came online in May 2006.) Ce...Hispanic 3-year-olds more likely to be obese than black or white children
A study of more than 2,400 children in 20 U.S. cities suggests that Hispanic 3-year-olds have a higher prevalence of obesity than black or white 3-year-olds, a disparity that does not seem to be explained by socioeconomic factors typically linked to childhood obesity, according to an article in the June...Passive TV viewing related to children's sleeping difficulties
...g the typical urban population in three university cities in Finland. The results of the study have been published recently in the Journal of Sleep Research. Main results: 1. All the families that participated in the study had at least one TV set. In 21% of families, there was a TV set in the children's ro...Air pollution increases death risk in people with certain diseases
...ple with these four types of diseases living in 34 cities between 1985 and 1999. The researchers compared th...nd an association between people living longer and cities reducing the amount of fine particulate matter in their air. That study was published in the March 1...Best settings for biphasic automated defibrillators investigated
... services (EMS) personnel or firefighters in three cities used preprogrammed LIFEPAK 500 biphasic AED devices to treat 221 patients in sudden cardiac arrest, with 114 receiving fixed levels of 150-150-150 joules (FIXED) and 107 receiving escalating levels of 200-300-360 joules (ESC). The energy being deliv...Neighborhood safety may play role in obesity
...ong adults." Using data collected in 20 large U.S. cities in 15 states for the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study, researchers focused on 2400 women with preschool children and found that mothers who perceived their neighborhoods to be safer had a lower body mass index (BMI) and were less likely to ......break was under way, banning flights from affected cities would be effective at significantly delaying worldwide spread only if almost all travel between cities could be stopped almost as soon as an outbreak was detected in each city. It would be more effective...Onset of psychosis may be delayed by medication
... and Education (PRIME)," was conducted in two U.S. cities and two Canadian cities during 1998-2003. Senior author of the study was Thomas McGlashan, M.D., professor in the Department...Children living near major roads face higher asthma risk
...(not quite two blocks). Study sites included the cities of Alpine, Anaheim, Glendora, Lake Arrowhead, Lake Elsinore, Long Beach, Mira Loma, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Dimas, Santa Barbara, Santa Maria and Upland. McConnell noted that air pollution regulations typically focus on regional air pollutants......rn parts of the country over the weekend, flooding cities and damaging historic town centres. ESA's ERS-2 satellite has been monitoring the situation from space. The medieval city of Hitzacker, located in Lower Saxony about 100 kilometres from the Baltic Sea, was one of the hardest-hit areas with the Elbe r...