Study warns of growing cardiovascular disease epidemic in China
...at metabolic syndrome is more prevalent in Chinese cities than most people have realized. "Chronic non-commu...asingly becoming prevalent in China, especially in cities such as Beijing, due to changing of dietary patterns and lifestyle," he said. "The future burden fro...IAMP expresses support for Disease Control Priorities Project
...ing number of automobile accidents taking place in cities across the developing world. DCPP is a collaborative effort of the Fogarty International Center of the U.S. National Institutes of Health, the World Bank, the World Health Organization and the Population Reference Bureau. The project is supported by ...UC Berkeley study finds in utero arsenic exposure tied to lung disease and cancer in adults
...nd one of the driest places on earth. In 1958, the cities there of Antofagasta and neighboring Mejillones ta...stalled, the water supply for all residents in the cities was laced with an average of 860 micrograms per liter of arsenic. In contrast, the standard for arse...Reducing fine particulate air pollution cuts mortality risk
... largest drops in adjusted mortality rates were in cities with the greatest reduction in fine particulate air pollution (PM2.5). The investigators' findings remained valid even after setting controls for the general increase in adult life expectancy that occurred in the U.S. during both study periods (1979 ...ECG transmission from ambulance cuts time to direct clot removal
...2-site study across the U.S. in larger and smaller cities with different sized hospitals and ambulance services. "We found that the pre-hospital wireless transmission of an ECG directly to a cardiologist's hand-device significantly reduced the time from emergency room door to reperfusion," Adams said. "When...Should heart attack care be more like trauma care? Study suggests regional system could be feasible
... rather than nationally. Already, he says, several cities such as Boston and states such as Maryland have started to implement new protocols for ambulances and hospitals that allow quick diagnosis of STEMI and immediate transport of STEMI patients to hospitals that can perform emergency angioplasty. The ne...Tufts University receives federal grant to address occupational risks among immigrants
...vely seek to disseminate this information to other cities and towns," said David Gute. "Both the Massachusetts Executive Office of Environmental Affairs and the Boston Public Health Commission are committed to helping with this effort, and a local 13-person Advisory Committee will also be created."...Pay cuts lead to worker insomnia, but supervisor training helps
...s conducted at four private hospitals in different cities in the Northeast. All the hospitals were owned by the same large health care organization. Greenberg was already working with the hospitals on a different project when he learned about plans to implement a new pay system at the hospitals. Instead of...Half of active children pursue non-traditional physical activities
... of age. "The built environment, how we design our cities and neighborhoods, seemed to help," said Bhat, who holds the Fluor Centennial Teaching Fellowship in Engineering No. 1. "But our ability to influence physical activity through the built environment is rather limited. "Overall, it seems the demographi...Mountainous plateau creates ozone 'halo' around Tibet
...oncentrated as the ozone found in heavily polluted cities -- and may put climbers at risk. The findings are published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters. "Around the circumference of Tibet, there's a halo of very high levels of ozone," said Professor G.W. Kent Moore, interim chair of the Department...Scientists use new techniques to narrow down impact of global warming on specific regions
...events that can be expected in individual European cities and regions if no action is taken to reduce human-...winter flooding will be alarming to inhabitants of cities such as Carlisle in NW England and Cologne in Germany with recent personal experience of the damage ...Medical debt undermines housing security for working families, new national study shows
...as," she added. "To see this problem documented in cities across the country is discouraging, but not surprising. Some of these families have two adults working in good jobs with health insurance. It seems that anyone could wind up in this situation." The Access Project's report noted that any threat to ...Urban Britain is a recipe for heart disease
...he adoption of a more westernised lifestyle in the cities means that 8 -10% of the urban population succumb to the disease - compared with just 3 - 4% of rural people. "People migrating from South Asia to the West need to be aware of the risks associated with the change in lifestyle they will experience," s...Evacuation of elders during disasters to be addressed at GSA's upcoming annual meeting
... and focus groups on civic engagement held in four cities across the country earlier this year, in conjunction with the upcoming 2005 White House Conference on Aging (WHCoA). Based on input from these events, a set of policy recommendations were submitted to the WHCoA. This symposium will explore potential ...Latin America has high prevelance of lung diseases
...relation between the ranks of altitude in the five cities and the COPD rates. Study author Professor Ana Maria Menezes (Federal University of Pelotas, Brazil, South America) states: "These results suggest that COPD is a greater health problem in Latin America than previously realised. Altitude may explain p...Study establishes link between air pollution, ischemic strokes
....S. Environmental Protection Agency from nine U.S. cities including Birmingham, Ala., Chicago, New Haven, Conn., Cleveland, Detroit, Minneapolis, Pittsburgh, Salt Lake City and Seattle. The authors analyzed hospital admissions among Medicare patients who represented an average age of 79. Seventy-five percen...Researcher says flu responders can learn from 1918 epidemic
...is research efforts on the ability of Pennsylvania cities to respond. "Those cities that passed muster, relatively speaking, had been building a strong medical infrastructure for decad...Lymphoma survivor recognized for helping Denver cancer patients
...hed in 2003 as a way for ASTRO to give back to the cities visited during the Society's Annual Meeting. Each year, ASTRO partners with two local organizations to build relationships between patient advocacy organizations and radiation oncologists as well as raise money to support the work these groups do to ...'POZ parties' signal potential to spread HIV 'superinfection'
... And the concept has spread to several other major cities across the USA, as well as to Canada, Australia, and Western Europe, say the authors. The study involved a brief survey of a sample of 115 men attending one or more 10 POZ parties in New York during 2003. Researchers found that those attending the ...Airport screening unlikely to prevent spread of SARS or influenza
...proportion of individuals detected is highest from cities with the longest flight duration, screening passen... most benefit. But, even then, the sensitivity for cities in these areas would still be low, explain the authors. Early screening is unlikely to be effective ...