Large survey suggests schizophrenia less prevalent than textbooks say
...phrenia is more common in developed than in poorer countries but overall less common than previously thought. A...al of 1,721 estimates from 188 studies covering 46 countries and calculated the following median prevalence estimates: 4.6 per 1,000 for point prevalence (define...Richer nations at more risk of schizophrenia
Schizophrenia is more common in developed countries than poorer nations, but it is less widespread tha...eople, although this varied between sites. Poorer countries also had more women with the illness than men. The University of Queensland's Professor John McGrat...Drug to block mother-to-child HIV transmission induces resistance more often than previously thought
...type C, the most common subtype in many developing countries where single-dose nevirapine is used, as compared with that of 241 women in Uganda infected with subtypes A or D. (In the United States, B is the predominant subtype.) Women in each subtype group had similar demographic characteristics. The frequency...UC Davis Cancer Center awarded $4.5 million
...lly low-fat, vegetable-based diets common in Asian countries and resist pressures to adopt the higher-fat American diet. increasing the rates of colorectal cancer screening among Asian Americans. Cambodian, Chinese, Filipino, Hmong, Korean and Vietnamese communities in Seattle, San Francisco, Honolulu, Los...Exposure to carcinogenic crop toxin lowered by simple intervention
...ausing toxin that contaminates crops in developing countries can be reduced by a simple, cost-effective intervention on post-harvest storage, concludes a study in this week's issue of THE LANCET. Staple foods in West Africa and other parts of the developing world are frequently contaminated with aflatoxins, wh...More research funding needed to improve cancer care, oncologists say
...mes for cancer patients vary by up to 100% between countries in Europe and even more across other regions of th...ssible measures. Overall, 291 oncologists from 55 countries responded. In their analysis, the investigators found that the three topics receiving highest rankin...Alcohol may lower risk of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma
...dence of NHL has risen worldwide, and in developed countries NHL is the sixth most common cancer in men and eighth most common in women. Lindsay Morton (National Institutes of Health, Maryland, USA) and colleagues did a pooled analysis combining original data from nine studies from the USA, UK, Sweden, and It...Resettling the 'Lost Boys of Sudan' in the United States
... parents or family members when resettled in other countries seem to be at particularly high risk for symptoms of emotional distress related to their experiences with violence, according to background information in the article. In 2000, the U.S. began the resettlement of unaccompanied minors from a Kenyan ref...Resettling the 'Lost Boys of Sudan' in the United States
... parents or family members when resettled in other countries seem to be at particularly high risk for symptoms of emotional distress related to their experiences with violence. To determine whether such symptoms occurred among the "lost boys," the research team assessed the functional and behavioral health of...Blood-based TB test matches up to old skin test in study among health workers in India
...ulation," said Pai. "For high-burden, low-resource countries such as India, the skin test might still have value."...Control of TB epidemic requires more effective drugs, better tests, and focus on latent infection
...as HIV, or because they are recent immigrants from countries with a high level of TB infection. Treatment of latent TB infection is approximately 90 percent effective in patients who are compliant with the one-drug regimen over nine months; however the long time period involved and the lack of directly obser...JAMA editorial: Tuberculosis a global problem
...uals infected with TB over the past decade, but 23 countries account for 80 percent of all new TB cases, with more than half concentrated in 5 countries (Bangladesh, China, India, Indonesia, and Nigeria). Most new cases in the United States, and probab...Goals for TB control reachable for most of world
... can be achieved, but African and Eastern European countries could pose the greatest challenges, according to a... were grouped into nine different regions: African countries with a high HIV infection rate (four percent or greater in adults), African countries with a low HIV...Treatment helps in preventing TB among those at high risk
...mmunodeficiency virus (HIV) epidemic in developing countries is the increasing incidence of tuberculosis (TB), according to background information in the article. The cornerstone of TB control programs is the World Health Organization (WHO) strategy known as DOTS (directly observed therapy, short course), whic...Multi-drug resistant TB persists in California
... Asian and/or Pacific Islander, non-U.S.-born from countries with known MDR TB epidemics, recent arrivals (less than 5 years) in the United States, and those reporting prior TB treatment." "Multidrug-resistant TB requires complex management decisions, and additional resources will be required to successfully ...Despite WHO/UNICEF push for 'rooming-in,' mothers and babies being separated at birth
...F. Despite this recommendation, hospitals in many countries are not practicing rooming-in around the clock. A recent survey in the United States showed that 26% of American infants stayed in nurseries at night, and in many European countries, Canada, the former USSR, and many other Eastern countries, rooming......ng year, more than 8,000 cases were reported in 26 countries on five continents, resulting in 774 deaths and enormous economic damage....HIV treatment programs in poor countries as effective as in developed countries
...rapy (ART) programs for treating HIV in developing countries are about as effective as ART programs in develope...now available online. Some have raised doubts that countries with extremely limited health care resources can effectively manage the complexities of antiretrovir...Exercise, weight control may help reduce risk of breast cancer, Meharry-Vanderbilt study suggests
...substantial level of weight gain in industrialized countries in the last two decades," said lead author Alecia S. Malin, DrPH, CHES, assistant professor of Surgery at Meharry and assistant professor of Medicine at Vanderbilt, "there is great interest in understanding the influence of energy balance on cancer r......substantial level of weight gain in industrialized countries in the last two decades," said lead author Alecia S. Malin, DrPH, CHES, assistant professor of surgery at Meharry and assistant professor of medicine at Vanderbilt, "there is great interest in understanding the influence of energy balance on cancer r...