Researchers call for investigation into links between khat use and psychiatric disorders
...s. Commonly used by around 10 million people in east Africa and countries in the Arabian peninsula, che... between poverty and widespread misuse of khat. In east Africa, 60 per cent of the population live below the poverty line, yet sizeable numbers of khat user...Living close to heavy industry may increase risk of lung cancer
...hy women matched for age and sex in Teeside, north east England. Rates of lung cancer among women are high in this particular area of England, where heavy industry expanded rapidly throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and where poverty and deprivation are common. By 1945, Billingham on T......2005. The authors audited knife injuries at their east London hospital, one of Europe's busiest emergency departments, to establish the size of this problem in a representative urban area. They analysed data on forensic knife injuries (excluding deliberate self harm) from a database of all trauma calls ...New Orleans 'toxic soup' a less serious problem than initially believed
...d) severely scoured marshlands and barrier islands east of New Orleans and the Mississippi River. About 118 square miles of land in southeastern Louisiana was initially transformed into water, added Smith, who directs the U.S. Geological Survey's National Wetlands Research Center in Lafayette, La. Such ch...Heartburn common in western populations
...ster, MN, USA) and colleagues in their Seminar. In east Asian populations, for example, the prevalence is much lower than in western populations, with 11% reporting heartburn at least once per month, 4% weekly, and 2% having daily symptoms. The cause of the disease is currently unknown but genetic factors...MRSA is a global health problem
..., the Americas, north Africa, the middle east, and east Asia, state the authors of a Review published online today by The Lancet (Wednesday June 21, 2006). MRSA rates have been increasing worldwide over the past decades write Hajo Grundman (National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Biltho...$20 million gift to Rush University Medical Center kicks-off campus redevelopment
...opment of the Rush campus. The site is immediately east of Rush's existing Atrium hospital building. The event was attended by about 600 people, including Mayor Richard M. Daley, other civic leaders, donors, volunteers and friends of Rush. Marvin J. Herb has been an active member of Rush's board of truste...Prenatal alcohol exposure can alter circadian rhythms in offspring
... a human and go across a number of time zones from east to west, similar to the light/dark cycle of these animals, some people will shift quickly, and some will not, and may even experience some physical problems or illness because of effects on their immune system. The responses of the alcohol-treated a...Small birthweight and premature births associated with higher risk of child abuse
...e 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 sex off...Lumbee Native Americans have higher cardiovascular risks
...rolina -- 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 Institute researchers. They said their findings exemplify the need to ide...Envisat altimeter watches Pacific for cold tongue of La Niña
...w differences in SSH of 60 cm between the west and east Pacific. This wide-area view provided by altimetry-derived sea level anomaly data complements other in-situ sources, including the 70 buoys of the Tropical Ocean Atmosphere (TAO) array across the equatorial Pacific, operated by the US National Oceani...New scheme will help London's most vulnerable people
...cularly those living in the most deprived areas of east London. As a result, Project: London will help vulnerable people in east London to access the services that they are entitled to. Another key challenge will be to speak out ...Percentage of North Carolinians lacking health insurance rises, UNC study shows
...nties with the highest proportion of uninsured lie east of Interstate 95. Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research staff conducted the analysis of two years of Current Population Survey data. Drs. G. Mark Holmes and Thomas C. Ricketts wrote the report, "County Estimates of the Number of Uninsure...Air in Fallon, Nev. has elevated levels of tungsten and cobalt
...t 8,000 located in Churchill County about 60 miles east of Reno, Nev. The finding that Fallon's air differs from nearby towns might have medical implications. Since 1997, 16 cases of childhood leukemia have been diagnosed in children who lived in the Fallon area for some time prior to diagnosis. In a 2003...Measure of obesity should be redefined to accurately assess heart attack risk
...than in controls, with no difference in the middle east and South Asia. By contrast, heart attack patients had a strikingly higher waist-to-hip ratio than controls, irrespective of other cardiovascular risk factors. The researchers found that this observation was consistent in men and women, across all ag...Keck School of Medicine pediatric endocrinologist elected to Institute of Medicine
...lated factors 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 numer...Study shows Hurricane Katrina affected 20,000 physicians, up to 6,000 may have been displaced
...ams in the region, primarily to Baton Rouge and to east Texas, Ricketts said. Various agencies and organizations coordinated their relocation, including the AAMC, state and regional Area Health Education Centers (AHEC) programs in Texas and Louisiana and the Liaison Committee on Graduate Medical Education...Immigrants, Aboriginals needed to help educate about TB
...tudy included new Canadians from China, Hong Kong, east India, Vietnam, the Philipinnes, Eastern Europe and four Aboriginal communities in Canada. Interviews with them revealed how they felt about TB. Some believed TB was a result of irresponsible lifestyle or overwork. Others didn't tell people they had ...Tsunami raises questions about disaster mental health, Science reports
...alked down to the beach. Kalmunai is a town on the east coast of Sri Lanka that was badly affected by the tsunami. The zone near the beach was once heavily populated, but now it's devastated. There's nothing left but toppled palms and piles of rubble. But on the main road through town, just a few hundred ...National Service Framework for heart failure urgently needed
...hn Cleland of Castle Hill Hospital, in Hull, north east England, point to the evidence of a large annual European survey of 11,000 patients admitted to hospital with heart failure. This showed that only two thirds had ever been given a heart tracing (ECG). Recommended drugs for heart failure include ACE i...