Study reveals high rate of diabetes in rural India
Populations in rural India may be set for an epidemic of diabetes according to new research conducted by The George Institute for International Health and published today in Diabetes Care. In a large-scale survey of rural India, 13% of adults aged 30 or above were found to have diabetes in a developing ...Thousands find connection and inspiration at nation's largest autism conference
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...hat new strategies are needed to fight the growing epidemic of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease," said Dr. Valentin Fuster, past president of the American Heart Association, and director of the Cardiovascular Institute at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York who wrote an editorial commentary in the sp...Hypertension provokes cardiac insufficiency
...bly for many years, and has come to be an issue of epidemic proportions. Along with the magnitude of the problem, there is also its severity: 5 after initial diagnosis, the survival rate of the patients is below 50%. The damages caused in the heart by arterial hypertension (the so-called hypertensive cardio...Obesity experts back Abbott initiative
... five year old children" they said. "The obesity epidemic in children has reached crisis point. If the government is going to be able to assess the success of current and future interventions addressing the issue, it urgently needs to have a baseline measurement to planan effective prevention strategy." "...Prescription pain killers involved in more drug overdose deaths than cocaine or heroin in the US
...rug poisoning deaths has helped explain a national epidemic of overdose deaths in the USA that began in the 19...e contribution of prescription pain killers to the epidemic has only become clear recently. This research is published this week in the journal, Pharmacoepidem...Radiation-killed bacteria vaccine induces broad immune response in mice
...is strategy might also be deployed in the event of epidemic outbreaks or against bioterrorist attacks, says Dr. Raz....Who calls for stronger collaboration between HIV/AIDS and TB programs in the developing world
... of sub-Saharan Africa and other regions where the epidemic is fuelled by HIV. In countries with a high proportion of HIV-infected adults, tuberculosis is increasing by 7% per year on average. HIV infection also causes tuberculosis to progress more rapidly to disease. In addition to carrying out research i...National response needed in India to bring HIV epidemic under control
India's HIV epidemic is not yet contained, says a Review in the August ...lanned national response in order to bring the HIV epidemic under control. This should include an increase in HIV prevention measures in high-risk groups, bette...The Mount Sinai Medical Center recognized for excellence in bariatric surgery
...ence in bariatric surgery. Obesity is a serious epidemic in America. Over two thirds of Americans are overweight, a frightening number that continues to rise each year. Faced with this issue, the leadership of the American Society for Bariatric Surgery identified the need to recognize surgical programs, li...The epidemic of obesity in young children has been far worse in the tallest, fastest growing young children, according to new research published in The International Journal of Obesity today (1 August 2006). Researchers led by The University of Manchester say t...Call for data on reuse of surgical instruments to allay fears over vCJD transmission
...ce 2000, with estimates for the total scale of the epidemic through this route now lie in the low hundreds. ...show that key factors determining the scale of any epidemic are the number of times a single instrument is re-used, combined with how infectious contaminated in...Research leads to first treatment for drug-resistant HIV
...ty of the drugs to Third World countries where the epidemic is worst." The design, synthesis and evaluation of these new protease inhibitors will be detailed in a paper in the Aug. 24 issue of the Journal of Medicinal Chemistry and is currently available on the journal's Web site. Irene Weber of Georgia S...Columbia U receives $16.9M award to study origin and health effects of arsenic in ground water
...ng and cooking. Since the early 1990s, when the epidemic of arsenic poisoning began to emerge in Bangladesh, India, and other countries in South Asia, it has been estimated that as many as 100 million people worldwide regularly drink or cook with well water with arsenic concentrations greater than 10 micro...Compound in dairy products targets diabetes
... CLA. "Adult-onset diabetes is fast becoming an epidemic and is largely associated with poor diet and nutrition and other lifestyle issues," Vanden Heuvel says. The reason for the increase in diabetes may have to do with the ratio of so-called "good" and "bad" fats, with the average American diet containin...Study finds parental time to be key in fight against childhood obesity
...A&M researchers set out to find, he said. "The epidemic of obesity is spreading across the United States andacross the world," said Dr. Karen Kubena, one of the researchers. She is aprofessor of nutrition and food science and associate dean for the Collegeof Agriculture and Life Sciences. "Of concern ...Childhood obesity caused by 'toxic environment' of Western diets, study says
...esearcher has determined that a key reason for the epidemic of pediatric obesity, now the most commonly diagno...t enough) appear to be cornerstones of the obesity epidemic through their effects on insulin," he adds. Lustig says that it has long been known that the hormo...AIDS debate launches Lancet podcast
...he question: Is scaling up the response to the HIV epidemic doing more good than harm? Speaking for the motion: Mark Dybul (Global AIDS co-ordinator for the Presidents Emergency Programme for HIV/AIDS Relief; PEPFAR) David Wilson (The World Bank) Speaking against the motion: David Barr (Director of the Coll...Molecular switch may turn off immune cells that target HIV
One of the primary mysteries of the AIDS epidemic why the immune system is unable to control HIV infection may have been solved by an international research collaborative. In an upcoming issue of Nature, the team reports how a molecular pathway involved in the immune cell "exhaustion" that charac......h, was conducted in Wisconsin while Zierold was an epidemic intelligence service officer with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention."Developing programs and strategies to reduce injury must be made a priority," Zierold said. But training on the job where safety could be stressed often is given by ...