Mom's nutrition during pregnancy related to child's behavior at age three
...enage mothers, ages 14 through 19, from a mid-size town in Pennsylvania completed the study. Blood samples collected from the mothers at 16 weeks into their pregnancy showed that the majority, 58 percent, was iron deficient, including 10 percent who were actually anemic. The mothers came from low to mid...What constitutes acceptable earthquake risk in the Central United States?
...ness when immediate risk and awareness are low and town budgets are stretched? "Unfortunately earthquake s...ed 15 years of data from a small Southern Illinois town to see whether it was possible to promote both earthquake safety and economic development. "We used ...UCLA researches heart disease-glucose connection
...rently." Using extensive heart study data from the town of Framingham, Mass., collected every second year since 1948, Port and his co-authors performed a sophisticated statistical analysis, which made adjustments for factors such as the patients' cholesterol levels, blood pressure, cigarette smoking, body...Toward the future of cancer prevention
...en. Another aspect of the center is to look at the town of Fresno, Texas, and its almost 7,000 residents, of which 50 percent are Latino and 27 percent African-American. Fresno is located near two Superfund clean-up sites and a landfill, so researchers will try to determine the effect of environmental ex...Expert dispels bird flu paranoia
...ed chicken. Don't use untreated water, use clean town water or bore water. "Consumers of poultry meat and egg products should not be concerned as the risk of infection from eating poultry products is extremely low," Dr Doneley said. "The avian influenza virus, like most other viruses and bacteria) i...Researchers looking at how neighborhoods contribute to healthy lifestyles
...luences physical activity and diet. "We think that town planners, zoning administrators, parks and recreat... walking trails might be built close to housing in town planning," said Kathy Hosig, associate professor of human nutrition, foods, and exercise. The resear...Liverpool psychology helps bring peace to European football
...o major incidents which did occur in Albufeira - a town controlled by Portugal's national gendarmerie (GNR), which did not adopt the same tactics as the PSP. Consequently, concludes the report, the GNR were unable to set limits of behaviour early on, or to differentiate between troublemakers and bystande...Tsunami raises questions about disaster mental health, Science reports
...almunai, I walked 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 ...Envisat monitoring China floods as part of Dragon Programme
...out a rush acquisition of Poyang Lake flooding the town of Nanchang in Jiangxi Province and the flooding o...major flood of the Xijiang River that affected the town of Wuzhou in Guangxi Province. At that time both the Chinese and European teams were away at the Dra...Evacuation not automatically best for health during chemical incidents
...wn, the researchers defined a case in the affected town as someone with at least 4 symptoms. The authors stress that there were several limitations with this study, including a lack of data on whether the level and nature of the smoke exposure could have been different between the groups. Sheltering may h...Study: Physicians need to be more vocal about encouraging diabetic patients to exercise
...nts." The physical environment in a patient's home town also appeared to influence whether or not a person with diabetes exercised, Deshpande found. Those who were physically active reported shorter walking times to parks, recreation centers, walking trails, schools and fitness clubs than did those who we...Nutritional advice improves health of children in developing countries
...uld improve the growth of the children in a shanty town in Trujillo, Peru. 12 government health facilities were recruited onto the study. The researchers randomly selected 6 centres and introduced several measures to ensure that all carers of young children seen in the centres received age-appropriate, pr...Abnormal liver tests in a Mediterranean population
A recent population-based study in a small town in Southern Italy found that one in eight residents had abnormal liver tests. While alcohol consumption was the most common causative factor, nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is an increasingly prevalent source of the problem. The study is pu...Charter activation brings space dimension to European emergency exercise
...ercise is occurring between 10 and 14 April at the town of Portes-ls-Valence in the French department of D...roups are participating in EURATECH, including the town and prefecture authorities, railway operator SNCF, local and regional fire services, the police and ...