The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has established the We Can! City Program to assist towns and cities across the nation in mobilizing their communities to prevent childhood overweight.
While pregnancy may be considered an effective motivator for smoking cessation, results of a new study by researchers at the Mailman School of Public Health indicate that pregnant U.S. women commonly smoke, placing themselves and their unborn children at risk for health and developmental complications.
Nationally, the number of All-TerrainVehicle (ATV)-related emergency department visits has more than doubled in recent years, from 52,800 in 1997 to 136,100 in 2004.
An analysis of nearly 300 umbilical cord blood samples led by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health shows that newborn babies are exposed to perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS) and perfluorooctanoate (PFOA) while in the womb.
AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF), the US? largest HIV/AIDS healthcare, prevention and education provider, which operates free AIDS treatment clinics in the US, Africa, Latin America/Caribbean and Asia, chastised US drug giant, Abbott Laboratories for its ?quid pro quo? offer earlier today to the Government of Thailand to lower its price for Abbott?s key AIDS drug, Aluvia (a heat-stable tablet version of Kaletra) to approximately USD$1000 per patient per year?an offer contingent upon Abbott?s demand that Thailand immediately halt issuing compulsory licenses for the generic manufacture of this lifesaving drug.
On the occasion of the 1st UN Global Road Safety Week, WHO released a report on Youth and Road Safety, which shows that road crashes are the biggest killer of young people between the ages of 10 and 24 and take the lives of 400 000 people under the age of 25 every year.
Afghanistan, which has one of the highest maternal mortality rates in the world, must intensify efforts to improve the health of women and children as part of overall efforts to boost conditions in the war-ravaged country, the head of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) said today in Kabul.
Alcohol dependence (AD) is more common among partners of alcoholics than among partners of non-alcoholics. A new study examines two kinds of spousal similarity for influence on AD risk: assortative mating (like marries like), and reciprocal spousal interaction (an individual?s behavior directly influences his/her spouse?s behavior).
The American Association of Anatomists and global publisher John Wiley & Sons Inc. announces today a collaborative agreement to launch Anatomical Sciences Education, a new international journal covering the most exciting developments in education in the anatomical sciences.
When it comes to cholesterol-lowering drugs, more is better. At least, that?s what heart doctors and heart patients have been hearing in recent years. And as a result, more patients are taking higher doses of drugs called statins ? leading to lower heart and stroke risk, but higher prescription drug costs and more frequent side effects.