Autism is the fastest growing disability in the United States, and public school systems are trying to catch up. One out of every 166 children is diagnosed with autism, making it more common than pediatric cancer, diabetes and AIDS combined.
A paper authored by two Memorial University faculty members will be published Feb. 14 in PLoS ONE, the international, peer-reviewed, open-access, online publication from the Public Library of Science (PLoS).
Leading players in the mobile phone industry and the U.S. Government have joined forces to fight HIV/AIDS and other health challenges in 10 African countries.
People who have multiple sclerosis (MS) for 10 years and have few of the disabling symptoms of the disease are often told they have “benign MS” and that their symptoms will likely not ever occur to the same extent as other people with MS.
Although Medicare coverage for colorectal cancer screening has increased, there are still significant disparities in screening practices by ethnicity, sex, age, education and income level, according to a report in the February 12, 2007 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.
Mexican-American high-schoolers and their white peers aspire equally to go on to college to chase their dreams, but the minority students see many more hurdles in their paths, say researchers at the University of Oregon.
Standing with the CEOs of Fortune 500 companies and national labor and civic leaders, SEIU helped launch a historic, new cooperative effort with the goal of fundamentally changing the nation?s broken health care system.
The Center for Health and Gender Equity (CHANGE) today called on UN agencies, major foundations and bilateral aid programs such as PEPFAR, the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, to immediately increase funding for the procurement and distribution of female condoms in countries heavily affected by HIV/AIDS, as well as funding for programs that raise public awareness of female condoms and provide education on their use.
The new national study showing higher-than-expected incidences of autism comes as no surprise to special education personnel and autism advocates, says a special education professor at the University of Indianapolis.
Majority of doctors “reported objections to abortion for failed contraception” and see the value in explaining their own moral convictions to patients, revealed by a New England Journal of Medicine article — Religion, Conscience, and Controversial Clinical Practices.