887 Articles with the topic: Public Health & Epidemiology
Smoking and solid fuel use in homes cause millions of deaths
sea-maid submitted, created time 1 day 20 hours (esciencenews.com)
If current levels of smoking and biomass and coal fuel use in homes continues, between 2003 and 2033 there will be an estimated 65 million deaths from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and 18 million deaths from lung cancer in China, accounting for 19% and 5% of all deaths in that country during this period. Researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) predict that the combined effects of these two major factors alone will be responsible for more than 80% of COPD deaths and 75% of lung cancer deaths in China over a thirty-year period 
Cheap cervical cancer test is boost for poor countries
sea-maid submitted, created time 2 weeks 56 minutes (www.newscientist.com)
This writeup references a study in Lancet. Cervical cancer is the second deadliest cancer in women: it strikes 500,000 every year, and more than half die. But 85% of those deaths are in poor countries. A team of researchers has just tested a new, less expensive pap test that may go for as little as $5 USD, testing it alongside the more expensive HPV test. It was over 90% accurate.
Container chemical causes controversy
jerry submitted, created time 2 weeks 22 hours (media.www.spectatornews.com)
The debate over the safety of a chemical ubiquitous in the lives of Americans took center stage at a scientific hearing of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday as federal officials, scientists and health advocates gave vastly different assessments of the effects of exposure to bisphenol A...
Scientists link chemical used in plastics to health problems
marry submitted, created time 2 weeks 4 days (www.startribune.com)
BPA was found to cause a higher risk of heart problems, diabetes and liver disease. The FDA repeated its stance that BPA is safe but is studying the issue.
sea-maid submitted, created time 3 weeks 8 hours (www.sciencebase.com)
Studies have shown that social networking is a risk factor for catching a sexually transmitted disease (but only real-world social networking; LinkedIn is okay). However, this seems to be more of a result of an understanding of what a social network is than any Internet-induced change in the way people choose sexual partners. Sexually transmitted diseases are by definition (usually) transmitted along intimate social networks.
New Pathway for Malaria Infection Discovered
sea-maid submitted, created time 3 weeks 22 hours (www.sciencedaily.com)
Cenix BioScience GmbH, a leading specialist in advanced RNA interference (RNAi)-based research services, Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: ALNY), a leading RNAi therapeutics company, and the Lisbon-based biomedical research centre Instituto de Medicina Molecular (IMM), have announced the publication of their collaborative study in Cell Host & Microbe, describing the discovery and in vivo validation of scavenger receptor BI (SR-BI), a major regulator of cholesterol uptake by the liver, as a critical host factor for malaria infection.
HIV in the U.S. hits American blacks extra hard
Darkfrog submitted, created time 3 weeks 3 days (www.nytimes.com)
The CDC has released a report on the way HIV spreads in the United States. Again, American blacks are at disproportionately high risk. While caucasian gay and bisexual men tend to get infected int heir thirties and forties, black gay and bisexual men tend to get infected in their teens and twenties.
The writeup does not say whether they adjusted for socioeconomic factors, but they do assert that the infected blacks were no more likely to be drug users or to engage in risky sexual behaviors than their counterparts in other races
CDC Campaign Targets MRSA Infections
jerry submitted, created time 3 weeks 5 days (health.usnews.com)
A national campaign to teach parents how to protect kids from skin infections caused by dangerous methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) bacteria was launched this week by the US Centers for Disease ...
Most U.S. Kids Getting Recommended Vaccinations
jerry submitted, created time 1 month 2 hours (abcnews.go.com)
The vast majority of American children are getting their recommended vaccinations, federal health officials said Thursday.
Narrowing World Health Disparities
sea-maid submitted, created time 1 month 5 days (www.time.com)
A sweeping new report by the World Health Organization's Commission on Social Determinants of Health challenges governments to improve world health through smart social policy.
HIV spreads in NYC at three times the U.S. average
kavin submitted, created time 1 month 5 days (www.reuters.com)
New Yorkers are contracting HIV at three times the national rate, the city health department said on Wednesday, attributing the difference to New York's large population of high-risk groups such as gay men and blacks.
In 2006, seventy-two of every 100,000 New Yorkers became infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, compared with the national average of twenty-three infections, the health department said.
Some 4,800 people contracted HIV in 2006 in New York, long considered the epicenter of the U.S. HIV/AIDS epidemic
kavin submitted, created time 1 month 2 weeks (www.sciencedaily.com)
People who use monosodium glutamate, or MSG, as a flavor enhancer in their food are more likely than people who don't use it to be overweight or obese even though they have the same amount of physical activity and total calorie intake, according to a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Public Health study published this month in the journal Obesity.
Researchers at UNC and in China studied more than 750 Chinese men and women, aged between forty and fifty-nine, in three rural villages in north and south China
A New View of Why Cholera Won't Go Away
jerry submitted, created time 1 month 2 weeks (sciencenow.sciencemag.org)
Cholera first infected humans in the early 19th century in Bengal, a region that straddles what is now the border between Bangladesh and India, and the bacterial disease still sweeps through the area regularly. After sifting through historical records of cholera deaths in Bengal, a team of scientists in the United States and Europe proposes a new explanation for these repeated outbreaks, suggesting that immunity to cholera wanes more rapidly than thought and that many more people than believed become infected without exhibiting symptoms
The end of AIDS is nowhere in sight
sea-maid submitted, created time 2 months 2 days (www.nature.com)
The seventeenth annual AIDS conference opened in Mexico City last week. The consensus among the attendees seems to be that the failed vaccines, poorly targeted prevention measures and lack of fresh research talent all add up to years and years of HIV and AIDS in our future.
Is religion good for your health?
sea-maid submitted, created time 2 months 3 days (www.nature.com)
Science and religion, anyone? Come now, stifle those yawns. A paper published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B1 this week claims to offer a fresh perspective, with the startling suggestion that religion is a way to protect us from disease.
The general idea behind this theory — that religion is mainly a social construct — is actually much older than the authors, Corey Fincher and Randy Thornhill of the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, acknowledge
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