Public Health

Home Birth Linked To 4X Higher Baby Mortality Rates

Babies delivered at home by midwives had a roughly four times higher risk of neonatal deaths than babies delivered in hospitals, also by midwives.  The paper is not out to indict the midwife delivery fad but suggests they aren't going to be qualified ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 3 2014 - 7:41am

HIV Passé: Teens Delay Treatment Unless It Becomes Serious

A new survey finds that nearly half of HIV-infected teenagers and young adults don't seek treatment unless the disease advances, which can them at risk for dangerous infections and long-term complications. It is accepted that starting treatment as ea ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 4 2014 - 4:30am

If You Want To Lose Weight, Watch Your Weekends

We have a biological clock related to sleep cycles and a new paper says we have weight loss cycles related to behavior; people are going to gain weight on the weekend so if they lose more during the week, that weight loss cycle will result in better healt ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 7 2014 - 10:35am

At 78 Percent Among Those Over 50, South Africa Leads World In High Blood Pressure

At 78 percent among people aged 50 and over, South Africa has the highest rate of high blood pressure reported for any country in the world, at any time in history. And less than 10 percent of people are effectively controlling their condition with medica ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 3 2014 - 10:03pm

Why Do US Southern States Have Higher Infant Mortality?

Population health has a lot of different factors- and infant mortality is one of them but it doesn't tell the entire story. Some in America laud Cuban health care, for example, but Cuba just had a cholera epidemic, something that doesn't happen ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 4 2014 - 10:10am

More Legal Marijuana Will Mean More Kids In The ER

States that have decriminalized marijuana have also seen dramatic increases in children requiring medical intervention, according to research in the Annals of Emergency Medicine ("Association of Unintentional Pediatric Exposures with Decriminalizatio ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 5 2014 - 2:11pm

Supplements May Not Help But At Least Users Have Other Healthy Habits

A new review doesn't add any value to supplements but at least it shows that people who spend money on supplements are more inclined to be developing a healthier lifestyle overall. The review by  Council for Responsible Nutrition (CRN) consultant Ann ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 6 2014 - 2:56pm

Junkies Have 14X Higher Mortality Rate Than The General Population

You don't need to show kids a frying egg in a pan to get the message across about drugs; just show them this statistic.  Heroin and cocaine addicts in Spain have a fatality rate that is 14.3 times higher than for the general population, and that is a ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 8 2014 - 7:00am

Use Manga For Social Engineering

Many people in their school years like Manga comics. They predate the American kind by about 150 years, are generally more complex and even older American adults got an introduction to it in cartoon versions of "Astro Boy." In recent decades, th ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 11 2014 - 5:00am

Crop Pests Hurt Poorer Nations The Most- Science Can Fix That

While the developed world has levels of scientific and technical capacity that allow crop pests to be effectively managed, poorer nations, where food production is incredibly important, are caught in a tug-of-war between modern agriculture and an activist ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 10 2014 - 11:41pm