By Sara Gorman
The number of U.S. children who were exposed to violence, crime and abuse in 2011 was essentially unchanged from 2008, according to a new government survey. via Number of abused U.S. children unchanged since 2008 | Reuters.
By Sara Gorman
The federal health care overhaul makes some notable improvements in insurance coverage for young adults. They can now stay on their parents’ health plans until they turn 26. Next year they can also look for subsidized coverage on the state-based insurance marketplaces, also called exchanges. And they may qualify for Medicaid, if their income are [...]
By Sara Gorman
A new coronavirus that has killed 18 people since last year could be passed between people in close contact, according to the World Health Organization. via WHO Issues Warning Over SARS-Like Virus.
By Sara Gorman
By 2015, almost one-third of the global population will remain without access to improved sanitation – which is U.N.-speak for hygienic toilet facilities. That would fall well short of a key global Millennium Development Goal [MDG], which is detailed in a new report published jointly by the World Health Organization and the U.N. Children’s Fund. [...]
By Sara Gorman
Breaking research appearing online today in Clinical Chemistry, the journal of AACC, demonstrates that a recently developed diagnostic test can detect the new strain of influenza (H7N9) currently causing an outbreak in China. via New test for H7N9 bird flu in China may help slow outbreak, prevent pandemic.
By Sara Gorman
SOROTI, Uganda – The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria announced today that it is supporting Uganda in the distribution of over 15.5 million long lasting insecticide-treated nets, making it the largest malaria prevention campaign this year. An estimated 300-500 million people are infected with malaria each year worldwide. Most cases occur in sub-Saharan Africa, [...]
By Sara Gorman
Over the last decade, a number of influential organisations have called for the integration of mental, neurological and substance use (MNS) disorders into large scale public health programmes. Although progress at the implementation level has been slow, the development of a number of evidence-based, potentially scalable interventions in the MNS field provides new impetus to [...]
By Sara Gorman
Low-income women who chose to deliver their baby at a birthing center under the care of a certified nurse-midwife had the same or better birthing experience as women under traditional care with a hospital-based obstetrician, according to a new study in Health Services Research. via Birthing centers provide equal or better deliveries, study shows.
By Sara Gorman
Children with autism see simple movement twice as quickly as other children their age, and this hypersensitivity to motion may provide clues to a fundamental cause of the developmental disorder, according to a new study. via Enhanced motion perception in autism may point to an underlying cause of the disorder.
By Sara Gorman
Peru is trying to quash the ability of companies to avoid paying environmental fines by lodging judicial appeals that linger for years, part of a push to crack down on polluters in a top exporter of minerals. via Peru Tries to Close Legal Loophole for Pollution Fines: Scientific American.
By Sara Gorman
Aeras, a nonprofit biotech advancing TB vaccines for the world, the University of Oxford and Okairos, a biopharmaceutical company specializing in T-cell vaccines, today announced a $2.9 million grant to Aeras in support of a collaboration among the three parties to support the development of vaccines against tuberculosis, HIV and malaria. via allAfrica.com: Africa: TB, [...]
By Sara Gorman
Certain types of anti-depressants have been linked to an increase in the risk of Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) finds a study in BioMed Central’s open access journal BMC Medicine. Awareness of this link should improve identification and early treatment of CDI. via Anti-depressant link to Clostridium difficile infection.
By Sara Gorman
With the number of doses and cost of human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccines a barrier to global implementation, researchers have found that girls who received two doses of HPV vaccine had immune responses to HPV-16 and HPV-18 infection that were noninferior to the responses for young women who received three doses, according to a study in [...]
By Sara Gorman
The Board of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria today voted to start an immediate transition to a new approach to funding grants by investing additional money in health programs that are poised to achieve the quickest impact. A new funding model is designed to significantly improve the way the Global Fund [...]
