Turning the corner on the HIV epidemic in Zimbabwe, Malawi, and Zambia
Newly released findings from national HIV surveys in Zimbabwe, Malawi, and Zambia reveal extraordinary progress in confronting the HIV epidemic. These three countries in Southern Africa have been...
View ArticleCity living can make asthma worse for poor children, study finds
Results of a new study by Johns Hopkins researchers using national data add to evidence that living in inner cities can worsen asthma in poor children. They also document persistent racial/ethnic...
View ArticleSugar fixation hampering obesity battle
Public debate around obesity has become dangerously fixated with sugar, according to one of the UK's leading experts on obesity and diabetes.
View ArticleNew evidence finds standardized cigarette packaging may reduce number of...
A Cochrane Review published today finds standardized tobacco packaging may lead to a reduction in smoking prevalence and reduces the appeal of tobacco.
View ArticleYoung adult smokers—a hidden demographic
In their many efforts since the 1990s to prevent Canadians from taking up smoking, governments have had a big blind spot: young adults. That's the finding of new research published in the Canadian...
View ArticlePrevalence of visual impairment among preschool children projected to increase
The number of preschool children in the U.S. with visual impairment is projected to increase by more than 25 percent in the coming decades, with the majority of visual impairment resulting from simple...
View ArticleCommunity-based testing and treatment program linked with improved viral...
Among individuals with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in rural Kenya and Uganda, implementation of community-based testing and treatment was associated with an increased proportion of HIV-positive...
View ArticleCommunity-wide effort to fight childhood obesity shows promise
A large-scale effort to reduce childhood obesity in two low-income Massachusetts communities resulted in some modest improvements among schoolchildren over a relatively short period of time, suggesting...
View ArticleObesity risk factors dropped in preschoolers in prevention program
Preschoolers from low-income families living in cities that took part in a two-year community-wide intervention to foster healthy eating and lifestyle habits consumed fewer sugary drinks, got more...
View ArticleDiabetes increasing at alarming rates in sub-Saharan Africa
Sub-Saharan Africa is in the midst of a rapidly expanding diabetes epidemic that could have devastating health and economic consequences for the region unless quick and decisive action is taken to turn...
View ArticleSwaziland halves world's highest HIV infection rate: report
Swaziland, which bears the world's heaviest HIV burden, has almost halved the rate of new infections in five years by boosting access to virus-suppressing drugs, researchers said Monday.
View ArticleGP-based testing for HIV is cost-effective and should be rolled out in local...
Offering HIV testing to people at health checks when they register at a new GP surgery in high-prevalence areas is cost-effective and will save lives, according to a study involving over 86,000 people...
View ArticleWhy anecdotes aren't strong evidence when it comes to quitting smoking
In the early 1990s, I was the guest of the local health service in Broken Hill, New South Wales, during a national week promoting quitting smoking. I went on the local radio and the host invited...
View ArticleHigh densities of fast food restaurants are not associated with high levels...
New research from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and University of Aberdeen published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition suggests that higher densities of fast food (and full service)...
View ArticleOccult cancer found in ~5 percent with unprovoked VTE
(HealthDay)—About one in 20 patients with unprovoked venous thromboembolism (VTE) have occult cancer detected within one year, according to a review published online Aug. 22 in the Annals of Internal...
View ArticlePercent of teens who report having had a concussion in their lifetime
In a survey that included more than 13,000 adolescents, about 20 percent reported at least one diagnosed concussion during their lifetime, and 5.5 percent reported being diagnosed with more than one...
View ArticleTaxes on sugary beverages are not enough on their own to halt march of...
Facing declining markets in Western countries, multinational food companies are targeting Africa, Asia, and Latin America as new consumers of packaged foods, in a move that may worsen the global...
View ArticleIndigenous smoking deaths on the rise despite people butting out
Smoking-related deaths among Indigenous Australians are likely to continue to rise and peak over the next decade despite big reductions in smoking over the past 20 years, a new study led by ANU has found.
View ArticleNeighborhoods can affect the need for urgent asthma care
In a new study presented at CHEST 2017, researchers from Columbia University Medical Center in New York aimed to determine if the associations between combustion-related air pollutant levels and urgent...
View ArticleTicks, landscapes and thresholds of disturbance
Clinicians are scrambling to make sense of the rising rash of ehrlichiosis infections in the United States. At William & Mary, Associate Professor of Biology Matthias Leu, a self-avowed landscape...
View ArticleEffective interventions needed to tackle diabetes prevention in Hispanics
Hispanics form the largest minority group in the U.S, and are twice as likely to have diabetes compared with non-Hispanic whites—yet a new review highlights that nearly 40% of US Hispanics with...
View ArticleMore than half of US children will have obesity as adults if current trends...
If current trends in child obesity continue, more than 57% of today's children in the U.S. will have obesity at age 35, according to a new study from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
View ArticleWarning labels can help reduce soda consumption and obesity, new study suggests
Labels that warn people about the risks of drinking soda and other sugar-sweetened beverages can lower obesity and overweight prevalence, suggests a new Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health...
View ArticlePrevalence of diabetes tops 20 percent among U.S. veterans
(HealthDay)—The overall prevalence of diabetes among U.S. veterans was 20.5 percent in 2013 to 2014, according to a study published online Dec. 14 in the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and...
View ArticleAs income rises, women get slimmer—but not men
(HealthDay)—A comprehensive survey on the widening American waistline finds that as paychecks get bigger, women's average weight tends to drop.
View ArticleAt least three out of five people who try a cigarette become daily smokers
At least 61 per cent of people who try their first cigarette become, at least temporarily, daily smokers, suggests an analysis of survey data by Queen Mary University of London.
View ArticleEpileptic seizures and depression may share a common genetic cause, study...
From the time of Hippocrates, physicians have suspected a link between epilepsy and depression. Now, for the first time, scientists at Rutgers University-New Brunswick and Columbia University have...
View ArticleResearch shows shocking rise in obesity levels in urban Africa over past 25...
Rapid urbanisation and associated changes in people's lifestyle means Africa faces a growing obesity problem. Across the continent the share of the urban population is projected to increase to 50% by...
View ArticleWho's still smoking: Report highlights populations still at risk
Although tobacco control measures have reduced overall smoking rates in the United States (from 42% in 1965 to 15% in 2015), a new report says several vulnerable subpopulations continue to smoke at...
View ArticleResearchers identify patterns of HIV risk among people who inject drugs in...
People who inject drugs (PWID) in Vietnam are disproportionately affected by HIV. While HIV prevalence among the general population aged 15-49 is 0.4 percent, the prevalence of HIV among people who...
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