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For Bangladeshis, a Nutritious Diet Would Cost 1,700 Pounds Per Week

...y adviser. The results explode the myth that low incomes are enough to survive on in the developing world because things are cheaper, and transform the standard "dollar a day" poverty formula into mathematics that hits home. Save the Children also looked at Ethiopia, where families need the equivalent of...

Low Income Family Adolescents Suffer Migraine

... with migraine prevalence: In families with annual incomes of less than 22,500 dollars, the prevalence of migraines in teens was 4.4 percent; by contrast, the migraine prevalence among teens in households earning 90,000 dollars or more was only 2.9 percent. It would seem that for those teens who have a gen...

Divorce Leaves Women Significantly Worse Off Financially Than Men

...er income. Sociologists, who kept a track of the incomes of divorcees over seven years, revealed that divorced women would be wealthier marrying again than trying to go back to work. The study also showed that, on the whole, mothers of young children fared poorly after divorce, as they found it hard to c...

India to Monitor Pregnancies to Check Girl Foeticide: Report

...wing the preference for sons persists despite high incomes and education. Sons are typically seen as breadwinners. They are also needed to light their parents' funeral pyres according to Hindu rites. Girls are often viewed as a burden because of the matrimonial dowry demanded by a groom's family. But mak...

U.S President Defied-Senate Votes To Expand Child Health Insurance

...idizes insurance for children and some adults with incomes too high for Medicaid but not high enough to affor...tes have extended coverage to children with higher incomes and to adults. The latter expansion has particularly incensed some lawmakers who disapprove of waive...

Organic Farms Provide a Clue for India's Struggling Farms

...way from growing staples like rice and wheat. As incomes and food consumption have gone up, wheat reserves fell last year and the country was forced to import the commodity for the first time in six years. But Sud said that with huge foreign reserves thanks to 15 years of a booming economy that is now gr...

Heart Attack Risk Increased by Unfair Treatment

... the "low" category. Women and those with lower incomes and status were significantly more likely to feel that they were being unfairly treated. Unfair treatment was also associated with significantly higher levels of poor physical and mental health. The authors conclude that fairness is key to promot...

Library Of Brains To Aid Study of Brain Development In Children

...oday showed that children from families with lower incomes tended to have lower IQ scores and more difficulty...omprehension. Children from families with yearly incomes of less than $35,000 per year had a mean IQ of 105. In comparison, those with family incomes of $35,...

Policy Changes Have Direct Effect on Nursing Home Care

...residents, more women in the workforce, and higher incomes had higher registered-nurse staffing levels. This study found that nursing homes located in states that had increased their minimum standards for registered nursing hours had higher registered-nurse staffing levels. For example, a 10 percent incre...

Long Island Seniors Rally for Rx Affordable Prescription Drugs and Cell Phone Protections

...on Long Island. "In addition, many people on fixed incomes are finding themselves locked into unaffordable contracts because the amount billed is frequently higher than the advertised price."...

Bush Signs Bill for Cancer Screening Program for Low-Income, Uninsured Women

...o qualify, women must be uninsured and have annual incomes lower than 250% of the federal poverty level. Under the Breast and Cervical Cancer Prevention and Treatment Act, enacted in 2000, states can request an expansion of their Medicaid programs to include uninsured women younger than age 65 diagnosed w...

Make Treatment of Parkinsons More Affordable, Doctors Plead

... notes that patients who come to the hospital have incomes higher than the average GNI. Clearly then poorer patients are even less likely to receive care and medication, as they are unable to make it to the hospital. In the circumstances, the treatment of the Parkinson’s needs to be addressed by approp...

Excessive TV Viewing Linked to Poor Eating Habits in Children

...1,203 children, 87 percent came from families with incomes greater than $40,000/year and 72 percent of their mothers had at least a college degree, researchers said. The average amount of TV/video viewing for the group was 1.7 hours per day, so most children in this study were in line with the American Ac...

Treat Childhood Trauma by Building on Parental Memories of Loving Care

...the majority are minorities, underserved, with low incomes – those with the most life stresses and the fewest resources. One has to understand the ecology of these families' lives in order to treat them effectively,” says Lieberman. Most of the parents are mothers, often living in violent relationships or...

New Drug Therapy for Breast Cancer Offers Hope

...en, which is a problem for older patients on fixed incomes who don't have insurance.” she adds. <BR...

Democrats Balk at Bush's Health Insurance Proposal

...ny taxes and about a $6,000 benefit to people with incomes of $170,000 or more. It encourages companies to cancel their health care. It's designed for disaster." Sen. Charles E. Schumer, D-N.Y., said the provision of the president's plan that taxes higher-priced health plans would penalize people who are ...

WHO's New Chief Very Optimistic

... work their way out of poverty and spend household incomes on something other than illness.’ Dr. Chan notes that although infectious diseases like AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria, have to be tackled on an emergency scale in Africa, chronic diseases such as cardiovascular diseases, cancer and diabetes, sho...

Are Women Seeing the Most Experienced Breast Cancer Surgeons?

...n reputation. Women with more education and higher incomes were more likely to report selecting their surgeon based on reputation. About one-third of the women were treated by a high-volume surgeon – a surgeon who devoted more than half of his or her practice to breast surgery. Also, two-thirds of the wome...

Binge Drinking Excessive Among Less Educated Middle-aged Women

... drinking or drinking at work, coupled with higher incomes could be a reason. Aggressive marketing also could be a reason as liquor makers target well-incomed professionals by creating smarter drinking lounges and using more powerful advertisements. In the case of lesser-educated women, they are likely t...

Telephone Outreach Boost CRC Screening In Urban Minority

...4 white and 90 "other." About 75 percent (324) had incomes under $50,000, and fewer than half (213) had more than a high school education. There were 324 women and 132 men. "It is encouraging to find that telephone outreach can have a strong positive impact on the health-related behavior of this high risk ...

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