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Dengue Fever Deaths Up in Vietnam

...ing grounds for mosquitos." The virus thrives in urban areas because the carrier, the aedes mosquito, breeds in stagnant water, including in blocked drain-pipes and rubbish heaps. Experts predict dengue fever will increasingly spread with global warming, growing urbanisation and more international trav...

Civic Authorities in US Seek to Stem Urban Decay

...e smaller than it once was, said Joe Schilling, an urban researcher and professor at Virginia Tech's Metrop...ng about looking forward.'' Some other cities and urban planners have taken note. One is Saginaw, Michigan, which, along with surrounding communities, has...

US Hospitals Increasingly Colonized by Drug-resistant Germs

...y in hospitals and nursing homes, was spreading to urban poor settlements. The strain had turned up recently among athletes, prisoners and people who get illegal tattoos, it was said. It had risen almost seven-fold in some Chicago neighborhoods. The type of staph infection that involves skin is called c...

The International Diabetes Federation Launches US$ 10 Million Grant to Improve Diabetes Care

...earch project is being facilitated where people in urban communities with high risk for diabetes are using the DPP lifestyle interventions and doing prevention programmes in their churches and wellness centres. Thus far, the programme has been highly effective and provided the opportunity to reach underser...

Concern in Mizoram Over Growing Tobacco-related Diseases

...cancer. And most of them have been smokers. In the urban areas, it is the youth emulating adults and feeling a bit mature when they smoke. The problem is that we generally do not tell our kids not to smoke". In the tribal Mizo society, consumption of tobacco is rampant among children, who have been intr...

Underage Youth Get Alcohol from Social Sources

...omly selected convenience or liquor stores in both urban and suburban areas. Requesters were young adults (4 females, 1 male) aged 21 years or older who appeared to be 18 to 20 years old. Requesters explained that they did not have their identification with them, and asked the adults to purchase a six-pack...

UN Report Warns of 'environmental Refugees'

...ut also modify the migration patterns of rural and urban areas, warns a UN report released Wednesday. "M...n also modify migration patterns between rural and urban areas, or within urban areas," says the report. "Severe floods in the Yangtze Basin in 1998 and 20...

Teenage Birthrate Declining in US Both Abstinence and Awareness Called for to Maintain the Trend

...l programs and community centers -- in underserved urban communities. Many of those programs, he says, wisely take an integrated and holistic approach to preventing teen pregnancy. But Libby Gray Macke who runs the wide-reaching abstinence program Project Reality believes that HIV-prevention education mi...

Living With Stress

...ss has a negative connotation and is undeniably an urban malaise. Stress through the ages At the core of all survival lies a series of confrontation with stress and adaptations to live with it. Homo sapiens , today, is an evolved species. Can you fathom how much stress our predecessors should have...

Cancer Deaths of Rural Men on the High

... death rate of men living in rural areas and their urban counterpart. The number of people diagnosed with cancer in Australia has risen from 78,857 new cases in 1996 to 88,962 in 2001 and an estimated 106,000 last year, according to the report by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare and the Aust...

Sydney Opera House Wins World Heritage Status

...heritage committee said in a statement. "A great urban sculpture set in a remarkable waterscape, at the tip of a peninsula projecting into Sydney Harbour, the building has had an enduring influence on architecture," it said....

Interview With a Surgeon Hidden Hero of the NHS

...vate sector especially among the younger medics in urban areas. The internet has also been a great equalizer of access to information amongst the educated. I learn the situation is quite different in the rural areas where old fashioned paternalistic attitudes persist. The Indian patient is still very trust...

No Clear Link Between Conflict, Rape and HIV: UN Study

...o come from rural areas where HIV is lower than in urban areas, the report noted. Spiegel and the other authors did stress the study's limitations, however, saying it was "restricted by the nature and quality of the work in displaced populations and countries affected by conflict." More research is nee...

Ontario Grants Fast-Track Compensation Rights for Work-Related Illnesses

...on's disease. Studies have shown that full-time, urban firefighters are two to three times more likely to die from cancer than the general population. Nathan Shaw, 22, shed tears of joy at the announcement of the new laws, Thursday:"I'm speechless. It's been a hard battle for many firefighters and th...

Rural Heart Patients Missing Out

...agement of chronic heart failure between rural and urban areas. Their study, published in the latest iss...t failure in patients in rural areas compared with urban areas. There was also significantly lower use of the current recommended methods of diagnosis and...

Singaporeans Rated as the Fastest Walkers in the World

...ersity, Fresno, Wiseman concluded that the pace of urban life has increased by 10 percent....

Bioparasite Envisioned To Control Terror Of Fire Ants

...ike ranches, open pastures, croplands as well as urban lawns. Known scientifically as Solenopsis invicta , humans and livestock fear them for their stinging bites. The massive fire ant colonies destroy crops, damage farm and electrical equipment and hasten soil erosion. Fire ants have been detected ...

Allocation Of Hospitals In Rural Areas

...pitals are 132475 and 340308 beds are available in urban government hospitals including Community Health Centres (CHCs). 75.3% of PHCs and 92.4% of CHCs are located in government buildings. As on March 2006, about 7.5% of the PHCs were without a doctor, about 38.9% were without a lab technician and abou...

Warrior Culture in Los Angeles Police Force

...n 1950, who imagined the city's police force as an urban army. Domanick said Parker's view was: "We're the only thing standing between chaos and anarchy. We are the professionals. We know better. No one tells us better." The Christopher Commission examined five years of reports, police radio communicat...

Web-based Asthma Program Improves Disease Management for Black Students

... tailored, web-based multimedia asthma program for urban high school students evaluated in a non-clinic community setting, said Dr. Joseph. Results suggest that, for students in the treatment arm, functional status was significantly improved and the state of being diseased was significantly reduced when co...

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