Vulnerable

Obese Adults Undergo Less Medical Tests And More Vulnerable To Diseases

Dr. Truls Ostbye and his colleagues from the Duke University of Medical Center has found that fat people had less preventive health care. Obese people had lower rate of medical testing and flu vaccination.// The study was conducted in 10,000 people who received mammography tests, Pap smear tests and flu vaccination. The researchers found that the results correlated with whites and no evidence co...

Biologically Women Are More Vulnerable To HIV Infection

UN experts reported that women in India are gradually becoming more susceptible to the HIV infection and they comprise about 40 percent of India’s infected population//. "Women are biologically more susceptible to HIV infection. Besides, gender disparities, lack of education and trafficking of women are making the situation worse," said Archana Tamang, chief of the women's human right...

Teenage Boys More Vulnerable And Emotionally Engaged In Romantic Relationships

Contradictory to the belief that adolescent boys tend to take romance for a ride, a new study has found that when it comes to heart matters, they might not be so fleeting after all. //Although the feelings are sincere than what is seen outside, an adolescent boy fails to communicate his emotions, leading to a gross misunderstanding in his girl friend’s mind. Boys are more vulnerable a...

Vulnerable Suffer As NHS Budgets

Elderly and sick people needing home care are suffering due to cuts in NHS expenditure, as councils struggle to deal with the situation, a study says.// The study, which has been commissioned by the Local Government Association (LGA), discovered that almost seven out of 10 local authorities, in areas with a NHS deficit, have suffered. Cost-cutting measures of the NHS, suc...

New Asthma Medicine Targeting Vulnerable Inner-City Children Tested

UT Southwestern Medical Center is one of a handful of top research institutions evaluating a promising new medication researchers hope can reduce the severity and frequency of// asthma attacks in inner-city children, a population known to have a high prevalence of severe asthma. “Children living in inner cities are exposed to higher allergen levels and tend to have more severe asthma th...

Bottleneck in Blood Supply Makes Brain Vulnerable to Strokes

A team of University of California, San Diego physicists and neuroscientists has discovered a bottleneck in the network of blood vessels// in the brain that makes it vulnerable to strokes. The finding may explain the origin of the puzzling damage to the brain’s gray matter often detected in brain scans, especially among the elderly. In the study, published this week in the journal Proc...

‘Gypsies' and Travellers' Health Much Worse Than Other Vulnerable Group

The health of Gypsies and Travellers is significantly worse than that of other vulnerable groups, reveals research in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health.// It is not known how many Gypsies and Travellers there are in Britain, but estimates put the number at around 300,000. The researchers assessed the health of just under 300 Gypsies and Travellers of UK and...

Black Children More Vulnerable to Tobacco Smoke Effects

Black children may be far more susceptible to the ill effects of second-hand tobacco smoke than their white counterparts, U.S. researchers say after a study of 220// children with asthma. Black children who were exposed to at least five cigarettes a day had significantly higher toxin levels in their hair and blood than white children with similar exposure. "For some reason...

The Mental Health Bill Will Not Help Vulnerable Patients, Say Doctors

With the Mental Health Bill for England and Wales going through Committee stage in the House of Commons today [24 April 2007],// the BMA is concerned that the proposed legislation will harm patients with mental health disorders. Currently two doctors [at least one must be a consultant psychiatrist] have to agree before anyone is detained under the Mental Health Act but the Governmen...

Women More Vulnerable to Multiple Sclerosis, Research Shows

There has been a sharp increase in the occurrence of multiple sclerosis (MS) among women over time, but rates among men appear to have remained// stable. Data from a voluntary MS registry shows that while in 1940, twice as many women as men in the U.S. had multiple sclerosis, by 2000, four out of five cases were occurring among women, University of Alabama professor of biostatistics Gar...