Results of a new US study released by the Commonwealth Fund, find that more and more young Americans are living without any form of health insurance.
The report, entitled Rite of Passage? Why Young Adults Become Uninsured and How New Policies Can Help, used census data to calculate the numbers, that show that 13.79 million Americans [...]
Low IQ scores and problems related to thinking and reasoning are common in children and adolescents with multiple sclerosis (MS), according to an Italian study reported in the journal Neurology.
Approximately 5 percent of MS cases begin before age 18, note Dr. Maria Pia Amato, at the University of Florence, and her associates.
“The initial diagnosis of [...]
Dr. Pirjo Ilanne-Parikka, of the Finnish Diabetes Association in Tampere reports that a cluster of diabetes risk factors including elevated waist circumference, blood pressure, triglyceride cholesterol, and blood sugar, as well as low levels of high-density lipoproteins (good cholesterol) are collectively known as the metabolic syndrome.
Ilanne-Parikka and colleagues report 15 per cent reductions in both [...]
These findings may not hold true for women living in countries with less generous systems for supporting parents with young children, say Tilmann von Soest of Norwegian Social Research in Oslo and Dr. Lars Wichstrom of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim, the studys authors.
In less supportive environments I would expect that [...]
Among 35 children 10 to 14 years old, those whose mothers had used cocaine, drank alcohol, or smoked tobacco or marijuana while they were pregnant tended to have a smaller head circumference than their peers who werent exposed to these substances prenatally.
The differences seen with use of a single substance were not statistically significant, but [...]
HONG KONG, China (Reuters): Berries of a common weed found in India may be effective in fighting mosquitoes that spread dengue fever, a study has found. In January, health officials warned that the disease was poised to move across the United States. It has been spreading aggressively in Latin America and the Caribbean, reaching epidemic [...]
Texas Child Protective Services spokeswoman Marleigh Meisner said the 183 consisted of 137 children and 46 women, but she could not discuss why they were taken from the ranch or whether they had left voluntarily.
Only 18 members of the group had been placed in the legal custody of the state agency, she said by telephone.
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Drinking a lot of water is claimed to be helpful for everything from clearing toxins and keeping organs in tip-top shape to keeping weight off and improving skin tone. At best, however, the evidence to back up these claims is weak, according to a new scientific review published in the Journal of the American Society [...]
It is important to take poor dental health seriously in that these people may be at greater risk of general physical and/or cognitive decline, Dr Poul Holm-Pedersen, of the Copenhagen Gerontological Oral Health Research Centre, told Reuters Health.
The finding in this study that tooth loss appears related to the onset of disability and mortality in [...]
In an interview with Reuters Health, Melissa Miller, who spoke at the meeting, noted that 4 out of 10 older adults suffer from a chronic condition, like heart disease, high cholesterol, or arthritis. A lot of these older adults avoid exercise because they think they are going to hurt themselves or make their condition worse, [...]
