Americans made about 1.1 billion visits to physician offices and hospital outpatient and emergency departments in 2006, which works out to an average of four visits per person per year, according to statistics released Wednesday by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The number of visits to physician offices and hospital outpatient and emergency [...]
Syracuse, NY - The business of information “changes absolutely constantly,” and that’s all to the good, says Elizabeth Liddy, dean of Syracuse University’s School of Information Studies.
Founded in 1896 - 10 years after the typewriter ribbon was patented - the school offers programs in computer science, information management, information science and related areas. And if [...]
Family Health Insurance Vaccinations are a childhood ritual and provide vital protection against diseases like measles, mumps, rubella and polio, which can be extremely dangerous for young children. But a report, issued today by the Centers for Disease Control and Preve ntion, found an alarming 28 percent of toddlers have not been vaccinated according to [...]
Premature birth and low birth weight have been recognized in earlier studies as risk factors for a number of developmental problems, including autism and other illnesses.
But the study of 91 children, who were born around between 7 and 14 weeks prematurely and weighed 3.3 pounds (1.5 kg) or less at birth, was the first to [...]
The scientists caution that the discovery does not suggest the presence of chronic disease, nor does it support extended use of antibiotics to treat Lyme disease in humans. Their findings are reported in the March issue of the journal Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy.
However, they say, the results of this study do set the stage for [...]
Preterm birth contributes to several long-term quality of health issues, including lower educational achievement, lower rates of reproduction, and an increase in the likelihood that future offspring will be born preterm and with complications, according to researchers at the Duke Medical Center.
Preterm birth, meaning birth before 37 weeks of gestation, is the leading cause of [...]
More than a third of the trials contained statistical analyses that the reviewers considered inappropriate to assess the effects of an intervention being studied. And 88 percent of those studies reported statistically significant intervention effects that, because of analysis flaws, could be misleading to scientists and policymakers, the review authors say.
%26ldquo;We cannot say any specific [...]
Nearly 20 students were in gym class when they saw bubbles coming out of the pool drain, Superintendent Scott Staska said. The students began feeling sick shortly afterward.The gym class included ninth- and 10th-graders, some of whom were in the pool, Schmitz said. School was expected to open as scheduled Thursday.The cause was being investigated.St. [...]
Tests on mice show that diacetyl, a component of artificial butter flavouring, can cause a condition known as lymphocytic bronchiolitis, said the team at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, part of the National Institutes of Health.
The condition can lead to obliterative bronchiolitis — or popcorn lung — a rare and debilitating disease seen [...]
Researchers have identified 14 different types of mold on and around this species of cockroach, including several molds associated with allergies and others that can cause secondary infections if they enter the lungs or an open wound.
%26ldquo;This is mainly a point of public awareness,%26rdquo; said Joshua Benoit, lead author of the study and [...]
