and femininity--the most feminine girls and the most masculine boys--are significantly more likely than their peers to engage in behaviors that pose cancer risks according to a new study led by Harvard School of Public health (HSPH) researchers.
The study the first to look at cancer risk behaviors in teens based on their gender expression appears online April 16 2014 in the Journal of Adolescent Health.
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Such a strong relationship to food has had a profound impact on human health by reshaping environmental biodiversity influencing the diets of neighbors and preserving elements of culture.
The World health organization estimates that about 80%of Africans rely on traditional medicine a great proportion of which is herbal to meet their health needs
if cadmium concentrations rise to unsafe levels in meat and dairy products human health and New zealand's agricultural economy could be jeopardized.
None of the models used to evaluate future Amazon forest health include fire so most predictions grossly underestimate the amount of tree death
and overestimate overall forest health said Dr. Coe. The results of this project show that extreme droughts may interact with fires to push Amazonian forests beyond a tipping point that may abruptly increase tree mortality and change vegetation over large areas.
which seeks to identify the defect in T-cell activation--an immune response used to fight foreign antigens--during microgravity exposure.
but these same types of changes in immune response are found to occur in healthy crew members during spaceflight.
#Green space keeps you from feeling blueif you start feeling better as spring begins pushing up its tender shoots you might be living proof of a trend discovered in data from the Survey of the Health of Wisconsin:
Across neighborhoods of Wisconsin from the North Woods to the cities the results are striking says Dr. Kristen Malecki assistant professor of population health sciences at the UW School of medicine and Public health.
and Public health combines mental-health data from the Survey of the Health of Wisconsin (SHOW) and Landsat 5 satellite data from July 2009 that analyzed how much vegetation was present in each of the SHOW census blocks.
and reduces mental fatigue. This idea is also the theme of the book Last Child in the Woods
Research Supportthe SHOW project is supported by grants from the Wisconsin Partnership Program the National institutes of health (IRC2HL101468-01) and the UW Institute for Clinical and Translational Research (KL2-RR025012.
This research was supported also by the Clinical and Translational Research Institute of Southeast Wisconsin (NIH UL1RR031973.
and remarkably it has revealed a potential health benefit of removing PCBS. Our early work with animal studies predicted that we would see this effect in people Jandacek says of the clinical trial.
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The condition affects more than 50 million Americans annually including 30 million people over age 60 and often forces people into nursing homes or rehabilitation facilities.
The company recently received funding from the National institutes of health to develop strategies for preserving muscle mass
or pathogens that can affect consumer health and shorten the shelf life of the product. However microbes--known as thermoduric--can survive pasteurization according to South dakota State university dairy science professor Sanjeev Anand.
The UPS is essential to a variety of fundamental cellular processes including the cell cycle DNA repair immune response cell death and the degradation of misfolded and damaged proteins.
WHO reportlarge graphic health warnings on tobacco packets in China would increase awareness about the harms of smoking help to cut smoking rates
These are the key findings from a new report Tobacco health warnings in China--Evidence of effectiveness
--or'graphic'--health warnings on all tobacco packages in China Dr Bernhard Schwartlã¤nder WHO Representative in China said.
This means the average smoker is exposed to a health warning more than 6200 times in one year simply through the act of getting each cigarette from the pack.
therefore an incredibly effective way of warning smokers about the health hazards of smoking and encouraging them to quit.
Our research in China shows that the current text-only Chinese health warnings are very ineffective.
Revising the current health warnings in line with THE WHO FCTC and its Guidelines would increase awareness about smoking-related harms in China
Tobacco-related noncommunicable diseases pose a serious threat to the health and life of the Chinese people also creating a heavy burden on socioeconomic development said Dr Liang Xiaofeng Deputy Director of the Chinese Center for disease control and Prevention.
Increasing awareness about the health harms of smoking is particularly important in China where awareness is currently poor
and there is a tradition of people presenting cigarettes to one another and giving cigarettes as gifts.
Stronger warning labels on tobacco packages are also likely to be popular with the public according to Dr Wang Ke'an Director of the Thinktank Research center for Health Development.
and to protect public health in our country. Graphic pack warnings work to educate everyone--young old children
which means post nasal drip congestion and headaches in sufferers. An octogenarian Dr. Leija rises before dawn to collect specimens from his pollen-catching-machine atop a building on the Gottlieb Memorial Hospital campus to deliver the count to the public by 7 a m. You cannot control the weather
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Milk consumption plays an important role in bone health explains lead author Bing Lu M d. Dr. P. H. from Brigham & Women's Hospital in Boston Mass.
According to a study published in the Journal of Adolescent Health exposure to direct marketing is associated with increased use of tobacco.
and promotions appealing said lead author Samir Soneji Phd Norris Cotton Cancer Center researcher and assistant professor at the Geisel School of medicine at Dartmouth and the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical
The research is by Dr Derrick Bennett Nuffield Department of Population Health University of Oxford UK and colleagues.
and accurately place reconstruction screws in the narrow bony corridors of the spine avoiding nerves blood vessels and other critical structures.
In addition to being published in the American Journal of Hypertension the study was published also in the US National Library of Medicine National institutes of health
and long-term health risks from using e-cigarettes will not be known for many years. Norris Cotton Cancer Center researchers take a look at what we know about e-cigarettes and health.
E-cigarettes: how they work E-cigarettes create an inhalable nicotine vapor by heating a liquid nicotine solution.
Since stopping smoking completely is the only way to limit the health consequences of smoking we need to know
This is one major reason why public health officials are reluctant to tell people to use them.
No public health official is going to issue a statement endorsing e-cigarette use for stopping smoking anytime soon.
The potential health benefits of dark chocolate keep piling up and scientists are now homing in on
and test each individually for health benefits. The scientists fed groups of mice different diets including high-fat
or to be current smokers than those not exposed finds a new study in the Journal of Adolescent Health.
and promotions appealing said lead author Samir Soneji Ph d. an assistant professor at the Geisel School of medicine at Dartmouth and the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice.
In the 1960s health concerns about tobacco prompted Congress to ban cigarette ads on television and radio.
The above story is provided based on materials by Health Behavior News Service. The original article was written by Milly Dawson.
In people who are predisposed genetically gluten containing food will trigger an immune response that leads to destruction of the intestinal lining abdominal pain changes in bowel habits malnutrition
and many other symptoms that include anemia and neurological problems. People with this disease cannot eat food containing wheat rye or barley
Researchers in the Farncombe Family Digestive Health Research Institute at Mcmaster University have discovered that a molecule elafin
Researchers used the Health Survey for England to study the eating habits of 65226 people representative of The english population between 2001 and 2013 and found that the more fruit
The research also showed that vegetables have significantly higher health benefits than fruit. This is the first study to link fruit
and vegetable consumption with all-cause cancer and heart disease deaths in a nationally-representative population the first to quantify health benefits per-portion
& Community Health found that fresh vegetables had the strongest protective effect with each daily portion reducing overall risk of death by 16%.
& Public health lead author of the study. The clear message here is that the more fruit
The UK Department of health recommends'5 a day 'while'Fruit and Veggies--More Matters'is the key message in the USA.
Our study shows that people following Australia's'Go for 2+5'advice will reap huge health benefits says Dr Oyebode.
The negative health impacts of the sugar may well outweigh any benefits. Another possibility is that there are confounding factors that we could not control for such as poor access to fresh groceries among people who have preexisting health conditions hectic lifestyles
or who live in deprived areas.**Note: 13. 0m tons of canned fruit and vegetables were sold in the EU in 2008 compared to 3. 7m for frozen fruit and vegetables.
#Urban gardeners may be unaware of how best to manage contaminants in soilconsuming foods grown in urban gardens may offer a variety of health benefits
but a lack of knowledge about the soil used for planting could pose a health threat for both consumers and gardeners.
which may be present in urban soils said Keeve Nachman Phd senior author of the study and director of the Food Production and Public health Program with CLF.
Given the health social environmental and economic benefits associated with participating in and supporting urban green spaces it is critical to protect the viability of urban community gardens
The research was funded in part by Johns Hopkins Urban Health Institute and the GRACE Communications Foundation.
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and the higher screening rates that we found for African-americans suggest that mobile health-decision tools can help address health disparitiesâ#Cato says. â#oethe technology can serve to remove any unintended bias clinicians might have about
#While the study included only patients seen by nurses who had access to mobile health tools the screening
and counseling established by Healthy People 2020 a national road map for improving health and eliminating health disparities.
Tobacco-related objectives in Healthy People 2020 include screening rates of about 69 percent during office visits
#Health costs of air pollution from agriculture clarifiedammonia pollution from agricultural sources poses larger health costs than previously estimated according to NASA-funded research.
The improved simulation helped the scientists narrow in on the estimated health costs from air pollution associated with food produced for export--a growing sector of agriculture and a source of trade surplus.
The new research by Paulot and Jacob calculate the health cost associated with the ammonia emissions from agriculture exports to be $36 billion a year--equal to about half of the revenue generated by those same exports--or $100 per kilogram of ammonia.
The particulates that pose the greatest health risk are those that measure no more than 2. 5 micrometers across or about 1/30 the width of a human hair
For this reason the largest health costs are carried most often by the more populated states in the Northeast and Great lakes region.
and other things that are known to promote good health. Plant-based diets in general have also been linked to greater longevity less cancer lower cholesterol lower blood pressure
It is important to obtain the support of rice producers in Okinawa by demonstrating a clear economic as well as health benefits of the resistant-starch rice.
I hope that our project will improve people's health said Prof. Saze. In order to assess the effects of the resistant-starch rice the project also involves medical and physiological studies by the University of the Ryukyus Osaka Prefectural University and Ishikawa Prefectural University.
Validating the modelfeedback from a proposal submitted to the National institute of health confirmed that the researchers needed to use human breast tissue to prove the feasibility of the pig model.
since 1996 but the declines have been driven by a relatively small share of counties across the US according to new research from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington.
1996-2012 was published March 24 in the open-access peer-reviewed journal Population Health Metrics. Total cigarette smoking prevalence--the percentage of the population that smokes--has decreased not significantly in all counties
what we have seen with gaps in life expectancy between counties said Dr. Ali Mokdad Professor of Global Health at IHME and one of the study authors.
According to the most recent figures from the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) study coordinated by IHME tobacco smoking was linked to 465000 deaths and 12%of total health loss in the US.
Globally tobacco led to 5. 7 million deaths and 5. 5%of total health loss.
since the first US Surgeon general's report on the negative health impact of smoking some counties in the US have higher smoking rates than certain countries around the world.
and people's health said the study's lead author Laura Dwyer-Lindgren. We need to better understand how to break that connection between poverty and health outcomes not only with smoking but with a range of risk factors.
Which counties had the highest and lowest total cigarette smoking prevalence for men in 2012?
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#Reducing E coli in cows, improving food safetya new biological treatment could help dairy cattle stave off uterine diseases
When bought in stores chitosan can be used to treat many ailments from obesity to anemia. On its own chitosan only works at acidic ph levels Jeong said.
Listeria is a rod-shaped bacterium highly prevalent in the environment and generally not a threat to human health.
graphic health warning sign at point of sale might notpolices that ban tobacco product displays at point of sale may reduce adults smoking by deterring purchases though a single graphic health warning sign
The study published in the March issue of American Journal of Public health looked at the behaviors of more than 1200 current adult smokers and recent quitters in a virtual convenience store in
or hidden with a graphic health warning sign on display. â#oetobacco ads and displays may act as cues to smoke stimulate purchases among customers who did not intend to buy cigarettes
though we found placing a single graphic health warning at the POS did not have the same effect. â#The results showed that adult smokers
The addition of a single graphic health warning sign at the point of sale did not affect smokersâ
#Precise reason for health benefits of dark chocolate: Thank hungry gut microbesthe health benefits of eating dark chocolate have been extolled for centuries
but the exact reason has remained a mystery--until now. Researchers have reported just that certain bacteria in the stomach gobble the chocolate
Finley also noted that combining the fiber in cocoa with prebiotics is likely to improve a person's overall health
Finley said that people could experience even more health benefits when dark chocolate is combined with solid fruits like pomegranates and acai.
versus the public health goals of eradicating the virus says Suarez. This work supports the field epidemiology studies that had identified live poultry markets as the likely source of the outbreak says Suarez.
In this study published in the Journal of Public health Dr. Helena Laroche an assistant professor of internal medicine
He said understanding essential motor proteins in bacteria will be important as researchers begin to apply DCA to advance human health.
And until now scientists believed the inner workings of movement were pretty much the same--the nerves send a message to the muscles
and agriculture to health and energy--the researchers took the so-called CH2011 Scenarios as their starting point for the future development of temperature and precipitation in Switzerland.
According to the Gates Foundation the awards recognize researchers who are developing ways to manage human waste that will help improve the health and lives of people around the world.
Thomas Nyambo of Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences in Tanzania; and Sabah A. Omar of the Kenya Medical Research Institute.
--and that concerns about social dangers more than physical dangers to health will be the cause of it.
which have been promoted widely by health practitioners to help wean smokers off cigarettes. But with e-cigarettes--which are marketed as'recreational'nicotine products--that simple distinction between'keep smoking
Dr. Chris Seabury and research associates (Yvette Halley and Eric Bhattarai) along with members of the Schubot Exotic Bird Health Center (Drs.
and public health in Texas Tech's College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural resources adds to this ongoing national dialogue.
We believe an inclusive dialogue is needed to explore the use of animal drugs solely to improve performance yet have no offsetting health benefits for the animals to
The second att 1 aids in the insects'immune response. These genes have been found to play a role in rootworm resistance to crop rotation.
Technology delivers new era of personalizationa team of researchers from the National institutes of health Emory University and Cedars-Sinai--specialists in identifying
Pierson was a member of the National institutes of health's Undiagnosed Diseases Program when he was introduced to the patient and his family.
The child was seen first at the NIH-UDP when he was 6; he was diagnosed with early-onset epileptic encephalopathy of unknown etiology.
The NIH-UDP is a program of NIH's National Human genome Research Institute (NHGRI) Office of Rare Diseases Research and Clinical Center.
Pierson and his colleagues at the NIH-UDP and Emory University used a recently developed technique called exome sequencing which focuses on this functional part of the genome.
This is the type of collaboration that will be needed in an age where we will struggle to connect vast data-collecting capability with the health of individual people said David Adams MD Phd pediatrician and biochemical geneticist at NHGRI.
and NIH colleagues that provides a more thorough description of how the GRIN2A mutation results in epilepsy.
Results appear in the Journal of Public health. In the fall of 2008 the booster club in Muscatine Iowa took a chance.
According to a new study published this week in the Journal of Public health the club netted stable sales and revenues with the healthy food additions over one full season.
Higher levels of hydrogen as set by a National institutes of health panel are undigested present when lactose ferments in the colon
This was one of the topics presented at the Gut Microbiota for Health World Summit in Miami FL USA.
On March 8-9 2014 internationally leading experts discussed the latest advances in gut microbiota research and its impact on health.
This is due to its crucial role not only for IBS but for gastrointestinal health in general. In order to further improve diagnosis
and the emergence of disease that can ultimately impact human health and livelihoods. The research published in the journal PLOS ONE
Understanding the natural diversity of viruses is critically important to identifying health risks. But authorities face a challenge both in focusing efforts in the right places
With this approach health authorities can design surveillance programs to detect a given percentage of flu virus diversity.
but for undernourished communities there are health benefits to consuming healthy animal products. However the goal of public health should be a balanced diet across all countries with a target of no more than 300 grams of red meat per person per week.
Close to one billion of the world's poorest people rely on livestock for their livelihood. Traditional animal husbandry supplies more than just food.
Professor Mark Eisler Chair in Global Farm animal Health in the School of Veterinary Sciences and Cabot Institute at the University of Bristol said:
#Stricter controls of wastewater reuse on crops needed to meet WHO guidelineswastewater used to irrigate agricultural crops in countries where water is scarce may contribute to significant public health risks such as diarrheal disease in children from rotavirus.
A new study of these risks found that wastewater used to irrigate vegetable plots in Asian countries poses health risks that may exceed World health organization (WHO) guidelines.
The authors recommend that stricter wastewater regulation may be needed to protect the health of farmers and consumers worldwide.
and given that China is the worldâ##s most populous country millions of people may be exposed to health risks from contamination.
Although health studies can trace the incidence of disease in a population conducting extensive experimental work
Food systems researchers Hoi-Fei Mok and Andrew J. Hamilton of The University of Melbourne in Australia instead created a statistical model to characterize the health risks posed by wastewater used to grow Asian vegetables The reach of the Asian vegetable
Considering the global increase in wastewater use for agricultural irrigation assessing the health risks from reuse schemes is necessary to develop better wastewater management policies to protect public health.
he is a researcher at the UPV/EHU's department of Preventative Medicine and Public health as well as a participant in the research.
Health education is crucial for protecting women and fetuses in particular. Cotinine the tobacco markerin the set of questions that the women in the study responded to they were asked about the lifestyles that could be linked to tobacco for example in
and to identify the best course of action for improving honeybee health. A team of scientists led by Professor Juliet Osborne from the Environment and Sustainability Institute University of Exeter (and previously at Rothamsted Research) developed BEEHAVE
This virtual hive is an important new research tool to help us understand how changes to the environment impact on bee health.
but it will also be an important training tool to help beekeepers better understand the impacts of their husbandry and other factors on the health and survival of their colonies.
In the study Group Health patients who were had overweight and hypertension were more likely to have lost 10 pounds in six months
One patient said'It's like having a dietitian in your pocket'said Beverly B. Green MD MPH a family doctor at Group Health an associate investigator at Group Health Research Institute and an assistant clinical
The visit to the dietitian was followed by planned follow-up by secure messaging (through Group Health's website for patients) to report their blood pressure weight
and of use of Group Health's secure messaging than did assigned the 46 to education and usual care.
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vegetable consumptionnew federal standards launched in 2012 that require schools to offer healthier meals have led to increased fruit and vegetable consumption according to a new study from Harvard School of Public health (HSPH) researchers.
and the improved dietary intakes will likely have important health implications for children wrote the researchers.
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UT Health Science Center researcher A. Pratap Kumar was already exploring the cork tree extract's promise in treating prostate cancer
Fibrosis is a process of uncontrolled scarring around the tumor gland said Dr. Kumar a professor of urology in the School of medicine at the Health Science Center and the study's principal investigator.
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because they run a constant risk of anaphylactic shock from accidental consumption. On the other hand oral immunotherapy is still experimental and quite slow:
and the person became desensitized to walnut too said Nadeau who is also a member of the Children's Health Research Institute at Stanford.
Consumer concerns about bacterial resistance to antibiotics have prompted the swine industry to seek additional methods to protect the health of pigs including special feed additives.
and Plant Health Inspection Services (APHIS) and the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) demonstrates that it is possible to qualify bison coming from an infected herd as free of brucellosis using quarantine procedures.
which include a compelling graphic image of the negative health impacts of smoking were more likely to be aware of
and understand the health risks of tobacco products. The study led by Dina Borzekowski Ed. D in the University of Maryland School of Public health (UMD SPH)
and Joanna Cohen Phd Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public health (JHSPH) showed that only 38%of children had any awareness of warning labels currently being featured on cigarette packages.
Even after showing warning labels to participating children around two-thirds (62%)of the children were unable to explain what the health warnings were about.
Among the six countries studied awareness and understanding of health warning labels was greatest among children in Brazil where graphic warning labels often featuring extremely gruesome pictures have been featured
since 2002 and cover 100%of either the front or back of the cigarette package.
Their findings published in the Journal of Public health offer data from a sample of 2423 five and six year-old children interviewed in Brazil China India Nigeria Pakistan and Russia about their awareness and understanding
of cigarette health warning labels. Pro-smoking messages are reaching the world's most susceptible audiences explains Dr. Borzekowski research professor in the UMD SPH Department of Behavioral and Community Health.
We need to do a better job globally to reach children with anti-smoking messages. To do this health warning messages should be big and clear especially for low-literacy populations children and young people.
According to the World health organization's Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) tobacco product packages and labeling should effectively communicate the health risks associated with tobacco use
and that the effectiveness of these health warnings and messages increases with their prominence and with the use of pictures.
This new study follows recent work by Borzekowski and Cohen published in the journal Pediatrics in October 2013.
In contrast to the higher awareness among children in Brazil where tobacco warning labels and large and graphic awareness and understanding of health warning labels was lowest among children from Indian and Nigeria.
and the Nigerian warning label uses only a vague text message (The Federal Ministry of Health warns that smokers are liable to die young.)
Heath warning labels on cigarette packs are an important medium for communicating about the serious health effects caused by tobacco products said Dr. Cohen director of the JHSPH Institute for Global Tobacco Control.
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