http://kimros.edublogs.org Prevention is better than disease Tue, 24 Nov 2009 18:16:06 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The objectives for Healthy People 2020 are now available for review and comment.  HHS  encourages participation in review and comment at the 2020 Objectives Site.  The site is easy to navigate, commenting is simple. I find many of the objectives grammatically convoluted  and confusing.  I hope the readers of this blog will visit and comment. http://kimros.edublogs.org/2009/11/24/healthy-people-2020-objectives/ A new study has found that "survivors of severe cases of food-borne illnesses can suffer lifelong health problems." Tanya Roberts, a board chairwoman of the Center for Foodborne Illness Research and Prevention tracked five major pathogens which "can cause paralysis, kidney failure, heart infections, neurological problems, and, in children, mental ... http://kimros.edublogs.org/2009/11/16/health-center-links-food-borne-illnesses-with-long-term-health-problems/ The Wall Street Journal (11/10, Dalton) reports that some countries' governments have stopped focusing on individual discipline to combat obesity, and instead are working to make entire communities more healthy by reducing the opportunities to live unhealthily. Laura Kettel Khan, an obesity expert at the CDC, says that "people are ... http://kimros.edublogs.org/2009/11/10/governments-look-to-community-level-solutions-for-obesity/ The World Health Organization has discovered that the "AIDS virus is the leading cause of death and disease among women between the ages of 15 and 44." Indeed, "women enjoy a biological advantage because they tend to live six to eight years longer than men," WHO chief Dr. Margaret Chan ... http://kimros.edublogs.org/2009/11/10/who-finds-hivaids-leading-cause-of-death-among-women-worldwide/ This so-called research gets the fickle finger of fate award  Published in Archives of Internal Medicine.  This needed research to validate it?  And there are those who say we need to spend more on researc!! http://kimros.edublogs.org/2009/10/27/fitness-levels-decline-with-age-especially-after-45/  Drawing on years of experience in cancer research and patient care, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center released today the most comprehensive, risk-based screening guidelines publicly available to date for breast, cervical and colorectal cancers (also see the MDAC Screening Guides). The new recommendations represent the first ... http://kimros.edublogs.org/2009/10/27/m-d-anderson-redefines-screening-guidelines-for-breast-cervical-and-colorectal-cancers/ Patients who die in the hospital in the United States are almost five times as likely to have spent part of their last hospital stay in the ICU than patients in England. What's more, over the age of 85, ICU usage among terminal patients is eight times higher in the ... http://kimros.edublogs.org/2009/10/27/us-patients-five-times-more-likely-to-spend-last-days-in-icu-than-patients-in-england/ A study released today in Pediatrics by The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia offers updated evidence that children ages 4 to 8 who are restrained in the rear seat of a car in a belt-positioning booster seat are 45 percent less likely to be injured in a crash compared with children ... http://kimros.edublogs.org/2009/10/23/aap-safety-benefits-of-booster-seats-reaffirmed/ More than 8,700 infants end up in the emergency room each year because their car seats are used improperly outside the car, according to study presented Monday at the American Academy of Pediatrics' annual meeting in Washington. Babies are spending more time in car seats, which have saved nearly 9,000 ... http://kimros.edublogs.org/2009/10/23/car-seats-can-be-dangerous-outside-the-car/ A new report from the Guttmacher Institute identifies how improved access to family planning services has reduced the use of abortion services worldwide although problems if access to either opportunities varies widely among different countries, particularly in the developing  countries.. http://kimros.edublogs.org/2009/10/19/abortion-and-unintended-pregnancy-decline-worldwide-as-contraceptive-use-increases/