Science news articles about 'health examination'

  • Health varies widely across different regions of Mexico

    ... diseases and injuries for Mexico and its states using data from death registers, censuses, health examination surveys, and epidemiological studies. Loss of healthy life years was measured using a ...
  • The health burden of raising a grandchild

    ... do not fully offset the lack of preventive health examinations during the crucial transition period ... centers so grandmothers can go through health checkups." Baker also emphasized the need for greater ...
  • World leaders must be more open about their health

    ... Prime Minister or President should have an independent health examination to ensure their ability to govern, argues ... made monthly public statements about his health with no mention of his true medical ...
  • Women's magazines downplay emotional health risks of cosmetic surgery: UBC study

    ... of Toronto's Dalla Lana School of Public Health, examined how Canada's five most popular English- ... emotional state. Of the articles that mention emotional health, only 18 per cent suggest cosmetic ...
  • Triple threat to health

    ... by virtue of their age, race, and gender. Given this triple threat to their overall health, examining the effect of family violence in this particular demographic group is particularly important, she ...
  • U of Minnesota researchers examine the value of health information technology

    ... Health Affairs. Researchers from the U's Carlson School of Management and the School of Public Health examined nationally representative Medicare data on more than 10 million hospital inpatient stays ...
  • Study examines dietary influences of liver disease

    ... George Ioannou of Veterans Affairs Puget Sound Health Care System in Seattle, investigated whether ... data from 9,221 participants in the National Health Examination Survey who had completed a 24-hour ...
  • Low levels of good cholesterol linked to memory loss, dementia risk

    ... age 60. Whitehall II, which began in 1985, is long-term health examination of more than 10,000 British civil servants working in London. "Memory problems are key in the diagnosis ...
  • Culture And Depression

    A new study from the Center for Addiction and Mental Health examines the widely held expectation that East-Asian people emphasize physical symptoms of depression, and offers clinicians valuable ...
  • Chronic ear infections linked to increased obesity risk

    ... whether a child will be overweight. Epidemiologist Howard Hoffman, MA, in a re-examination of the National Health Examination survey, which was conducted in the 1960s, found that 13,887 children ages ...
  • NIAID describes challenges, prospects for an HIV vaccine

    ... the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health, examine the extraordinarily challenging properties of the virus that have made a vaccine ...
  • Drinking alcohol associated with smaller brain volume

    ... spouses. Between 1999 and 2001, participants underwent magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and a health examination. They reported the number of alcoholic drinks they consumed per week, along with their ...
  • A new light on work-related fatigue

    ... Tao-Yuan General Hospital of Taiwan. From October to December, 2007, an annual health examination was performed for the workers from an electronics manufacturing factory in Taiwan. Health records of ...
  • Postnatal depression can possibly be prevented drug-free

    ... and Canada research chair in perinatal community health, examined the effectiveness of telephone-based peer ... screening of more than 21,000 women from seven health regions in Ontario, 701 high risk ...
  • Exercise underutilized for chronic back and neck pain

    ... of exercise is being prescribed. A new study, funded by the National Institutes of Health, examined these questions and found that exercise may be underutilized for chronic back and neck pain. The ...

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