Very interesting. It just proves that we believe what we want to believe and there’s a lot of misinformation out there. | Voisin, who has a doctorate in social work and now teaches in the un |
| So Voisin, who has a doctorate in social work and now teaches in the university’s School of Social Service Administration, began to research why teens who live in violent communities might engage in risky sex. |
| “We know that living in a violent community affects young people in terms of their mental health outcomes, low school achievement, gang involvement,” said Voisin. “But no one had looked at the relationship between violence and sexual risk-taking.” |
| It soon became clear that the teens who didn’t practice safe sex (such as using a condom) weren’t doing so just because living in a stressful, high-risk community predisposed them to other high-risk behaviors, as Voisin initially believed. |
| Surprisingly, the young men were engaging in unsafe sex because they didn’t believe the dire statistics surrounding HIV infections and young black males. Read more at www.chicagotribune.com |
| The University of Southampton is launching the world’s largest-ever study of near-death experiences this week. |
| The AWARE (AWAreness during REsuscitation) study is to be launched by the Human Consciousness Project of the University of Southampton - an international collaboration of scientists and physicians who have joined forces to study the human brain, consciousness and clinical death.Read more at www.medicalnewstoday.com |
“Why is the H1N1 vaccine being given as nasal spray rather than a shot?” asks one mother. |
So I did a bit of digging around to try and find out if the spray delivery, while easier and less painful, is as effective. The answer, like so much in science, appears to be mixed. Read more at news.discovery.com |
Leave that to FOX for making such media headlines!
| • Three in five Americans believe that the government is responsible for ensuring that citizens have their basic health care needs met. |
| • The government is viewed as doing a poor job ensuring that Americans can meet their basic health care needs. |
| • A majority favors a public option available to all, while three-quarters favor one limited to those who cannot get insurance through their employers. |
| • A proposal, in which the government would require insurance companies to accept every applicant for coverage, has overwhelming support. |
| Nearly 45,000 people die in the United States each year — one every 12 minutes — in large part because they lack health insurance and can not get good care, Harvard Medical School researchers found in an analysis released on Thursday. |
| “We’re losing more Americans every day because of inaction … than drunk driving and homicide combined,” Dr. David Himmelstein |
Overall, researchers said American adults age 64 and younger who lack health insurance have a 40 percent higher risk of death than those who have coverage. |
The Harvard researchers analyzed data on about 9,000 patients tracked by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Health Statistics through the year 2000. They excluded older Americans because those aged 65 or older are covered by the U.S. Medicare insurance program. Read more at news.yahoo.com |
Of all places, it is unusual that this event took place and it was a success. | Zeba Raman is a 28-year-old Pakistani sex worker. Born into the profession in Karachi’s red light district of Napier Road, she plies her trade all over the city. |
| She is celebrating the launch of an initiative to promote health awareness among sex workers. |
| But prostitution remains illegal and anathema to many in Muslim-majority Pakistan. It is an ever-present fact of life, but never really acknowledged. |
| Pakistan’s first workshop on health awareness among sex workers has contributed to a new spirit of openness in the profession. |
| Dr Ghulam Murtaza, the head of the GRHF and the man behind the workshop, said the organisation was working to create awareness of safe sex among female sex workers. |
| “It was very difficult to gather sex workers under one roof. Many were simply afraid of being arrested,” |
| “We offered several incentives and assurances and paid them 1,000 rupees ($20) per day for their attendance,” he said. Read more at news.bbc.co.uk |
Amazing gesture! And remember, we’re talking about corporation here. Company sent DVD so Huntington Beach girl, 10, could watch it. |
| Colby Curtin said she did not want to die until she saw the new Disney-Pixar movie Up. |
HUNTINGTON BEACH – Colby Curtin, a 10-year-old with a rare form of cancer, was staying alive for one thing – a movie. |
From the minute Colby saw the previews to the Disney-Pixar movie Up, she was desperate to see it. Colby had been diagnosed with vascular cancer about three years ago, said her mother, Lisa Curtin, and at the beginning of this month it became apparent that she would die soon and was too ill to be moved to a theater to see the film. |
| A new analysis of the current swine-origin H1N1 influenza A virus suggests that transmission to humans occurred several months before recognition of the existing outbreak. |
| The work, published online in Nature today, highlights the need for systematic surveillance of influenza in swine |
| ‘Using computational methods, developed over the last ten years at Oxford, we were able to reconstruct the origins and timescale of this new pandemic,’ |
| ‘Our results show that this strain has been circulating among pigs, possibly among multiple continents, for many years prior to its transmission to humans.’ |
| The team conclude that ‘despite widespread influenza surveillance in humans, the lack of systematic swine surveillance allowed for the undetected persistence and evolution of this potentially pandemic strain for many years.’Read more at www.ox.ac.uk |
A RIGHT TO LIFE highlights the complexities of empowering the citizen-consumer by implementing reform in the public obstetric and gynaecological health care sector of Pakistan. Every year approximately 30,000 women die from pregnancy related complications and a further 375,000 suffer severe post-natal injuries. These figures place Pakistans maternal death and morbidity rates as the highest in South Asia.
The films narrative is largely conveyed and enacted by Dr Shershah Syed, Secretary General of the Pakistan Medical Association (2004-2006). Highly critical of the government, his determination to reduce pregnancy related deaths in Pakistan is earning him as many enemies as friends. |
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