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FROM: http://www.cdc.gov/Features/dsSickleCell_ED_Visits/
Between 1999 and 2007, approximately 197,333 sickle cell disease ED visits occurred each year. |
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FROM: http://www.webmd.com/add-adhd/guide/attention-deficit-hyperactivity-disorder-adhd Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is also known as hyperactivity or attention deficit disorder (ADD). ADHD is a common condition that affects children and adolescents, while ADD is more common in adults. The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) estimates that 3% to 5% of children have ADHD. Some experts, though, says ADHD may occurs in 8% to 10% of school age children. Experts also question whether kids really outgrow ADHD. What that means is that this disorder may be more common in adults than previously thought. Children with ADHD generally have problems paying attention or concentrating. They can't seem to follow directions and are easily bored or frustrated with tasks. They also tend to move constantly and are impulsive, not stopping to think before they act. These behaviors are generally com ... Read more » |
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FROM: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-11310931
Methadone is a heroin substitute used to treat withdrawal symptoms
Cambodia has launched the country's first methadone-treatment programme, in a new approach to help heroin users. The World Health Organization (WHO) told the BBC that addiction was widely viewed in Cambodia as a social problem, rather than a health issue. Until now the government has favoured treatment centres which emphasise hard work and exercise. But health workers and human rights grou ... Read more » |
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FROM: http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=52908
By Marwaan Macan-Markar BANGKOK, Sep 21 , 2010 (IPS) - Cambodia’s partial success in reducing child mortality rates has exposed a fault line of inequity, one that underscores the advantage that the country’s urban population has had over the rural poor. Yet the South-east Asian kingdom, 35 percent of whose 14 million population live below the poverty line, is not alone in having this mixed record of reducing child mortality, say child rights experts. Some of the other countries in the region reflect a similar trend 10 years after world leaders committed to meet a set of eight targets to help the world’s poor by 2015. The fourth of the eight U.N. Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) seeks to achieve a two-thirds reduction in child mortality rates by 2015. "To be fair to governments in South-east Asia, chil ... Read more » |
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FROM: http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/sarah-boseley-global-health/2010/aug/20/drug-resistance-infectiousdiseases Drug-resistance could put an end to the antibiotic era. The World Health Organisation today tells all countries they must act on hygiene and infection control 
Scanning electron micrograph of Escherichia coli bacteria (E. coli). Photograph: S. Lowry/University of Ulster/Getty
The World Health Organisation is today urging countries to take action against the spread of drug-resistant bacteria, which threaten to deprive us of antibiotics whi ... Read more » |
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FROM: http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/blog/2010/sep/16/molecular-complexity-la-rna The La molecule shows that the deeper you look, the more complicated life becomes 
N-terminal domain of La complexed with AUUUU RNA. Illustration: Stephen Curry
Please don't be alarmed gentle reader, but I am here to tell you that you are an abominable monster. And I have made it my job, like an inverse Dr Frankenstein, to di ... Read more » |
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FROM: http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2010/sep/15/obesity-crisis-cannot-solved-exercise Study urges severely obese to eat more healthily, finding that forgoing a small sandwich is as effective as a one-hour run
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