Gay men
• LGBT Health • Sep 13 11
Gay men’s health has for many years predominantly focused on HIV prevention and treatment. Despite being over two decades into the AIDS epidemic, it…
Transgender health
• LGBT Health • Sep 13 11
Few data are available on the number of transgender individuals in the United States; however, studies from the Netherlands estimate a prevalence of 1…
Tobacco use
• LGBT Health • Sep 13 11
Tobacco use is the single most preventable cause of morbidity and mortality in the United States. Current estimates are that between 2000 and 2004,…
Health Issues Affecting LGBT Community
• LGBT Health • Sep 13 11
The Healthy People 2010 Companion Document for LGBT Health highlighted several areas of concern that affect all subpopulations within this community, including mental health,…
Barriers to access to care
• LGBT Health • Sep 13 11
The LGBT community faces several barriers to access to care that qualifies them as a special or vulnerable population. In particular, some barriers include…
Clinical research into LGBT populations
• Public Health • • LGBT Health • Sep 13 11
For public health departments and providers to plan appropriate services for a population, especially a vulnerable one, it is essential to have reliable data…
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Health: A Neglected Issue
• Public Health • • LGBT Health • Sep 13 11
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) communities have existed in all cultures throughout recorded history; however, it is only in the last two decades…
Hold the pillow mint, send up the yoga mat
• Alternative Medicine • • Public Health • Sep 13 11
Hotel chains are delivering everything from yoga videos to recumbent bicycles to guests who prefer to work out their jet lag, or shape up…
Fatherhood lowers testosterone in men, study finds
• Endocrinology • • Sexual Health • Sep 13 11
Fatherhood lowers testosterone levels, U.S. researchers said they have confirmed, making it easier for men to be involved in raising children.
High levels of…
Researchers focus on secondary stroke prevention after study reveals room for improvement
• Stroke • Sep 13 11
A year after hospital discharge, the majority of stroke patients are listening to doctor’s orders when it comes to taking their prescribed secondary stroke…
Science finding is music to the ears
• Ear / Nose / Throat • • Aging and Gerontology • Sep 13 11
A study led by Canadian researchers has found the first evidence that lifelong musicians experience less age-related hearing problems than non-musicians.
While hearing studies…
Cardiotrophin 1 shows promising results for treatment of obesity and metabolic syndrome
• Obesity • Sep 13 11
Scientists from the Center for Applied Medical Research (CIMA) of the University of Navarra (Spain) have discovered that cardiotrophin 1, a protein synthesized by…
Flu vaccines for nursing home workers effective in reducing outbreaks: study
• Flu • • Public Health • Sep 12 11
Higher flu vaccination rates for health care personnel can dramatically reduce the threat of flu outbreak among nursing home residents, according to a study…
High-fat diet and lack of enzyme can lead to heart disease in mice
• Dieting • • Heart • Sep 12 11
It’s no secret that a high-fat diet isn’t healthy. Now researchers have discovered a molecular clue as to precisely why that is.
Writing in…
Cognition research aims to reduce medical errors
• Public Health • Sep 12 11
How doctors, nurses and other health care professionals can be better prepared to reduce medical mistakes and improve patient care is the focus of…
Researchers find hormone that predicts premature death in kidney patients
• Urine Problems • Sep 10 11
Researchers at the University of Colorado School of Medicine have found that high levels of a specific hormone can predict which kidney patients will…
HIV prevalence in prisons around the world
• AIDS/HIV • • Prison Health Care • Sep 09 11
The number of prisoners living with HIV varies between countries. America has the highest prison population in the world, around 1.5 percent of whom…
Prison Health Care Conclusion
• Prison Health Care • Sep 09 11
A high incarceration rate comes with both an economic and social price. Housing prisoners is expensive regardless of whether the public or private sector…
How should prison health care be provided and funder?
• Prison Health Care • Sep 09 11
The delivery of prison health care ranges from that delivered by prison service employees to care delivered by on-site nurses or doctors. The differences…
Substance Abuse in prisoners
• Prison Health Care • • Cocaine Addiction • Sep 09 11
The United States now incarcerates people at a rate nearly five times the world average primarily because of drug offenses. More than two-thirds of…
Mental Health of Prisoners
• Psychiatry / Psychology • • Prison Health Care • Sep 09 11
Mental health problems are more prevalent among prisoners than the general population both in the United States and in other countries.[21] Whether or not…
HIV/AIDS in prisons
• AIDS/HIV • • Prison Health Care • Sep 09 11
HIV/AIDS in state and federal prisoners was more than 2.5 times higher than that in the U.S. population. Approximately 46 per 10,000 prison inmates…
Sexual Victimization
• Prison Health Care • Sep 09 11
Despite professed zero tolerance for sexual victimization in prison, such activity continues. Public awareness of prison rape and sexual assault (male and female) is…
Medical problems of prisoners
• Prison Health Care • Sep 09 11
In the United States, the Bureau of Justice surveys inmates in state and federal correctional facilities to quantify the incidence and prevalence of medical…
U.S. prison statistics
• Prison Health Care • Sep 09 11
In the United States in 2008, 739 per 100,000 population were either serving time, awaiting trial, or otherwise detained. Local jails held 785,556 persons…