Medical Xpress: PHYSorg news tagged with: immigrants http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Rutgers study: Third of N.J. immigrant children, many adult newcomers lack health insurance One-third of immigrant children and more than 70 percent of foreign-born, nonelderly adults living in New Jersey five years or less lack health coverage, a Rutgers statewide survey finds. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-rutgers-nj-immigrant-children-adult.html Health Wed, 29 Jun 2011 12:00:19 EST news228567608 Patient navigators appear to improve colorectal cancer screening rate in ethnically diverse patients Among low-income patients who are black or whose primary language is not English, patient navigators may help improve colorectal cancer (CRC) screening rates, according to a report in the May 23 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. The article is part of the journal's Health Care Reform series. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-05-patient-colorectal-cancer-screening-ethnically.html Cancer Mon, 23 May 2011 17:30:10 EST news225390594 'Fatting in': Immigrant groups eat high-calorie American meals to fit in Immigrants to the United States and their U.S.-born children gain more than a new life and new citizenship. They gain weight. The wide availability of cheap, convenient, fatty American foods and large meal portions have been blamed for immigrants packing on pounds, approaching U.S. levels of obesity within 15 years of their move. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-05-fatting-immigrant-groups-high-calorie-american.html Health Tue, 03 May 2011 11:14:08 EST news223640034 New immigrants less likely to have premature babies in the first 5 years in Canada: study Immigrants living less than five years in Canada are less likely than their Canadian-born counterparts to have premature babies regardless of where they live, according to a new study by St. Michael's Hospital. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-04-immigrants-premature-babies-years-canada.html Health Thu, 28 Apr 2011 12:00:05 EST news223209279 Immigrant screening misses majority of imported latent TB, finds study Current UK procedures to screen new immigrants for tuberculosis (TB) fail to detect more than 70 per cent of cases of latent infection, according to a new study published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-04-immigrant-screening-majority-imported-latent.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Thu, 21 Apr 2011 04:45:31 EST news222579875