News tagged with health communication


Older adults benefit from home-based DVD exercise program

Fitness DVDs are a multimillion-dollar business, and those targeting adults over the age of 55 are a major part of the market. With names like "Boomers on the Move," "Stronger Seniors" and "Ageless Yoga," ...

Health created Mar 11, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

One in three children who survive meningitis will suffer after-effects

(Medical Xpress)—New research published online first in The Lancet Neurology highlights the long-term, often hidden, after-effects of meningitis in children. The study, led by Professor Russell Viner at the ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Aug 24, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Study into benefits of singing proves positive impact on health

A pioneering research project to measure the value of singing for older people has revealed a consistently higher measure of health for those involved in community singing programmes.

Health created Aug 17, 2012 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Vitamin D does not boost kids' brainpower, study finds

High levels of vitamin D do not seem to boost teens' academic performance, indicates research published online in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health.

Health created Apr 11, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Early life emotional trauma may stunt intellectual development

Early life emotional trauma may stunt intellectual development, indicates the first long term study of its kind, published online in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health.

Health created Apr 02, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Tool assessing how community health centers deliver 'medical home' care may be flawed

On the health front, the poor often have at least two things going against them: a lack of insurance and chronic illnesses, of which diabetes is among the most common.

Health created Feb 15, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

High childhood IQ linked to subsequent illicit drug use

A high childhood IQ may be linked to subsequent illegal drug use, particularly among women, suggests research published online in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health.

Health created Nov 15, 2011 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Groundbreaking study finds home treatment of pneumonia better than hospital care

In a breakthrough study published online today in The Lancet, researchers from Boston University, Save the Children and the WHO found that young children treated at home for severe pneumonia by Pakistan's network of "lady ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Nov 10, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Modern shift work pattern potentially less harmful to health

Recent research suggests that the modern day-day-night-night shift pattern for shift workers may not be as disruptive or as potentially carcinogenic as older, more extreme shift patterns.

Health created Sep 27, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Pre-pregnancy overweight may program teen asthma symptoms

Mums who are overweight or obese when they become pregnant may be programming their children to have asthma-like respiratory symptoms during adolescence, suggests research published online in the Journal of Epidemiology an ...

Overweight and Obesity created Aug 16, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Climbing the social ladder seems to lessen high blood pressure risk

Social mobility - upwards - seems to curb the risk of developing high blood pressure among those born on the lower rungs of the ladder, suggests research published online in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health.

Health created Jul 12, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Drink-fueled memory blackouts among students predict future injury risk

The higher the number of drink fuelled memory blackouts a student experiences, the greater is his/her risk of sustaining a future injury while under the influence, reveals research published online in Injury Prevention.

Health created Jun 30, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Study examines impact of Massachusetts health law on emergency department visits

While overall emergency department use in Massachusetts continues to rise, the number of low-severity visits dropped slightly since the implementation of the state's health care reform law, according to an Annals of Emergency Me ...

Health created Jun 06, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Doctors and nurses key to preventing vaccine refusal outbreaks

(Medical Xpress) -- Well-informed doctors and nurses are the key to preventing parents refusing childhood immunisations because of vaccine scare campaigns, a University of Sydney expert writes in the latest edition of the ...

Health created May 27, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Living close to major road may impair kidney function

Living close to a major road may impair kidney function—itself a risk factor for heart disease and stroke—and so help contribute to the known impact of air pollution on cardiovascular risk, suggests research published ...

Health created May 13, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0