http://www.physorg.com/ en-us Physorg.com internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. 'Prevention is the best cure' is a common expression, but what happens if preventative measures are not used? A large proportion of pregnant Ugandan women are going out of their way not to be HIV tested, increasing the risk of mother-to-child transmission. http://www.physorg.com/news177851040.html Medicine & Health Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:30:01 EST news177851040 (PhysOrg.com) -- Patients with higher body mass indexes are more challenging to sedate, according to results found by a University of Cincinnati (UC) researcher studying data from common oral surgeries. http://www.physorg.com/news174921147.html Medicine & Health Fri, 16 Oct 2009 14:40:08 EST news174921147 A new multisite study by UCLA and RAND Corp. researchers and colleagues has found that 7 percent of fifth-graders and their families have experienced homelessness at some point in their lives and that the occurrence is even higher -- 11 percent -- for African American children and those from the poorest households. http://www.physorg.com/news167990738.html Medicine & Health Tue, 28 Jul 2009 09:20:01 EST news167990738 (AP) -- A new Internet data map offers a first-of-its-kind, county-level look at HIV cases in the U.S. and finds the infection rates tend to be highest in the South. http://www.physorg.com/news164898312.html Medicine & Health Mon, 22 Jun 2009 14:05:53 EST news164898312 In the United States, nearly 13 percent of adults age 20 and older have diabetes, but 40 percent of them have not been diagnosed, according to epidemiologists from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), whose study includes newly available data from an Oral Glucose Tolerance Test (OGTT). Diabetes is especially common in the elderly: nearly one-third of those age 65 and older have the disease. An additional 30 percent of adults have pre-diabetes, a condition marked by elevated blood sugar that is not yet in the diabetic range. http://www.physorg.com/news152194107.html Medicine & Health Mon, 26 Jan 2009 12:09:01 EST news152194107 In 2007, South Africa's new Children's Act came into effect, granting children 12 years and older a host of rights relating to reproductive health, including the right to access condoms. But current policies allow individual schools to decide whether or not to give out condoms -- policies that two researchers, writing in this week's PLoS Medicine, say could damage the health of the country's youth. http://www.physorg.com/news151737927.html Medicine & Health Wed, 21 Jan 2009 05:25:57 EST news151737927 Less experienced prostitutes are more likely to have sexually transmitted infections (STIs). A study of more than a thousand female sex workers in Cambodia, reported in the open access journal BMC Infectious Diseases, has shown that girls who were new to the sex industry were twice as likely to have gonorrhoea or chlamydia. http://www.physorg.com/news148278652.html Medicine & Health Fri, 12 Dec 2008 04:30:52 EST news148278652 The American Medical Association journal Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine has published a new study by researchers at Cornell University indicating evidence of an environmental trigger for autism among genetically vulnerable children. It is the first peer-reviewed study to positively associate the prevalence of autism to a factor related to the levels of precipitation in the areas in which children live. http://www.physorg.com/news145544025.html Medicine & Health Mon, 10 Nov 2008 12:53:45 EST news145544025 Children living in counties with higher levels of annual precipitation appear more likely to have higher prevalence rates of autism, according to a report in the November issue of Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine. The results raise the possibility that an environmental trigger for autism may be associated with precipitation and may affect genetically vulnerable children. http://www.physorg.com/news144956488.html Medicine & Health Mon, 03 Nov 2008 17:41:28 EST news144956488 Young adults without a family history of bowel disease are unlikely to develop adenomas, the colorectal polyps most likely to lead to cancer, according to new research directed by scientists at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center. The finding supports current cancer screening guidelines recommending adults in general undergo screening colonoscopies starting at age 50. http://www.physorg.com/news142012417.html Medicine & Health Tue, 30 Sep 2008 16:53:37 EST news142012417 HIV-infected patients have a higher prevalence of fractures than non HIV-infected patients, across both genders and critical fracture sites according to a new study accepted for publication in The Endocrine Society's Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism (JCEM). http://www.physorg.com/news139131178.html Medicine & Health Thu, 28 Aug 2008 08:32:58 EST news139131178 The standard regimens to treat tuberculosis (TB) are inadequate in countries with high rates of multi-drug resistant (MDR) TB. In countries with high rates of MDR-TB, patients are nearly twice as likely to fail their initial treatment than those in countries with low rates, according to a new analysis of World Health Organization (WHO) data. This finding suggests strongly that current TB treatment regimens need to updated and revised to address the shifting landscape of public health in the face of MDR-TB. http://www.physorg.com/news136793347.html Medicine & Health Fri, 01 Aug 2008 07:09:07 EST news136793347