News tagged with adult population


17 million US children live more than an hour away from trauma care

Medicine & Health / Other

created Jun 01, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

More than 17 million U.S. children live more than an hour away by ground or air transportation from a life-saving pediatric trauma center, according to a new study by researchers at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia ...





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Childhood cancer survivors less likely to marry, researchers find

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Nov 03, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Adult survivors of childhood cancer are 20 to 25 percent more likely to never marry compared with siblings and the general population, Yale School of Medicine researchers report in a new study published in Cancer Epidemiology, Bi ...


Baby canine teeth: No evidence to support extraction

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created Apr 15, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

The practice of extracting baby canine teeth to make way for adult canines that are erupting in the wrong place has no evidential basis, according to a new study by Cochrane Researchers. In a systematic review, the researchers ...


Patches of burnt grass are seen in a tree forest in the Ugandan north-eastern plains

Uganda forests rapidly disappearing: study

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jun 20, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 4

Uganda has lost nearly a third of its forest cover since 1990 due to expanding farmlands, a rapidly growing human population and increased urbanisation, a government report said on Friday.


Therapeutic cloning gets a boost with new research findings

Medicine & Health / Research

created Mar 25, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A paper by San Antonio and Honolulu researchers offers the first direct demonstration that cloning by somatic cell nuclear transfer does not lead to an increase in the frequency of point mutations.


It takes 2 to tutor a sparrow

It takes two to tutor a sparrow

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Oct 21, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- It may take a village to raise a child, and apparently it takes at least two adult birds to teach a young song sparrow how and what to sing.


Research Identifies Link Between Childhood ADHD and Adult Crime

Research Identifies Link Between Childhood ADHD and Adult Crime

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Oct 19, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Schoolchildren with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder are substantially more likely to engage in many types of criminal activity such as burglary, theft and drug dealing as they grow ...


Report finds troubling health trends in California's Asian, Pacific communities

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created Apr 23, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new report by UCLA researchers reveals higher-than-average rates of cancer, childhood obesity and diabetes, and an alarmingly high population of the uninsured, among California's Asian American, Native ...


Fitness levels decline with age, especially after 45

Medicine & Health / Health

created Oct 26, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Men and women become gradually less fit with age, with declines accelerating after age 45, according to a report in the October 26 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. However, mainta ...


UK national autism research study results published

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Sep 22, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

The first ever major study into adults living with autism was published today by the NHS Information Centre. The report, entitled 'Autism Spectrum Disorders in adults living in households throughout England 2007' was written ...


Transplant patients have worse cancer outcomes, analysis shows

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created May 15, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

After comparing two patient cancer registries—one featuring transplant patients and the other the general population—researchers at the University of Cincinnati (UC) have found that transplant patients experience worse outcomes ...



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