C M G Buttery

As we age many of us may need nursing support (up to one in three of those turning 65 in 2010.) The proportion of the “aged” population is increasing dramatically due to our ability to extend lives and modify chronic diseases.

University of Minnesota School of Pubic Health finds nearly one in six children are already alcohol users. Sixth-grade users of alcohol were significantly different from the non-users on almost all risk factors examined. For example, users were more likely to be male, engage in violent or delinquent behavior, and have friends who used alcohol. Researchers [...]

Researchers at Purdue University have developed a new technology that can simultaneously screen thousands of samples of food or water for several dangerous food-borne pathogens in one to two hours. With the repeated recalls of tainted produce and the inablity of local communities to provide sufficient funds to inspect food service places adequately, and usually [...]

With support from the Welcome Institute in the UK researchers have been mapping Malaria in an effort to understand how to limit its spread and focus limited resources more carefully. About 35 percent of the world’s population is at risk of contracting deadly malaria. This new map (the first in several decades) is important in [...]

In a study published in PLoS Medicine today, psychologists at the University of Hull in the UK, found that antidepressants have no clinically significant effects in all cases apart from a small group of the most severely depressed patients. Their analysis showed that in comparison to placebo effects, antidepressants do not have clinically significant effects [...]

The National Osteoporosis Foundation (NOF) is releasing its new Clinician’s Guide to Prevention and Treatment of Osteoporosis representing a major breakthrough in the way healthcare providers evaluate and treat people with low bone mass or osteoporosis and the risk of fractures. The NOF summarizes universal recommendations in its 5 Steps to Bone Health. These 5 [...]

From the NIH today we find that getting older is less likely to be associated with declining memory. Rates of cognitive impairment among older Americans are on the decline, according to a new study supported by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) comparing the cognitive health of older people in 1993 and 2002. Higher levels [...]

The time has come for breast cancer risk assessment, counseling and genetic testing to move from cancer specialists to the realm of primary care, according to a presentation at the AAAS annual meeting, held this year in Boston. “A growing body of evidence has documented the benefits of preventive measures for high-risk women including those [...]

STD infections continue to increase in prevalence inteh U.S. but in Australia a new study indicates that the safe sex message is getting through to Australian women, with nearly 70 per cent of those surveyed currently using contraception and 15 per cent using not one but two contraceptive methods to prevent pregnancy and protect themselves [...]

Duke Hospital is limiting access by visitors with Upper Respiratory Infections (URI). Many of these will be Influenza and can harm those in the hospital already. Similarly businesses should tell employees with URIs to stay home. counsel all employees to wash hands frequently, and stop shaking hands when greeting visitors.