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Highmark Provides Pediatricians With Res To Combat Childhood Obesity
Childhood obesity causes lifelong illness, leads to serious health complications in young adults and can lead to premature death in adulthood due to medical conditions such as diabetes, heart disease and hypertension. In addition to its significant human toll, childhood obesity alone costs the nation"s health care system some $14 billion annually.

Genetic Variation Associated With Survival Advantage In African Americans With HIV
From the start of the HIV epidemic, it appeared that some of the people who were infected with the virus were able to ward off the fatal effects of the disease longer than others. Recent studies have begun to unravel the cause of this phenomenon, and new research suggests that African Americans with the disease have a unique survival advantage if they have both a low white blood cell count (known as leukopenia) and a genetic variation that is found mainly in persons of African ancestry. This study was prepublished online on July 20, 2009, in Blood, the official journal of the American Society of Hematology.
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New Publication Indian Journal Of Surgical Oncology To Be Launched By Springer
Springer, one of the leading publishers in the fields of science, technology and medicine, has signed a co-publishing agreement with the Indian Association of Surgical Oncology (IASO), to launch the society"s official publication, the Indian Journal of Surgical Oncology (IJSO). Dr. Vijay Kumar, Secretary of the Indian Association of Surgical Oncology; Dr. K.S. Gopinath, editor of the IIndian Journal of Surgical Oncology; Dr. William F. Curtis, President of Springer Science+Business Media, LLC; and Sanjiv Goswami, Managing Director of Springer India, signed the agreement at Bangalore.
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Elderly Persons Living With A Spouse Report Better Preventive Care Use Than Those Living Alone Or With Children

Elderly persons living with a spouse have more timely preventive service use than those living alone or with offspring. The sole exception is in the case of hypertension screening. Data were taken from 13,038 community-dwelling elderly persons who participated in the 2002 to 2005 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey. The study"s authors estimated the likelihood of preventive care use among elderly persons in four living arrangements: living with one"s spouse only (52 percent), living alone (38 percent), living with one"s spouse and with one"s adult offspring (5 percent), and living with one"s adult offspring (5 percent). Preventive services included influenza vaccination; physical and dental checkups; and screenings for hypertension, cholesterol and colorectal cancer. "Educational Outreach interventions should target not only those elderly adults who live alone but also those living with adult offspring" the authors said. "The Relationship Between Living Arrangement and Preventive Care Use Among Community-Dwelling Elderly Persons." American Journal of Public Health


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