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Prospective health of the Hispanic/Latino population in the US: an interview with Dr. Martha Daviglus, University of Illinois at Chicago

Heart disease is one of the leading causes of death among Hispanic/ Latino adults living in the US and this population is known to have high rates of obesity and diabetes.

5 Aug 2013

NCDP joins Earth Institute

The National Center for Disaster Preparedness, a research, policy and education institution that has worked for the past decade across the United States to strengthen responses to extreme weather, terrorism and other threats, has joined Columbia University's Earth Institute.

2 Aug 2013

Exercise can improve overall health but does not reduce hot flashes in midlife women

Exercise has proven health benefits, but easing hot flashes isn't one of them. After participating in a 12-week aerobic exercise program, sedentary women with frequent hot flashes had no fewer or less bothersome hot flashes than a control group.

31 Jul 2013

Experts team up to launch International Centre for Mental Health Social Research

Mental health experts from around the world are teaming up to undertake a unique research programme applying social science to mental health practice.

22 Jul 2013

Study reveals that nondrinkers have higher mortality risk than light drinkers

As a class, people who don't drink at all have a higher mortality risk than light drinkers. But nondrinkers are a diverse bunch, and the reasons people have for abstaining affects their individual mortality risk, in some cases lowering it on par with the risk for light drinkers, according to a University of Colorado study.

19 Jul 2013

Women who survive cancer have severe menopausal hot flashes

Women who survive cancer have more frequent, severe, and troubling hot flashes than other women with menopausal symptoms, according to a study published online today in Menopause, the journal of The North American Menopause Society (NAMS).

17 Jul 2013

UC Riverside study finds that married men are less likely to die of HIV/AIDS

At the height of the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s men who were married were significantly less likely to die of HIV/AIDS than their divorced or otherwise single counterparts, according to a University of California, Riverside analysis of new mortality data for that era.

15 Jul 2013

New book reveals the ambivalence that still exists toward same-sex marriage

Few issues in American society have provoked such polarized -- and heated -- responses as same-sex marriage. What may come as a surprise, however, is how polarizing the right to marry has been within the gay and lesbian community.

5 Jul 2013

Researchers find that hot flashes take heavier toll on quality of life in HIV-infected women

Women with HIV are living longer, so more are entering menopause. As they do, they suffer more severe hot flashes than women without HIV, and their hot flashes take a heavier toll on their quality of life and daily functioning, found researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital.

4 Jul 2013

Routledge Journals publishes Military Behavioral Health

Routledge Journals is pleased to announce the publication of Military Behavioral Health: An International Journal of Research and Community Study, which is affiliated with the University of Southern California School of Social Work, Center for Innovation and Research on Veterans & Military Families.

2 Jul 2013

$Vitamin D and calcium supplements can prevent fractures$

Vitamin D and calcium supplements can prevent fractures

Should women take calcium and vitamin D supplements after menopause for bone health? Recommendations conflict, and opinions are strong. But now, an analysis from the major Women's Health Initiative (WHI) trial throws weight on the supplement side-at least for women taking hormones after menopause. The analysis was published online today in Menopause, the journal of The North American Menopause Society.

26 Jun 2013

New study finds that sibling aggression associated with worse mental health

Fights between siblings - from toy-snatching to clandestine whacks to being banished from the bedroom - are so common they're often dismissed as simply part of growing up. Yet a new study from researchers at the University of New Hampshire finds that sibling aggression is associated with significantly worse mental health in children and adolescents.

17 Jun 2013

UW statistical analysis shows world population could reach nearly 11 billion by end of century

A new statistical analysis shows the world population could reach nearly 11 billion by the end of the century, according to a United Nations report issued June 13. That's about 800 million, or about 8 percent, more than the previous projection of 10.1 billion, issued in 2011.

14 Jun 2013

New research shows that literacy has greater impact on public health in India

Pro-market policies for developing countries have long been based on the belief that increasing average income is key to improving public health and societal well-being.

14 Jun 2013

Study: More than 50% of middle-aged women who still have regular period cycles have hot flashes

More than half of middle-aged women who still have regular cycles have hot flashes. Asian and Hispanic women are less likely to have them than white women, but compared with previous studies, the figures are surprisingly high, showed a survey of some 1,500 women published online today in Menopause, the journal of The North American Menopause Society (NAMS).

12 Jun 2013

Treatment can restore satisfying sex life post menopause

A satisfying sex life is an important contributor to older adults' quality of life, but the sexual pain that can come after menopause can rob women and their partners of that satisfaction. Treatment can help restore it, shows a global survey including some 1,000 middle-aged North American men and women, published online today in Menopause, the journal of The North American Menopause Society (NAMS).

5 Jun 2013

Young people: The most likely targets of rape, other sexual assaults

Sexual assault has almost as much to do with age as it does with gender, according to Penn State criminologists. Young people -- both male and female -- are the most likely targets of rape and other sexual assaults, said Richard Felson, professor of criminology and sociology.

1 Jun 2013

Whiplash therapy: an interview with Dr Williamson and Dr Williams, University of Warwick

A whiplash injury is a common soft-tissue injury that may result in neck pain and other symptoms like headaches and arm pain.

30 May 2013

New study finds growing disparities in health behaviors among less-educated white women

Less-educated white women were increasingly more likely to die than their better-educated peers from the mid-1990s through the mid-2000s, according to a new study, which found that growing disparities in economic circumstances and health behaviors-particularly employment status and smoking habits-across education levels accounted for an important part of the widening mortality gap.

30 May 2013

First book addressing the issue of child sexual abuse in the Caribbean to be published

Professor Adele Jones, Director of the Centre for Applied Childhood Studies at the University of Huddersfield has co authored and edited the first book to address the issue of child sexual abuse within a region of the world constructed as a 'paradise' in the language of global travel.

30 May 2013

Sociology News and Research

Prospective health of the Hispanic/Latino population in the US: an interview with Dr. Martha Daviglus, University of Illinois at Chicago

NCDP joins Earth Institute

Exercise can improve overall health but does not reduce hot flashes in midlife women

Experts team up to launch International Centre for Mental Health Social Research

Study reveals that nondrinkers have higher mortality risk than light drinkers

Women who survive cancer have severe menopausal hot flashes

UC Riverside study finds that married men are less likely to die of HIV/AIDS

New book reveals the ambivalence that still exists toward same-sex marriage

Researchers find that hot flashes take heavier toll on quality of life in HIV-infected women

Routledge Journals publishes Military Behavioral Health

Vitamin D and calcium supplements can prevent fractures

New study finds that sibling aggression associated with worse mental health

UW statistical analysis shows world population could reach nearly 11 billion by end of century

New research shows that literacy has greater impact on public health in India

Study: More than 50% of middle-aged women who still have regular period cycles have hot flashes

Treatment can restore satisfying sex life post menopause

Young people: The most likely targets of rape, other sexual assaults

Whiplash therapy: an interview with Dr Williamson and Dr Williams, University of Warwick

New study finds growing disparities in health behaviors among less-educated white women

First book addressing the issue of child sexual abuse in the Caribbean to be published

Expanding research and clinical options for children with cancer

Examining how pain could play a direct protective role in the gut

From Puberty to Menopause: Clue’s CEO, Audrey Tsang on the Power of Femtech

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