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Latest figures show that roughly 135 000 African-born physicians and professional nurses practice overseas in developed countries. This finding, published in the online open access journal Human Resources for Health, suggests that approximately one-fifth of doctors and 10% of nurses born in any of the 27 African states are currently working in a developed nation.
The [...]

The percentage of teens who report solely positive benefits from not having sex declines precipitously with age, according to a new study by scientists at the University of California, San Francisco.
The finding suggests that adults should give teens guidance in coping with both the negative outcomes of engaging in sexual behaviors, and the negative experiences [...]

Experts are warning policy makers that allergic disease might replace infectious disease as a major cause of ill health in cities undergoing rapid demographic changes in developing countries.
New research tracking the number of cases of childhood eczema across the globe has revealed big changes in the prevalence of the condition over the last five to [...]

The Columbia Center for Children’s Environmental Health (CCCEH) at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health, has received a $10.4 million grant from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) to study environmental contributors to childhood asthma. The grant was awarded via a new NIEHS initiative called Disease Investigation through Specialized Clinically-Oriented Ventures in [...]

Youth who are going to develop psychosis can be identified before their illness becomes full-blown 35 percent of the time if they meet widely accepted criteria for risk, but that figure rises to 65 to 80 percent if they have certain combinations of risk factors, the largest study of its kind has shown. Knowing what [...]

California received a C average on health and education for the 9.5 million children in the state, according to the annual State of the State’s Children report card released on Thursday, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. The report card, scored by researchers at Children Now, covers a range of issues, including health insurance, obesity, asthma, [...]

California received a C average on health and education for the 9.5 million children in the state, according to the annual State of the State’s Children report card released on Thursday, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. The report also found racial and ethnic health disparities among children in the state.
The report card, scored by researchers [...]

Immigrant children are five times as likely as U.S-born children to suffer from lead poisoning in New York City, according to a new Health Department study, and the risk is highest among the most recent immigrants. The new study of children tested for lead poisoning in 2002, published online in the American Journal of Public [...]

Highly publicized events such as school shootings arouse public interest in the effects of media violence exposure on children, yet there is still considerable public debate about whether to take this issue seriously. A recent article in Social Issues and Policy Review summarizes the research on the effects of media violence and convincingly demonstrates the [...]

Children whose mothers have a history of abuse by intimate partners have higher health care needs than children whose mothers have no history of abuse, according to a study conducted at Group Health, a Seattle-based health plan.
These needs - expressed in terms of the cost of providing care and use of health services - were [...]