In this week’s PLoS Medicine, Ricardo Soares MagalhГЈes and Archie Clements, from the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, describe how they used national cross-sectional household-based demographic health surveys to map the distribution of anaemia risk in preschool-age children in Burkina Faso, Ghana, and Mali. The use of such maps has significant practical implications for targeted [...]

Latest figures from the Health Protection Agency (HPA) indicate that flu activity in the UK is continuing to decline. The predominant strain in circulation is now influenza B which has overtaken influenza A H1N1 2009 ‘swine flu’. This drop in activity is consistent across all the surveillance systems that are used to look at levels [...]

A care standards tribunal has upheld a decision by the Care Quality Commission to refuse to register a private hospital in Rotherham. CQC inspectors had rejected an application by Rotherham Private Hospital Ltd to be registered as the provider of services at the Birkdale Clinic, Clifton Lane, Rotherham. At that time the application was made, [...]

The Care Quality Commission has told the Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals NHS Trust that it must take action to address shortages of staff at its three main hospitals. Reports on each of the hospitals, published by CQC, identify four breaches in essential standards of care, covering staffing levels, care and welfare of patients, staff training and [...]

Last year at the World Economic Forum, Bill and Melinda Gates called for the next ten years to be the decade of vaccines. This week as talks reconvene in Davos, Switzerland, Gates in partnership with the United Kingdom, has donated an additional $120 million dollars to fight polio in particular. This news comes in light [...]

Viewing TV coverage of terrorist events causes deterioration of psychological resources, such as commitment and a sense of success, and to feeling threatened, which in turn can also lead to loss of resources and other negative affects. This has been found in a new study at the University of Haifa. “Mass media plays a central [...]

Preparations for Airmed 2011, which takes place in the UK this year for the first time in its twenty year history, are well in-hand and delegate registration is gathering pace quickly. The international aero-medical congress will be held in Brighton in the UK from May 24-27 2011 and is being hosted by the Kent, Surrey [...]

In a time of shrinking budgets, one University of Missouri professor believes that the current approach to juvenile crime is much too expensive to continue – and he has the numbers to prove it. Charles Borduin, a professor of psychological sciences in the MU College of Arts and Science finds that multisystemic therapy (MST) is [...]

The health and well-being of military children, youth and families will be enhanced by three contracts from the military totaling $2.2 million awarded to Penn State researchers. The awards include two one-year contracts from the Department of Defense-U.S. Department of Agriculture Partnership, each totaling $1 million, and one contract from the Department of the Navy [...]

A Kansas State University scientist is digging deep to solidify information about potential tungsten contamination in the nation’s groundwater and aquifers. Tungsten is a naturally occurring metallic element that in its alloy or solid form is primarily used for incandescent lightbulb filaments and X-ray tubes. In an effort to limit toxins in the environment, tungsten [...]