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Thursday, 29 November 2012

Risk of Childhood Obesity Can Be Predicted at Birth

 Risk of Childhood Obesity Can Be Predicted at Birth

 
More on a simple formula ONE PLOS Open Access Journal published a study in a child's chances of being obese in childhood can predict.
Formula, which is available as an online calculator, child obesity her birth weight, parental body mass index, based on the number of people at risk is estimated, mother's occupational status and whether they smoked during pregnancy.
Early childhood obesity, type 2 diabetes and heart and circulatory disease is a major cause, and is becoming more common in developed countries. According to NHS statistics, 17 per cent of the boys and two girls aged 15 in England, 15% are classified as obese.
Researchers followed 4,000 children born in Finland in 1986 using data from a study prepared formula. He initially investigated whether profiles using genetic obesity risk assessment can, but tests based on the common genetic variation have failed to predict accurately. Instead, they found that non-genetic information readily available at the time of birth was enough to predict which children will become obese. In the Finnish cohort formula proved valid, but study in Italy and the United States using data from tests
He said: "It takes very little examination, lab tests do not need it and it does not cost anything," Professor Philippe Froguel of Imperial College London, said the study led by public health of the school.
About 20 per cent of children most at risk, 80 percent of obese children is predicted. The researchers suggest that services such as dieticians and psychologists high-risk families with children can be introduced to assist in the prevention of excessive weight.
Professor Froguel said: "This is roughly once a small child, it is difficult for them to lose weight, then the best strategy is prevention, and as soon as possible as it is to start, ".may be. '
In order DNA testing for mutations in the price of technology falls Doctors may be available in the next few years.
Harvard University in the United States and Verona, Italy's University, Imperial researchers Oulu, Finland in collaboration with university colleagues have studied. Work in the Medical Research Council, Imperial College London, Oulu University NATIONAL DE LA Recherche Scientifique and the Centre was funded by.

Wednesday, 7 November 2012

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It is proposed that the United Nations system in support of global health work indicates that with what could be misleading. Unlike the UN family, many members are engaged in this important work.UNFPA) in the reproductive, adolescent and maternal health support, and the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) health related activities.
United Nations, since its inception, has been to promote and protect good health throughout the world are actively involved. Within the United Nations system efforts led by the World Health Organization (WHO) of the Constitution came into force on 7 April 1948. At the beginning, it is decided who will be the top priority malaria, women and child health, tuberculosis, venereal disease, nutrition and environmental sanitation. Many of them are on the agenda today, WHO HIV / AIDS as a disease, in addition to such relatively new.

In 1948, diseases, and epidemiological and clinical purposes has become the international standard international classification which has taken responsibility for. Between 1952 and 1964, the global prevalence of yaws was less effort - serious and disfiguring disease that affects 50 million people in 1950 - more than 95 per cent is from. Between 1967 and 1979, smallpox eradication efforts is due - the only time a major infectious disease is completely eliminated. Global Polio Eradication Initiative since its was launched in 1988, by 2006 the number of cases by more than 99 percent were less than - less than 2,000 per year from 350,000.

WHO staff on the ground in 147 countries around the world are working. The technical advice on matters of health and health ministries in the area of ​​prevention, treatment and care and support services. The six regional offices and coordinate support efforts, while international policies on HIV / AIDS in their own particular deserve special attention needs - sub-Saharan Africa, where the epidemic through heterosexual sex I spread widely, for example, as compared to Eastern Europe, where injecting drug use is the main source of transmission.

In short, the global spectrum of health care intervention, crisis intervention and emergency humanitarian response covering all sectors, International Health Regulations, which countries to prevent the spread of disease outbreak detection must follow established, chronic disease prevention, and health-related Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are working to achieve.
Global Strategy for Women's and Children's Health Resources mobilizes 16 million to save the lives of women and children


In addition, the International Labour Organization (ILO), the United Nations Relief for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the UN agency working The members of the International Atomic Energy Agency's (IAEA), United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), and the World Bank, among others, the World Health plays an important role in promoting.

Decades now precision is celebrated internationally as announced by the General Assembly, the decade Back Malaria in developing countries, especially Africa (2001-2010) and the international decade for action In the role, including, "water for life" (22 March 2005).

Annual international health-related observances proclaimed by the General Assembly, World Water Day (22 March), World Autism Awareness Day (April 2), World Health Day (7 April), the day tobacco (31 May) include, drug abuse and illicit trafficking (26 June) is the International Day against. World Mental Health Day (10 October), World Diabetes Day (14 November) and World AIDS Day (1 December).

Tuesday, 4 September 2012

Is the 'Wang particle' the new Higgs boson?

Is the 'Wang particle' the new Higgs boson?

The hunt might soon be on for another fundamental building block of nature. But what will it be called?
A young supernova taken by Nasa's Chandra X-ray Observatory.
A young supernova taken by Nasa's Chandra X-ray Observatory. Photograph: AP
The hand of fate is shaky when it comes to naming the building blocks of nature. Some physicists are immortalised by their discoveries, others not. There is, alas, no Professor Quark. But the Higgs boson is so sexy they named it twice – after Peter Higgs and Satyendra Nath Bose, though not, as it happens, after God.
Now we hear reports of the Wang particle – a particle that may explain supernovas, the most energetic explosions in the universe.
Massive stars collapse under their own gravity once their nuclear fuel is spent. The implosion compresses the star's iron core into neutrons. Charles Wang at Aberdeen University, and others, said the core might ring like a bell and emit ripples in spacetime that spread out like sound waves and power supernova explosions. These new waves come with an associated particle. In November, scientists will look for evidence of the entity at Cern's Isolde experiment. The biggest thing since the Higgs? Who knows.
So is the hunt for the Wang now on? Robert Bingham at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in Oxfordshire works on the theory with Wang. "I've never thought of calling it that. He hasn't either. We'd tend to call it the scalar gravitational particle."