A case-control study of 190 Han Chinese children in Tianjin linked nine factors to autism, among them maternal second-hand smoke exposure, chronic or acute maternal illness, unhappy emotional state, gestational complications, nuchal cord and advanced paternal age.
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Quick Fact: 17.5% of Adult American Indian/Alaska Natives Suffer Diabetes
CDC survey data for 2004-2008 show 7.6 percent of US adults reported ever being told they had diabetes, with American Indian/Alaska Natives highest at 17.5 percent, followed by blacks at 11.8 and Hispanics at 10.6, against 8.0 percent of Asians and 6.6 percent of whites.
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How many medical professionals receive flu vaccine?
A January 2010 survey of 1,417 U.S. health-care workers found 37.1 percent vaccinated against 2009 H1N1 and 61.9 percent against seasonal flu; 64.3 percent got one and 34.7 percent both. An employer vaccination requirement went with eightfold greater odds of H1N1 vaccination.
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Pre-Existing Conditions Can Begin at the Moment of Birth
A Texas couple's son Houston was born with transposition of the great arteries, which requires a switch operation within the first 30 days of life. Blue Cross counted the defect as a pre-existing condition because it began in the womb.
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Government Announces Swine Flu Resistance to Anti-Viral Therapy
Two patients whose immune systems were weakened by past blood stem cell transplants developed Tamiflu-resistant swine flu after 9 and 14 days on the drug, Dr. Jeffery Taubenberger's team reports. One kept deteriorating on peramivir and recovered only after switching to Relenza.
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CDC H1N1 Flu Website Situation Update, March 27, 2010
CDC's FluView for March 14-20, 2010 reports flu indicators mostly flat nationally, with elevated influenza-like illness in three of 10 regions, hospitalization rates leveling off, one new pediatric death, and 332 laboratory-confirmed pediatric deaths since April 2009.
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How Many Children Have Autism?
The CDC's ADDM Network put autism spectrum disorder prevalence at about 1 in 110 eight-year-olds in 2006, ranging from 1 in 80 to 1 in 240 across communities. All ten sites tracked since 2002 recorded increases, averaging 57 percent; boys were affected 4 to 5 times as often as girls.
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Prevalence of Diabetes and Obesity in the U.S.
CDC applied Bayesian multilevel models to estimate diabetes and obesity prevalence in all 3,141 U.S. counties for 2007. The estimates show high rates in West Virginia, Appalachian Tennessee and Kentucky, the Mississippi Delta and a belt across the South.
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Memory loss evident even prior to diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease
A Neurology study of 1,158 Chicago residents averaging 79 years old found thinking skills declined twice as fast in people with mild cognitive impairment, and four times as fast in those with Alzheimer's disease, as in people with no memory or thinking problems.
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Sickle Cell Disease: 10 Things You Need to Know
Sickle cell disease is not limited to African Americans: it is common among people with ancestry in sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America, Saudi Arabia, India and the Mediterranean. US hospitals screen all newborns, and people with sickle cell trait can develop complications under extreme conditions.
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2009 Pandemic Influenza A (H1N1) in Pregnant Women Requiring Intensive Care --- New York City, 2009
New York City surveillance found 16 pregnant women and one postpartum woman admitted to intensive care with 2009 H1N1; two died. Twelve had no risk factor besides pregnancy, and only one started oseltamivir within two days of symptoms, the window tied to better outcomes.
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Learn Your Risk for Diabetes and Take Steps to Protect Your Health
Almost a quarter of people with type 2 diabetes do not know they have it, and many with prediabetes do not either. Risk rises with obesity, a parent or sibling with the disease, age 45 or older, gestational diabetes, inactivity, and certain racial and ethnic backgrounds.
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U.S. Tuberculosis cases on the decline
The CDC reported 11,540 US tuberculosis cases in 2009, a rate of 3.8 per 100,000 and an 11.4 percent drop, the largest single-year decline on record. Rates stayed far higher among foreign-born people and minorities, and CDC is checking whether underreporting explains part of the fall.
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Data Show 1 in 303 Children Have Cerebral Palsy
A CDC study of communities in Georgia, Alabama and Wisconsin put prevalence at 3.3 per 1,000 eight-year-olds. All three sites reported more cases in boys, and spastic CP was the most common type, 85 to 89 percent. A delay in reaching movement milestones is the main sign parents may notice.
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CDC H1N1 Flu Website Situation Update, March 14
CDC's FluView for the week of Feb. 28 reported key indicators largely unchanged: influenza-like illness stayed low nationally though elevated in three of 10 regions, hospitalization rates leveled off, and no pediatric flu deaths were reported that week.
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2009 H1N1 Influenza and its Impact on People with Chronic Medical Conditions: Questions and Answers
A CDC and HHS webinar Q&A on 2009 H1N1 and chronic illness. CDC recommends vaccination for everyone 6 months and older, noting that asthma, COPD, diabetes, heart or neurologic disease and pregnancy raise the risk of hospitalization.
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Every Family Has Secrets! Could Diabetes Be One of Them?
The National Diabetes Education Program urges people to ask relatives about diabetes and tell their care team, since type 2 runs in families. Losing 5 to 7 percent of body weight, walking 30 minutes five days a week and eating lower-fat foods can prevent or delay the disease.
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Corey Haim dies probably of pulmonary congestion
Corey Haim died Wednesday at 38 in a Burbank hospital; his mother said he had an enlarged heart, pulmonary congestion and water in his lungs. Police called the death apparently accidental and possibly an overdose. No autopsy results had been released.
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