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Expansion Of Program To Combat Childhood Obesity - Illinois Dept. Of Public Health
Dr. Damon T. Arnold, Director of the Illinois Department of Public Health, today announced that 11 additional schools in Illinois will begin implementing the CATCH program - Coordinated Approach to Child Health. With the expansion of the CATCH program, the state is continuing efforts to address the obesity problem by changing children"s and parents" attitudes and behaviors toward nutrition and physical activity.
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The Necessity Of Adrenalectomy At The Time Of Radical Nephrectomy: A Systematic Review
UroToday.com - To take the adrenal or not at the time of radical nephrectomy, that is the question. These researchers from New York University School of Medicine performed an extensive literature search to determine the role of adrenalectomy at radical nephrectomy and discovered that the incidence of solitary, synchronous, ipsilateral adrenal involvement, and therefore potentially curable tumor disease with ipsilateral adrenalectomy occurred extremely infrequently - in only 1% to 5% of cases.
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Immunotherapy Linked To Lower Risk Of Alzheimer's Disease
IVIg treatments, the addition of good antibodies into the blood stream, may hold promise for lowering the risk of Alzheimer"s disease and other similar brain disorders, according to research published in the July 21, 2009, print issue of Neurology®, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology.
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Perception Of Unsafe Neighborhoods Disables The Elderly

Elderly people who live below the poverty line and perceive their neighborhoods to be dangerous are more likely to have a mobility disability. Researchers writing in the open access journal BMC Public Health suggest that even perceiving one"s neighborhood as unsafe can "get into the body" and, ultimately, prove hazardous for elder health. Cheryl Clark MD, ScD, from Brigham and Women"s Hospital, Boston, led a team of researchers who studied 1,884 people aged 65 and older. They measured both the individuals" perceptions of danger and the levels of violent crime actually reported in the areas where they lived. Although these measures correlated quite well, it was the elder"s sense that the neighborhood was unsafe that was most strongly associated with the development of a disability. Clark said, "Our results suggest that dangerous neighborhoods get from the mind into the body and engender mobility disability through psychosocial or psychological processes". The researchers suggest that lower income elderly who live in unsafe neighborhoods may have fewer res to cope with neighborhood stresses. Moreover, neighborhoods with high crime rates or a reputation for being dangerous may have more difficulty attracting businesses that provide material res and services. Of course, the correlation between perception and reality also suggests that elders may have been reacting to actual crime events in their neighborhoods. Clark concludes, "Our findings underscore the importance of neighborhood safety to healthy aging. Specifically intervening to improve perceptions of neighborhood safety at retirement age may be an important step to reduce the risk of mobility disability among elders". Perceived neighborhood safety and incident mobility disability among elders: the hazards of poverty Cheryl R Clark, Ichiro Kawachi, Louise Ryan, Karen Ertel, Martha E Fay and Lisa F Berkman BMC Public Health (in press) http://www.biomedcentral.com/bmcpublichealth/ Graeme Baldwin BioMed Central


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