Making Male Circumcision A Top-Tier HIV Prevention Strategy With $18.5 Million Grant Male circumcision is gaining recognition as a fundamental practice for limiting the spread of HIV across sub-Saharan Africa. Three conclusive studies conducted in African countries, including Kenya, have shown that becoming circumcised dramatically reduces a man's chances of acquiring HIV from an infected woman. The challenge now is to transform this clinical knowledge into a public-
health strategy that can save millions of lives.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comUM Study Finds Late Diagnosis And Under-Treatment To Blame For Disparities In Cervical Cancer Survival Disparities in cervical cancer survival can be traced to differences in access to care for certain racial, ethnic and socioeconomic groups, according to a University of Miami Miller School of
Medicine study of more than 5,300 Florida women. A team of researchers at the Miller School found that racial, ethnic and socioeconomic factors led to late-stage diagnosis and under-treatment of the disease, especially for women who are African-American or poor.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comWeek's Sick Leave For Mental Health Problem Boosts Early Death Risk Taking a week or more of sick leave for a mental
health problem significantly increases the risk of an early death, indicates research published ahead of print in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community
Health. The researchers assessed sick leave records from the French GAZEL study, involving almost 20,000 employees, aged between 37 and 51. Just over 5000 were women.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comSearching For A Cognitive Behaviour Therapist? This Is The Place To Go, UK A NEW on-line register, CBT Register UK will give the public access to all accredited Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) practitioners in the UK. As the leading organisations in the CBT field, the British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies (BABCP) and the Association for Rational and Emotive Behaviour Therapy (AREBT) have been accrediting CBT therapists since 1994.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comBlack Mental Health UK Wins Community Service Award, England 100 Black Men of London honoured the work of Black Mental
Health UK this week by awarding its director Matilda MacAttram, a community service award, during their annual fundraising gala held on Saturday. The star studded event at the salubrious Institute of Directors on Pall Mall, was hosted by acclaimed actor and playwright Kwame Amah who presented the award the night.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comDepressive Symptoms In Daughters Increased By Mothers' Mental Games A new study in the journal Family Relations examined the effects of a mother's psychological control on the risk for depression of African American adolescents. Researchers found that girls whose mothers played mental games with them like making them feel guilty or withdrawing expressions of love reported much higher levels of depressive symptoms and lower levels of personal agency. Psychological control did not affect the psychological well-being of boys.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comMarried Mothers Spend More Time With Their Children Than Single Mothers A new study in the Journal of Marriage and Family examined differences in the amount and type of time that single, cohabiting, and married mothers spend with their children. Cohabiting and married mothers spend similar amounts of time caring for their children. Results show that single mothers spend less time with their children than married mothers.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comMammograms May Identify Cancers That Would Otherwise Just Regress Researchers in Norway found there was a 22 per cent higher rate of detected breast cancer among women who had mammograms every two years compared to women screened every six years raising the possibility that some breast cancers just regress naturally without treatment. The study was the work of Dr Per-Henrik Zahl, from the Norwegian Institute of Public
Health, Oslo, and colleagues and is published in the 24 November issue of Archives of Internal
Medicine.
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