A new evidence review suggests that using a pump to deliver insulin continuously instead of taking three or more daily injections might result in better control of blood sugar for people with type 1 diabetes.

Social status is intimately linked with health-related risk factors. In the current issue of Deutsches Arzteblatt International, Thomas Lampert, of the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) in Berlin, inquires to what extent smoking, physical inactivity, and obesity are associated with social status (Dtsch Arztebl Int 2010; 107(1-2): 1-7).

States that received funding from two obesity prevention programs founded by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control & Prevention implemented more than twice as many obesity-prevention policy initiatives as states that did not receive funding, according to a study by researchers from RTI International.

Dramatically improved survival among infants of lower birthweights may be contributing to an epidemic of chronic diseases in the Australian Aboriginal population, according to the authors of a study published in the Medical Journal of Australia.

The premiere issue of an aging-focused newsletter deals with two pressing societal concerns – the economic downturn and health care reform – from the perspective of older minority adults.
WHAT’S HOT is the newest publication from The Gerontological Society of America (GSA), the country’s largest interdisciplinary organization devoted to the field of aging. Support for this [...]