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Young Black Males Dying in Detroit at Alarming Rates

Filed under: News , Politics , President Obama , Race and Civil Rights African-American males in Detroit between the ages of 15 and 24 are dying at a rate that is roughly seven times higher than the rest of the Detroit population. If they were dying at the same rate as everyone else, there would be one death every three weeks. Instead, there are two black men dying every single week. This has ...

STDs in England: Breakdown by region, gender and ethnicity

The Health Protection Agency says sexually transmitted infections among young people have reached record levels. Find out how the rate stands in your area • Get the data New figures from the Health Protection Agency (HPA) today reveal a record level in diagnoses of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in the UK. According to the HPA, young people are most at risk of contracting an STI. Of the ...

Acyclovir Exposure and Birth Defects: An Important Advance, But More Are Needed [Editorial]

JAMA. 2010;304(8):905-906. doi:10.1001/jama.2010.1214 Twenty-two percent of pregnant women are seropositive for herpes simplex virus 1 and 2% of susceptible pregnant women acquire a primary herpes simplex virus infection. 2 Data on the use of acyclovir and valacyclovir to treat infected women are extremely scarce.

Advice for our Incoming freshmen - You are immortal

Thanks for pausing on your way to the Sudoku! My name is Johnathan Kastner, and I’ve been on the paper for 150 years now. Each and every year, I make it a point to share my accumulated wisdom with the newly-arrived freshmen in the hopes of changing as many lives as will listen to me.

According to TransMedia, A New Syringe Is First to Have Automatic Spring Mechanism Protecting Nurses From Potentially ...

A new safety syringe that can save lives is coming soon to a hospital near you. Â And one U.S. Marine combat veteran who became a nurse after wounded in Vietnam couldn't be happier.