Research Articles

April 19, 2013  Annual mortality rates for Malaria ,1,086,000; Respiratory 4,039,000. Diseases for which effective vaccines are still needed.

July 18, 2011  Institute of Medicine Report Assessing the Quality Of Cancer Care: An Approach To Measurement In Georgia In 1999, the Georgia Cancer Coalition was created. Preventing cancer and detecting existing cancer earlier, improving access to quality cancer care, and saving more lives from cancer were among its major goals. Georgia intends to proceed expeditiously to implement the recommendations of the IOM report. The Georgia system would be the first of its kind and could provide a model for other states to address the quality of cancer care in a comprehensive statewide program.

August 11, 2012  From 1997-2010, at the invitation of Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, the Carter Center-supported Ethiopian Public Health Training Initiative worked successfully in partnership with seven Ethiopian universities and the Ethiopian government (the ministries of health and education) to address the dangerous void in rural health services for 75 million Ethiopians.

March 24, 2011  On Friday, March 11, 2011, a catastrophic 9.0-magnitude earthquake occurred on the northeastern coast of Honshu, Japan at 2:46 p.m. JST. The earthquake triggered a destructive tsunami wave up to 33 feet which hit the coast of Japan within minutes after the earthquake and traveled up to six miles inland. Tsunami warnings and evacuations were issued along the Pacific coast in at least 20 other countries, including North and South America. The United States imported agricultural products worth $557 million from Japan in 2010, a fraction of the $82 billion in U.S. agricultural imports from all sources[http://www.ers.usda.gov/Briefing/Japan/CurrentIssues.htm]. Among the largest categories of agricultural imports from Japan were miscellaneous horticultural products, such as mixed herbal teas, yeasts, and starches (potato, rice, etc.); grain and feeds (baked goods); and crude and natural drugs (enzymes). In addition, the United States imported fishery products worth $236 million from Japan in 2010, 1.6 percent of total U.S. fishery product imports. Frozen processed fish was the leading import of all fishery product imports. Japan is the 12th largest exporter of fish to the United States.

July 20, 2012  In an era of soft drink bans and restrictions on junk food ads, students at the Johns Hopkins University schools of medicine and nursing are recommending a different approach to aid the more than 170 million Americans who are overweight or obese. By publicly committing to basic tenets of healthy living — regular exercise, eating a balanced diet and managing stress — future nurses and physicians are challenging peers and practicing medical professionals to model healthy behaviors for their patients.

November 25, 2010  Patients spend months sometimes years at the nations last tuberculosis sanitarium in the United States.

June 19, 2011  Beyond Tailpipe Emissions Driving your vehicle can yield both greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from your vehicle's tailpipe and GHG emissions related to the production of the fuel used to power your vehicle.

June 18, 2012  ...Most new HIV/AIDS cases continue to be diagnosed in the New Orleans region, where nearly half (45%) of all persons currently living with HIV in Louisiana reside. The Baton Rouge region, however, continues to have the highest HIV/AIDS diagnosis rates. In addition, the Baton Rouge region has the highest prevalence of HIV among black women who give birth, as well as a higher-than-expected proportion of deaths among persons with AIDS. Persons from the Baton Rouge region accounted for 32% of the deaths, although only 20% of persons living with AIDS reside in this region.

June 14, 2012  Every year, millions of US residents travel to countries where malaria is present. About 1,500 cases of malaria are diagnosed in the United States annually, mostly in returned travelers.

July 11, 2012  Marijuana—purchased legally or illegally and either smoked or ingested—along with its synthetic counterpart Marinol (dronabinol) are used by many people living with HIV to manage various symptoms of illness, including pain, depression and weight loss. The numerous effects of marijuana are the result of chemical interactions between the drug’s active ingredient, tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), and two receptors on a variety of cells in the body: cannabinoid receptor 1 (CR1) and cannabinoid receptor 2 (CR2).