2007 Highlights
13 December 2007
Ugandans want peace more than revenge against warlords
War-fatigued Ugandans would rather live in peace than retaliate against leaders of the Lord's Resistance Army, a rebel group that forcibly conscripted tens of thousands of women and children, according to a survey released by human rights and international development researchers. The survey found, however, that many Ugandans still want the warlords held accountable for atrocities.
06 November 2007
New report by UC Berkeley Petris Center
outlines status of California's county mental health programs
California's county mental health departments spent most of their budgets on outpatient services, with low overhead and low spending on hospitalization, according to a new report released by the Nicholas C. Petris Center on Health Care Markets and Consumer Welfare at the University of California, Berkeley.
10 October 2007
Researchers find evidence linking stress caused by the 9/11 disaster with low birth weights
A UC Berkeley-led study has found evidence of an increase in low birth weights among babies born in and around New York City in the weeks and months after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center. In the article published in the October 10, 2007, issue of the journal Human Reproduction, the authors suggest that stress may have contributed to the effect.
28 June 2007
Burma junta faulted for rampant diseases
As Congress debates extending political and economic sanctions against Burma's military regime, a new report from the University of California, Berkeley, and Johns Hopkins University documents how decades of repressive rule, civil war and poor governance in the Southeast Asian country have contributed to the spread of HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria and other infectious diseases there.
12 June 2007
Cancer death rates remain high decades after exposure to arsenic, new study finds
Death rates from lung and bladder cancer remained high decades after residents in northern Chile were exposed to high levels of arsenic in their drinking water, according to a new study by researchers from the University of California, Berkeley, and the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile in Santiago.
21 May 2007
HIV in breastmilk killed by flash-heating, new study finds
A simple method of flash-heating breast milk infected with HIV successfully inactivated the free-floating virus, according to a new study led by researchers at the Berkeley and Davis campuses of the University of California.
08 May 2007
Researcher offers steps to help doctors move past anger with patients
Doctors are human, and are thus susceptible to the same feelings of anger and frustration that plague all of us from time to time. But what happens when those emotions are directed at patients under their care? Dr. Jodi Halpern, a bioethicist at the University of California, Berkeley, addresses this dilemma in an article, "Empathy and Patient-Physician Conflicts," appearing in the May issue of the Journal of General Internal Medicine.
26 February 2007
Smoking increases risk of TB infection, new study finds
People who smoke have a greater risk of becoming infected with tuberculosis (TB) and of having that infection turn into active TB disease, according to an analysis by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley.
