Trends in Teenage Pregnancy in England and Wales: How can we Explain Them?

Teenage pregnancy in England and Wales

Despite this success, England and Wales still have some of the highest teenage pregnancy rates in the developed world. There is also significant disparity in teenage conception rates between areas within these regions, with some areas experiencing rates as high as 40 pregnancies per 1000 girls under the age of 18, while others have rates as low as five per 1000. This briefing examines teenage c...

We can train them, but how can we retain them?

To the Editor: The Department of Surgery at the Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine is proud of its 100% pass rate in the October 2008 Colleges of Medicine of South Africa examinations held in Durban. Most candidates attended the graduation and joined the 3 who passed in May as registered specialists in general surgery. This represents a stalwart effort on the part of the candidates and their t...

Burst Remnants : How can we find them ?

By now there is substantial evidence that Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) originate at cosmological distances from very powerful explosions. The interaction between a GRB and its surrounding environment has dramatic consequences on the environment itself. At early times, the strong X-ray UV afterglow flux photoionizes the medium on distance scales on the order of 100 pc [7], destroys dust [10], creates...

How can we make them work ?

Dementia trends in England and Wales.

Because the most prominent risk factor for dementia is aging, the urgent need to address the public health challenges of dementia is heightened by the “greying” of societies worldwide. In 2015, nearly 47 million people around the world had dementia. If age and sex specific prevalence of dementia stays constant over time, there will be 130 million cases by 2050. And yet changes over time in both...