How is the use of cannabis in adolescents likely to progress to harder drugs?
What’s the correlation between the occasional or regular use of cannabis by adolescents and its progression to nicotine dependence, harmful alcohol us...
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Sex-selective abortion and female infant mortality more common after one or two daughters in India
Prenatal sex selection and female infant mortality are more common in India after first and second born daughters. Corry Gellatly, a research scientis...
Job insecurity is associated with adult asthma in Germany during the recent economic crisis
Job insecurity has been identified as a risk factor for adverse health outcomes. Perceptions of job insecurity steeply increased during Europe's recen...
Mortality on match days of the German national soccer team
The link between emotional stress and an enhanced risk of cardiovascular death is well established. In particular, sports events such as soccer matche...
Do interventions to increase fruit and vegetable consumption among overweight children work?
Childhood obesity is now a global epidemic and the incidence continues to increase. Dietary interventions and nutritional education are possible optio...
Time for bed: associations with cognitive performance in 7-year-old children
Jim Dunn talks to Yvonne Kelly, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, about her paper which shows irregular bed tim...
Polypill roundtable
There has been long-standing interest in the idea of polypill (a pill containing a statin and an anti-hypertensive agent) being used by healthy people...
Alcohol-related mortality in deprived UK cities
In this, the first podcast from JECH, editor-in-chief James Dunn talks to Deborah Shipton, Glasgow Centre for Population Health, about her paper exami...