For 1980 Singapore was found to have overall a more favourable birthweight distribution than England and Wales. The proportion of very low birthweight babies (less than 1500 g) and heavy babies (3500 g and over) was 0.4% and 18.5% in Singapore and 0.7% and 34.9% in England and Wales for live births, and 0.6% and 18.5% against 0.9% and 34.7% for total births. However, for low birthweight (less t...

Author details Centre for Complementary Medicine Research, University of Western Sydney, Locked Bag, 1797, Penrith South, DC, NSW 2751, Australia. School of Nursing & Midwifery, Flinders University, GPO Box 2100, Adelaide, South Australia 5001, Australia. School of Women’s and Children’s Health, University of New South Wales, St George Hospital, IVF Australia Southern Sydney, South Street, Koga...

OBJECTIVE Trends in suicide death rates among migrants to England and Wales 1979-2003 were examined. METHODS Age-standardised rates derived for eight country of birth groups. RESULTS For men born in Jamaica, suicide death rates increased in 1999-2003. There were declines in rates for men and women from India and from Scotland, men from East Africa and Northern Ireland and women from the Rep...

This article describes the new synthetic England and Wales Longitudinal Study 'spine' dataset designed for teaching and experimentation purposes. In the United Kingdom, there exist three Census-based longitudinal micro-datasets, known collectively as the Longitudinal Studies. The England and Wales Longitudinal Study (LS) is a 1% sample of the population of England and Wales (around 500,000 indi...

Individuals, Andrew McCaddon, Peter Hudson, Cherie McCracken, Richard Ellis, and Anne McCaddon ( University of Wales College of Medicine, Division of General Practice, Wrexham LL13 7YP, UK; 2 Department of Pathology, Wrexham Maelor Hospital, Wrexham LL13 7TD, UK; 3 University Department of Psychiatry, Royal Liverpool University Hospital, Liverpool L69 3GA, UK; 4 University Hospital of Wales, Ca...

and Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia; Bony and Boucher—Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique/IPSL, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France; Bretherton—Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington; ForSter—School of Earth and Environment, Univ...

Lowy Cancer Research Centre and the Prince of Wales Clinical School, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia. Functional Genomics and Childhood Leukaemia Research, Sheba Medical Centre, Tel-Hashomer, and Tel Aviv University, Israel 52621. Department of Haematology, Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 0XY, United Kingdom. Department...

1. Colour, Form and Motion Laboratory, School of Psychology, Faculty of Science, The 5 University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia 2006 6 2. Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Vision Science, The University 7 of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia 2006 8 3. School of Social Sciences and Psychology, The University of Western Sydney, 9 Bankstown, New South Wal...

Increased incidence of Mycoplasma pneumoniae infection in England and Wales in 2010: multiocus variable number tandem repeat analysis typing and macrolide susceptibility. An epidemic of Mycoplasma pneumoniae infection began in Denmark in late 2010. A similar increase in M. pneumoniae infections was noted in England and Wales in the same period, with a decline in early 2011. Multiocus variable n...

The present study tests the suggestion that the respiratory morbidity of children resident in South Wales is substantially higher than that among children resident in some other areas of the United Kingdom. A case control survey was carried out among 2228 children aged 7 to 11 years in schools matched for size and socioeconomic characteristics in urban and rural areas in South Wales and the Wes...