Researchers have become increasingly interested in the health patterns of immigrants with longer residence in the United States, as this reveals the health consequences of integration processes. The negative acculturation effect has been the dominant interpretation of duration patterns, despite empirical and theoretical uncertainties about this assumption. This theory assumes that immigrant hea...

NEXT MONTH IN TOKYO, ASIA’S LARGEST BIOTECHNOLOGY EVENT WILL TAKE PLACE—THE International Bio Technology Exhibition and Conference. Japan’s traditional strength in both biology and technology makes it a very appropriate site for this forum. But over the long term, Japan’s science and technology future will require that our nation place a much stronger focus on encouraging risk taking and indepe...

AIMS To contribute new evidence to the controversy about the factor structure of the Eating Disorder Examination Questionnaire (EDE-Q) and to provide, for the first time, norms based on a large adolescent Mexican community sample, regarding sex and area of residence (urban/rural). METHODS A total of 2928 schoolchildren (1544 females and 1384 males) aged 11-18 were assessed with the EDE-Q and ...