Mental health in girls and boys exposed to intimate partner violence.

Objectives: Children of abused women have a greater risk of mental health problems. This study assesses the association between women's exposure to intimate partner violence (IPV) and the mental health of their children in the population of the Madrid Region.

Study Design: Cross-sectional.

Short-term effect of fine particulate matter (PM 2.5) on daily mortality due to diseases of the circulatory system in Madrid (Spain).

Introduction: Owing to their small size, fine particles, i.e., those having a diameter ≤ 2.

Monitoring influenza activity in Europe with Google Flu Trends: comparison with the findings of sentinel physician networks - results for 2009-10.

The number of Internet searches has recently been used by Google to estimate the influenza incidence in the United States. We examined the correlation between the Google Flu Trends tool and sentinel networks estimates in several European countries during the 2009 influenza A(H1N1) pandemic and found a good correlation between estimates and peak incidence timing, with the highest peaks in countries where Internet is most frequently used for health-related searching. Although somehow limited, Google could be a valuable tool for syndromic surveillance.