More evidence of cannabis-induced psychosis
...ngs even more unexpected. Favrat and colleagues' report adds to the body of evidence that cannabis might be more harmful than previously thought. In the UK, cannabis was downgraded to class C early last year, but government officials have called for a review of the decision following a series of studies r...Sexual lifestyles vary among ethnic groups in Britain
... than other ethnic groups, but were less likely to report STIs than black Caribbean and black African women. White women reported an average of five lifetime partners compared with four reported by black Caribbean women, three by black African women and one by both Indian and Pakistani women. Black African...Chronic pain treatments more effective when taken together, new study shows
...ebilitating pain caused by nerve damage or disease report better pain relief at lower doses of a combined drug treatment than from either drug administered individually, a new Queen's study funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) shows. When given a combination of the anti-seizure drug g...UNC study: Most N.C. family practitioners engage in unrecognized community service
...their professional lives and of the discipline." A report on the study appeared recently in the Journal of American Board of Family Practice. Besides Goldstein, UNC authors are Drs. Diane Calleson, Peter Curtis, Brian Hemphill, George Gamble and Beat Steiner of the department of family medicine. Dr. Thomas ...The trust game: Measuring social interaction
...the decision to trust shifts with experience. In a report in this week's issue of the journal Science, Dr. P. Read Montague Jr. and colleagues at the BCM Human Neuroimaging Laboratory and California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, Calif., describe where and when trust is formed between two anonymous pe...UCSF study offers insight into human circadian rhythms
... the condition in one particular family, the first report of a human circadian rhythm gene. (Science, Jan. 12, 2001). The breadth of the knowledge coming out of the current study is somewhat unique, says Ptaceck. "I'm not aware of another study that has gone from the human to the fly to the mouse in a singl...HIV testing should be routine part of primary health care for sexually active
... providers. HIV tests are offered to patients who report risky behavior, such as unprotected sex, injection drug use, or intercourse with a partner of the same sex. Tests also are offered to patients when clinical findings indicate the possibility of HIV infection or to patients who request testing. "For ...Brain activity prior to treatment flags vulnerability to antidepressant side effects
...researchers at the UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute report that changes in brain activity prior to treatment with antidepressants can flag patient vulnerability. Published in the April 2005 edition of the peer-reviewed journal Neuropsychopharmacology, the study is the first to link brain function and medicat...March/April 2005 Annals of Family Medicine tip sheet
... who have normal transferrin saturation levels and report low dietary iron intake. Having high transferrin saturation with a normal diet did not carry increased risk. The authors point out that a substantial proportion of adults in the United States approximately 7 percent of the adult U.S. population has...Unexpected benefit seen in treating HER-2 breast cancer with new preoperative drug combo
...w treatment plan was halted early, the researchers report in the Journal of Clinical Oncology . "This is a far better result than we had anticipated and seems to suggest that simultaneous use of chemotherapy and Herceptin offers a much more potent treatment than use of these drugs sequentially, or alone," ...Consumers with disabilities empowered by American Disabilities Act
Respondents were asked to report ontheir awareness of the ADA and to evaluate wheth...ey Menzel Baker state. Respondents were asked to report on their awareness of the and to evaluate whether conditions had improved over the years 1994-1998 i......nvestigators from the Icelandic Heart Association, report the single largest prospective study addressing the role of uric acid in heart disease. The debate over the role of uric acid in heart disease has been going on for more than 50 years, starting with a paper published in 1951 which found higher seru...Protecting children from industrial chemicals in the environment
...the environment, argue a group of researchers in a report in this month's premier open-access global health journal PLoS Medicine . Women exposed to industrial chemicals in the environment pass them on to their children across the placenta or via breast milk, and children are also exposed to chemicals by ...Bullying among sixth graders a daily occurrence, UCLA study finds
...ssmates during a five-day period, UCLA researchers report in the first study to examine daily school harassm... someone else getting bullied, Nishina and Juvonen report in Child Development. "A lot of kids are not only getting picked on, but also witnessing classmates ...Novel therapy tested in mice could chase away cat allergies
...sity of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) researchers report in the April issue of Nature Medicine, available online now. In the future, the investigators say, these promising results could lead to a new therapy not only for human cat allergies, but also possibly for severe food allergies such as those to pean...New evaluation tool reliably predicts recovery from coma
...habilitation Research and Development (JRRD). They report on the development of and psychometric properties of the Disorders of Consciousness Scale (DOCS) and illustrate how repeated measures of neurobehavioral functioning derived from DOCS improve medical and rehabilitation management during coma recovery....Optical technique identifies vulnerable plaques in cardiac patients
...es in patients with various cardiac symptoms. The report from researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) will appear in the journal Circulation and has received early online release at http://www.circulationaha.org/ . "More than 1.2 million people die from coronary artery disease every year, a...Billions in cost estimated for firefighter injuries
...along with the hours required for data collection, report writing and filing. Other costs related to preventing injuries and reducing their severity included expenditures for insurance coverage, safety training, physical fitness programs and protective gear and equipment. The range between the $2.8 billion...NIH state-of-the-science panel calls for 'demedicalization' of menopause
... symptoms. The panel is an independent body whose report is not a policy statement of the NIH or the Federa...considered by the state-of-the-science panel was a report prepared by the Oregon Evidence-based Practice Center (EPC) under contract to the Agency for Healthc...First mouse model for multiple system atrophy points to new treatment targets for brain diseases
...l sclerosis (ALS) mouse models. Lee and colleagues report their findings in the March 24, 2005 issue of Neuron. MSA is so named because it affects multiple parts of the nervous system. Initially MSA was given three names, based on the symptoms physicians had observed. However, when they closely examined pat...