Teen Line Panel Of Six High School Students To Address The Issue Of Teens And Tolerance
...10 p.m. Pacific Time, andreceives calls from teens across the nation. Teens seeking a sympatheticlistening ear should call 1-800-TLC-TEEN (852-8336), or 310-855-HOPE (4673).Those interested in volunteering should call either of the hotlines, or the TeenLine office at 310-855-3401....Misdiagnosis Looms As Demand Increases For New Breast Cancer Biopsy
...e and demand for this technique is truly exploding across thecountry, yet the whole field is very young," he says. "The first description ofthe technique in breast cancer patients was less than five years ago." Ollila and his UNC-CH colleagues in surgical oncology note that sentinellymph node biops...Chronically Ill Teens Turn To Internet For Peer Support, Researchers Report
...inging the Hopkins Teen Central model to hospitals across thecountry. Access the Dreamsurfer Network at www.dreamsurfer.org ....Study Shows Dermatologists Are Best At Removing Skin Cancers
...e findings come as agencies and state legislatures across thecountry are considering measures to regulate in-office surgery that could havethe practical effect of prohibiting most dermatologists from removing basil cellcarcinomas in their offices. Over a 66-month period, the study found tha...Immunex Advances CD40 Ligand To Phase II Clinical Trial In People With Metastatic Kidney Cancer
... being conducted in three cancer treatment centers across theUnited States, will evaluate the safety and efficacy of the drug in metastaticrenal cell carcinoma. Approximately 30,000 new cases of kidney cancer will be diagnosed thisyear in the United States and about 11,900 people will die from this...Biological Markers Found That Correlate To Esophageal Cancer Treatment Success
...of more than 5 years after diagnosis. Laboratories across the country are looking into ways to stop Pgp or tocircumvent its action. One way is to give patients Pgp modulators -- moleculesthat block Pgp=s drug pump. Another is to develop drugs that Pgp and relatedproteins can=t remove from the cell. A sec...Retrospective Statistical Analysis Corroborates Early Results Of Randomized Breast Cancer Trials
...with metastaticbreast cancer, within each trial or across the trials. Berry looked fortreatment-related differences within ABMTR, but found none. Thus the twoseparate patient groups were compared to see if the high dose chemotherapy usedin ABMTR provided any survival benefit for metastatic breast cancer p...Depression May Lower Your Sex Hormones
...and significantly lowerconcentrations at night and across the 24-hour period. Similar concentrations of fol...lthymen aged 23 to 85 in a comparison group, taken across a 24-hour period.Blood was drawn every half-hour during the day, every 10 minutes from 6 p.m.to midn...New Technique Induces Growth Across Spinal Cord Injury
...rowth of severed adult mammalianspinal cord fibers across the site of the injury. The animal study appearin...egment of the spinal cord, didnot grow all the way across the injury into the upper segment. In comparison,however, damaging the spinal cord without the perip...Cocaine triggers heart attacks within one hour
...ed out between 1989 and 1996 at 64 medical centers across the United Statesand included interviews with 2,664 men and 1,282 women who had suffered anon-fatal heart attack. The individuals ranged in age from 20 to 92. Thirty-eight individuals reported cocaine use in the prior year, and ninereported use of t...... development and decline of nervous systemfunction across the life span. After age 70, he says, virtually al...es, the Hawaii Space Grant Consortium is one of 52 across the nationsupported by NASA to prepare future space scientists. The UH program annuallyoffers underg...Ratio of doctors to patients is good predictor of hospital death rates in England
... Jarman and his team found that death rates varied across hospitals from 3.4 per cent of admissions to 13.6 per cent. They say that the most powerful predictor of this variation is the percentage of emergency admissions (in this study 60 per cent of admissions were considered emergencies). However, after ...Early warning signs of violence often overlooked, study finds
...ieve triggered many of the recent school shootings across thecountry, says Richard Hazler, professor of coun... Hazler has given workshops within schools across the country to helpadults recognize the difference between bullying and non-bullying situations andw......fpostmenopausal hormone use and breast cancer risk across tumor types. They also noted that if hormone replacement therapy increases the riskfor less commonly occurring tumors with a good prognosis, then the overall risksand benefits of hormone use in the population should be reexamined....Bioterrorism topic of first new nationally broadcast public health grand rounds session
... liveinteractive satellite broadcasts to be beamed across North Carolina and the nation. Faculty at theUNC-CH School of Public Health and representatives from the public health research and practicecommunities will lead the dialogue. "Public Health Grand Rounds is a major new national initiative to strength......es turn into miniatureelectrical storms that sweep across the brain. People with mild epilepsy can betreated with medication, diminishing the risk of powerful and dangerousseizures. In more severe cases, the only option is surgery to root out the partof the brain where the most violent, seizure-inducing wav......roblems, and open sinuses. Drug prices are higher across the board, too. In 1998, prices for all but oneof the nation's 50 most prescribed drugs increased -- many several times andoften by double digits. Overall, price increases alone accounted for nearly athird of last year's benefit cost growth, the fi...Phobias deter chronically ill from seeking regular treatment
...etting no regular medical care at follow-up points across 13 years andfound that 44 percent had active psychiatric disorders. The researchers concluded that these psychiatric disorders may keep many personswith chronic diseases from the ongoing medical care they require to controltheir symptoms, prevent lon...New nationwide study in six cities will look at the method & message for changing risky HIV behavior
...t we need to know the best way to get this message across to a newgeneration of young adults who are sexually active. We designed our counselingapproach as a way to talk with clients--not to them--about their high-riskbehavior. The results of this study will tell us if we are going in the rightdirection,"...Hospital study shows more patients could qualify for free care coverage
...ivelysmall, the results were remarkably consistent across the seven participatinginstitutions. Analysis of the data found that 84 percent of free-care patients and 78 percentof those categorized as emergency bad debt (covered by the uncompensated carepool) had incomes below the federal poverty level, which ...