Rates of genital herpes infections rise
...re from men. Twenty-nine per cent of patients were aged 21-25 years. In 1986-1988, 33% of all positive swabs were due to HSV-1, rising progressively to 56% in 1998-2000. Both the number and percentage of HSV-1 infections have risen, say the authors. Genital infection with HSV-1 is also strongly associated...Serious physical illness linked to suicide in later life
...weden examined the records of 46 men and 39 women, aged 65 years and over, who had committed suicide. They compared these with 84 men and 69 women of the same age, living in the same area (controls). Interviews were also conducted with relatives of the suicide victims and control persons. They found that ...Electroacupuncture trial is NCCAM's first intramural study
...ed." The randomized trial will enroll 52 patients, aged 16 to 35 years, who have been diagnosed with pediatric sarcomas and are starting their first course of chemotherapy. Standard treatment for pediatric sarcomas involves chemotherapy regimens that are likely to cause both acute and delayed nausea. Pati...Stress not linked to breast cancer relapse
... in this week's BMJ. The study involved 222 women, aged under 60, who had been diagnosed with a primary operable breast tumour between May 1991 and July 1994. The team collected data on stressful life experiences and depression from 12 months before diagnosis to five years afterwards. Biological factors k...PET reveals early coronary damage in young smokers
...omparative study of chronic smokers and nonsmokers aged 1835. PET examination of myocardial blood flow indicated that the smokers had diminished endothelial vasodilator function, i.e., the lining of the arteries had slowed response to artery-widening chemicals. It is widely known that chronic cigarette ...Generation x-tra large: Americans getting fatter younger, study finds
....S. statistics, in 1960-1962, 13 percent of adults aged 20 to 74 were obese, while a total of 44 percent weighed more than is healthy. Less than four decades later, in 1999, 27 percent of Americans were actually obese, while 61 percent weighed more than is healthy. Obesity is defined as body mass index...No link between epilepsy and criminality
...neral populations is also approximately 1% for men aged 25-35 years. "These findings reinforce our conclusion that the available evidence provides no good support for the alleged link between epilepsy and criminality," conclude the authors....African American women are at greater risk of vitamin D deficiency than white women
...d 1546 African American women and 1426 white women aged 15 to 49 years, none of whom were pregnant. Hypovitaminosis D was 10 times more prevalent in African American (42%) than in white women (4%). Every determinant of vitamin D status contributed in some part to the prevalence of hypovitaminosis D in ...Think youre healthy? Open wide and look inside
...esearch shows that nearly one in three U.S. adults aged 30 to 54 have this or a more serious form of periodontal disease. However, gum swelling could also be a way your mouth is telling you that something is amiss with your health. Other reasons for swollen, bleeding gums could be more serious conditio...World's first study on surrogacy reveals high quality parenting and no problems
...he study looked at families when the children were aged between nine and twelve months. There are two types of surrogacy: partial (or straight) surrogacy where the surrogate mother and the commissioning father are the genetic parents of the child and conception is through artificial insemination, and full...World-first study shows solo mothers choose donor insemination because they lack a partner
...DI mothers with 36 married DI mothers with a child aged less than one year. As well as investigating the well-being of mothers and children, the team also wanted to find out why solo DI mothers had opted to go it alone and whether they might be vulnerable to other pressures such as social stigma and lack...Women cured of childhood leukaemia should be advised to have children while they are young
... abortion and two ongoing pregnancies. One woman, aged 33, had tried to become pregnant without success for five years, but many of the women were young and 17 of the 26 had not even tried to conceive yet. All the women had regular menstrual cycles and normal hormonal levels, although the length of the ...Dont turn to assisted reproduction too quickly warns US expert
... cities 1 , concluded that even when the woman was aged between 35 and 39, fewer than 1 in 10 failed to co... in the second year, provided the male partner was aged under 40. Starting in the late 30s though, male age was also important: it meant that the percenta...Poor adherence to control measures for older children with phenylketonuria
... testing, compared with less than half of children aged 15 years or older. John Walter comments: "Our findings indicate that adolescents and young adults generally do not comply with recommendations for the monitoring and control of phenylalanine concentrations. If phenylketonuria is proven to be dangerou...Reduction in HIV-1 incidence among rural Ugandans gives hope to other African countries
...d tenth annual survey rounds, especially among men aged 2024 years (6.5% to 2.2%) and 2529 years (15.2% to...l reductions in HIV-1 prevalence rates among women aged 1319 years (2.8% to 0.9%) and 2024 years (19.3% to 10.1%) James Whitworth comments: "More than half...Heart experts call for urgent action to implement new findings on cholesterol-lowering treatment
...rent figure of less than 1 in 20 of the population aged over 40 (or about 1 million people) to about one i...tection Study involved more than 20,000 volunteers aged 40-80 who were at high risk of coronary heart disease, but for whom there was substantial uncertaint...New screening methods for Down's syndrome questioned
...aly scans Fifteen per cent of pregnant women were aged over 35 years at delivery - more than double the 5-7% presumed in statistical models of screening - and 58% of infants with Down's syndrome were born to women in this age range. The team found no evidence that serum and nuchal screening improves ante...Children with asthma plagued by smokers and pets
...is colleagues interviewed 152 children with asthma aged 7 to 18 years and at least one parent of each child about potential allergens and irritants in their homes, the child's asthma history, the family's asthma knowledge, education, occupation, family functioning, stressful life events and quality of lif...Recognising mental illness in young people could prevent suicides
...96 cases of suicide during 1981-97 in young people aged 10-21 years. They matched each case to a random sample of 50 people of the same age and sex, to act as controls. They found that suicide is more likely among young people if a parent commits suicide or there is a history of mental illness in the indi......orted being sunburned, 57.5 percent of respondents aged 18 to 29 had been sunburned at least once in 12 months. These findings complement those of a recently published study that showed that sunburn rates among teenagers, 12 to 18 years old, might go as high as 80 percent. The researchers also identified ...