Parents comfortable with vaccination for sexually transmitted infections for adolescent children
... would target young adolescents and preadolescents before they become sexually active, much of the decision-making burden would be placed on parents. It has been suggested that pediatricians may be reluctant to recommend STI vaccination in anticipation of negative parental reactions. Gregory D. Zimet, Ph.D...Mother's depression associated with increased risk of child's antisocial behavior
...sion as: never depressed (n = 728), depressed only before twins' birth (n = 68), depressed only after twins' birth (n = 193), and depressed before and after twins' birth (n = 124). Children's ASB at ages five and seven was determined from mother a...Study explores risks of obesity in children with kidney transplants
...er, then you usually grow to be a pretty good size before kidney failure started making it hard for you to g...elp kids, if they are heavy, to try to lose weight before they get a transplant and to pay more attention to their weight afterward."...UCI study uncovers how plaque in neck artery leads to stroke-inducing blood clots
... detection and treatment of carotid-artery plaques before these ulcerations grow can benefit people who exhibit stroke risk factors such as hypertension, elevated cholesterol, diabetes or a previous stroke. "As carotid-imaging technologies improve, identification of both ulceration and blood-clot developme...Why North America is not a rhythm nation
...erns from a variety of speakers, but it isn't long before they settle on those that are most common and meaningful to their culture.) The new findings are reported in "Metrical Categories in Infancy and Adulthood" an article in the January 2005 issue of Psychological Science, a journal of the American Psych...Effects of autism reach beyond language, new research suggests
SAN DIEGO Students, keep this in mind before that next major exam: Pre-test jitters make it eas... to 19 first-year medical students one to two days before a regular classroom exam a period when they would be highly stressed. Students were also given a si...Migraine-sparked vision loss may increase stroke risk in women; Migraine
...isk. Women who see spots and lines during or just before migraine had a 25 percent increased risk of stroke...s. But women who experience vision loss during or before migraine had a 70 percent higher risk. This may indicate that vision loss is more likely to represe...Dedicated hospital stroke centers improve quality of acute care
...schemic stroke patients at the start of the study, before the hospitals received designation, and re-measure... increasing from a range of 1 percent to 5 percent before certification to 10 percent or more after designation. It seems that people who live near certifie...Rehabilitation can restore some vision after stroke
...s of VRT. Visual field assessments were performed before and after VRT and then repeated an average of 46 months after completing VRT. After six months of VRT, sample stimulus detection increased significantly from about 54 percent to 63 percent. The number of undetected stimuli decreased significantly i...Optimal treatment of carpal tunnel syndrome
...Surgery, however, is often recommended to patients before trying less invasive and less expensive treatments. Is surgery always the best course for carpal tunnel syndrome's sufferers? A team of researchers in Madrid recently set out to find the answer. The results of their clinical trial, published in th...Rheumatoid arthritis linked to excess risk of congestive heart failure
...o a median of 26 years of complete medical history before baseline, plus a median of 15 years of follow-up. During the follow-up period, a total of 165 patients with RA and 115 individuals without RA had a confirmed diagnosis of CHF. After adjusting for cardiovascular-related risk factors...Anti-depressants used during pregnancy linked to neonatal withdrawal syndrome
...n all of them the drug was used for 4 to 60 months before delivery and stopped at delivery. Professor Sanz ...ted SSRI hegemony of the past decade. For now, and before others replicate or refute these findings, we should make better use of empirically grounded non-pha...Rheumatoid arthritis patients at higher risk for unrecognized heart disease and cardiac sudden death
...e increased heart disease risk may be present even before the diagnosis of rheumatoid arthritis, according to the researchers. During the two years before diagnosis of rheumatoid arthritis, patients with this disease were three times more likely to have b...World-first living donor islet cell transplant a success
...iro's international trial of the Edmonton Protocol before returning to Japan. Dr. Shapiro first suggested the idea of starting a living donor islet transplant program in Kyoto while lecturing there three years ago. Cadaveric organ donors are scarce in Japan, and living donation has very established roots in...Survivors who stop taking aspirin increase risk of another stroke
...ients who had a stroke or TIA more than six months before and were also taking long-term aspirin therapy. ...e group had discontinued aspirin within four weeks before their stroke, while only four patients did in the control group. Therefore, patients with stroke or...Stroke patients receive better care when hospitals 'get with the guidelines'
...w while patients are being treated, and especially before they are discharged from the hospital," he said. GWTGStroke uses inter-hospital collaborative meetings, best-practice sharing and an Internet tool for data collection, reporting and decision support. "When people operate in isolation, they are no...Association publishes blueprint to strengthen stroke care from prevention through recovery
...or use during a three-hour window of symptom onset before brain damage becomes irreversible. For patients t...but Congress didn't complete action on the measure before adjourning for the year. The legislation, which is expected to be reintroduced early in the 109th C...New study finds kelp can reduce level of hormone related to breast cancer risk
...gh the cycle, estradiol levels surge, peaking just before ovulation. These cyclic periods of high estrogen, ...ok baseline blood samples from 19 rats immediately before their low dose diet of kelp began. After just two weeks of eating 35 milligrams a day, estradiol lev...Highest average rate of US road deaths on Independence Day
...ar crash deaths with the two days exactly one week before and week afterwards, in a bid to rule out any anomalies in the figures. The analysis showed that on average 117 people die on US roads every day, but the death toll ranged from 45 to 252 deaths on any one day. There were more road deaths during summ...Mayo Clinic researchers create 'obedient virus'; First step to use measles virus against cancer
... production of a retargeted virus was not possible before this specific innovation of the molecular tag -- and research in this area was at an impasse. Not any more. "The virus goes where it's meant to go, and it destroys the tumors in a targeted way,'' says Dr. Russell. Background Biology Natural viruse...