New study shows link between sex and violence among N.C. high school males
...d drunk alcohol 10 or more times in theprevious 30 days had been involved in a pregnancy, compared to 3.4 ...d marijuana 20 one ormore times in the previous 30 days reported past pregnancy involvement. In 1997, 16.9 percent of males who had smoked cigarettes on 10...Hormone-like gel causes speedier deliveries, study suggests
... and waited an average of two-and-a-half days before delivering, while 31 women received a placebo and waited an average of seven days. On average, the women in the PGE2 group spent three hours less in labor. ...'Biochemical storm' following brain trauma, an important factor in treatment
...ought has been that treatment within the first two days is critical."But data from Hayes' lab suggest this critical period may extend much longer. "In our studies, we've found that a biochemical storm that is initiated with an injury continues for at least a month. The implication is that we may need to t...Home blood pressure measurements are usually acceptable
...to take twice daily blood pressure readings for 30 days using an automated monitor, 73% of measurements were reported correctly. Their readings were checked against automatic recordings within the monitors. Low educational level was the only independent predictor of poor reporting accuracy. Dr Edouard...Vitamin A compound may help protect younger women against breast and ovarian cancers
... which was eased by staying off the capsules three days each month, and some gastrointestinal complaints. As with tamoxifen, fenretinide can cause fetal defects, so premenopausal patients were advised to use contraceptive measures while on treatment and for up to six months after stopping. This trial is...Recipients of well-matched kidneys received locally require less long-term care
...97. They determined the cost of their care from 30 days to three years after transplantation. The average cost to Medicare--and thus to taxpayers--of care within three years was roughly $60,436 when the kidney had identical HLA markers to the patient's own organs. The cost rose by 5 percent to 34 percent ...Study casts doubt that melatonin goes down as age goes up: Older buyers take note
...articipation in the study, each person spent three days and three nights isolated under carefully controlled conditions in a sleep laboratory at Brigham and Women's Hospital. In order to minimize the effect of the experiment on their usual patterns of melatonin secretion, participants maintained their no...Blood marker can signal trouble for individuals with heart disease
... nearly double the risk of heart attacks within 90 days of hospital discharge compared to patients with lo...nstable angina will suffer heart attacks within 90 days after hospital discharge. It provides information that goes beyond clinical data and standard non-i...90 high schools will participate in UNC-CH head injury study
...ree, 24, 48 and 72 hours after injury and again on days five, seven and 90 post-injury. "Our recent work ...d athletes to play way too soon, anaverage of four days after a concussion," Guskiewicz said. "This new work, in which 45 schools will bethe study group and...Trauma patients need monitoring for infection risk
... death in trauma victims who survive the first few days and this study points to why this is the case and what we can do to prevent it." All trauma patients admitted for more than 24 hours to the regional trauma unit of the Sunnybrook and Women's College Health Sciences Centre in 1996 were included in ......ressive disorders account for 7.4 million hospital days and 13 million physician visits a year, and affect 4.8 million people 18 or older in any six-month period, according to the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research. Each year, 16,000 suicides or 7 deaths per 100,000 occur due to depression. 2 ...Cigarette smoking among American teens
...y had smoked one or more cigarettes in the past 30 days (defined as "current smoking"), down by one-sixth from a peak of 21 percent in 1996. Among 10th-graders, most of whom are 15 or 16 years old, 25.7 percent reported smoking in the past 30 days, down nearly one-sixth from the peak of 30.4 percent in 1...How long-term alcohol consumption can damage the immune system
...s, personal disagreements -- they can all make our days run less smoothly than we might like. Yet stress is much more than the subjective feeling of pressure or tension we may feel; it can also mean the complex physiological processes our bodies experience in response to a given stressor. A recent study...Copper-lowering drug stabilizes advanced cancer in anti-angiogenesis trial
... were kept at one-fifth of normal for more than 90 days had no growth of existing tumors or formation of new ones, according to a paper published in the January issue of Clinical Cancer Research. The sixth had progression of only one tumor; all other tumors within her body remained stable. Twelve other pa...BioMed Central -- freedom of information for the science community
...eed up the peer review process so that itwill take days rather than months * make all articles published through BMC available immediately and infull, through the PubMed Central research archive * allow groups of researchers to publish their own niche journalsonline, servicing a need that would not be com...Teasing out the early steps of neurodegeneration
...A1 gene turns on. Others were downregulated a few days or weeks afterward." Also surprising, said Zoghbi, was that several of the downregulated genes produced proteins that helped regulate calcium levels in neurons. "This finding suggests that calcium physiology and homeostasis is altered in the affect......he case, however, for a medical school born in the days of the stagecoach and this year celebrating its 150th anniversary, says medical historian Howard Markel, M.D., Ph.D., in a paper in the current issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association. Markel highlights the U-M Medical School's rich ......s. The most stunning finding occurred at about 200 days after treatment -- plaques in the gene-injected mice had essentially disappeared. "It has never been demonstrated that we could completely remove plaque in an animal or human just by altering the lipoprotein contents of the blood by a gene," Duverge...