Study on teen licensing: N.C. crashes involving 16-year-olds drop dramatically
...ng: Fatal crashes involving 16-year-old drivers declined 57 percent, from five to two per 10,000 population...764 per 10,000 population. Single-vehicle crashes declined 29 percent (from 245 to 175 per 10,000 population), and multiple-vehicle crashes decreased 21 percen...Dosage appears to be a critical factor in cocaine vaccine
... the second injection, peaked at three months, and declined to baseline by one year," Kosten said. The vaccine works by binding the cocaine to antibodies on entering the bloodstream, preventing uptake of cocaine across the blood-brain barrier and dulling or even obliterating the euphoric rush. Kosten said the...Childhood stroke deaths drop, but still higher among blacks
...N ANTONIO, Feb. 8 Stroke deaths for children have declined sharply, but black children have higher stroke dea... States. Overall, the study found stroke deaths declined by 58 percent in the 20-year period. However, the reduction in deaths varied by type of stroke. He...Stress causes heart-damaging fats to stay in blood longer
... In all 70 volunteers, triglyceride levels declined more quickly in the restful se...l tests, Stoney said. Overall, triglyceride levels declined an average of 2.8 percent a minute in the stress-inducing test ...Young women at greater risk of death than men after bypass surgery
...he men.The mortality differences between the sexes declined with older age. Among bypass patients age 80 and older, the risk of death was only slightly greater for women: 9.0 percent versus 8.3 percent for men. After correcting for factors that might explain womens higher death rates, the risk remained qui...Whither the GP who can do everything?
... to be the key principles of family medicine, have declined steadily over the past decade. Dr. Benjamin Chan used Ontario Health Insurance Plan billing data to track the participation rates of general practitioners and family physicians in 6 nonoffice settings across Ontario to track this decline in comprehen......e introduction of the nicotine patch in 1993, then declined as use of prescription-only products reached steady-state, as noted in the 1996 data. However, the 1999 data, from the post-OTC switch era, shows a significant increase in quitting behavior, explains coauthor Joe Gitchell, vice president at Pinney A...Gene linked to accelerated brain aging in healthy adults
...and the non-APOE4 group. "We found that NAA levels declined mildly with increasing age for all participants in the study," said Doraiswamy. "But when the sample was broken down by genetic makeup, the average loss of NAA across the age span was nearly three-fold higher in people with the APOE4 gene than in tho...Five-week antibiotic treatment may improve cardiovascular function
...over, in treated patients, the level of E-selectin declined by an average of 28.2 nanograms per milliliter (ng...n treated patients and von Willebrand factor level declined by an average of 36.6 International Units per deciliter (IU/dL). The study showed improved arterial ...Severe symptoms, social functioning predict cancer patients depression
...number of the patients who were severely depressed declined over the course of the study from 39 percent in th...ing, although the significance of these predictors declined over time. In addition, not receiving radiation therapy was identified as a good predictor of depre...Report shows decline in youth smoking, but work remains
... including data showing that initiation rates have declined over time for males at all ages. However, there was little evidence of a decline in initiation for females under 16 years old, and initiation rates increased for females 16 years and older. The youth smoking rates overall remain relatively hig...Parental smoking around time of conception linked to reduction in male births
...E LANCET. The male to female ratio of children has declined substantially over the past few decades. The reaso... 20 cigarettes a day. The male to female sex ratio declined with increasing numbers of cigarettes smoked by mothers and fathers. The sex ratio was 1.21 in the g...Successful measles vaccination feasible in low-income countries
...een 1996 and 2000; reported clinical measles cases declined from 60,000 in 1996 to 117 cases in 2000. Reported measles deaths declined from 166 in 1996 to zero in 2000. Robin Biellik (leading WHO investigator) comments: A reduction in...Deaths by drowning fall, but pools abroad still 'a major concern'
...ber of children drowning in the United Kingdom has declined between 1988-89 and 1998-99. However drownings in pools abroad and in garden ponds have risen significantly, finds a study in this weeks BMJ. Researchers at the University of Wales College of Medicine, the Royal Life Saving Society, and the Royal Soc...Insulin pump effective for infants, children
...rcent. "During pump therapy, hemoglobin A1c levels declined in all nine patients. The mean value at the time o...n of pump therapy, the frequency of these episodes declined to 0.09 per month." The frequency of physician or emergency room visits remained the same before and...Human papilloma virus test increases cancer detection rate, study finds
...ncidence and death rates from cervical cancer have declined substantially in the United States over the last 50 years due to widespread Pap smear screening programs, but prior studies have shown that as many as half of all precancers or cancers could be missed by the Pap test. The HPV test detects the presenc......s, they found that wealthy, late-reproducing women declined as a proportion of the population from 11 percent to about 5 percent. The proportion of the poorest women also declined. But the proportion of lower middle class women increased dramatically, from about 33 percent to about 60 percent. "Their relat...Understanding cancer patients' needs, concerns, is key to improving clinical trial participation
...s. In that study, more than a third of the doctors declined to refer patients to clinical trials, mistakenly b...o were considered for clinical trial participation declined to participate, many of them out of a mistaken belief that investigational treatments are not as eff......ive than gastric bypass surgery, and its usage has declined as a result. Gastric bypass surgery, though not without risks, is seeing a boom in popularity. It is recommended only for so-called "morbidly obese" patientsthose with a body mass index of 40 or more, or 35 or more with known medical problems due to ...