Digital Speech Analysis Tests Sobriety
... blood alcohol level or higher, considered legally drunk in most states). Past perceptual research on this database has shown that a personlistening to the samples can reliably discriminate between sober andintoxicated speech. Acoustic analysis also has shown that intoxicatedspeech is slower, features lo...Coffee: a cause of neonatal seizures?
...servations. First, caffeinecontained in the coffee drunk by mothers crosses the fetal blood-brain barrier.On arriving in the brain, the caffeine binds specifically to neuronal adenosinereceptors. Second, fetal oxygenation frequently declines during delivery, especially whencontractions last a few minutes, ...New study shows link between sex and violence among N.C. high school males
...t showed: In 1995, 18.3 percent of males who had drunk alcohol 10 or more times in theprevious 30 days had been involved in a pregnancy, compared to 3.4 percent ofmales who did not drink. In 1995, between 33.3 and 67.7 percent of males with two or more suicideattempts in the previous year had also been ...UI study: first-generation antihistamine has more impact than alcohol on driving performance
...Weiler noted that previous studies have shown that drunk drivers may perform one task well but at the expense of other crucial driving tasks. When taking fexofenadine or the placebo, participants matched the speed of the lead car and followed it at a safer distance than when they received alcohol. Subj...... drinking. "This may be related to zero-tolerance drunk driving laws aimed at underaged drinkers," said Wechsler. The study results appear in the July issue of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine. In addition to stricter enforcement of the drinking-age law at bars, the researchers suggested legis...One in four patients has been drinking before arrival at accident and emergency
...onsumption was found in 122. A further 18 who were drunk refused a test, and a further 14 were too drunk to provide one. Thirteen per cent had the legal limit of alcohol in their system; five per cent had ...Jefferson scientist links gene to alcoholic's vulnerability to heart failure
... develop heart failure, even when both groups have drunk the same amount of alcohol over a lifetime. "It's the first real demonstration of genetic vulnerability to alcohol-induced tissue damage in the heart," says Emanuel Rubin, M.D., professor and chair of pathology, anatomy and cell biology at Jefferson...Benefits of discussing teenage health concerns are small but encouraging
...completed questionnaires; 23% smoked, 35% had been drunk in the previous three months, 64% considered they ate unhealthily, 39% took little exercise, and 36% had possible depression. Three quarters (225) indicated at least one behaviour they would like to work on changing; the most common were diet (50%), ...Alcohol makes auto crash injuries worse for drivers and passengers, study finds
... major public-health campaigns aimed at preventing drunk driving such as efforts to encourage those who have been drinking to let someone else drive them home. A federal law passed in 2000 requires all states to have a legal limit of 0.08 by October, 2003, or risk losing federal highway construction funds...Severe childhood ADHD may predict alcohol, substance use problems in teen years
...ice as many of the ADHD group reported having been drunk more than once in the past six months. Both groups gave similar responses when asked if they had ever tried alcohol, cigarettes, or marijuana at least once; however, the ADHD group was three times more likely to have tried some other illegal drug be...Are toddlers who can't sleep at higher risk of becoming teens who smoke, drink or do drugs?
...ing alcohol, and 40 percent of that group had been drunk at least once. About one-tenth regularly smoked cigarettes, and 17 percent had used at least one kind of illicit drug. There was no connection between parental alcoholism and children's sleep problems or behavior issues. But children of alcoholic...NJIT business incubator helps start-up companies move out of the lab and into the marketplace
...ions to analyze. Just as a Breathalyzer can detect drunk drivers, a Menssana process can detect illness. It's the same concept, though far more sensitive, says inventor Michael Phillips, MD, of Fort Lee. Samples are captured in activated carbon, sealed in small steel cylinders and then mailed to the lab fo...Prof: Local health campaigns not reaching adults with bad habits
... about frequent exercise, healthy eating habits or drunk driving out there is all that can be done with limited budgets, my research shows this approach is not reaching the at-risk population who need this information," he says. "If the goal is to reach this at-risk group, then money is being wasted on med...New survey reveals treatment goals of people with schizophrenia
...ren't afraid of someone who is dangerous such as a drunk driver because they could be our neighbor or a cousin. Yet when we see someone who is different and may act strange, we become afraid of them for no real reason," he said. "Decreasing the stigma we have of people with mental illness is a constant ba...Brain imaging study of drunk drivers pinpoints neurological changes
...he lowest was 0.05. Drivers are considered legally drunk when their blood alcohol level is 0.08.......t physician working to resuscitate the victim of a drunk driving accident while at the same time caring for another patient undergoing his tenth admission for detoxification. He relates what it was like, as he attempted to resuscitate the victim, to hold a beating heart for the first time....