Health Risk To "Cigarette Babies" Is Neglected, Duke Scientist Charges
...rth weight, saidSlotkin. "Maternal smoking during pregnancy kills between tens of thousands andpossi... units after birth and kills or brain-damages more during the birth process.Smoking is also responsible for one-third to two-thirds of all cases of SuddenInfa...Athletes, Fraternity Men Are Top Drinkers
...puses across the United States answered the survey during the 1994 through 1996 school years. Among them we...ng or drug use impaired their academic performance during the year; 42 percent of male and 35 percent of female team members were involved in fights ...ACE-Inhibitors Score High In Reducing Heart Attack Deaths
...of the deaths were prevented --about 80 percent -- during the first week,when heart attack risk is highest. The low-risk group, those who were youngerand with fewer medical problems, experienced four fewer deaths per 1,000 treatedwith ACE-inhibitors. Grazia Franzosi recommended two strategies for using AC...Teen Marijuana Use Is Fueled By Change In Attitudes
... study show that seniors' use of the drugincreased during most of the '70s and decreased throughout the '80s...ublic figures. Also, the decline in marijuana use during the1980s may have lulled many members of social institutions, including government,schools, media an...Abstinence Reduces HIV For High-Risk Women - Even Those Who Relapse - Study Shows
...period. If there are 25% relapses to riskybehavior during the period, there would be prevention of 1 infection in infants,72 infections in adults, and $16 million in savings. If relapses climbed to 50%,there would still be prevention of 1 infection in infants, 66 infections inadults, and $11.8 million in sa...Montana Fungus The First But Not The Best
...xol makers andhas significantly boosted production during the last four years, said companypresident Arthur P. Bollon. Now the sublicense adds Bristol-Myers Squibb'sfermentation resources to potentially enhance development of microbialfermentation of taxol, said Bollon. "Microbial fermentation is ...... drugs commonly used totreat head and neck cancer, during the first and sixth weeks of irradiation. The researchers found the combined treatment was more successful incontrolling the cancer and in stopping recurrence of tumors. Sixty-one percentof the combined treatment patients were still disease-f...Educational Intervention Can Reduce Sexual Behaviors Known To Transmit HIV
... of male participants reported having sex with men during thethree months prior to the baseline interview. Nationwide, rates of HIV infection and AIDS are higher among racial andethnic minority populations, especially African Americas, who represented 41percent of new AIDS cases in 1996. Heterosex...Study Reveals Possible Clue For Racial Differences In Prevalence Of High Blood Pressure
...rt Association. In a study of blood flow in people during mentally stressful conditions, JulioA. Panza, M.D....has healthy whites. Blood vessels relax and widen during stress to redirectblood flow to muscles involved in the "flight or fight" response. "The opening up ...Modafinil Improves The Quality Of Life Of Narcolepsy Patients
...r from narcolepsy fall asleep when least expected: during an exam, during a business meeting, or while eating, playing sports ordriving. Many patients are never fully alert ......dadministrative processes that are at work before, during and after a patientreceives care. MMI convenes nat...rrelate with feweranesthesia-related complications during surgery. Pulse oximetry is anon-invasive monitoring technology that assesses oxygen levels in the bl......roup. Asexpected, lipid levels fell in both groups during treatment with a particulartype of fibrate. Howeve...that fibrates may have abeneficial vascular action during the treatment of atherosclerosis andpost-angioplasty restenosis, conditions in which activation of v...... OHSU. The Romines will remain in the Portlandarea during most of the clinical trial for close monitoring of Bud's blood andbone marrow. The Romines have three children, five grandchildren and 1great-grandchild....New Study Indicates Lightning Can Kill Without Leaving a Mark
...e the magnetically inducedcurrents within the body during a vulnerable cardiac period could be strongenough to disrupt and fibrillate the heart, possibly causing death." The researchers also have speculated that in some fatal cases of "hikerheart attacks" in Colorado's high country, lightning strike...Ulcer Drug Linked To Birth Defects
...ol study compared the frequency of misoprostol use during thefirst trimester between mothers of 96 Brazilian infants diagnosed with Mobiussyndrome and mothers of 96 infants with neural tube defects. Among the mothersof infants with Mobius syndrome, 47 (49 per cent) had taken misoprostol duringpregnancy comp...Extreme Prematurity Brings Two-Fold Increase In Risk Of Repeating A Grade, Needing Special Education
...selected randomly from live births at the hospital during the same period. Children's Hospital has one of the oldest groups of survivors of extreme prematurity. A neonatologist at Children's developed lung surfactant and physicians in Buffalo have used it since the early 1980s. Children in the curren...Timing Of Breast Cancer Surgery Doesn't Appear To Influence Survival Anymore
... if theoperation to remove the cancer is performed during the middle of the menstrualcycle rather than at th... thesurgery was done. Prior to 1984, surgery done during the onset of menstruationalmost doubled the risk of dying compared to surgery around the time ofovul...UCSF Researchers Seeing Increased Rates Of Unprotected Sex Among San Francisco Gay Men
...s data showed that 32 men became infected with HIV during the five-yearcourse of the study. The infection rate in 1994 was 2.6 percent, but the ratehas been around 1.5 percent per year since then. Osmond speculated on several reasons why the researchers are not seeing rates ofinfectivity increasing with mo..."Happy Hour" Is Unhappy For Many Cardiac Arrest Victims
...) system shows that cardiac arrests commonly occur during theafternoon, as well as in the morning, according...ts. "Cardiac arrests do not occur randomly during the day, but rather followcertain periodic patterns. These patterns are probably associated with pa...... fungi. These protective mechanisms occurnaturally during germination, which malting simulates. The Malt-based Antimicrobial offers the application breadth of chemicalpesticides without the negative side effects. It theoretically can be applied toseeds as a pretreatment, used against foliar or soil borne pl...