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...essor in Penn's Department of Psychology. "People generally understand their own worth on the dating market, so they are able to judge each others' potential compatibility within moments of meeting." At each HurryDate party, roughly 25 men and 25 women interact with each other for three minutes at a time. ...Study casts doubt on increased mobility among US population
...f an opposite trend. In fact, overall mobility has generally declined since about 1950, and interstate mobility has generally not increased during the same period. The data supporting this is reported in the February 2005 issu...Parents comfortable with vaccination for sexually transmitted infections for adolescent children
CHICAGO Parents are generally accepting of the hypothetical scenario of vaccinating their adolescent children against infection, whether the infection is sexually transmitted or not, according to a study in the February issue of The Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine,...Study explores risks of obesity in children with kidney transplants
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... with advanced-stage follicular lymphoma a cancer generally considered incurable who had not been previously treated with any other form of therapy received a single course of treatment with the Bexxar therapeutic regimen, a radioactive antibody injected into the bloodstream that targets and kills cancer cel...Research guides medication choices for young Asthma patients
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...weight, are easily tired, slow in walking and feel generally weak for no specific reason are eligible for the study. They will be asked some basic questions and undertake a few simple tests to assess their eligibility, and have their testosterone levels measured. Only volunteers found to have low testosteron...Obesity and weight gain associated with poorer breast cancer survival
... after a breast cancer diagnosis, since smoking is generally related to both lower levels of weight and a higher risk of death overall," said Candyce Kroenke, ScD, of the Department of Medicine at Brigham & Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, and lead author of the study. "Researchers have also speculat...Risk and intimate relationships: Can hope triumph over experience in an age of 'messy' lives?
...o uncertainty, is held to be calculable, and it is generally known that there is a high rate of breakdown of relationships. But intimate relationships in western societies are also expected to involve romantic love- 'the triumph of hope over experience'. "Policymakers express anxiety about family breakdown, an...Climate change and the future of air travel
...tion. They have already found that aircraft could generally minimise contrail formation by flying lower in the atmosphere. Their work suggests that in the summer, when the air is warmer, restricting jets to an altitude of 31,000 feet could be beneficial. In winter, when the air cools, and contrail formation...January/February Annals of Family Medicine tip sheet
...cohol dependence. The authors assert that what is generally considered nonhazardous alcohol consumption is frequently associated with injury. Consuming two or three alcoholic drinks for women or two to four for men caused about 4 percent of all emergency department injury visits in this study, about the same ...Vaccinating school children and high risk groups is best strategy for slowing flu transmission
... levels. School children are the population group generally most responsible for transmission of influenza because of more exposure potential and less prior immunity than adults. Even if only 50 percent of school children could be vaccinated, this would still result in a considerable reduction in transmissio...Calcium boost to youths' bones could reduce osteoporosis risk
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...Orrell says. "The antioxidant medications used are generally well-tolerated, and without serious adverse effects. This probably explains their wide use by patients, with or without the advice of their physician," he adds. The review appears in the January issue of The Cochrane Library, a publication of The Coc...Counseling encourages exercise; environment changes may help
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