UNC-CH Study Shows State Protects HMO Clients Poorly
...O “report card” sprinkled with 13 letter grades ranging from two “A”s to two “D-minuses.” Overall, North Carolina's HMO consumer protection received a “C-minus” when compared with other states and industry standards. “North Carolina has experienced an explosion...Higher Prices Won't Stop Teenage Smokers
...ould reduce the number of new teen-age smokers in grades 8-12 by less than one-half a percentage point. Th...l Survey, a 1988 study of about 12,000 students in grades 8, 10 and 12. "This allowed us to study the impact of taxes on smoking behavior during exactly the...Extreme Prematurity Brings Two-Fold Increase In Risk Of Repeating A Grade, Needing Special Education
...nterviews with parents and gathered information on grades repeated, their need for special education and use of the school resource room. Parents also brought their children to the hospital's pediatric development center for evaluation. After excluding children with major neurological impairments, suc...Hearts N' Parks - an innovative North Carolina program to prevent heart disease launched
...at children who learned heart-healthy behaviors in grades 3 through 5 from theCATCH program continued to practice these behaviors for several years, ofteninto middle school. CATCH materials have been distributed to all of the NorthCarolina communities participating in Hearts N' Parks, and the Charlotte sta...Children CATCH on to heart-health messages
...ollow-up study (1995-1998) assessed differences in grades 6, 7, and8 in diet, physical activity, and related... who received the health promotion intervention in grades 3 through 5 maintained a diet significantly lower intotal fat and saturated fat and continued to pur...Research finds U.S. adolescents inactive; blacks, Hispanics, Asians at biggest risk
...n 13,000 teen-agers enrolled in theseventh to 12th grades across the nation in 1996. Information came fromdetailed, confidential surveys of teens about their experiences, practices andattitudes and included 3,135 non-Hispanic blacks, 2,446 Hispanics and 976Asians. Researchers looked chiefly at patt...You have to break a few (hundred) eggs to make a good crystal
...t "on thecurve"? What you were asking was that the grades be adjusted so that a "C" fellunder the part of the curve where most of your classmates had scored. A few wereto the left and got a D or F; and few were to the right and got a B or an A. That's basically how the bell curve works. In nature, objects a...MGH researchers identify angiogenesis inhibitor in gallbladder cancer
...l samples studied, even though they were different grades of cancer,TGF-beta-1 was present. It also was found in metastatic cells found in thepatients' lymph nodes but not in normal gallbladder tissue. "This finding isquite fascinating, because it shows this is not just something that occurs inanimals. T...Researchers find one in five children not getting care they think they need
...nown as the Add Health study. Participants were in grades 7 through 12 when asked to enter responses into computers to ensure confidentiality. "The Add Health survey included questions designed to find out how commonly adolescents consider seeking health care but do not go to doctors or other health care p...Cigarette smoking among American teens
...re has been rather little improvement in the lower grades among the non-college bound, who traditionally have far higher smoking rates." Consistent with this fact, most of the recent improvement in eighth- and 10th-grade smoking has been concentrated among children from more educated families. Traditiona...Drug trends among American teens
...its longer-term, very gradual decline at all three grades (although none of this year's changes were large e...rape drugs"---showed a small decline in use in all grades this year, though only the eighth-grade decline was large enough to be statistically significant. T......d drug-related. The following percentages include grades 1-4. The most common included nausea (45 percent), vomiting (22 percent), headache (16 percent), dizziness (10 percent), fatigue (10 percent) and abdominal pain (8 percent). A total of 133 patients experienced adverse events (123 drug-related) in th...Study evaluates dosage adjustments of Agenerase
...s. The most frequently reported adverse events in grades 2-4 (grades 1-4 included parenthetically) were up to 31 percent nausea (73 percent), 22 percent diarrhea (56 percent), 11 percent vomiting (29 percent), 20 percent rash (25 percent) and 2 percent perioral paresthesia (30 percent). Because of the pot...Study of school 'connectedness' identifies adolescents at risk
...y 2,000 students in eight public schools attending grades 7 through 12. The schools were chosen for their high rates of adverse outcomes, such as school failure, teen pregnancy, and child abuse. The survey included more than 100 questions, and a school connectedness score (SCS) was derived from five surve...NHLBI launches sleep & children education program with Garfield the Cat as "Spokescat"
...s from throughout the U.S., challenged children in grades one through five to write the ending for a comic strip which showed Garfield lamenting that he had stayed up too late last night and was so tired today that he did something wrong or silly. The winning entries were: "Kissed Nermal instead of my mir...Study: Children with more hours of child care act more aggressively
... diverse families, now are in the third and fourth grades and will be followed at least through the sixth. Analyses have now been completed and reported for ages 6, 15, 24, 36 and 54 months. Investigators consider their sample reasonably but not perfectly representative of U.S. children, Cox said. Strengths...Pre-teens involved in hobbies and sports get better grades, are better behaved
...rs or hung out a lot were less likely to have good grades and more likely to show bad conduct at both ages. ...e 10-year-olds who read more tended to have better grades but also were more likely to report symptoms of depression. Although the authors cannot explain exac...College freshmen more politically liberal than in the past, UCLA survey reveals
...cord levels of academic disengagement, record high grades Todays college freshmen continue to be academicall...are spending less time studying, their high school grades continue to soar with 44.1 percent of freshmen report earning A averages in high school, compared to...Limiting adolescents' exposure to R-rated movies may help prevent early use of alcohol and tobacco
...rveyed 4,544 New Hampshire and Vermont students in grades 5 through 8 (ages 10 to 14). Of children with no parental restrictions on viewing R-rated films, 35 percent had tried smoking and 46 percent had tried alcohol. Of those with complete restrictions on viewing R-rated films, two percent had tried smokin...Restricting R-movies linked to decreased teen smoking, drinking
.... The researchers surveyed about 4,500 students in grades five through eight in New Hampshire and Vermont. Although 90 percent of the students surveyed were younger than 14 years old, only 16 percent said they were never allowed to watch R-rated movies. The movie rating system, in place since 1968, provide...