School condom availability does not increase sexual activity
...ay be an effective means of preventing potentially harmful outcomes such as HIV/STDs and pregnancy," she adds. Approximately half of all adolescents in grades nine through 12 report that they have had sex, with nearly 60 percent using condoms during their most recent sexual encounter, according to research ...'Annals' study shows that spinal manipulation is safe alternative to drugs, says ACA
...nd beginning to question the number of potentially harmful drugs they might be taking, said Daryl D. Wills, D...ts for low back pain are untested, questionable or harmful in nature. The study also failed to address the federal governments guidelines on low back problems......ced by some degree of anxiety, there is a definite harmful tipping point when that anxiety gets in the way of delivering quality care and can contribute to burnout and illness in the doctors' themselves." Using inpatient pediatric and internal medicine rotations as a backdrop, ten medical trainees agreed t...Job stress may be missing link between workplace exercise and heart risk
...osis progression. "This suggests that the apparent harmful effect of physical activity at work on atherosclerosis-and heart disease risk-may be due to the tendency of high-activity jobs to be more stressful in modern workplaces," Dwyer says. "It appears from our findings that the psychological stresses assoc...New research reveals banning smoking at home protects infants
...rents believed that environmental tobacco smoke is harmful and 90% believed that infants can be protected from it in the home. Only one in 10 parents was unaware of any measures to reduce exposure. More than half the parents reported using more than one measure. Just under a fifth reported banning smoking in...Banning smoking at home protects infants
...rents believed that environmental tobacco smoke is harmful and 90% believed that infants can be protected from it in the home. Only one in 10 parents was unaware of any measures to reduce exposure. More than half the parents reported using more than one measure. Just under a fifth reported banning smoking in...Stress leads kids to unhealthy diets
...ting practices. "Stress appears to be consistently harmful to children in terms of steering their food choices away from the healthy and towards the unhealthy," she says. Wardle and her collaborators hope to follow this group of children, observing them as they grow older, to track their diets and their heal...JCI table of contents, 1 August 2003
...w.the-jci.org/press/16484.pdf Protein inhibits harmful soft-tissue calcification Natural mineralization occurs in our bones and teeth, however pathological mineralization of organs, known as ectopic calcification, is a frequent complication of degenerative diseases. Willi Jahnen-Dechent and colleagues ...Green teas cancer-fighting allure becomes more potent
...ntains chemicals that are anti-oxidants and quench harmful molecules. But its effects on the AH receptor have not been thoroughly evaluated until now. "It's likely that the compounds in green tea act through many different pathways," says Gasiewicz, professor and chair of Environmental Medicine and director...Stanford research shows targeted DNA vaccine may reverse autoimmune disease
...erapy that specifically knocked out as many of the harmful responses as possible while leaving the rest of the immune system functional. To do so, they took advantage of a well-known but poorly understood process known as tolerization. In this process, the immune system is coaxed to tolerate an offending pro...Mayo Clinic study finds people over 40 need frequent exercise to prevent or treat Type 2 diabetes
...ood glucose, and prevent or reduce its potentially harmful effects. The study also examined whether a reduction in abdominal fat or changes in the body's ability to convert food to energy resulting from aerobic exercise might be related to changes in insulin sensitivity among those who exercise regularly. ...Anti-asthma medications: Too much of a good thing?
...that the use of these drugs may be associated with harmful outcomes. Some, but not all, studies have revealed that regular scheduled use (e.g., multiple times daily, every day) of inhaled beta-agonists has resulted in a loss of control over the condition, which can manifest as longer asthmatic attacks and an...Mapping the air to safeguard your looks, the environment and planes in flight
...s of ultraviolet (UV) rays are well known, but the harmful consequences of air pollution on our skin are less easily quantified outside of laboratories. Employing a 2800-strong team of scientists and support staff, L'Oreal has carried out field studies on this subject. Working with the French Regional Centr...UCSF study finds no harm to HIV+ patients with short-term medical cannabis
UCSF researchers found no harmful changes in HIV virus levels in patients on combination antiretroviral therapy in a safety study looking at both smoked marijuana and dronabinol, an oral medical cannabinoid. "People with HIV are a vulnerable population, so successfully addressing the...Fruits, vegetables overlooked by healing heart patients
...n patients may "just say no" not only to obviously harmful dietary fat but also to beneficial fruits and vegetables. These contradictory responses mean that different approaches are needed to change overall eating habits and reduce the risk of future heart problems, say C. Jeffrey Frame, Ph.D., R.D., and col...Brain cells found to hold key to growth of certain breast cancers
...s beneficial in the case of nerve cells can play a harmful role in the development of certain breast cancers." The discovery of DCD's effect on different types of cells may lead to new ways of treating not only breast cancer but also conditions such as stroke and Alzheimer's disease, which involve the death ...PET scans show cigarette smoke affects peripheral organs
...r airways." "When we think about smoking and the harmful effects of smoke, we usually think of the lungs and of nicotine," says NIDA Director Dr. Nora D. Volkow, one of the authors of the study. "But here we see a marked effect on a major body enzyme in sites far removed from the lungs that we know is due ...Exercise and weight loss reduces excess insulin and lowers blood pressure in Syndrome X
...ical syndrome where drugs to treat one area may be harmful in another, it is important to offer patients an effective treatment that is not reliant on drugs." Specifically, the study found that overweight patients with Syndrome X who exercised and lost weight experienced a reduction of 47 percent in the over...Lotion made from tea could help fight skin cancer
...e sunblock, which prevents the skin from absorbing harmful ultraviolet (UV) light, tea polyphenols work after the skin is exposed to excessive sunlight. The compounds, which are found in both black and green teas, inhibit a newly discovered chemical pathway involving an enzyme called JNK-2 that appears to ...University of Minnesota study finds people are consuming less trans-fatty acids
...consuming less trans-fatty acids. Awareness of the harmful effects caused by these acids is critical to improving health," says Lisa Harnack, Dr.P.H., M.P.H., associate professor of epidemiology at the University of Minnesota School of Public Health and principal investigator of the study. "This study magnif...