Certain gun storage practices can reduce risk of youth firearm injuries, suicide
...ained access to a firearm and shot himself/herself intentionally or unintentionally or shot another individual unintentionally. The researchers identified a control group of eligible households with at least 1 firearm and children living or visiting in the home. The researchers interviewed 106 respondents in which...Holidays, birthdays and postponement of cancer deaths
...eaths reveals no evidence that cancer patients can intentionally postpone their demise in order to live long enough to reach an emotionally significant or meaningful event, say scientists in the Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center. The findings, appearing in the December 22 issue of the Journal of th...Evidence indicates cancer patients unable to intentionally postpone death for significant events
...s, new research shows that cancer patients can not intentionally postpone death to survive for significant personal events such as Christmas, Thanksgiving or a birthday, according to a study in the December 22/29 issue of JAMA . Health care workers and others involved with patients dying of cancer commonly recal...Reducing anti-rejection meds after transplant shows less complications
...nt population at the University of Pittsburgh, was intentionally done because the intestine is an organ most capable of producing an immune response. With the success of reducing the anti-rejection drugs in these patients, we recommend this treatment regimen for other patients undergoing abdominal organ transplant...Red palm oil as a means of combating vitamin A deficiency
...en in the trial project changed their behaviour by intentionally including this oil, which was a new foodstuff, in their diet. This emphasizes the feasibility and possible long-term application of using it as a supplement, based on the marketing of the product, prior issue of information and the setting of prices ...Study shows low risk of vaccinia transfer after smallpox immunization
...created a safety net of sorts. "If someone were to intentionally release smallpox, we have our first wave of health care responders protected," he says. The vaccine can be administered as long as three to four days after exposure, so health care workers who have been vaccinated could "take care of patients and vac...Study finds even healthcare professionals are sun worshipers
...wed that they were continuing to expose themselves intentionally to undesirable amounts of UV radiation, despite their universally high awareness of risk factors for malignant melanoma," she said. "The implication behind prevention programmes is that higher levels of awareness lead to behaviour modification, and p...UNC study: Trails, places to excercise, streetlights can boost activity levels
...she said. One unique aspect of the study was its intentionally diverse population, the scientist said. "We also found that blacks, American Indians and those with less education and lower household incomes were less likely to get the recommended amount of physical activity and reported generally less favorable ...Household falls may produce more severe brain injuries in infants than previously thought
...elerations, however, were measured when volunteers intentionally struck the doll's head against a hard surface. These inflicted impacts resulted in decelerations dramatically higher than those from even a five-foot fall onto concrete. The findings by Margulies and her colleagues may help abuse investigators diff...Smallpox outbreak response: Targeted vaccination may be almost as effective as mass vaccination
...to use mass or targeted vaccination in response to intentionally spread smallpox has been a matter of debate among researchers. The vaccine, which is a live cowpox virus, poses a small risk of serious side effects. Compared to the targeted approach, mass vaccination before any smallpox introduction or immediately...Researchers find promising new target for anxiety-reducing drugs
...s raised after their gene for PKC-epsilon had been intentionally disabled -- were super sensitive to modulation, or manipulation, of GABA, the number one inhibitory neurotransmitter in both mice and humans," he said. "As a result, they were more sensitive to alcohol and other drugs like Valium that alter GABA func...OTC sales of smoking cessation aids up, effectiveness down
...asked about whether they had in the past year quit intentionally for a day or longer (the standard research definition of a meaningful quit attempt), if they had used a pharmaceutical aid or had other assistance for their last quit attempt, and how long they were off cigarettes the last time they tried. Over the ...Cigarette tax hike could save millions of lives
..., he explains, all of the researchers' assumptions intentionally "err on the conservative side, so that the potential impact of the proposed interventions is, if anything, understated." Even so, he concludes, "the reductions in mortality are still quite impressive." The analysis was conducted during Ranson's tenu...Training can improve age-related memory decline in elderly
... older adults were simply shown words and asked to intentionally try to remember them later. "As previous studies had shown, we confirmed that the older adults did not recruit the critical frontal regions as much as the younger adults," said Buckner. The older adults also showed non-selective recruitment of corti......d humans. Therefore, the treatment of the rats was intentionally delayed until major organ formation had occurred. Our goal was to assess the effects of exposure on the developing organism, and this is about as close as we can get to being able to take measurable samples from humans and match them up with meaningf...College men nearly as likely as women to report they are victims of unwanted sexual coercion
...wanted sexualadvance. Both men and women reported intentionally using alcohol and drugs toobtain sex." She added that the male participants (and observing researchers)described attending parties and seeing women waiting around until "guys becamedrunk and then hitting on them when they were unable to ma......plant specialists, using a variety of medications, intentionally suppressthe immune system of a transplant recipient to prevent rejection of a new organ.One possible consequence of this immune suppression, however, is the patient'ssusceptibility to other invading organisms, in this case the Epstein-Barr virus.Dr. ...