Studies Find Public Policies For Children And Teenagers Not Very Effective
...n the last 25 years, school-based sexeducation was introduced to help children manage their sexualbehavior. But it hasn't worked very well, say psychologists whohave found that the sex education curriculum ignores the importanceof family and social skills development and is too focused onabstinence. In ...Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory collaborates with USDA in development of pasteurization process
...sults and subsequent evaluation of micro-organisms introduced into liquid foods indicate that RF radiation is a potentially effective means for pasteurization. RF waves offer advantages over the traditional pasteurization method of directly heating raw liquid foods. The direct method often heats foods unevenl...Baby Milk Manufacturers Are Breaking The Rules
... the World Health Assembly in 1981. The code was introduced to encourage mothers to breast feed their babies, in an attempt to prevent 1.5 million needless infant deaths each year and to protect mothers from pressure to use substitute breast milk. Taylor's study is the first of its kind and covered cities in...One-Time Needles Don't Reduce HIV Among Addicts, Study Shows
... prove useful, say the authors, the number of DTRs introduced must be largerelative to any reduction in the consumption of regular needles. For the numberof potentially infectious needles to remain the same, any reduction in regularneedles must be met by an increase in the rate of DTRs that is at least 40%large...Human Patient Simulator Assists Training Physicians In New Drug
...heticmanufactured by Glaxo Wellcome. The drug was introduced in 1996 after FDAapproval. Its effects are strong, fast acting and last only five to 10 minutes. The drug's side effects appear equally quickly. "This is an excellent drug, but because it is so potent, this trainingwas very valuable for the...Physicians Slow To Adopt Newer Drugs For Atrial Fibrillation
...with fewer side effects"class III drugs" have been introduced in recent years. However, most of theincrease in usage of sinus rhythm drugs seen between 1992-93 and 1994-96reflected greater use of the older class IA drugs. "While there are good reasons to be cautious about adopting new medications,these results...Famous Faces Activate More Parts Of The Brain
...to someone'sname as well as their face when you're introduced to them," Petersen adds. Kelley will present his findings at 1:45 p.m. Pacific Time on Monday, Nov. 9, inPetree Hall D at the Los Angeles Convention Center. The Charles A. Dana Foundation and Washington University's McDonnell Center forHigher Brain F...American Association Of Pharmaceutical Scientists Announces 1998 Award Winners
...l Quality -- HarryG. Brittain, Ph.D. Dr. Brittain introduced the multi-disciplinary Materials Science approach nowbeing used by many workers for the characterization of pharmaceutical solids. AnAAPS Fellow, he is the vice president of Pharmaceutical and Chemical Developmentat Acute Therapeutics, Inc. AAPS Res......prototype andits image-enhancing capabilities were introduced by him at the annual meeting ofthe Radiological So... "The detector technology is similar to that being introduced now inmammography," he said. "In mammography, the site being viewed is static. Weare developing th...Radically New Type Of Surgery Tested On First Patient
... frame. Opening the plasticbolt in the skull, they introduced a tiny magnet into the brain. The magnet wasattached to a guidewire, which was covered by a plastic catheter. "The catheteris much narrower than a drinking straw but a bit fatter than spaghetti," saysAndrew F. Hall, D.Sc., the company's cardiovascula......d was given by NationalResearch Corporation, which introduced performance norms to the healthcareindustry, and has conducted more healthcare satisfaction studies than any otherfirm. Cedars-Sinai's receipt of this Quality Leader Award was determined by theresults of the nation's largest and most comprehensive st...More Evidence Of Possible Adverse Effects From New Hormone Use In Women With Heart Disease
... Alexander said, so a "natural selection bias" is introduced into such studies which can distort the results. HERS, on the other hand, was a randomized trial of women with heart disease; half of the 2,763 women were assigned to take estrogen and progestin, and the rest were given a placebo -- inactive pills...Insurance Restrictions On Acne Drug Are Outmoded And Costly
...uthorization to restrict the use ofcostly or newly introduced drugs. Insurance will not pay for the cost of thedrug unless the doctor first gets authorization to prescribe it for a specificpatient. In the belief that acne is mostly an affliction of teen-agers and youngadults, and that older patients wan...Better Emergency Medical Assistance Should Be Provided At Marathons
...Kingdom) Legally binding medical rules should be introduced for marathons run in the UK, write Phillip and Pau...t MarathonsLegally binding medical rules should be introduced for marathons run in the UK, write the parents of an athlete who recently collapsed and died as she ...Mother's depression impedes baby's development
...cked how much time infantsspent looking at a newly introduced checkerboard pattern while the voiceplayed. Infants who heard women with low or moderate symptoms of depression spentsignificantly more time observing the checkerboard pattern compared withthose who listened to severely depressed women. Prior resear...New outpatient surgery is helping women with stress incontinence
...ing made of a synthetic polymer called prolene was introduced into thiscountry from Sweden in 1998. This TVT sling doesn't have to be permanentlyanchored because friction keeps its coarse mesh in place. "So the sling can movewith the body to some extent," Klutke says. Simple and safe The sling is placed from...Health services and local authorities can work together to help prevent playground injuries
...ly, does not need expensive resources and could be introduced widely to help reduce playground injuries....... -- was $329.48 up from$282.48 in 1997. New drugs introduced since 1992 accounted for 35.6 percent or$117.55 of the 1998 pharmacy benefit cost. A single prescription for apost-1992 new drug cost an average of $72 in 1998. The unmanaged AWP cost increase was the largest reported by Express Scriptssince 1993, w......st and modest risk." Vertebroplasty was originally introduced in France during the 1980s. In theUnited States, Mary Jensen, M.D. and Jacques Dion, M.D. (now of EmoryUniversity) pioneered the technique at the University of Virginia. "Vertebroplasty is a smart healthcare decision for patients who are goodcandida...'Revolutionary' treatment for birth defect improves survival of newborns
...2, when Kays, a specialist indiaphragmatic hernia, introduced the new method upon his arrival at UF. Thesurvival rate of affected babies born and treated at Shands has more thandoubled -- from 45 percent to 92 percent -- since Kays and his colleagues atShands began using the new therapy. Kays had learned the te...