Restricting R-movies linked to decreased teen smoking, drinking
...hey allow their child to see R-rated movies with a lot of smoking." This group, which includes researchers from Dartmouths Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, will continue their adolescent smoking studies with an additional $3.6 million grant from the National Cancer Institute. The award wil...Maya children in U.S. more likely to be overweight and obese than whites or blacks
... Asia, so the Maya are a representative case for a lot of other people. Bogin and UM-Dearborn colleagues Patricia Smith and Maria Ines Varela Silva presented findings on "Patterns of Emerging Obesity among Maya in Guatemala and in the United States" at the annual meeting of the American Association for t...Multimillion-dollar pain research center funded at Wake Forest
...returns to normal after a sunburn goes away. But a lot of people develop chronic pain, and when that happens there are changes in the spinal cord, with the chemicals and receptors. So even without the sunburn actually there, light touch can give them the sensation of pain." As part of the center, Eisen...Gene therapy to treat angina appears safe
...ted. Our estimate was that we would have needed a lot more patients to detect any effect on ETT, says Engler, who is also a professor at the University of California in San Diego. He stresses that the small number of subjects prohibits drawing any final conclusions about the effectiveness. Proving effe...Eating breakfast may keep colds & flu at bay
...t only that but smokers and participants who had a lot of stress in their lives became ill more quickly than non smokers' he adds. The second study was based on participants keeping a diary for 10 weeks and recording illness and problems of memory and attention. A hundred volunteers from the community to...'Star Wars' like technology closer than galaxies far away
...rchers around the globe, Crum's team has learned a lot along the way. The group is developing a version of the device for use on space missions. From shuttle flights and aboard the ISS to future interplanetary missions, the device could provide emergency medical care for injuries or conditions that migh...Baldness induced by dopamine treatments may be reversible
...mising the quality of their treatment, we can do a lot toward helping them maintain a high quality of life throughout their illness," said Di Rocco. Parkinson's disease is not fatal and the progression varies from person to person. For some, the disease can progress slowly over 20 or 30 years and for ot...Yale study of hospital website ratings finds mixed results
...ly better than no information at all, but convey a lot less information than a patient might expect. "In most cases," he said, "you could not really say that the higher rated hospitals were better. The principal problem is that many hospitals are misclassified by this system, with winners and losers that...Reducing postoperative nausea and vomiting
...atisfied with their surgery. We already know a lot about PONV and new drugs are being developed all the time. It is just a matter of putting it all together, Gan continued. To do better, physicians need to ask the right questionsof their patients in order to develop strategies to reduce the chances o...Many obese youth have condition that precedes type 2 diabetes
...Secretary Tommy G. Thompson. "Researchers have a lot of information on how to prevent and treat type 2 diabetes in adults, but we need to find better ways to prevent and treat the disease in children." Once seen only in adults, type 2 diabetes has been rising steadily in children, especially minority ...Tricking diseases into synthesizing their own worst enemies
...t was used to assemble the inhibitor." "It works a lot better than we ever anticipated," says Sharpless. The reaction is an example of what Sharpless calls "click chemistry," a methodology for chemical synthesis he invented a few years ago. "The idea [of click chemistry] is a very simple one," says TSRI ...Surgeons dont offer women choices of treatment as often as they could
... surgeon might answer that he or she had offered a lot of choice. She said: The low percentage mainly shows how differently two people can perceive the same encounter. The study also showed that not all women want to participate in decision-making. This finding is of interest in the current health care...The Pill may increase the risk of breast cancer according to a large study of younger women
... over-state this risk. Oral contraceptives have a lot of advantages as well as disadvantages, she said. The total number of deaths from any cause amongst women who use oral contraceptives is likely to be lower than women who have never used the Pill just as we have seen with hormone replacement therap...NIAID study results support diluting smallpox vaccine stockpile to stretch supply
...o the different lots of vaccine used. The vaccine lot used in the larger study had a higher initial concentration of virus than that of the pilot study. Also appearing online at the same time as the reports describing the clinical trial results are three other smallpox-related articles, including a comm...Second stage of HIV vaccine trial begins in London and Oxford, UK
...we are making with the trials, but there's still a lot of work to do. There's a strong sense of joint purpose between the team in Oxford, colleagues at the University of Nairobi and International Aids Vaccine Initiative (IAVI) about what we're trying to achieve. It's great to have the expertise of the Lo...Brain center searches for patterns
...r patterns where none may exist," said Huettel. "A lot of superstitious behavior may arise from this expectation of patterns. These superstitions may range from a perceived connection between washing the car and having it rain, to the belief that rolling dice without getting a seven means that a seven i...Agricultural fungicide could cause irreversible immune system damage
...m; they have the capability to defend us against a lot of different threats. But researchers have uncovered a potential counter-threat to this front-line protection. Our bodys natural killer cells could be rendered irreversibly powerless to guard against invading tumors and viral onslaughts after only a ...Action needed to stop 'disease mongering'
A lot of money can be made from telling healthy people theyre sick despite clear conflicts of interest. Pharmaceutical companies sponsor disease definitions and promote them to prescribers and consumers. In this weeks BMJ researchers give examples of disea...Researchers uncover brain patterns that differentiate humans from chimpanzees
...at the differences between humans and chimps are a lot more complicated and extensive than some researchers had previously thought. There are many people who have spoken out about the differences, but they have really oversimplified things, she said. The human brain is a very, very complicated organ an......ged? We too often make the assumption that while a lot of things change in the interaction of infectious diseases and human hosts, the microbe itself stays more or less the same, says Wood. This is wrong. If anything is likely to change, it is a microbe that goes through millions of generations and an e...