Grant to study why teens smoke
...ily activities, social interaction with family and peers and physiological reactions to smoking. "Most adult smokers start smoking before age 18," said Mermelstein, principal investigator of the study. "Adolescence is a critical time to try to understand health behaviors." Recent studies have show...Adolescent gamblers often suffer psychiatric problems
... young gamblers were more likely than non-gambling peers to report alcohol use and abuse and drug use and abuse. Early-onset adult gamblers had higher rates of alcohol and drug use and abuse than their non-gambling peers. Only elevated rates of alcohol use were observed in adult-onset gamblers when compare...Teacher-training for hospital residents improves medical students' education, UCI study shows
...actice, withindividualized, structured feedback by peers and faculty. After a briefdidactic presentation, residents took turns teaching their peers using astructured teaching case designed for each specific module such asgiving feedback, lecturing,...Tufts professor launches program to mentor deaf students in state-of-the-art physics research
...ers and spread the excitement of research to their peers at their home institutions." According to NTID researchers, there are approximately 27,000 deaf or hard of hearing people in the United States between the ages of 18 and 24. This project is funded by Cebe's three-year $132, 000 National Science Fo...College students mandated to take alcohol interventions: what works
...utes 'normative drinking' are influenced by having peers who also drink heavily. If we can effect changes in these perceptions as well as in the student's social network, by offering a targeted intervention to their heavy drinking peers, many of whose drinking is occurring under the radar, we might see en...Losing a job near retirement age significantly increases risk of stroke
...ce the risk of suffering a stroke when compared to peers who are still working, according to a study by a Yale researcher. "Our results suggest that late career involuntary job loss more than doubles the risk of subsequent stroke," said William Gallo, the senior author of the study and associate research s...Rising young psychiatry researchers receive prestigious international award
... in psychiatry to benefit the education of both my peers and patients in Turkey." Dr Galanter received an award for her exceptional proposal outlining her research of investigating and characterising how psychiatrists diagnose bipolar disorder in children, through the use of evidence-based basic behavioura...Iron-deficient infants score worse on cognitive and motor tests as teens
...und the iron-deficient babies grew up to lag their peers in both motor and mental measures. Lozoff is sched...tter family conditions started a little lower than peers and held there, while those in poorer family conditions started lower than their peers and then decl...Damage to brain vessels increases the chance of dementia and depression
...e more quickly in their cognitive functioning than peers with fewer abnormalities. In particular, the processing of information was worse in the group with more white matter lesions and infarcts. This group also had an increased risk of developing dementia and depression. Over a period of three years, one...Concussion causes emotional disturbances, say researchers
...athletes were not emotionally different from their peers before injury, but were more depressed and confused than their uninjured teammates after sustaining a concussion. "Our results support a causal link between sports injury and subsequent emotional distress," says Lynda Mainwaring, a registered psycho...Study finds lesbian and bisexual girls are at heightened risk for tobacco use
...ma and harassment, rejection from family, friends, peers and sometimes even physical violence can create a hostile environment for many young people coming to terms with their sexual orientation. This combined with the tobacco industry's targeted marketing to lesbian and gay communities is putting lesbian...Human rights abuses common in southern Iraq between 1991 and 2003
...dents indicating that, since 1988, their physician peers as a group were extremely or quite a bit involved in human rights abuses included 50 percent for nontherapeutic amputation of ears as a form of punishment, 49 percent for falsification of medical-legal reports of torture, and 32 percent for falsifica...Internet program and videos net nutritional benefits for kids
...ch dietary goals than children who relied on their peers or were in an early stage of change, i.e., merely contemplating future changes. When the researchers looked at students' ZIP codes, they found that Hispanic students in communities with strong cultural ties were more likely to succeed in lowering die...Virtual play boosts disabled children's self-image
...they could do this activity like their able-bodied peers in real life, they could do it their own way in the virtual environment," says occupational therapy professor Denise Reid, who conducted the research with lead author and graduate student Stacey Miller. "They thought they were cool." The virtual gam...Preventive Medicine 2004 to feature research findings on disease prevention and health promotion
... which members of the College will recognize their peers for professional achievement, career advancement sessions, and social events to provide networking opportunities. Detailed information about Preventive Medicine 2004 can be found on the ACPM web site at www.acpm.org ....Innovation attracts new research funding
...nsplant research community. I am delighted that my peers and I have obtained a grant to expand transplant research into new unexplored areas. All of the projects receiving a grant serve a common goal to save and improve the lives of transplant patients." The latest grants awarded by ROTRF total 2 million S...Intervention program helps reduce television viewing in preschool children
...er as a family, watched less television than their peers who did not participate in the program, according to an article in the February issue of The Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. According to information in the article, watching television has several adv...Acclaimed Carnegie Mellon psychologist honored for groundbreaking research
... I love and being paid for it. Being honored by my peers for having so much fun is more than anyone could expect," Cohen said. Cohen is one of the architects of Carnegie Mellon's highly respected health psychology program, and has helped turn Pittsburgh into the world's leading center of health psychology ...Bullying in schools pervasive, UCLA study finds
...agement from school and social problems with their peers suggest they are a particularly high-risk group," Juvonen said. The study shows that compared with other students, all three groups show less interest in school and have difficulties getting along with classmates. Sandra Graham, UCLA professor...College students may be drinking more alcohol than even they realize
...e' or 'normal.' Telling a student that his or her peers typically drink three or four drinks when they go out could do some damage if that kid defines a drink as a 10-ounce cup of booze with a splash of Coke." White also suggested a new kind of beverage labeling. "When someone picks up a box of cookies o...