HIV prevention program targets young gay men through social networks and peer support for safe sex
...nd being depressed. Interpersonal reasons include poor communication skills and having a boyfriend, while social factors include a lack of support for safer sex and frequent visits to gay bars or public cruising areas that are associated with unprotected sex. In the Mpowerment Project, the content of ......uch money in tuberculosis drugs," he said. "It's a poor person's disease, found primarily in developing countries." SmithKline Beecham's cooperation reflects their long tradition of antibacterial study, he said. In a different approach to the tuberculosis threat, Orme heads a 10-person team that develop...Protein predicts prognosis for breast cancer patients
...-cadherin is the strongest prognostic factor for a poor long-term outcome," said first author Ruth Heimann, M.D., Ph.D., assistant professor of radiation and cellular oncology at the University of Chicago. "Our anaylsis suggests that biomarkers like E-cadherin are even more important than tumor size, tumo...People from large families may have greater risk of Alzheimer's
... during childhood and adolescence, Moceri said. "A poor quality childhood environment could prevent the br...economic levels, and therefore more likely to have poor growth rates," Moceri said. Researchers also found that children who grew up in the suburbs were les...Duke geneticists unraveling the tangled web of autism
..., silent, autistic child is a product of their own poor parenting. But the Duke researchers are now demonstrating that autism is a complex genetic syndrome that may actually turn out to be several related disorders, each with its own individual treatment. "One of the biggest difficulties has been coming...Health phone lines hampered by public's poor understanding of the term 'unconscious'
...ceive optimal care 2000; 17:119-21 The public's poor understanding of medical terms may be a considerable drawback when using health phone lines, such as NHS Direct, out of hours call centres,and ambulance services. A study in the Journal of Accident and Emergency Medicine shows that one in two people...Cranfield pioneers back pain research
...s who have had technically adequate operations but poor clinical results may help us avoid problems of patient selection for surgery in the future. We are hoping to continue collecting data and maintain our links with Cranfield," he said......., in order to identify modifiable risk factors for poor injury outcome. This work was funded by State Farm Insurance Companies as part of the Partners for Child Passenger Safety project, a multi-year research collaboration between State Farm and The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia to investigate how a...Enbrel shown safe, effective in children and teenagers with juvenile rheumatoid arthritis
... Enbrel®, many children with severe JRA had a poor response to existing treatment options. Often, they would have to stop attending school. Now, there is hope for these children." NIAMS Director Stephen I. Katz, M.D., Ph.D., stated, "Juvenile rheumatoid arthritis can be a devastating disease,...Study: passengers with young drivers boost accidents, graduated licensing might cut toll
...s in comparison to inexperience, impulsiveness and poor judgment by drivers and distractions by passengers," Foss wrote....Artificial liver moves toward commercialization
... clogging and transport difficulties, resulting in poor transport of nutrients and removal of wastes. Researchers have developed a pulsating, pinch-flow hollow-fiber bioreactor, which they believe will significantly limit clogging and speed transport of materials. They are also exploring the u...'Handwriting challenged' doctors to take penmanship class at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
... the Medical Staff at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, poor handwriting can be dangerous -- if not deadly. "...ng the wrong medication. "Because of the doctor's poor penmanship, the pharmacist mistakenly gave him a different medication," said Hackmeyer. "This tragi...Psychologically abused women experience significant physical and mental health problems
...timate partner violence were more likely to report poor physical and mental health than women who were not abused, according to an article in the May issue of the American Medical Association's Archives of Family Medicine, a member of the JAMA family of journals. The researchers studied 1,152 women be...Taking public health to the streets works
...aining instructions in English, to help those with poor English skills communicate with health care personnel. To test the effectiveness of the door-to-door campaign, a survey was later distributed to approximately 300 Auckland residents, about half of whom had been visited by a lay educator. Nearly al...New 'combination therapy' improves survival for malignant melanoma patients
...atient population that historically has had a very poor prognosis. Preliminary results also indicated that...nted a group with factors that are indicative of a poor prognosis for survival, including liver metastases," explained Sanjiv S. Agarwala, M.D., lead-enroll...Study: crime, lack of PE, recreation programs lead U.S. adolescents to couch-potato lifestyles
..., pastimes that contribute to obesity and eventual poor health, the study found. Adolescents whose familie... of safe and quality recreation facilities in many poor communities, he said. Coupled with record levels of obesity and huge amounts of TV viewing among tee......children affected by it, and those children have a poor prognosis," said Matthay. "That is why we formed this new consortium." Seeger, who is professor of hematology/oncology and deputy director of research at Childrens Hospital Los Angeles and the Department of Pediatrics at the Keck School of Medicine a...Bad neighborhoods can cause depression
...istressing," said Ross. "The stress of living in a poor neighborhood where many families are headed by women makes residents feel run-down, demoralized, and hopeless," the researcher added.......r skills, difficulty feeding, loss of muscle tone, poor head control, and an abnormally enlarged head. Death comes within the first decade of life. "This report presents the first gene transfer on two patients affected by a neurological disease," says Matthew During, M.D., professor of medicine at Jeffers......who went from permanent hospitalization and a very poor prognosis to leading an active life and taking up jogging again," said Petcher. "This was a great satisfaction for the entire team." Novartis is now also testing octreotide's ability to prevent damage to the eye's retina that is common among patients...