Red wine can help maintain immune system, UF researcher finds
...d -- or hurt --by red wine. "There's been a lot of publicity lately on the health benefits of red wine, butwe also know that alcohol suppresses the immune system," said Percival, aresearcher in UF's Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences. "So we wanted tofind out whether red wine had a suppressive effect ...ATHENS, Ga. Massive international publicity about the risks of AIDS and othersexually transmitted diseases appears to have had little impact on condom use.While as many as 85 percent of college students may be sexually active, only 40percent have ever used a condom, according to one study. Num...Publicity about bowel cancer screening leads to reassurance not alarm
Does publicity about cancer screening raise fear of cancer? Rand...hors, despite the fact that those who received the publicity materials became more likely to report minor bowel symptoms to their doctor, they reported less worr......th. Ten years ago, Heather Wren, received a lot of publicity for a composition that prevents cockroaches from reproducing. Now, the so-called "cockroach birth-control pill" has been licensed by Cleary Chemical Inc., who is marketing it as "Roach Terminal." Retired from Virginia Tech but still an active ent...The Lancet Oncology (TLO) and The Lancet Infectious Diseases (TLID)
... pharmaceuticals, often launched amid a fanfare of publicity boasting new therapeutic benefit, and the more objective judgement of independent commentators within the pharmaceutical media. The French drug bulletin la revue Prescrire, for example, critically reviews all new drug launches and operates an annual ...Community building reduces young gay men's HIV risk behavior
...ipants to assist in community building and a small publicity campaign about the project. In 1999, 33% of young gay men in Austin reported unprotected anal intercourse, a 42% increase from baseline. In Phoenix, 32% reported UAI, a 26% increase. In Albuquerque, the intervention city, 24.5% reported UAI, a 12% ...Pharmaceutical industry still failing health needs of less-developed countries
... in response to external pressures, especially bad publicity and generic competition, rather than initiatives of the companies themselves. Restoration of true market forces and fair pricing of drugs is a better long term solution to shortages than 'ad hoc' donations. These issues are particularly relevant an...Dartmouth/VA study questions screening priorities of prostate and colon cancer
...s more involved. In addition, there has been more publicity about screening for prostate cancer than colon can...r. "Unfortunately," Sirovich notes, "much of this publicity has involved celebrities with the disease, whose public statements presume that the value of the scr...Have the police hijacked our DNA?
... believe are likely to have committed a crime. The publicity stunts by members of the government in having their DNA taken are simply a distraction from the discriminatory nature of the current database; the white middle-classes are not those whose profiles are being preferentially accumulated. Perhaps we sho...People with chronic eye diseases not getting recommended eye exams
...his problem can also be partly addressed by better publicity and information through the media....Are UK consent rules too restrictive?
...s the UK leading the way or overreacting to recent publicity about inadequate consent procedures? The new regulations require explicit consent from every patient. Explicit consent is appropriate for the use of emotionally important samples such as post-mortem tissue, but the new regulations also apply to all s...Drop in hormone therapy use shows physicians heed clinical trial findings, Stanford researchers say
...e response. Another factor may be the amount of publicity the trials received, Stafford said. Although the media reported the results of the alpha-blocker study, the attention given to the HRT findings was unprecedented. "There is probably no other example of a clinical trial having that much visibility," h...Fox Chase Cancer Center and the Girl Scouts partner to promote oncology nursing careers
...n that it provided a good memory for all involved, publicity to the hospital and nurses, and allowed participating Fox Chase nurses to share their passion to with the scouts who were excited and receptive to the information." End of the day evaluations showed an increased interest in pursuing the profession o...Faith in child protection system must be restored
...ms. The term Munchausen syndrome by proxy received publicity when in 1977 Meadow reported a case with deliberate fabrication of symptoms. Many manifestations of the syndrome are now recognised. Yet recent events have raised questions about the diagnosis of the syndrome and have prompted some soul searching abo...Children walk nearly as much as their grandparents did
...." "We suggest that this reflects the much greater publicity given by both national and local media to a small number of specific events such as child abductions and related dangers," says Colin Pooley. Other project findings were that people in their sixties are much more mobile than at any time in the past, ...Tide of new nurses rises but shortages still loom large
...igher wages and opportunities in nursing driven by publicity about the nursing shortage, and many have just graduated from associate degree nursing education programs," said Buerhaus. The research shows older women and foreign-born women are still a factor and account for a large share of the growth. But Buer...Cell phone users drive like old folks
...ee cell phones. The same researchers also gained publicity for another study, which was presented at a scientific meeting in 2003, showing that motorists who talk on cell phones are more impaired than drunken drivers with blood alcohol levels exceeding 0.08. The new study included 20 older adults (ages 65 ...Disease testing for immigrants: Discrimination disguised as public health policy
...tage calculations, such as those cited in Howard's publicity material, exaggerate the relative burden of immigration-related illness. According to the Health Protection Agency's most recent report, the number of newly diagnosed HIV infections thought to have been contracted outside the UK in 2003 number only a...Drug companies and governments must act on fake drug problem
...ce is "apparently motivated by the belief that the publicity will harm the sales of brand-name products in a fiercely competitive business." Up to 15% of all drugs sold worldwide--worth over $35 billion--are fakes. In parts of Africa and Asia, the situation is even more serious--over half of purchased drugs ...