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...hite, 12 percent black, 12 percent Hispanic), were questioned about heart and stroke risk. Only 26 percent of women 65 and older, the group with highest incidence of stroke, reported being well informed about stroke. More Hispanics (32 percent) than whites (19 percent) and blacks (20 percent) said they were n...Minors able to buy nicotine replacement therapy products
..., the minor was able to purchase NRT. She was not questioned about her age in 79 percent of purchase attempts. The researchers also found that if the clerk asked the girl's age, she was much less likely to be allowed to buy NRT. "Our study demonstrates that most purchases of NRT were obtained by a minor buy...Food-borne pathogen traced to lettuce
... study, 38 patients with confirmed infections were questioned about what and where they ate in the two weeks before the onset of their symptoms. The investigation led to four lunch cafeterias where the patients reported eating iceberg lettuce. The lettuce served in those cafeterias was traced to four farms in t...Study in children challenges primary theory for 'stroke belt'
... Carolina, Tennesse and Virginia. Scientists have questioned whether people in these states have more strokes because they have more risk factors for atherosclerosis, the build-up of fat-containing deposits in the inner walls of arteries. These risk factors high blood pressure, smoking, diabetes, high choles...Most men over 40 take steps to try to prevent prostate cancer, Jefferson survey shows
...bout protective behavior." Twenty percent of those questioned said they didn't take any steps to prevent prostate cancer. Men were more likely to do self-care if they were less worried and concerned about prostate cancer a surprising result, says Dr. Kunkel. "Clinically, that hasn't been our experience," she s...Ecstasy affects memory, new international study shows
...led by the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, also questioned volunteers about their use of other recreational drugs. It found those who regularly used cannabis reported up to 20 per cent more memory problems than non-users. Their short-term memory was mainly affected. Because evidence has shown ecstasy user...Study shows how well heartburn sufferers follow directions for over-the-counter Prilosec OTC
...cription Prilosec. Some health professionals have questioned whether consumers will use the over-the-counter product as intended. But research published today in the journal Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology shows that frequent heartburn sufferers are able to follow and comply with the directions on the...Patient, doctor attitudes can affect rate of flu shots
...g both blacks and whites. Zimmerman and colleagues questioned 60 physicians and a sampling of 925 of their patients to discover factors affecting influenza vaccination among older adults. The study was done before the current outbreak of a new flu strain that started earlier than usual and has produced a shorta...Antibiotic use on swine farms increases efficiency, profits
... production since the 1950s, but such use has been questioned in recent years because of the rise of antibiotic resistance in human and veterinary medicine. A previous study by Iowa State University had found the benefit of antibiotic use in the swine industry to be almost five times higher than the findings...Metabolic syndrome strongly linked to heart attack and stroke
...ects were evaluated for the metabolic syndrome and questioned about a history of heart attack or stroke. Twenty-four percent of them had the metabolic syndrome. The study found that having the metabolic syndrome doubled the risk of heart attack/stroke, said lead author John Ninomiya, a doctoral student in ep...In some people, overuse of some analgesics can lead to kidney damage
...l causes of kidney failure. Trained personnel also questioned each patient in the study about whether they used analgesics heavily. William L. Henrich, M.D., professor of medicine at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore, presented the findings today....Training GPs to manage obesity does not affect weight loss
...in obesity management to general practice teams is questioned by researchers in this week's BMJ. Moore and colleagues evaluated the impact of a training programme intended to improve the management of obesity. The study involved 44 general practices (22 completed the training and 22 acted as controls) and 843 o...Shape of beverage glass influences how much people pour and drink
...ally overpoured in the short, wide glasses. When questioned by Wansink's team, however, the teenagers believed that they had poured less (7 ounces) into the short, wide glasses, and more (7.5 ounces) in the tall, slender glasses. This mistaken impression translated into drinking more juice when placed in the...Minority children: over- or underrepresented in medical research?
...est that there is racial and ethnic bias in who is questioned about child abuse." Why black children were more likely to be involved in clinical research is unclear. One possible explanation may simply be that academic medical centers are disproportionately located in urban centers where minorities live. The ...Study finds even healthcare professionals are sun worshipers
...r at the conference, said that similar studies had questioned medical students and the public, but not healthcare professionals. She designed SAMPLE (the Sun Awareness/Melanoma-Prone Lifestyle Enquiry) as a tool for researchers interested in studying the epidemiology of malignant melanoma the most dangerous f...Diagnosing chronic fatigue? Check for sinusitis
...gh his private internal medicine practice, Chester questioned 297 patients, noting unexplained chronic fatigue in 22%, unexplained chronic pain in 11%, and both in 9%. While these numbers are consistent with previous studies, Chester observed an unusual connection between patients with chronic pain or fatigue:...Over half of Zimbabwean women believe wife beating is justified
...n the ages of 15-49 years of age. Respondents were questioned about their work status, highest level of education, age, and the differences or similarities their responses were when compared with their partner. Previous investigations found that women are at a greater risk of abuse if their husband is of a lowe...Happy people may have more immunities to common cold
... areas: vigor, well-being and calm. They were also questioned about three categories of negative feelings: depression, anxiety and hostility. Other scientists have speculated that people who typically report experiencing negative emotions are at greater risk for disease and those who report positive emotions ha...Amnesia, confusion may signal concussion
...cent consensus conference on concussion management questioned the role of loss of consciousness and found the existing guidelines to be inadequate. Conference recommendations emphasized the value of individualized evaluation and neuropsychological testing. Dr. Lovell says that, given the proper amount of time t...... were age 70 or older. Participants were questioned once about their wealth between 1993 and 1994, and then again between 1995 and 1996, so the researchers could gauge any difference in wealth over a two-year period. ...