Parents overestimate children's bike, car safety habits
...rograms to parents and children together. We can't rely solely on parental reports of children's safety behaviors. Injury prevention must be treated as a family issue," says Peter Erlich, M.D., M.H.S., a pediatric surgeon at UMHS. Ehrlich, clinical associate professor in the Department of Surgery at U-M M...Scents will not rouse us from slumber, says new Brown University study
...nd can disrupt sleep, scents cannot. People cannot rely on their sense of smell to awaken them to the danger of fire, according to a new Brown University study. Study participants easily detected odors when awake and in the early transition into sleep (Stage One sleep) but, once asleep, did not. The findi...Licensed alcohol establishments continue to sell to intoxicated patrons
...to the same degree, on-premise establishments also rely heavily on unskilled, underpaid youthful staff. Retailers often fail to provide even the most basic training or supervision of these workers. Given these conditions, the higher rates of violation among younger servers are predictable." Mosher had s...Recent research finds boys have more literacy problems than girls
...The results are strong because the studies did not rely on children who were already known to be having learning difficulties - a weakness of some previous research. Previous research has suggested the reason that reading disabilities are more common among boys is that teachers simply tend to recognise th...American Academy of Neurology guidelines for treating of epilepsy
...nce of head-to-head comparison studies, we have to rely on this type of evidence-based assessment of all the available information to give the practicing physician a better way to make a treatment choice." "For patients who may find themselves paying more for the newer drugs, it is important that they can...Negative side effects downplayed in prostate cancer treatment guides, U-M study finds
...al Medicine. "Patients should not rely on only one source of information before making a decision about prostate cancer treatment. We found no single health pamphlet or Web site presented all the information needed to make an informed decision. Prostate cancer patients say they want to le...Hidden cost of depression in seniors: $9 billion in care from spouses, children
... in getting through the day, and that they tend to rely on their families more for even basic tasks," says co-author Marcia Valenstein, M.D., a U-M psychiatrist who treats older people with depression at the VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System. "When there isn't a committed caregiver, the risk rises that a per...American Academy of Neurology and American Epilepsy Society guidelines for treating of epilepsy
...nce of head-to-head comparison studies, we have to rely on on this type of evidence-based assessment of all the available information to give the practicing physician a better way to make a treatment choice." "For patients who may find themselves paying more for the newer drugs, it is important that they...Study shows opioid growth factor safe for treatment of pancreatic cancer
...y be useful in the treatment of other cancers that rely on OGF for growth such as colon, head and neck, kidney and developing nervous system. The investigators are currently enrolling patients in a larger, phase II study of OGF for the treatment of pancreatic cancer sponsored by the National Institutes of...HIV prevention schemes neglect partner reduction
...pid, inexpensive, and locally led initiatives that rely on simple messages to promote changes in community norms, rather than mass media....Cell research uncovers intriguing clues to 'Trojan horse' gene in HIV infection
...HIV infection. Current treatments for HIV and AIDS rely on a combination of drugs called highly active anti-retroviral therapy (HAART). "Although HAART drives down the HIV to undetectable levels, latent (or silent) infection may surge back if the treatment is interrupted," said the study's lead author, Te...Better predictors are needed for posttraumatic stress disorder in children
...are in need of more extensive follow-up should not rely solely on assessment of acute stress disorder (ASD) as a diagnostic tool. Research at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia found that only one in five children who developed posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) would have been identified during th...Be picky when served large portions
...elopment and who led the studies, says, "You can't rely on somebody else to put the right amount of food on your plate, in your sandwich or in your snack pack. And you can't depend on your appetite to tell you when to stop eating, either, since our experiments show that the study participants often didn'...Doctor attacks South African government for failing women while spending billions on arms deals
...tries. However, the remaining 80 per cent have to rely on the state provision, which has been marked by "stagnation and even regression in the past ten years" according to Prof Apffelstaedt. "Mammography is largely limited to seven tertiary hospitals and breast cancer treatment has stagnated at the level...Exemestane beats tamoxifen in first phase III head to head trial in advanced breast cancer
...majority of breast cancers in postmenopausal women rely on female hormones to grow. Exemestane is a steroidal aromatase inhibitor (SAI); it permanently inactivates aromatase, the enzyme that converts androgens into oestrogens in postmenopausal women. So, the effect of the drug is to deprive breast cancer ...Prevalence of chronic sinusitis may be lower than commonly reported
...chronic diseases in the United States. These data rely on patient self-reporting of the disease. However...ent prevalence estimates of chronic sinusitis that rely on patient reporting may be exaggerated," the authors write. "Chronic sinusitis has been reported t...Experience is more effective than classroom learning in changing age bias in dental students
...ause they are caring for a spouse, or because they rely on others for transportation," he said. "They may bring personal issues into the clinic. Providers can become impatient." Knowing some overall concerns of, and limitations on, the elderly would help dental providers have more empathy for their seni...Widely used anti-nausea drug may interfere with cancer chemotherapy
...by more than 25 percent, even though the two drugs rely on very different mechanisms to cause tumor cell destruction. Since dexamethasone actually kills certain types of cells such as lymphocytes and is effective treatment for lymphoma, the researchers wondered why Dex destroys one type of cancer cell yet...Targeted antiviral prophylaxis of flu case contacts could successfully contain pandemic influenza
...ing 80 percent of the population. "The ability to rely on targeted antiviral therapy in the case of a major public health threat from influenza would be an extremely valuable strategy, due to the characteristics of influenza pandemics," Dr. Longini said. "Epidemics are usually due to strains of flu that...... operative skills as basic as suturing. "We cannot rely on highly able and motivated trainees and trainers to struggle on like this. Surgical training must be recognised as a priority," say the authors. Most current trainees are supposed to become the new "generalist" surgeons who will carry out common pr...