Making emergency contraception readily available does not increase unprotected intercourse
...authors write. "These data support the previous scientific literature that indicates that among young sexually active women, unprotected intercourse leads to EC use, not the converse," they add. " our study has important public health implications. While removing the requirement to go through pharmacis...Chamomile tea: New evidence supports health benefits
... peer-reviewed journals. ACS is the worlds largest scientific society. This is one of a growing number of studie...ists and chemical engineers. It publishes numerous scientific journals and databases, convenes major research conferences and provides educational, science policy...Government solutions won't cure kids' obesity, survey says
...Evans says. "However," he adds, "relatively little scientific information exists on which of these interventions are effective in actual school, community and media settings." Overweight and obesity rates among children and teens have tripled since the 1980s, now reaching 15 percent of the child population....Pegaptanib provides benefit for neovascular age-related macular degeneration
...e of translational research, in order to transform scientific discoveries into new therapies for patients. Pegaptanib differs from current treatments, which are directed at the results of the disease. Current treatments, which employ a drug and laser, are able to slow vision loss, but have not been widely appl...Penn professor earns 2004 award from the American College of Psychiatrists
...Dr. Evans was chosen from among those scholars and scientific investigators who have displayed excellence in research and who are devoted to assisting people suffering from mood disorders. Mood disorders encompass those psychiatric disorders in which a disturbance of mood is the predominant feature, including ...New guidelines for treating pediatric migraine released
...blished in the December 28 issue of Neurology, the scientific journal of the American Academy of Neurology. The guideline has been endorsed by the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American Headache Society. Among adolescents, sumatriptan nasal spray was also found to be a safe and effective method for mig...Maintaining physical activity linked to less cognitive decline in older men
...d in the December 28, 2004 issue of Neurology, the scientific journal of the American Academy of Neurology. The study reviewed the data of 295 men, born between 1900 and 1920, from the Finland, Italy and Netherlands Elderly (FINE) Study. Beginning in 1990, researchers measured the duration and intensity of phys...Do cigarette additives pose additional risk to smokers?
...Ingredients: Scientific Criteria, LSRO establishes scientific criteria for assessing the impact. The criteria a...unded the study. Methodology To identify optimum scientific criteria for additive testing, the investigators compared conventional toxicological and regulatory ...McMaster researchers develop test for rare bleeding disorder
...ing," he said. Fifteen years ago, Dr. Hayward made scientific history when she discovered a previously unknown protein called multimerin 1, one of the largest proteins in the human body. This discovery led her to study bleeding problems experienced by QPD families and how platelets support blood clotting. Earl...Tracing the life cycle of a manmade disease
... ultimately understood, and eventually defeated by scientific innovation is being told a major player in the process. In the December issue of Clinical Orthopedics and Related Research, William Harris, MD, DSc, of Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), describes how the development of total hip replacement led ...Annals of Internal Medicine, tip sheet, Dec. 21, 2004
...tments, it is only fair to hold [them] to the same scientific standards we expect of conventional care." * * * 2. Veterans Health Care Scores Well on Overall Quality Compared with National Sample A new, comprehensive study of the quality of health care provided by the Veterans Health Administration fo...Acupuncture relieves pain and improves function in knee osteoarthritis
...ds or by electrical stimulation. In recent years, scientific inquiry has begun to shed more light on acupuncture's possible mechanisms and potential benefits, especially in treating painful conditions such as arthritis....Chemicals found in cherries may help fight diabetes
...al and Food Chemistry . ACS is the world's largest scientific society. Anthocyanins are a class of plant pigment...ists and chemical engineers. It publishes numerous scientific journals and databases, convenes major research conferences and provides educational, science policy...Researchers report early success using saliva to detect oral cancer
...-of-principle" study marks the first report in the scientific literature that distinct patterns of "messenger RN... healthy people. With these baseline data as their scientific anchor, the researchers could begin to test whether saliva contains distinct mRNA patterns. "We obta...ESA presents space solutions at post-Kyoto climate summit
... higher global temperatures is a settled matter of scientific fact. What remains to be settled is the likely fut...ironmental indicators. ESA is also carrying out a scientific project called GLOBCARBON, which is combining results from all available space-based sensors to moni...Four teams awarded inaugural translational cancer research grants
... Abbott, a longtime sponsor of AACR's meetings and scientific conference, will also join this partnership for translational research. Commenting on this new funding partnership, Debra Dendahl Hadley, Executive Director of the Cardinal Health Foundation, said, "We are very pleased to support AACR in this importa...Canadian researchers' important discovery in HIV research
...s today its discoveries in Immunity, a prestigious scientific journal. This work was performed in collaboration with investigators from the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre as well as from France and Israel. Using only blood samples, these researchers first developed a method to asse...NHLBI statement on oral contraceptive study
...October presentation of the abstract at the annual scientific meeting of the American Society of Reproductive Me...se. There is a large and reputable body of higher scientific evidence linking current OC use to future increases in risk of stroke and heart attack, especially i...UGA researchers receive NIH contract to create a stem cell-based drug assay for SMA
... said Terns. Outside collaborators providing their scientific expertise to the project include Alan and Elizabeth Davis in the department of pediatrics at Baylor College of Medicine and Jianhua Zhou in the department of medicine at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. "The development of an in vitro......blished in the December 14 issue of Neurology, the scientific journal of the American Academy of Neurology. The study found that people who had strokes were more likely to have experienced anger or negative emotions in the two hours prior to the stroke than at the same time the day before the stroke. They wer...