Sexual lifestyles vary among ethnic groups in Britain
...lege London, UK) and colleagues used data from the second British National Survey of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles, involving 12,110 men and women aged 16-44 years resident in Great Britain, to investigate the variations in sexual behaviours and adverse sexual health outcomes among white, black Caribbean,...International breast cancer prevention study launches in the United States and Canada
... twice as many women receiving tamoxifen developed second (or new) breast cancers than those treated with exemestane. Unlike other aromatase inhibitors, exemestane is a steroidal aromatase inactivator, which means it selectively targets and irreversibly binds to the aromatase enzyme, which is required to...Satellite survey enhances knowledge of Tuscan landslides
...entimetre across the entire area of interest. The second is the Displacement Monitoring Service. Updated more regularly than the Landslide Motion Survey, it has a maximum spatial resolution of five metres and measures ground movement on a scale of millimetres in order to evaluate slight slope movement over...Geodon effective in psychiatric emergencies; Sharply reduces time in restraints
...Hospital has found that the injectable form of the second generation antipsychotic Geodon (ziprasidone) effe...atients. Approved in 2002, Geodon IM is the first second generation antipsychotic approved for the rapid control of acute agitation in patients. "Being held ...Professionalism and professional ethics in medicine
...on or trust and more likely to disenroll or seek a second opinion," the authors found. (Arch Intern Med. 2005; 165: 625 630. Available post-embargo at www.archinternmed.com .) How Physicians Try to Reduce Patients' Prescription Costs To contact G. Caleb Alexander, M.D., M.S., call Catherine Gianaro at 7...Bullying among sixth graders a daily occurrence, UCLA study finds
... risk for developing psychological problems." In a second study, published in the current issue of the Journ... to the specific release, not a general page oThis second paper is part of a long-term study of more than 1,900 sixth graders, and their teachers, in 11 Los A...NYU College of Dentistry study equates poor oral health with preterm birth risk
...organizations that track pregnancies. PLBW is the second leading cause of infant death in general, and the major cause of infant mortality among African-American infants. Using bacterial samples of 297 predominantly African-American women in Birmingham, Alabama, Dr. Dasanayake's team examined the effect...RIT takes eye-tracking research to next level
...hin any indoor setting outside the laboratory; the second model fits neatly in a backpack and can be worn an...onvertino of NTID at RIT. This project, now in its second year, uses eye tracking with hearing and deaf students in a simulated classroom. The study, sponsore...UNH launches 2nd spinout company with NIH grants
...inside the lungs form the core of the university's second spinout company, backed by three new grants from the National Institutes of Health. With $300,000 awarded and another $2 million anticipated in NIH Small Business Technology Transfer grants over the next 2 years, Professor, and now CEO, Bill Hersman ...African-American women with endometrial cancer have more aggressive cancer than Caucasian women
...PhD, National Cancer Institute. The authors of the second study are: LTC G. Larry Maxwell, MD, Walter Reed Army Medical Center and the National Cancer Institute; Chunqiao Tian, MD, Gynecologic Oncology Group Statistical and Data Center; John I. Risinger, PhD, National Cancer Institute; Carol Brown, MD, Mem...Targeting mutant B-Raf protein reduces melanoma development
...d annually. Furthermore, it is the cancer with the second fastest growth rate. In 2004, an American's lifetime risk of developing melanoma was one in 63 and at the current rate of increase will be one in 50 by 2010. As a direct result of a lack of effective therapeutics, the 2005 prognosis for patients in t...Study shows use of budesonide reduced the risk of asthma related events by 40% in children
...or placebo), and had improved lung function. The second analysis tracked the adverse side effects reported by 1,981 children taking either budesonide plus usual care or placebo over three years. Overall, the incidence of side effects was comparable between the two groups, with fewer asthma exacerbations ...New studies show mixed results on epilepsy drugs and birth defects
...fect than women in the general population. For the second study on valproic acid, British researchers recruited 163 mothers with epilepsy and their children and gave them a number of tests. A total of 249 children between the ages of 6 and 16 took the tests. The 41 children who were exposed to valproic acid...Simple intervention encourages sun protection behaviors
...less tanning lotion. All the students filled out a second questionnaire on their intended future sunbathing and sun protection behaviors. The students were contacted a month later in a "surprise" telephone follow-up, of which they had not been informed. "Neither the intervention alone nor the intervention p...New colorectal cancer screening recommendations for African Americans
...stroenterology. Overall, colorectal cancer is the second leading cause of cancer deaths in the United States. African Americans are diagnosed with colorectal cancer at a younger age than whites, and African Americans with colorectal cancer have decreased survival compared with whites. The article reviews ...WISE study starts in Toulouse: 60 days of bed-rest for terrestrial female astronauts
...imulus over the course of the bed-rest period. The second group will undertake an exercise programme whilst ... in two campaigns, with 12 volunteers in each. The second campaign starts in September. Volunteers can still apply. The data collected by WISE will be used to...Use of inhaled corticosteroid led to fewer hospitalizations for young children with asthma
...zations than children prescribed the medication as second or third-line treatment . Asthma is the most common chronic medical condition among children under the age of 15 and the third leading cause of hospitalization in this age group. 4 In the study, 25 percent of children who received nebulized ICS as ...Alcohol relapse adversely affects 10-year liver transplant survival
...splantation . Alcoholic liver disease (ALD) is the second most common indication for liver transplants in the U.S. and Europe. Although reported survival rates after transplantation were similar between alcoholics and non-alcoholics (up to 60 percent at 7 years following transplant), concerns about alcohol ...Envisat enables first global check of regional methane emissions
... than just academic interest, since methane is the second most important 'anthropogenic' or man-made greenhouse gas after carbon dioxide. Methane is among the six greenhouse gases addressed by the Kyoto Protocol that went into operation last month. Methane traps heat over 21 times more heat per molecule th...... demand for fresh foods, many people do not give a second thought to alternatives, thinking that fresh food is always more beneficial than canned or frozen foods. "There is also a fallacy that fresh spinach is always better than canned," said LaBorde. This belief is not always true because, despite the ...