Adolescents And Risk-Taking: A 'Very Likely' Danger May Not Mean The Same To A Teen As To An Adult
...same terms very differently. Adultsinterpreted the term "will definitely happen" as meaning there was a 97 percentchance the event would occur. Ninth graders and seventh graders thought thechance was not so high - 86 and 81 percent, respectively. Fifth graders rated"will definitely happen" as having only ...Nerve Cells Live Long And Talkative Lives In Sculpted Colonies On Silicon Chips
...led the hippocampus, which isassociated with short term memory. Brinton dissociates the cells from theirintricate network of interconnections with each other, and then places them asindividual cells on a specially prepared silicon testbed studded with a matrixof electrodes. The dissociated cells, approxim...Children More Likely To Have Abdominal Pain During Termtime Than School Holidays
...re likely to have abdominal pain during the school term than during the school holiday, report Nigel Williams from Leicester Royal Infirmary and colleagues from Leicester in this week's BMJ. Based on a study of children aged five to 16 years in Leicestershire, the authors found that the rate of admission...Climate change will have detrimental effects on health in Europe
...ly in the future. They say that flooding has long term effects on mental health; may disrupt water purification and sewage disposal systems; cause toxic waste sites to overflow and dislodge chemicals stored in the ground. There may also be an increased risk of communicable diseases after flooding, they ......uipment can increase the risk of transmission. The term "hepatitis" refers to any inflammation of the liver, which can resultfrom such diverse events as viral infections, exposure to toxic chemicals orlong-term alcohol abuse. Hepatitis B is caused by a specific virus. Type A,caused by a different virus, d...Study suggests need for better pain management in newborns
... baby responds. Babies born prematurelyand at full term responded similarly to painful procedures, as judged by heartrate, agitation and sleep. Even very premature babies were able to judge the invasiveness of aprocedure during the first week of life. Heart rate and agitation increased asthe proce...Walking markedly improves mental abilities of those over 60
... distractions are essential toexecutive control, a term that covers such things as planning, inhibition andtemporarily maintaining information in memory. When people drive a car, Kramersaid, they must switch rapidly among complex skills -- watching other vehicles,looking for pedestrians, reading signs an...A leading cause of blindness may be controlled by simple course of oral antibiotic
...achieves greater patient compliance than thelonger term traditional treatment, but that control of this disease can beachieved through treatment of all individuals within a community. The resultsindicate that with azithromycin, trachoma control is an attainable goal." NIAID is a component of the National...New studies of a liquid of life -- Lung surfactant
...seasethat can be related to: trauma, smoking, long term chronic obstructed lung disease, pneumonia, the hanta virus, near drowning, and other unknown causes. When neonatal respiratory distress occurs, insufficient surfactantresults in a progressive failure of the lungs, manifested clinically by ...Federal, private funding to establish inflammatory disease center at UNC
...odoral hygiene in making sure pregnant women go to term and give birth to healthychildren." A UNC-CH study published in the Journal of Periodontology in 1996 showedthat women who suffered severe gum disease were seven times more likely todeliver low-birth-weight babies prematurely. Another UNC-CH ...Women in ethnic minorities may be missing benefits of HRT
...potentially important because of the possible long term protective effects on heart and bone, which may particularly benefit South Asian women with their raised risk of coronary heart disease and osteoporosis. They conclude that opportunities for health promotion amongst women from ethnic minorities may b...New series tackles complementary medicine
...first issue looks at what is actually meant by the term complementary medicine'; how this area of medicine developed; how practitioners are trained and regulated and how they might approach the treatment of patients....Camelford water contamination did lead to cerebral function damage
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... time following the injection. Lesions are another term to describe the fatty deposits that block bloodvessels. Fisher, professor of medicine and director of lipoprotein research at MountSinai Medical Center in New York City, calls the research a significantachievement, and adds that the latest research s......d to as hot flashes. "Hot 'flashes' is clearly the term that most people are comfortable with, although 'flushes' is more technically correct," she said. "It is what actually happens. Women get a vasomotor flush, a dilation of blood vessels. The result is a hot sensation and a red flush in skin color." Sc...Study casts doubt that melatonin goes down as age goes up: Older buyers take note
..., and we still do not know how safe it is for long term use, especially for older people with a variety of health problems taking a number of drugs." This study was supported by the NIA, NIMH, and NCRR, three components of the NIH. The NIA supports basic, clinical, epidemiological, and social research on ...New gene therapy shows promise in improving success rate of leg bypass surgeries
...ould end up having a major impact not only on long term success of all types of bypass surgery, but also on the cost of treating graft blockages," says Michael J. Mann, M.D., co-author and a surgical resident at Brigham and Women's Hospital. Graft blockages are treated with another operation or with angi...