Policy Methods For Eliminating Child Labor
...hors say in their paper. Governments should occupy themselves with improving the adult labor market, since its condition can dictate the size of the child labor market, Basu and Van say. Trying to solve the child labor problem first, by banning it outright, could do more harm than good in the poorest countries,...Anti-Depressants: Miracle Drugs Or Placebos With A Buzz?
...f the various drugs couldbeattributed to the drugs themselves and the degree of positive effects that couldbe attributed to the placebo effect. They concluded that 75 percent of the response to the drugs was aplacebo response and that, at most, 25 percent might be a true drug effect. "This does not mean...Epilepsy Drugs Useful To Treat Alzheimer's, Studies Find
... put in a nursing home because they are adanger to themselves or others, or because they're unbearablyhostile or aggressive. This type of medicine alleviates thosesymptoms for many patients in a population that is a bear totreat." About three-quarters of patients on the medicinecarbamazepine improved in tw......cks orsuffer from chest pain may be able to inject themselves with a drug at home toprevent a heart attack or episodes of chest pain, say scientists. In a study and editorial in today's Circulation: Journal of the American HeartAssociation, researchers say that enoxaparin -- a slimmed-down form of thecommonly u...Health Promotion: Can Scare Tactics Work?
...ho feltthreatened by HPV were motivated to protect themselves against the disease. Those who did not feel threatened failed to respond "in either positive ornegative ways to the campaign -- they simply ignored it" and made no changes inattitudes or behavior. The research team also found that the fear-bas...UCSF AIDS Expert Warns Against Early Treatment For HIV Infection
... current drugs. Instead, he adds, it is the drugs themselves thatencourage these types of resistant viruses. Any replication of HIV will lead to irreversible destruction of the immunesystem. -- What is overlooked by this assumption, Levy says, is that these drugscan be toxic and can be directly detrimental to...Prescription Counseling Necessary For Hospital Patients
... released. To help themselves before leaving the hospital, patientsshould make sure they know the following information aboutnewly prescribed drugs: What the medications are; ...Setbacks To Health Progress In Central America
...Roses said. "United Nationsagencies and the people themselves have responded admirably, and naturalleaderships have arisen in a very positive way in small communities constitutedin those groups." Dr. Roses said "the call by the Director of PAHO, Dr. George Alleyne, for cashdonations is very important. It's wha...U-M Researcher Addresses Changes In The Heart As It Ages
...changes are not necessarily bad. Those changes by themselves would notimpair the heart, but they reduce the reserve capacity of the heart so that itis less able to deal with a heart attack," Boluyt said....Low "Health Literacy" Increases Hospitalizations
...at they are less likely to knowhow to take care of themselves and how to take care of their chronic conditions. This may be why they are more likely to get worse and have to be hospitalized." In an accompanying editorial, Debra Roter, DrPH, of the Johns HopkinsSchool of Hygiene and Public Health, and co...Immunex's TRAIL Molecule Shows Potential As Anti-Tumor Agent
...many tumor cells andsignals these cells to destroy themselves via a process known as apoptosis. Immunex scientists constructed a soluble form of TRAIL that was found tostimulate tumor cell destruction. "We are very pleased about the results of the study and have promoted TRAIL to a high priority pre-developmen...Far Few Drugs Are Tested On Children
...ull well that they aretaking on the responsibility themselves for any major problems that may occur." "Recent advances in biomedical research have not been translated intoadvances in child health," says Tim Westmoreland, a Washington lobbyist workingwith the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric Aids Foundation i...Breakthrough? Study Finds Dopamine Cannot Be Source Of Pleasure In Brain
...ats, we clearly saw dopamine, but when the animals themselves applied theshock, little or no dopamine appeared," Wightman said. "Considering thatscientists have been pretty satisfied that dopamine was the important thing,this was a big surprise." Dopamine may be involved in learning or anticipation of r...Insulin Resistance And Obesity Avoided In Genetically Modified Mice, As Reported In Science
...sease) do not produce insulin at all and must give themselves regular insulininjections. People with type II diabetes do produce insulin but their bodies areresistant to its effects. Previous research has suggested that an enzyme known as PTP-1B mightsomehow play a role in reducing insulin's ability to ...Novel Biological Interaction Found To Explain Blood Vessel Growth To Tumors
...umors. A decade ago, Folkman proposed that tumors themselves regulate the growth ofblood vessels. One notion was that tumors could produce proteins that wouldtravel through the bloodstream, preventing vessels from growing to any newcancer metastasis. This idea explains what has been observed, although no oneun...Study Of Women And Hearing Reveals Need For Routine Hearing Tests
...abilitation program forboth women and men who find themselves having difficulty hearing amidst thechaos of everyday living. "What we do is take real world communication situations and break them intomanageable bits so that individuals with impaired hearing develop managementstrategies to overcome their hearing ...For Breast Self-Examination, Once A Month Is Quite Enough
... breast cancer. About 18 percent saidthey examine themselves for breast cancer daily or weekly. Fifty-six perc...esleast often and highest among those who examined themselves most often. Highgeneral anxiety was found only among the hyper-vigilant women who examinedthemselve...New Drug For Recurrent Brain Tumors In Tests At UNC
...s over-express the PDGF receptor and theystimulate themselves to grow. It is as if they're pouring gas on their ownfire," Ewend says. "By blocking or inhibiting that receptor, we might inhibitthe cell's ability to grow." The drug is administered intravenously. Initially, patients will get a doseevery day for fo......he net. Thirty-eight percent admitted presenting themselves as arace different than their own. Additionally, three out of four respondentsindicated keeping secret from others how much time they spend on line for sexualpursuits, although most (87%) reported that they did not feel guilty or ashamedabout the ti...Baby Talk: Parents Do Make A Difference, By Promoting Childhood Chatter, From Birth To Age 3
...hildren's progress, in fact, that "parents mayfind themselves saying, `Ah ha! So, that's what my child is doing!'" Hirsh-Paseksays. "In this way, we hope the book will turn mundane, everyday events intomagical moments" between caregivers and children. "We want our readers to benefit from what we've learned abou...