British Adolescents Need Government Support To Help Clean Up Their Act
... sexual health of adolescents in England and Wales worsened quite significantly between 1995-6. In 1996 teenage females accounted for 20 per cent of all pregnancy terminations and nine per cent of births. Girls aged 16-19 years had the highest rates of gonorrhoea, genital chlamydia infection and warts, of a...Health plays a crucial role in California labor market, according to UCSF researchers
...he 1998 survey were twice as likely to experience worsened health and onset of disability than those who did not lose their jobs, according to researchers. The California Work and Health Survey, led by Yelin and co-principal investigator, Laura Trupin, MPH, senior research associate in the UCSF Institute for...Laser heart treatment shown to be safe and effective at lowering pain associated with heart disease
...he body, improved by 20percent in TMR patients but worsened by 27 percent in those who received onlymedications. Additionally, the rate of hospital admissions for unstable anginawas 2 percent for TMR versus 69 percent for patients on medications. "In patients who cannot benefit from bypass surgery or angio...... -- in the late 1980s, she said. The situation was worsened with passage of the Cuban Democracy Act of 1992, which prohibits foreign subsidiaries of U.S. companies to trade with Cuba. Among the resulting public health "catastrophes" she cited were: more than 50,000 cases of optic and peripheral neuropathies......noting that the institutions' financial health has worsened to the point that one in seven nursing home beds in Massachusetts is owned by a company that has filed for bankruptcy. In addition to demographic changes, recent policy shifts on government payments to nursing homes -- most notably those enacted unde...GL701 (prasterone) significantly reduces lupus flares
... improved an average of 5.5 for GL701 patients and worsened an average of 5.4 for placebo patients. During the study, GL701 was well tolerated. GL701 patients had higher rates of acne than those on placebo (59 percent vs. 29 percent, p<0.05), while headache (43 percent GL701 vs. 63 percent placebo) ...Transplanted human neural stem cells improve memory in rats
...y suffered a setback when transplanted fetal cells worsened symptoms in Parkinson's patients. However, Sugaya pointed out, his team injected different types of cells into the brain-not already differentiated neural fetal cells but laboratory-grown stem cells, which are not differentiated. This tactic allowed ......at their personal economic situation has, in fact, worsened since the attacks and believe this was partially or completely a result of the terrorist attacks (78 percent), rather than economic factors that were in place prior to the attacks. Eighteen percent reported declining 401K or stock value and 15 perce...Brief exercise improves mental performance in people with chronic lung disease
...e with the disease at risk for worsened mental function. Exercise tends to increase airflow in the lungs. "People with chronic lung disease may have problems with fluid intelligence - the a...Implantable heart device reduces deaths by one-third
...planted defibrillator, but the incidence of new or worsened heart failure in the ICD group was slightly higher. Concerned by that finding, Moss says the research team investigated how often the device shocked a patients heart back to a normal rhythm, as well as what type of heart malfunction was occurring whe...New study says people take mental stress to heart
...e men. Forty percent of those who died had new or worsened abnormalities during the speech test compared with 19 percent of the survivors. Sheps says further study is needed, since this was not a prospectively designed study. While the study did show increased deaths in people with wall motion abnormalities ...Stem cell transplants may be effective for MS patients
... cause soon after the transplant and, as a result, worsened by one point on the disability scale....Long-term survival results favor chemotherapy before surgery for locally advanced breast cancer
...nical response to chemotherapy. No patient's tumor worsened while taking dose-intense neoadjuvant treatment with doxorubicin. A total of 28 patients (45 percent) had sufficient downstaging of their tumor to permit an attempt at breast conserving therapy, or lumpectomy (segmental mastectomy). Of these, 22 (79 ...'Power nap' prevents burnout; morning sleep perfects a skill
...er of a computer screen. Their scores on the task worsened over the course of four daily practice sessions. Allowing subjects a 30-minute nap after the second session prevented any further deterioration, while a 1-hour nap actually boosted performance in the third and fourth sessions back to morning levels....Opioids, narcotic analgesics effective in treating post-herpetic neuralgia
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...n the weather was hot or it rained. The situation worsened when the pain spread to his hands. His doctors, however, were unable to find anything wrong with him, telling his parents that the pain was all in his mind. Seventeen years later, Raul was officially diagnosed with Fabry disease a rare genetic di...Long-term ERT in postmenopausal women with Alzheimer's may worsen memory
... and longer term brain inflammation) significantly worsened cognitive performance beyond that produced by either condition alone. "A therapy designed to mimic the natural cycle of hormone fluctuation may provide a more effective therapy to slow the progression of Alzheimer's disease in postmenopausal women," ...This is your heart on drugs: Study improves ER treatment for cocaine's heart effects
...g of the blood vessels needed to supply it, can be worsened if the patient has existing blockages in their arteries -- cutting off blood supply to parts of the heart altogether. Cocaine also causes blood cells to stick together, forming clots that can lodge in narrowed blood vessels. Both effects can cause a...Doctors focus on pupil size for safety of laser vision correction
...ser vision correction, some patients complained of worsened night vision after the surgery some reported significant glare from light sources such as headlights at night, while others saw halos around bright lights. Occasionally, though much more rarely, patients undergoing the procedure still report such si...... the rate of adults ages 30 to 64. The problem has worsened over the last decade, with young adults from low-income households the hardest hit. "At a time of life when people start families and establish life-long health habits, young adults far too often can't get the health care they need," said Karen Davi...