Study helps doctors ID intimate partner violence abuse victims
...ths. That percentage jumps to a 54% likelihood of abuse in the course of her lifetime. The findings appea...n area. The probabilities of 12-month and lifetime abuse by an intimate partner were estimated based on women's reports of their smoking and drinking behavio...International adoptees have fewer behavior problems than domestic adoptees
...malnutrition, maternal separation, and neglect and abuse in orphanages." Femmie Juffer, Ph.D., and Marinus H. van IJzendoorn, Ph.D., from Leiden University, Leiden, the Netherlands, conducted a search of the medical literature from 1950 to January 2005 to estimate the effects of international adoption on b...Recreational use of an erectile dysfunction drug can be risky for some
...y leaped to mind was: What effect did the combined abuse of these drugs have on the patient? Could this ha...y virulent HIV mutant? Does this combination drug abuse increase the likelihood of STD transmission and/or the propensity for unsafe sex?" Dr. Alpert also ...Better screening for sexual and physical abuse could improve the health of minority adolescent women
...th better screening for history of sexual/physical abuse in health care clinics caring for minority adolescent women, further health problems including chronic pelvic pain and infertility could be decreased....Despite alternatives, addictive drugs most often prescribed for sleep problems
...eceiving prescription sleep medication with a high abuse potential," he said. The study, which appears in the current issue of the journal Sleep, includes data from 94.6 million office visits in the United States over a six-year period. Patients included in the data set sought help for sleep-related diffic...Prevalence and severity of mental illness in the United States
...and intermittent explosive disorder; and substance abuse disorder, defined as alcohol and drug abuse and dependence. Severity was divided into three levels: serious, which might be defined by criteria ...Mental illness exacts heavy toll, beginning in youth
... disorders, including mood, anxiety, and substance abuse disorders. These measures will allow researchers ... mood disorders in late adolescence, and substance abuse in the early 20's. Unlike heart disease or most cancers, young people with mental disorders suffer d...Investigating 'brain shrinkage' in alcoholics
...way to cause brain damage in those individuals who abuse or are dependent on alcohol. "The exact ways i...rve impulses." - It is important for people who abuse alcohol to realize that some of the damage can be reversed. "Neuropsychological studies have shown ...New study showed ramelteon helped adults with chronic insomnia fall asleep, sleep longer
...ep longer. Additionally, ramelteon demonstrated no abuse potential or behavioral impairment. Study Design A total of 405 adults with chronic insomnia (mean age, 39.3 years) were enrolled in this double-blind, placebo-controlled study. Participants received bedtime administration of ramelteon 8 mg or 16 ...Young drug abusers suffer brain damage similar to early Alzheimer's, says new research
...ll. "In a previous study we found out that drug abuse causes low grade inflammation in the brain. Taken ...r, the two studies suggest that intravenous opiate abuse may be linked to premature ageing of the brain." The 34 documented drug users had a history of opiat...Jimmy Buffett hosts event to benefit NYU Child Study Center
...problems are more likely to drop out of school, to abuse drugs and to go to jail. In New York City alone 10,000 students are suspended from school each year, mostly for aggressive or violent behaviors. ParentCorps' 26-week parenting program decreases aggressive behavior in pre-schoolers, preventing behav...New drug abuse treatment shows promise
...reating heroin and prescription opiate pain killer abuse in 2002, officebased buprenorphine holds the promi.... While heroin and prescription opiate pain killer abuse has substantially increased over the years, the availability of treatment has not increased with the...Problem gamblers share personality profiles of substance abusers
...tween problem gambling and each of three substance abuse disorders (alcohol, cannabis and nicotine). In the second, the researchers examined the independent association of 10 basic aspects of personality variation with problem gambling and each of the three substance addictive disorders. "Past-year problem...The building blocks of schizophrenia and drug addiction
...e events such as complications during birth, drug abuse and stress may have long-lasting effects on behaviour according to researcher Cecilia Flores PhD, of the Douglas Hospital Research Centre. She is using a variety of techniques to better understand how these changes occur in the brain and is particu...Adolescent binge drinking issues
..., two of the nation's leading experts on substance abuse and toxicology presented the latest information on...h providers who provide primary care and substance abuse treatment to adolescents, as well as to those who are concerned with the health and social implicati...Pediatricians' opinions vary on reporting threshold for suspected child abuse
... injuries to one physician, may be suspected child abuse to another. A Penn State College of Medicine study...suspected child abuse. Mandated reporting of child abuse has been in effect for 30 years and requires that people who interact with children in a professiona...Small-bowel injury in children more common in abuse than accident cases
...icult to distinguish between accidental injury and abuse at first referral, throughout clinical care, and i...looked at the incidence of abdominal injury due to abuse in children aged 0-14 years that had been confirmed by a multidisciplinary meeting and reported thro...Alcohol abuse: Early diagnosis is key to treatment success
... emerging approaches to early detection of alcohol abuse and/or dependence. Proceedings are published in t...Research . "I think the early detection of alcohol abuse is a higher priority in Northern Europe than in Eastern Europe, or in the developing countries, wher...IEEE-USA advocates protecting personally identifiable health information, development of NHIN
...bility and significant penalties for the misuse or abuse of such information. In a related position, IEEE-USA advocates establishing a National Health Information Network (NHIN) to take advantage of cutting-edge networking technologies, as well as provide secure and reliable access to, and sharing of, heal...The GMC'S judgement against Roy Meadow could put children at greater risk of abuse
... provided, children will be put at greater risk of abuse and murder. He argues that the GMC's decision remo...d may weaken their conclusions about alleged child abuse in court to avoid the aggressive and improper intrusion of the GMC into their work. Horton also accu...