College students likely drink much more alcohol than they think they do
... us numbers that are way too big. This tells us a few things. The first is that we have totally failed to teach students some of the most basic information about alcohol - what a single serving is. It also tells us that students' answers on alcohol surveys are probably inaccurate. How could they be [...Alcohol magnifies the rewarding effects of smoking, even for light smokers
...rs' may only smoke when they drink or only smoke a few cigarettes a day," she said. "We will be examining their cigarette cravings after alcohol drinking compared to more frequent, regular smokers. We will also look at responses in men versus women, to see if gender differences exist. Finally, we have...Easing the anxiety of pregnancy after miscarriage
...ersity at Buffalo School of Nursing, is one of the few researchers to study the field of pregnancy after perinatal loss. She uses the metaphor "One Foot In -- One Foot Out" to characterize the state of being for these women. " 'One Foot In -- One Foot Out' describes women's sense that the pregnancy is ...Shape-altering genes linked to ovarian cancer
...erred to as a silent killer, ovarian cancer offers few clues to its presence, often until it has spread beyond the ovary to other tissues. Early detection has been difficult because ovarian cancer is not a single disease, but appears in many forms, with each form behaving differently. Now researchers fro...NIAID begins clinical trial of West Nile virus vaccine
...e in clinical trials, DNA vaccines generally cause few side effects, making them a promising alternative to conventional vaccines." Although no DNA vaccine has yet been licensed, other DNA vaccines developed by the VRC against HIV/AIDS, Ebola and SARS also are being tested in ongoing trials at NIH. Fift...Research reveals emotional trauma parents face when a child is diagnosed with diabetes
...at a large Welsh teaching hospital, ranging from a few days after diagnosis through to 12 months. Half of...after diagnosis. "A lot of it, within the first few months, is just pure fearit's dealing with an illness that you know absolutely nothing aboutand the ...New research reveals working mothers do not adversely impact on children's diets
...ip is surprising. Our study, which is one of very few to look at maternal employment and children's diets, turns on its head the stereotype of working mothers dishing out ready-made less healthy meals and suggests that children of working mothers might be fed more healthily. But the factors which had t...Newborn's first week may be critical period for developing obesity in adulthood
...l studies have shown that overfeeding in the first few days of life lead to long-term obesity, possibly from programming in the developing brain or the endocrine system," said Dr. Stettler. "We don't know how this effect may occur in humans. However, obesity is increasing in prevalence worldwide, and we ...Anthrax treatments' cost effectiveness shown in Stanford study
...nd Prevention has identified anthrax as one of the few biological agents capable of crippling a developed region through death and disease. "Anthrax has been weaponized; it's lethal and it's available," said Owens. "As we point out in our paper, a serious anthrax attack could be catastrophic." If inhalat...Patients' lives at risk from substandard drugs say heart specialists
...eotti said that streptokinase belonged to one of a few dozen contemporary groups of life-saving drugs and that it was used to treat one of the most common and suddenly fatal medical scenarios acute myocardial infarction (heart attack). It ranked among the World Health Organization's essential medication...Virtual colonoscopy: Virtually promising
...ver the downsides must be considered. There are a few examples of truly good screening tests for any cancer, according to Dr. Imperiale, who thinks that PAP smears are probably the best currently available screening tools because they are reasonably sensitive, specific, and inexpensive, and the test its...American Dietetic Association statement on new 'MyPyramid'
...ognize the Food Guide Pyramid. The problem is that few people really understood the Pyramid and even fewer followed it. What is needed is what the USDA announced today: a Food Guidance System that includes a graphic symbol plus consumer messages and motivational and educational tools that work together t...U of T research examines nursing home quality of care
...earch and Review. "It was striking to find that so few Canadian studies have been done so far on an important area, one that is heavily studied in the U.S.," says Hillmer. The researchers reviewed data on factors such as staffing, use of restraints and pressure ulcers. Results indicate that not-for-profi...The Cochrane Library newsletter, 2005, issue 2
...In both diseases memantine was well tolerated with few recorded adverse events. Rupert McShane, one of th...on needs to participate in regular sessions over a few months," says Dr Christian Gold who works in the Faculty of Health Studies at Sogn og Fjordane Unive...Kidney donation program may provide more matches for previously incompatible recipients and donors
...States, these exchanges are currently performed at few institutions, with matches identified through local or regional patient databases. UNOS has recently proposed a national live donor KPD program through the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network, but regulatory obstacles to a national program ...Heart failure drug associated with higher risk of death
...to be a misguided approach, the authors say. "Very few patients require a vasodilator after open-heart surgery, but kidney dysfunction is a major concern post-operatively," Sackner-Bernstein says. "In addition to this mortality risk in patients with acutely decompensated heart failure, the meta-analysis ...Findings about anti-cancer agent could make it more effective
... laboratory, it could be tested in humans within a few years. The compound is licensed to AVI, a biopharmaceutical company. Gmeiner's co-researchers are Zhi-Yong Liao, Ph.D., Olivier Sordet, Ph.D., Hong-Liang Zhang, Ph.D., Glenda Kohlhagen, Ph.D., Smitha Antony, Ph.D., and Yves Pommier, M.D., Ph.D., all...Electroshock therapy speeds improvement in schizophrenia patients
... in the 1950s. Tharyan says that in countries with few state-funded social services, ECT can be useful as the more rapid treatment because the impact of long-running schizophrenia can cause both patients and family caregivers to stop working. ECT is more available and less expensive than antipsychotics i...Football players are sportsmen most at risk of injury
...s injuries than others and swimmers had relatively few injuries (28.1%). The UK researchers carried out an initial Training of Young Athletes Study (TOYA) between 1987 and 1992, recruiting 453 participants aged between 8 and 16. The study showed a low prevalence of sports injuries over a three year peri...Louder neurons form more connections, Stanford research shows
...me technical finesse. Hua created zebrafish with a few brain cells that made a protein that prevented them from firing their normal electrical signals. These cells were also engineered to produce a protein that glowed green under the appropriate light. Hua looked for green neurons in her immobilized fish...