Students who get drunk weekly have higher risk of injuries
... that 2.8 million college students drove under the influence of alcohol last year....Risk factors associated with elderly hospital deaths: Dependence on others and being too thin
...examines connections between the many factors that influence death in the hospital. "Previous reports have examined individual factors that influence hospital outcomes. Functional status, how sick the person is, and his or her nutritional status have...Breathing disorders during sleep are common among asthmatics, may help predict severe asthma
...asthma, independent of other conditions that could influence asthma. In addition, 55 percent of these people said they experienced excessive daytime sleepiness. Although the study is still ongoing, Teodorescu says the early findings should encourage doctors to consider sleep apnea as a possible aggravating con...Risk factors in contracting cancer of the endometrium
...ext, Roco Montejo set out in her PhD to assess the influence of diet and other risk factors for this type of ca...ologies and cardiovascular problems. Regarding the influence of smoking on these results, corroborating those obtained in previous research, this PhD also showed...Increase in heart surgery mortality from SSRIs or depression?
... anti-depression medications and psychotherapy can influence the mortality rates for these patients." Xiong added: "Just as importantly, we need to see if we should introduce a depression screening tool in our standard treatment for patients with heart disease. Should we be screening and monitoring for depress...Medical whistleblowers speak out
...hat "ties between drug regulators and industry may influence new drug approval." Graham said at the roundtable...nt captures some of the ways in which industry may influence not only which drugs get approved, but also which drugs get prescribed. One of the roundtable w...A new insight into breast cancer: Breast density is directly related to breast cancer
... that some aspects of dense breast tissue directly influence tumour development in breast tissue. Mammographically dense tissue areas of the breast consisting of glands, milk ducts and fibrous tissue has already been established as a risk factor for breast cancer. The risk of developing breast cancer is app...Exercise, weight control may help reduce risk of breast cancer, Meharry-Vanderbilt study suggests
...ilt, "there is great interest in understanding the influence of energy balance on cancer risk, and in developing preventive measures that can effectively minimize excess risk. Our study suggests that the promotion of behavior patterns that optimize energy balance weight control and increased physical activit...Key to breast cancer prevention could hang in the balance
...ilt, "there is great interest in understanding the influence of energy balance on cancer risk, and in developing preventive measures that can effectively minimize excess risk. Our study suggests that the promotion of behavior patterns that optimize energy balance weight control and increased physical activit...Tough child support laws deter single men from becoming dads
...le in childbearing and how government policies may influence their behavior." Plotnick, Garfinkel, and co-authors Sara McLanahan of Princeton University and Inhoe Ku of Seoul National University in South Korea theorized that forcing unmarried fathers to support their children financially might deter them from...Children need 60 minutes of daily physical activity, expert panel says
...ans that parents, coaches, teachers and others who influence youngsters need to become active role models and get children involved with regular participation in physical activity." "Increasing the level of habitual moderate to vigorous intensity physical activity in youth is a health promotion and a disease ...Children need 60 minutes of daily physical activity, expert panel says
...ans that parents, coaches, teachers and others who influence youngsters need to become active role models and get children involved with regular participation in physical activity." "Increasing the level of habitual moderate to vigorous intensity physical activity in youth is a health promotion and a disease p...Good friends, rather than close family ties, help you live longer in older age
...am also considered the impact of factors likely to influence survival rates, such as socioeconomic status, heal...he country. The authors speculate that friends may influence health behaviours, such as smoking and drinking, or seeking medical help for troubling symptoms. Fri...Female volunteers prepare for a second 'bedrest'
...now that the psychological balance has a important influence on the physiological balance." Women volunteers must be between 25 and 40 years of age, healthy, non-smokers, and must have social security cover. For practical reasons, they must also be fluent in either English or French. During the experiment, an...Going to extremes to improve human health
...men, he also studies how estrogen and progesterone influence blood pressure regulation. Minson is the winner of a 2005 American Physiology Society's Outstanding Young Investigator Award (his second since 2000) and a similar national honor conferred in 2002 by the American College of Sports Medicine. In additio...'Binge drinkers': Folk devils of the binge economy
.... The night-time economy has had a transformative influence on UK cities, and is part of our society's shift from industrial to post-industrial economic development. Successive governments have embraced this new economy as an alternative to the nation's increasingly decrepit manufacturing base, and proud city...Italian law on ART brings problems for doctors and patients
...imminent introduction of the new legislation would influence couples towards making a hurried decision on what to do with these embryos", she said. Out of 849 couples, 66% wanted their surplus embryos disposed of ; 4.3% said they wished them to be used for research; 7.4% wanted to donate them to others; and 21...Some male breast cancer patients may have unnecessary radiotherapy
...he new results were consistent with there being no influence of gender on the main outcomes once other known prognostic variables were taken into account. However, he emphasised that because of the low numbers of male breast cancer patients available for analysis, the power of the study to detect possible smal...Survey shows that physicians are more religious than expected
...ive percent of doctors say their religious beliefs influence how they practice medicine. These results were not... were the most likely to say "my religious beliefs influence my practice of medicine." Jewish and Hindu physicians were the least likely. Physicians from the S...Conservative surgery preserves fertility in women with borderline ovarian tumours
...see how surgical management of these tumours would influence recurrence." The scientists looked at data on 360 ...ved in pregnancies. Specific data concerning the influence of ovarian hyperstimulation on the recurrence rate are not available, and it is important to determi...