Teens believe oral sex is safer, more acceptable to peers
... get them thinking about whether their perceptions match their own situations," she said. One troubling finding of the study was the teens' perception of the health risks of oral sex. Most of the participants recognized that there is some risk of infection with sexually transmitted diseases such as chlamyd...Number and quality of kidney transplants much greater if national matching program adopted
...ensitized patients, who are extremely difficult to match and typically wait almost seven years for a deceased donor kidney, would benefit six-fold from a national optimized algorithm (14.1 percent matched versus 2.3 percent). Furthermore, the results show that optimization would dramatically reduce the nu...Kidney donation program may provide more matches for previously incompatible recipients and donors
...compatible donor/recipient pair the opportunity to match with another donor and recipient in a similar situ...ensitized patients, who are extremely difficult to match and typically wait almost 7 years for a deceased donor kidney, would benefit 6-fold from a national ...UCI eye doctors invent laser-assisted cornea-transplant surgery
...recise incision is created, resulting in a perfect match of the donor and the patient," said Steinert, a professor of ophthalmology in the School of Medicine. "In addition to precision that exceeds anything that can be duplicated by even a highly skilled surgeon, the laser can create complex shapes that ar...Exercise in cold water may increase appetite, UF study finds
...ise itself that causes the problem because you can match the exercise energy expenditure; rather it's the increased eating after the exercise is over." White said her research is not meant to suggest that swimming or aquatic exercise is ineffective for building physical fitness. In fact, water exercise is...A candidate biomarker to improve treatment of lupus patients
...ou and Crow and their associates made an effort to match SLE patients with both control groups with regard to sex--with women as the majority--and race, with progressively decreasing ratios of whites, African-Americans, Asians, and Hispanics. In addition, the SLE patients and disease controls were well ma...The Lancet calls for higher tax on cigarettes
...e who acquire the habit. The least we should do is match this 50% mortality with a 50% tax."...Infants with rare genetic disease saved by cord blood stem cells
...one marrow cells and thus do not need to perfectly match the patient's immune-related blood proteins, calle...zberg. Only four of six cord blood "antigens" must match for a transplant to have a reasonable chance of success, whereas adult bone marrow requires a greate...Richer nations at more risk of schizophrenia
... said to explain the results his team would try to match up new cases with current case data from the same sites and same times to help answer prognosis and illness duration questions. The report is a companion to an earlier study by the same team on the number of new cases of schizophrenia worldwide. It...High cost of malpractice insurance threatens supply of ob/gyns, especially in some urban areas
...eading many people to sue when the reality doesn't match their expectation. Another facet of the discussion relates to patient safety. This was the subject of an editorial in Obstetrics & Gynecology in May, written by Mark D. Pearlman, M.D., professor and vice chair in the Department of Obstetrics and Gyne...For disabled parents, extra family services could improve entire family's health
...ere in place. "There should be enough resources to match support services with parents who have severe disabilities and dependent children. Outreach to this population will improve the health outcomes of the whole family," suggests Hyatt....Chest x-rays not effective in determining when TB acquired
... an MTB strain from one patient which has an exact match with an MTB strain recovered from at least one other patient), representing recently acquired disease, was associated with typical radiograph, the association was lost when adjusted for HIV status. "In summary our findings argue that the terms primar...Research: Noise, visual cues affect infants' language development
...ds and another begins. That is why infants need to match what they hear with the movements of the speaker's face." Hollich's four studies, conducted in 2002 at John Hopkins University where he previously worked, analyzed how environmental noises affected 7-month-old infants during this stage of language de...Fine tuning drug levels in neuroblastoma patients is effective, St. Jude researchers show
...vels in individual children and fine tune doses to match each child's needs, he noted. Therefore, his laboratory is now trying to develop a simplified technique for achieving the right level of drug in each child. Such a simplified technique, developed using information obtained from PK-based dosing studie...Three reasons not to believe in an autism epidemic
...will most likely continue because they still don't match the numbers reported in recent surveys that use more rigorous epidemiological methods. The report does not dispute the likelihood that more individuals fit current day diagnostic criteria than fit previous diagnostic criteria, or that more individual...Government policy changes lead to dramatic drop in heart disease deaths in Poland
...esult in fewer deaths from heart disease - did not match the dramatic drop in death rates after 1991. And although consumption of imported fruit rose during the 1990s - from 2.8kg/year per person in 1990 to 10.4kg/year by 1999 - the increase was not enough to influence death rates by more than 1 or 2%. Th...GlaxoSmithKline announces FDA approval of Fluarix
...e composition of the vaccine is adjusted yearly to match the recommendations of the FDA and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). As a result of these changes in the influenza virus, the CDC recommends annual vaccination, particularly for groups at high risk of complications. ABOUT INFLUE...New online atlas provides collective maps of human brain folds
...cally adjust the results of a brain scan to either match it with an atlas or enter it into the atlas. This approach previously has been used to assemble atlases based on study of the volume of different brain areas. "The cerebral cortex has been crumpled up so that it can fit snugly inside the skull, lik...Output of e-Science project helps GSK speed up drug discovery
...o retrieve and analyse data rapidly. "We wanted to match the cycle of change and hand control of the decision-making process back to the scientists," he says. InforSense KDE, an output of Discovery Net, met these two challenges. Discovery Net is a pilot project funded by the Engineering and Physical Scien......f efficiently finding more kidney donors who are a match for patients in need. In the study, published in the Oct. 5 issue of The Journal of the American Medical Association, Hopkins surgeons report successfully performing KPD transplants on 21 out of 22 kidney patients whose willing donors were incompatib...