Almost half of men who pay for sex already have a partner
... Two thirds said that they had paid for sex in the preceding year, and around one in four said that they repeatedly used prostitutes. But the time frame ranged from 2 days to 30 years previously Almost half (43%) said that they had a current partner when they had paid for the sex. And more than half (56%) ...New studies in the journal Sleep focus on helping children, women sleep better
...n, the number of physician claims in the two years preceding diagnosis rose, and then fell in the following two years. Furthermore, the number of clinic visits in the two years prior to diagnosis increased, and declined in the two years following diagnosis. "Our results showed that sleep-clinic evaluation (...How much influence do medical publications have on your doctor? A great deal, says new SLU research
... heart failure patient records in: the four months preceding the two articles and the eight months following; t...riods in 2004 for comparison; and the eight months preceding the launch of nesiritide in 2001. The researchers also hypothesized that doctors would increasingly...Many adults with psychiatric disorders may also have undiagnosed ADHD
... no claims with the same diagnosis in the 6 months preceding the index date were used. Throughout the period analyzed, patients were tracked for claims citing one or more of the other targeted conditions with a total of 900,897 new diagnoses of ADHD; 12,036,905 new diagnoses of a depressive disorder; 1,148,...Assessing the cost of juvenile arthritis
... use of medications and health services during the preceding three months, without specifying any particular disease. Researchers also asked parents about time loss from their work and days missed from school for the children. The study was the first to quantify an association between JIA disease activity a...International and American Associations for Dental Research present awards and fellowships
...during the 12-month period (July-June) immediately preceding the IADR General Session. The award consists of a cash prize and a plaque. The Gies Award is open to anyone who publishes in the Journal of Dental Research, the official publication of the IADR/AADR. The award in the Biological category is presente...Did pack-size laws reduce paracetamol suicides or was fall just a coincidence?
...es, the average number of deaths in the five years preceding the regulation was 212/year and in the following five years it fell to an average of 154/year. However, in addition, they found that the number of deaths per year involving any drug and also non-drug suicides fell during the same period of time. Wh...Conference to focus on transfer of knowledge from research to practice in emergency medicine
...us Conference will be held on May 15th immediately preceding and in conjunction with the 2007 Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM) Annual Meeting, May 16-19, 2007, Chicago, IL. It will be held in the Michigan A/B room of the Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers. The plenary session presentations and proc...Innovative education scheme sees fewer rugby players suffering spinal injuries
... spinal injuries resulting in permanent disability preceding the introduction of RugbySmart and compared them with data gathered since 2001. There were 77 injuries recorded between 1976 and 2005. Based on the figures from 1976 to 2000 the researchers calculated there should have been 18.9 spinal injuries b...Emory University researchers find persistent and severe asthma associated with obesity
...ge was evaluated for the 90-day period immediately preceding the survey. The researchers examined data from the four-state sample of the National Asthma Survey, one of the largest diverse surveys of all asthma patients in the U.S. The survey, collected over a one-year period, consists of self-reported, physi......e number of nurses on duty for each patient in the preceding days. VAP affected over a fifth of the 936 patients who received mechanical ventilation during the study. The team found that when there were lower numbers of nurses, patients were more likely to catch pneumonia six days or more after being plac...