Teens believe oral sex is safer, more acceptable to peers
Young adolescents believe that oral sex is less risky to their health and emotions than vaginal sex, mor...teens considered oral sex to be significantly less risky to their health than vaginal sex. The adolescents believed that oral sex also was less likely to hav...Sex, age and sun exposure linked to frequency of sunburns
...ists between sunburn and skin type, age, sex, and risky sun behaviors. Elisabeth Thieden, M.Sc. (Pharm.),... day off work (n = 91 percent), while partaking in risky sun behavior like sunbathing or exposing one's shoulders (n = 79 percent), in May, June, or July (n ...NSAIDS okay for tonsillectomy, new study finds
...g or after surgery. Such problems are particularly risky for young tonsillectomy patients, because they have relatively small airways and low blood volume compared to adults. Although doctors in the United Kingdom seem to be turning toward NSAIDs to reduce the stomach upset that frequently follows narcoti...New research pinpoints best treatment for stroke
...et. After six hours, it's generally considered too risky to administer even interarterial clot busting medicines, due to the risk of a potentially deadly hemorrhage. But research presented by interventional neuroradiologists Jeff Carpenter, M.D., and Ansaar Rai, M.D., Assistant Professors at The Departmen...Adolescents not receiving health counseling, Stanford study shows
... in promoting healthy behavior as well as reducing risky behavior in teens. These findings, from a Stanford University School of Medicine study, come more than a decade after the American Medical Association issued clear recommendations for yearly health counseling targeting teen smoking, unintended pregna...Study evaluates Alzheimer's patients' ability to make decisions about treatment
...person is capable of deciding whether to undergo a risky treatment," he said....Stanford bioethicists want stronger protections for women donating eggs for stem cell research
... found they were lacking details about exactly how risky the egg collection can be. "They were never told about the risk of infertility or death," she said. Another alternative is to treat the women as research subjects, who also go through considerable risk in order to benefit other people. But egg donors...Study shows Philip Morris pursued tobacco regulation to enhance its image
... as a reasonable and responsible manufacturer of a risky product." The plan was to divide public health groups and to set Philip Morris apart from other companies in an effort to achieve favorable regulation from a Republican-dominated Congress, according to Malone, who is an associate professor in the UC...College students think favorably, but act timidly about organ donation
...candidates, he said, and as a group they engage in risky behavior, making them more likely to be potential donors. "The study was quite exploratory and descriptive," said Feeley, an associate professor of communication in the UB School of Informatics and a research assistant professor of family me...ACPM to host web-based conference on adolescent binge drinking
...ent for the adolescent who may be engaging in this risky behavior." Information on how to participate in the June 14th web-based conference will be available starting June 3rd. Go to www.medscape.com, register and log in as a free Medscape user, and search the continuing medical education (CME) Public Hea...Perceptions of weight important risk factor for suicidal behavior in adolescents
...correcting adolescent misperceptions about various risky behaviors without scaring them needlessly or deterring them from taking health-promoting risks?" Dr. Joffe writes....Johns Hopkins study shows home test kits highly effective against sexually transmitted diseases
...second. According to the CDC's biannual survey of risky youth behaviors, 32 percent of students are sexual...e infected. "Regardless the underlying causes of risky sex behaviors, our study affirms the need for more screening and testing of students for STDs," she ...How risky are twin pregnancies?
... that uncomplicated twin pregnancies might be more risky than previously thought. Their findings are reported in the June issue of the international open-access journal PLoS Medicine . While identical (monozygotic) twins are much less common than dizygotic ones, monozygotic twinning events are increased ...Fear of lawsuits affects emergency physicians' heart care decisions
...hysicians must see all patients, regardless of how risky a patient's case may be. One way physicians may respond to this is by seeking consultations and admitting patients they are uncertain about," Katz added. Katz said the UI findings are consistent with a recent investigation on defensive medicine by Da...Advances in brain imaging for epilepsy
... required a separate preliminary -- and inherently risky -- surgical procedure. Epilepsy is a chronic illness of the brain that is estimated to affect almost one percent of the U.S. population. During an epileptic seizure, nerve cells in the brain fire electrical impulses much faster than normal, often lea...Elevated GGT enzyme may predict risk of death from cardiovascular disease
...ated GGT might help identify people with "the most risky combination for the vulnerable plaque, and the best medical strategies for the stabilization of lesions, rather than percutaneous or surgical."...Prevalence of 'risky' sex among gay men doubled in Scotland over six years
...about the effectiveness of treatment has increased risky sexual behaviour among gay men, closer analysis of the findings showed that this did not fully explain the trends. The increasing prevalence of unprotected anal sex with casual partners was actually higher among those who were not optimistic about H...Promote use of drugs to prevent AIDS infection, researchers urge
... day, and health educators counsel people to avoid risky behavior, still more weapons are needed to fight the stubborn scourge, they say. Writing in today's (Sept. 30) issue of the journal Science, an international team of researchers, clinicians and others explains that a promising, relatively new approac...Adolescents' HIV risk reduced with community intervention
...urse, increases condom use and reduces the type of risky sexual behavior that can result in sexually transmitted diseases and HIV/AIDS, a Yale researcher reports in AIDS. The intervention consisted of AIDS education, skills training, peer influence and both family and neighborhood support to avoid and redu...Satellite survey of Elbe flood helps Swiss Re insure for disaster
...urance. It is common knowledge the world can be a risky place: the insurance industry has to judge precisely how risky, in order to set appropriate prices for its policies. Accurately assessing the likelihood of household accidents or individual fires is comparatively simple. The challenge comes in sett...