Many parents fail to set rules to limit children's exposure to tobacco smoke, according to new study
...hand smoke, a large percentage of families have no rules that limit children's exposure to tobacco smoke. A...lts were asked to identify from a list of possible rules which family smoking restrictions were in place within their family. This included such rules as "On...Exposed: Tobacco companies efforts to influence industry privatisation
...o acquire a monopoly position, bolstered by excise rules developed by the company that would uniquely favour its products. Documents suggest that BAT attempted to gain favour in various ways including donating funds in aid of flood relief and providing Moldova with agricultural machinery. Despite hoping to...APA applauds new California regulations for inpatient psychological services
...tending practitioners. The California agency's new rules allow both psychologists and psychiatrists to direct patient care as a member of the hospital medical staff, including decisions on when to admit, transfer, and discharge patients. The new regulations are a result of longstanding efforts by organized...Louder neurons form more connections, Stanford research shows
...y examined the brains of fish, Smith said the same rules likely apply to all neurons, including those in the human brain. "Probably these same things are happening all the time," he said. Neurons that fire regularly while learning to recognize a new person's face, for example, will form larger arbors with ...Younger is better when implanting cochlear implants, IU study finds
...rning vocabulary, grammar, and other such language rules -- and speech perception -- their ability to understand spoken words -- than did those who received the implants later. "Not only is earlier better, but we found that language gains tended to be faster for children who received cochlear implants earl...Nature as important as nurture in developing ability for flexible self-control
Your ability to follow the rules of the road when driving on unfamiliar streets exi... of how the neural circuits that allow us to apply rules and strategies to new situations develop," Noelle, assistant professor of computer science and psych...Medical privacy vs. health care quality?
... he says. "Interpretation is highly local, and the rules as written create such a range of interpretation that no one quite knows how to handle it. While we've been able to work with our legal office to make sure we're protecting privacy, other institutions may interpret the same law so strictly as to para...Changes advocated in license renewals for elderly drivers
...e renewals be adopted by state legislatures. These rules should address the unique problems posed by elderly drivers "without jeopardizing an elderly person's independence and sense of dignity." Legislation requiring automobile insurers to offer discounts to elderly drivers who complete a driver's safety c...Speed and endurance are doled out by the pound
... lithesome distance runners are dictated by simple rules of form and function, according to researchers from Rice University and the Texas Medical Center's National Center for Human Performance. Specifically, the greater bulk of speed demons is explained by their need to hit the running surface harder to a...Children whose parents smoked are twice as likely to begin smoking between 13 and 21
...g, having good family management skills in setting rules and monitoring behavior, and having a strong emotional relationship with their children matter until the end of adolescence." Smoking prevention programs, he said, need components focused on parents, something they generally ignore, to help reduce a...NHS should have an independent regulator
...ancial prudency and transparency. "If these golden rules were met, the UK government would be more likely to carry the support of the public and NHS professionals to meet the healthcare challenges of the 21st century," he concludes....UCLA/VA research analysis in journal Nature explains wide variations in animal sleep habits
... food and avoiding danger. Human sleep follows the rules that determine sleep time in other animals, the analysis concludes. Humans sleep somewhat less than animals with similar physiological features, suggesting that we may have evolved to have more waking hours in order to better compete with other human...Which drugs should health plans cover?
...lem, the Group Health authors offer "more specific rules for identifying the right questions and the most important evidence," Simon explained. In addition to Simon, co-authors on this paper include Bruce Psaty, MD, PhD, a Center for Health Studies senior investigator and University of Washington professor...New clues into causes of scleroderma
...ach the site of damage. "The results of this study rules out the first hypothesis, since the skin was clearly able to send the signal for angiogenesis, which did occur" Goldschmidt said. "The next step is to try to further define the underlying mechanism for the lack of blood vessels." The researchers said...Body checking found to cause few youth hockey injuries
...hockey leagues may need greater enforcement of the rules among these adolescents as they adjust to changes in their hormone levels," he said. Leddy is a UB clinical associate professor of orthopaedics and associate director of the UB Sports Medicine Institute. Willer suggests that the key to injury preve...AIUM discourages the sale and use of ultrasound equipment for personal use in the home
...home is both inappropriate and in violation of FDA rules addressing the sale of medical equipment," asserts AIUM President Lennard Greenbaum, MD, of The Hughes Center for Fetal Diagnostics at the Arnold Palmer Hospital, Orlando, Florida. Joshua Copel, MD, of Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, C...Research suggests doctor-assisted suicide wouldn't undermine patient trust
...e when they argue that particular legal or ethical rules are necessary to support trust. Even the U.S. Supreme Court has noted that physician-assisted suicide could "undermine the trust that is essential to the doctor-patient relationship by blurring the time-honored line between healing and harming." Hall...WHO must prepare health ministries for trade liberalisation
...health-related goods and services; advice on trade rules from a public-health perspective; provision of tools to assess the possible implications of trade agreements; and communication of best practices in trade negotiations that might affect healthWTO's liberalisation agenda underlines the fact that deter...Black baby girls more likely to live when born very premature
...o save the preemie's life. "It's very hard to make rules as to which babies should be resuscitated," said Herman A. Hein, a professor of pediatrics at the University of Iowa. "Each case should be addressed with individuals. These babies do have a tremendous risk, but it's interesting when you talk to famil......sage semantics. For EHRs, ARTEMIS uses constraint rules for specific clinical concepts, called 'archetypes', rather than distinct entities in the reference information model. It annotates their archetypes with ontologies, an established list of definitions, and then composes templates from archetypes and ...