New research reveals common beliefs about gender differences in health
... to 50 per cent of males. Cancer: around two thirds of both sexes said they believed men and women were 'equally likely' to experience cancer; 12 per cent of males compared to 3 per cent of females said that men were more likely to have cancer, and 30 per cent of females compared with 24 per cent of m...Football players are sportsmen most at risk of injury
...ause of injury. Between 1990 and 2000, almost two thirds (63.6%) of the soccer players had sustained an injury compared to just 28.1% of swimmers The study also found that tennis players had significantly more upper-limb injuries while soccer players had more lower-limb injuries and gymnasts had more back...Nutritional advice improves health of children in developing countries
...nd that the rate of stunting fell by more than two thirds in children of families in the intervention group. Dr Penny states: "Malnutrition is a major cause of child morbidity and mortality, and effective interventions are urgently needed to prevent growth faltering in young children. Our educational interv...Some primary care residents feel unprepared to provide preventive counseling
...ression, and domestic violence. While almost two thirds of the residents felt well prepared to advise patients about smoking and diet/exercise, less than half reported feeling well prepared to deal with issues involving depression, substance abuse and domestic violence. There were some differences by spe...Integrated chemical-dependency and mental-health treatment best for adolescents
...blic programs have found that from one half to two thirds of adolescents in CD treatment have psychiatric conditions," said Stacy A. Sterling, a researcher with the Kaiser Permanente Northern California division of research and corresponding author for the study. "So it is a big problem for many teens ente...Medical journals are an extension of the marketing arm of pharmaceutical companies
...nd this is especially worrying because between two thirds and three quarters of the trials published in the major journals are funded by the industry." Smith says that journal editors are well aware that company-funded trials bring in thousands of dollars in reprint sales, and this can put editors in a dif...Survey of academic medical centers' standards for clinical-trial agreements with industry
...he most widely accepted maximum review period. Two thirds of the schools would let sponsors prohibit investigators from discussing ongoing clinical trials, but the same proportion would disallow this prohibition once the trial was over. On other issues, there was wide divergence in medical schools' standar...Preliminary data suggest that soda and sweet drinks are the main source of calories in American diet
...trition Examination Survey (NHANES), more than two thirds reported drinking enough soda and/or sweet drinks to provide them with a greater proportion of daily calories than any other food. In addition, obesity rates were higher among these sweet drink consumers. Consumers of 100% orange juice and low fat m...National Service Framework for heart failure urgently needed
...ital with heart failure. This showed that only two thirds had ever been given a heart tracing (ECG). Recommended drugs for heart failure include ACE inhibitors, beta blockers, and diuretics. But an ACE inhibitor had not prescribed to four out of 10 patients, while a beta blocker had only been given to just ...A TV in the bedroom is associated with lower standardized test scores among third grade students
...ckground information in the article. More than two thirds of households with children have at least one computer and more than half (53 percent) have home Internet access. While substantial evidence exists to show that people who use media more heavily are at greater risk for obesity and aggressive behavior...High blood pressure not well controlled among older men and women
... those under the age of 60. However, less than two thirds of hypertensive patients in the two older age groups received treatment. High blood pressure, also called hypertension, is a major risk factor for the development of heart disease and a leading cause of many life-threatening conditions such as stro...Australians speak: Find us a cure for cancer - fast!
...search and development within Australia, while two thirds would like tax concessions increased for companies...search," she said. The poll also revealed that two thirds (67%) of Australians agree that the problem of lack of funding means Australian discoveries are ofte...Prevalence of 'risky' sex among gay men doubled in Scotland over six years
...its treatment in 1996, 1999, and 2002. Around two thirds of the respondents were 26 or older, and four out of 10 said they visited gay bars once or twice a week. The results showed that there was no significant change in behaviour between 1996 and 1999, but between 1999 and 2002, rates of unprotected anal ...'POZ parties' signal potential to spread HIV 'superinfection'
...ver the course of an event was common. Almost two thirds said they had had receptive anal sex, while almost...quarters said they had had insertive anal sex. Two thirds were taking antiretroviral drugs, and a third reported having had an additional sexually transmitted...Training local health workers improves TB control in South Africa
...World Health Organization estimates that about two thirds of people with tuberculosis are never diagnosed and so cannot benefit from treatment, leaving the epidemic unchecked despite global treatment programmes. Lack of trained staff is thought to be the most important constraint on the control of tuberculo...New TNS study shows most Australian women are overweight
...ralian women aged 15 or more shows an alarming two thirds (67%) are overweight based on their height and wei...Manager, Tania Kullmann, said the survey shows two thirds of Australian women are trying to lose weight, primarily focusing on reducing the amount of fatty fo...Mirrors can trick the brain into recovering from persistent pain, research suggests
...hand. Within 20 seconds of starting, more than two thirds of people involved in the trial reported some kind of sensation in their hidden limb when the movement they were seeing in the mirror was different to what they were feeling in the hidden hand, for example by moving their hands in different direction...Sexually satisfied but feeling frumpy: It's body image, not 'the change'
...l desire or activity over the past 10 years. Two- thirds of the women reported one or more changes in their sexual response, most frequently desiring sex less and engaging in sex less often; although some women reported improved sexual response. Yet, despite these changes in desire and activity, the wom...Award for work on hypertension
...problem is underlined by the fact that, today, two thirds of patients with high blood pressure suffer from this cardiac pathology (in Spain almost 5.5 million out of the 8 million patients with high blood pressure)....No separate changing rooms for boys and girls in one in five primary schools
...these tended to be the school toilets for over two thirds of schools, and around four out of 10 schools offered the option of changing in an empty classroom. Other facilities included the staff room, the school corridor, or other children clustering around to provide a human screen. The reasons schools ga...