Intervention reduces delinquent teenage pregancy rates
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jun 01, 2009 |
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A program aimed at reducing criminal behavior in juvenile justice teens has yielded a surprising side benefit. The program is also reducing the teens' rate of pregnancy, according to a new study out this week.
Online cognitive behavioral therapy is effective in treating chronic insomnia
Jun 01, 2009 |
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A study in the June 1 issue of the journal Sleep demonstrates that online cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) for chronic insomnia significantly improves insomnia severity, daytime fatigue, and sleep quality. Online treatm ...
ENT Society releases novel clinical practice guideline manual
Jun 01, 2009 |
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The world's largest ear, nose, and throat professional medical association, the American Academy of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery (AAO-HNS), today released a manual detailing best practices for the creation of new ...
Waist size and body mass index are risk factors for sleep disordered breathing in children
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A study in the June 1 issue of the journal Sleep found that waist circumference and body mass index (BMI) are consistent, independent risk factors for all severity levels of sleep disordered breathing (SDB) in children, sugges ...
New pathology tests double sensitivity to detect bile duct and pancreatic cancers
Jun 01, 2009 |
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Pancreatic cancer and bile duct cancer are difficult to diagnose and often fatal because they are discovered in the advanced stages of the disease. Researchers have developed new tests that double the ability to detect bile ...
New system monitors fetal heartbeat: Noninvasive technique could prevent complications
Jun 01, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Tiny fluctuations in a fetus’s heartbeat can indicate distress, but currently there is no way to detect such subtle variations except during labor, when it could be too late to prevent serious or even fatal ...
Vandetanib shows clinical benefit when combined with docetaxel for lung cancer
Jun 01, 2009 |
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When combined with standard chemotherapy, an international Phase III trial has shown that the oral targeted therapy vandetanib improves progression-free survival for patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer, according ...
Wet ear wax and unpleasant body odors signal breast cancer risk
Jun 01, 2009 |
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If having malodorous armpits (called osmidrosis) and goopy earwax isn't bad enough, a discovery by Japanese scientists may add a more serious problem for women facing these cosmetic calamities. That's because they've found ...
Hispanic children in US at greater risk for obesity than other ethnic/racial groups
Jun 01, 2009 |
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The prevalence of overweight in the US population is among the highest in Mexican-American children and adolescents. In a study of 1,030 Hispanic children between the ages of 4 and 19, published in the June 2009 issue of ...
Kindle display maker E Ink to be bought for $215M
Jun 01, 2009 |
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(AP) -- E Ink Corp., the maker of the innovative display for the Amazon Kindle e-book reader, said Monday it has agreed to be acquired by a Taiwanese company for $215 million.
Study: Cancer survivors not getting needed tests
Jun 01, 2009 |
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(AP) -- New research finds that people who had radiation treatments for cancer as children are less likely than the general public or even their healthy siblings to get recommended screening tests.
Chip sales down 25 pct in April: SIA
Jun 01, 2009 |
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Global semiconductor sales declined 25 percent in April compared with a year ago but rose 6.4 percent over the previous month, the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) reported Monday.
Findings in epilepsy gene in animals may guide treatment directions for infants
Jun 01, 2009 |
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Researchers studying a difficult-to-treat form of childhood epilepsy called infantile spasms have developed a line of mice that experiences seizures with features closely resembling those occurring in patients with infantile ...
Protein linked to mental retardation controls synapse maturation, plasticity
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Jun 01, 2009 |
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A team of neuroscientists at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) has demonstrated the mechanism by which a signaling protein found throughout the brain controls the maturation and strength of excitatory synapses, the tiny ...
Cost-effective measures could stop child pneumonia deaths
Jun 01, 2009 |
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Implementing measures to improve nutrition, indoor air pollution, immunization coverage and the management of pneumonia cases could be cost-effective and significantly reduce child mortality from pneumonia, according to a ...
