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Alcohol advice needs to play a greater role in sex education for teenagers

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 05, 2008 | popularity 2 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Alcohol and attitudes are two of the key factors that health professionals need to be aware of when they are dealing with sexually active teenagers.





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CWRU to develop technologies for virtual coaching to help patient-doctor communications

Medicine & Health / Other

created Nov 10, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Millions of people suffer from chronic ailments like heart disease, high blood pressure or diabetes, and need critical information from their healthcare providers to manage those diseases.


The upside of feeling down

The upside of feeling down

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Nov 09, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (17) | comments 4

A chill wind chases you into the door of your local newsagent. Rain is drumming down outside. As you pay for your newspaper, you briefly notice a number of strange items on the checkout counter - a matchbox ...


Expanding drug treatment: Is US ready to step up? (AP)

Expanding drug treatment: Is US ready to step up?

Medicine & Health / Other

created Nov 08, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

(AP) -- Based on the rhetoric, America's war on drugs seems poised to shift into a more enlightened phase where treatment of addicts gains favor over imprisonment of low-level offenders. Questions abound, ...


Online collaboration with built-in clarity

Online collaboration with built-in clarity

Technology / Software

created Nov 06, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Software packages that interoperate while providing online users with an overview of their colleagues' work may finally threaten the dominance of email as the world's premier collaboration ...


All dressed-up and nowhere to go: Inappropriate clothing prevents children playing outside

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 06, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Parents who dress their children in inappropriate clothing could be inadvertently hampering their child's physical activity in childcare settings. The study, reported in BioMed Central's open access journal, International Jo ...


Health-centered weight control method shows promise

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 04, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Most weight-control strategies emphasize energy-restricted diets and increased physical activity - and most are not effective over the long term. In a study of a "weight-acceptance" intervention, published in the November ...


Estrogen and stroke risk

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Nov 03, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Eighteen years ago this month the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced that it would sponsor a landmark study to examine women and cardiovascular disease. Known as the Women's Health Initiative (WHI), the study enrolled ...


Study lays foundation for more patient access to medical records

Medicine & Health / Other

created Nov 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A new study by researchers at Wake Forest University School of Medicine suggests that many patients are dissatisfied with the way they receive results of radiology tests and want more access to information in their medical ...


Clinical tests begin on medication to correct Fragile X defect

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Nov 02, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

NIH-supported scientists at Seaside Therapeutics in Cambridge, Mass., are beginning a clinical trial of a potential medication designed to correct a central neurochemical defect underlying Fragile X syndrome, the most common ...


Some who get vaccine not in high-risk groups (AP)

Some who get vaccine not in high-risk groups

Medicine & Health / Health

created Oct 30, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- It was bound to happen: Some people who aren't at high risk for swine flu complications got the much-in-demand vaccine.



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