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Teen marijuana use tilts up, while some drugs decline in use

Medicine & Health / Health

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(PhysOrg.com) -- Marijuana use among American adolescents has increased gradually over the past two years (three years among 12th-graders) following years of declining use, according to the latest Monitoring the Future study, ...


Smoking continues gradual decline among U.S. teens, smokeless tobacco threatens a comeback

Medicine & Health / Health

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(PhysOrg.com) -- Teen smoking reached its recent peak levels around 1996 and 1997, followed by a sharp decline for about six years and a continued more gradual decline ever since, according to the latest Monitoring the Future ...


Study finds over 90 percent of people with gum disease are at risk for diabetes

Medicine & Health / Health

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The study, led by Dr. Shiela Strauss, Associate Professor of Nursing and Co-Director of the Statistics and Data Management Core for NYU's Colleges of Dentistry and Nursing, examined data from 2,923 adult participants in the ...


Math goes viral: Researchers make math and science real for high-school students

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

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At least a dozen Alberta high-school calculus classrooms were exposed to the West Nile virus recently.


Electronic patient records are not a panacea

Medicine & Health / Other

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Large-scale electronic patient record (EPR) programmes promise much but sometimes deliver little, according to a new study by UCL researchers that reviewed findings from hundreds of previous studies from all over the world.


Study finds racial disparities exist in radiation therapy rates for early stage breast cancer

Medicine & Health / Cancer

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Black women are less likely than white women to receive radiation therapy after a lumpectomy, the standard of care for early stage breast cancer, according to a new study by researchers at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson ...


NICE guidelines ration affordable osteoporosis drugs

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Dec 11, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Los Angeles, London, New Delhi, Singapore and Washington DC (December 11, 2009) - Low cost osteoporosis drugs are strictly rationed for the under 75s, and UK physicians hampered by restrictive guidelines, according to findings ...


 Killer catfish? Venomous species surprisingly common, study finds

Killer catfish? Venomous species surprisingly common, study finds

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Dec 10, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- Name all the venomous animals you can think of and you probably come up with snakes, spiders, bees, wasps and perhaps poisonous frogs. But catfish?


Potential new heart attack biomarker uncovered

Medicine & Health / Research

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

Though they remain a leading killer, heart attacks can be effectively treated provided they can be rapidly diagnosed following initial onset of symptoms. In a study appearing in this month's Molecular and Cellular Proteomics, resear ...


A new mouse could help understand how some lung cancer cells evade drug treatment

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Dec 09, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer mortality worldwide and lung adenocarcinoma is the most common type. Many cases of lung adenocarcinoma are attributed to a mutation in a gene for the epidermal growth factor receptor ...



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