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Harassment in School Affects Majority of Elementary Students

...ortance of being able to identify at-risk kids and assess the effectiveness of interventions. Efforts to stop school bullying have been gathering steam for several years. Those most likely to be effective, according to Tarshis, promote an attitude change from the principal to the recess monitors to the p...

Eating Disorders Highly Prevalent Among Gay and Bisexual Men

...t the presence of an eating disorder, but does not assess diagnoses. This population-based study for the fir...el pressure to maintain an ideal body image." To assess this theory, the investigators studied whether gay and bisexual men with greater connection and affi...

Is There Any Clinical Benefit to Staying on a Failing Regimen?

...connected with the EuroSIDA cohort study wanted to assess how quickly people on failing drug regimens might accumulate further drug resistance mutations if they did not switch treatment. They carried out a retrospective study using stored plasma samples from participants in the EuroSIDA cohort. Selected f...

Sugary News for Diabetics – Cure Stems from Stem Cell Therap

...e that time. Detailed studies will be required to assess the safety and effectiveness of stem cell therapy for diabetics. SAV...

Accident Victims Often Need Psychological Help

...aying much," she advises. Questions too can help assess how the person is feeling. "If the person says something like: 'I don't know where I am', it is an indication of a shock condition and then the person should not be left alone. Relatives can be called to pick the person up," says Martens. Acciden...

Scientists Receive Patent for Development of "combination" Proteins to Produce Vaccines for Lyme Disease

...f bacteria from relatively harmless ones, and help assess the severity of an infection," Dunn said. Lyme disease is the most common vector-borne disease in the U.S., causing approximately 25,000 new cases each year — a rate that is expected to increase by at least a third from 2002 to 2012, according to a...

Penguin: an Alternative Bio-indicator to Monitor Climate Change

...ish in regions of the Antarctic. We may be able to assess the pressure exerted by king penguins on this ecosystem, and look at the effects of both climate change and overfishing in this region of the world”, says Dr Lewis Halsey. A new way of using animals as bio-indicators is to ascertain their energy re...

New Standards Could Cut Number of Malnourished Children on Feeding Programs

The introduction of new standards to assess nutrition in children could lead to confusion and a cut in the numbers of malnourished children eligible// for emergency feeding programs, warn researchers in this week’s BMJ. According to the UN World Food Program, the number of nutritional emerge...

Tai Chi may Be Useful to Prevent Shingles in Older Adults

... weeks later, the investigators did blood tests to assess each participant's level of VZV immunity, comparing it to immunity at the start of the study. All of the participants had had chickenpox earlier in life and so were already immune to that disease. Tai Chi alone was found to increase participants' ...

Depression Increases the Risk of Disease Progression and Death in HIV-positive Women

..., a psychosocial questionnaire was administered to assess depression /anxiety symptoms based on eight out of...terial or instrumental (four) support, was used to assess social support among the patients. A psychiatric nurse provided individual counseling in the clini...

Pigeon Feathers to Judge Pollution Levels

...n the country that bird feathers have been used to assess the pollution level," said Bakre. The pigeon feathers are first collected and then tested in the laboratory for length and the heavy metals in it. The feathers are chemically tested in nitric and perchloric acid. Pigeons normally have a fixed hab...

PSA Not a Good Predictor of Lethal Prostate Cancer

...of PSA may predict the behavior of the tumor. To assess the accuracy of using PSA to predict prostate cancer outcome, Katja Fall, M.D., Ph.D., of the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, and colleagues analyzed the rate of change of PSA levels in 267 men from Sweden, Finland, and Iceland who were diagnosed ...

Study Suggests Some Drug Resistance to Influenza B Medications

...read epidemic in Japan, creating an opportunity to assess the effectiveness of neuraminidase inhibitors. The...tor–resistant influenza viruses is needed to fully assess their pathogenicity in humans.” Source-Eurekalert RM/B...

Starting Time of Hormone Therapy may Augment the Risk of Coronary Heart Disease

.... "We did not have adequate statistical power to assess outcomes in the women aged 50 to 54 years or less than 5 years since menopause. As previously reported, CEE appeared to be associated with lower risk of CHD than CEE + MPA. Importantly, the risk of stroke was not influenced by years since menopause, ...

MPs Vow to Fight Malnutrition in Madhya Pradesh

...who are visiting the villages in Madhya Pradesh to assess malnourishment among children and ways to combat it. "We have started an important task necessitated by the figures of the National Family Health Survey (NFHS) - III, which puts Madhya Pradesh on top as far as child malnourishment is concerned," sa...

Follow Screening Regimen for Early Cancer Detection

...y is that it focused on too short a time period to assess the decrease in lung cancer deaths, which starts to be evident after the first five years of screening.” Dr. Henschke recommends that smokers and former smokers considering CT screening should talk to their physicians and, if they decide to be scre...

Cholesterol-lowering Drug Effective at Halting Early Atherosclerosis

... in the arteries.” The study used ultrasound to assess whether Crestor was effective at halting progressive thickening of the carotid arteries. Vessel thickening is an early sign of atherosclerosis, the deposit of fatty material in blood vessels that can lead to heart attacks and strokes. There were 98...

Poor Behavior Is Linked to Time in Day Care

...l, the study used teacher ratings of each child to assess behaviors like interrupting class, teasing and bullying. There was an aspect that the study did not take into account, says Marci Young, deputy director of the Center for the Child Care Workforce – and that is the employee turnover. Most employe...

Role of Lifestyle Choices in Heart Risks

...esearch Center in Connecticut conducted a trial to assess whether the consumption of cocoa would provide any sustained benefits on endothelial function. "While the findings from this study do not suggest that people should start eating more chocolate as part of their daily routine, it does suggest that we...

Radiation Preferred Over Surgery for Patients With Some Stages of Lung Cancer

...tion oncologists, and medical oncologists alike to assess how each specialty’s contribution might be improved and the negative aspects minimized," the authors write. Source-Eurekalert<BRSRM...

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