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Efficacy of Lyme Disease Vaccination Examined

...view found that girls given Plan B emergency birth control to have on hand just in case were not any more likely to engage in sex than those who were not given the pills. The study appears online in the August print issue of the Annals of Behavioural Medicine....

C -reactive Protein is the Marker for Cardiovascular Disease

...ores was approximately 250 percent higher than the control group and approximately 200 percent higher than the level for children with OSA who did not exhibit cognitive impairment. The authors suggest that an important question yet to be answered is whether OSA treatment would eliminate any cognitive defic...

Patients Taking Inhaled Steroids may Develop Pneumonia

...singly being prescribed inhaled corticosteroids to control exacerbations of the disease , but a new study finds that the anti-inflammatory drugs increase the chances that these patients will be hospitalized for pneumonia. In a large cohort of patients with COPD, we found that current inhaled corticosteroid...

Dangers Lurking in the Garden in Britain

...03, according to an authoritative new book, poison control centers nationwide received more than 57,000 calls relating to exposure to potentially harmful plants, and 85 percent of them involved children under age 6. Most, however, were considered simply exposures; either no toxin was ingested or the amount c...

US FDA may Be Asked to Monitor Toxic Levels of Cigarettes

... to set national standards for tobacco products to control how they are made, as well as force the disclosure of their ingredients, including compounds and additives, and in what quantities. That, supporters claim, should help expose and ultimately limit the ways cigarettes are engineered to the detriment of...

The Queen Of All Contraceptives Released

... Food and Drug Administration approved a new birth control pill, Lybrel. It is as effective at preventing pr... the $1.7 billion annual American market for birth control pills. So as business-savvy officials re-conceptualize menstruation as a disease in need of trea...

Diabetes may Lead to More Complications

...needed to evaluate the effect of improved glycemic control on hospitalized patients with diabetes mellitus involved in trauma....

Alien Hand Syndrome Causes Random Hand Movement

... person being aware of what is happening or having control over the action . The afflicted person may somet...suggests a greater degree of motor preparation and control when moving the affected hand, according to the authors. To our knowledge, these fMRI results reve...

Differences in Brain Functions Results in non-contact Knee Injuries

...re identified, and 80 of them were matched up to a control group of 80 non-injured athletes according to heig...isual and verbal memory tests when compared to the control group. These results suggest that slower processing speed and reaction time, as well as lower visu...

School-based Sexual Abuse Prevention Programs

...knowledge of the subject compared to children in a control group. Child sexual abuse is a serious problem for school-aged children worldwide, the reviewers write. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a 2004 state and local Child Protective Services study found that 10 percent of U.S...

Avandia Improves Quality of Life in Diabetes Patients

...r said. The use of proxy indicators like metabolic control is not sufficient to approve drugs that many patients have to take for the rest of their lives. He advises patients who suffer from heart disease, especially congestive heart failure, to speak with their doctors about switching to another antidiabe...

Men Could Overcome Erectile Dysfunction Through Group Psychotherapy

...vacuum devices. A further 59 were in non-treatment control groups. We found that 95% of men in the psychosocial therapy group benefited from the treatment, while there was no change in over the same period of time in the controls, says Professor Tamara Melnik, a psychiatrists working at the Universidade de...

Less Information on Dietary Treatment in Type2 Diabetes

...n the hope that this will enable them to take more control over the level of sugar in their blood. However, after searching published scientific literature, a team of Cochrane Researchers was unable to find high quality data that showed whether dietary advice did indeed alter the risk of developing long-te...

20 Mg Rimonabant Per Day may Help to Quit Smoking

...s the endocannabinoid system, part of the hormonal control mechanism in the brain that controls energy balance and food intake. Over time the body alters the nature of its energy mechanism to compensate for this effect. Stopping smoking removes the nicotine and once again disturbs the mechanism, adding to ...

Sideeffects of Rosiglitazone in Type2 Diabetes Patients

...mes when compared with other therapies. Diabetic control (as measured by levels of HbA1c) was no better in patients given rosiglitazone when compared to other antidiabetic drugs. Patient oriented outcomes such as mortality, diabetes related morbidity, or quality of life were not addressed in most studies. ...

Food Cravings are Linked to Weight Managenemt

... be an important area of emphasis in future weight control programs. Christine Fennelly at 617-636-3707....

Reducing Smoking - Mixed Messages and Latest Findings

...portion than the 1-3% of people who reduced use in control groups where no NRT was given, says lead researcher Lindsay Stead, who works at the Department of Primary Care at Oxford University. Secondly they found no evidence that the treatments that aimed to help people reduce their use diverted them from at...

Take a Break Inbetween Exercise

...new exercise methods in order to better manage and control weight in individuals in the future. However, Goto and his team of researchers plan on conducting further studies in order to explore the results in a variety of exercise durations as well as in different types of individuals ....

Young Babies at Risk of 'sudden Death' Syndrome While Seated: Study

...e five weeks -- and were thus at a stage when head control was undeveloped....

Gene Variants for Crohn's Disease Identified

...dren with Crohns disease to genomes of 282 matched control subjects. The study team found that 64 percent of ...hildren with the gene variant was 1.62 compared to control children, meaning that those who have the variant were 62 percent more likely to have Crohns disease...

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