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Both Alcohol and Neighborhood Characteristics can Affect Intimate Partner Violence

...ext of their neighborhood." "Although there is a growing consensus that drinking and drug use increase the chance of IPV, this investigation drives home the point that we must understand the contextual factors that may influence how individuals may behave when they are intoxicated," said Fals-Stewart. "Thu...

Sheep Offer Model for Undernourishment in Pregnant Teen Girls

...will impair nutrient supply in girls who are still growing during pregnancy. Thus formulating correct dietary advice for these young adolescent girls is likely to be complex, particularly if the mother has not completed her own growth. Our results suggest that biomarkers of growth and nutritional status at t...

Vaccine Hope for Malaria

...adication of malaria is beginning to fade with the growing number of cases, rapid spread of drug resistance in people and increasing insecticide resistance in mosquitoes. Until now there has been no reliable animal model for human malaria. Mice do not get sick when infected with the blood-borne parasite t...

Diabetics in Nursing Homes Need Improved Care

...y of life changes for the residents. The fastest growing population of young people with diabetes is in this region, Holt said. Imagine the implications of this. And considering that the general population of Appalachia has two to three times the national incidence of diabetes, as diabetes rates increase...

Low Weight Newborns at Greater Risk in Community Hospitals

... a proposal is feasible, it flies in the face of a growing trend of decentralization in which community hospi...ght births. The move away from regional centers is growing as increasing numbers of neonatal ICUs spring up at community hospitals around the state. Many of th...

High Level ICU Facilities Afford Greater Survival Chances for Small Infants

...volume, mid-level units. In the past 20 years, a growing number of community hospitals have built NICUs, but most have been lower level facilities that see only a few very low birth weight infants. "While lower-level NICUs are required to have formal relationships with high-level NICUs, the mere fact tha...

TB Patients in Marginalised Groups Need Social Support for Effective Medical Treatment

...rch across London by TB specialists found that the growing numbers pose a challenge for agencies trying to ha... to be urgently addressed if we are to tackle this growing health issue." The study, which covered 250 patients attending one London hospital between January...

Suicide Among Returning US Soldiers on the Rise

...ndation, has no doubt that military suicides are a growing problem. He said he receives 2 to 3 calls each week from Iraq veterans contemplating suicide -- or from their families. A Vietnam veteran who has counseled other vets for more than 30 years, Meshad runs a toll-free support line based in Los Angeles. ...

Personality Changes may Help to Identify a Form of Dementia

...ndifference to hobbies, repetitive behaviours, and growing apathy, or lack of interest, more often than those with Alzheimer's. The study involved 290 people who were part of a larger study and were tested every year for an average of about five years. By the end of the study, 128 of the participants had e...

Nervous Systems of Insects may Offer Clues on Neurodegenerative Diseases

...les for the past six years. One project involves growing insect cells outside of the organism and using them to produce human proteins that can be used therapeutically, such as clotting factors. When I first became involved in this project, the objective was a bio-engineering one, said Palter, a genetici...

New Wireless System Developed to Detect Esophageal Reflux

...rial used. The RFID system is the next step in a growing effort to develop less invasive wireless technologies for gastrointestinal diseases. Those include the PillCam, a small pill-sized wireless camera that takes photos as it goes through the digestive tract, and Bravo capsule, another wireless system th...

Washington Post Examines Increase in Minorities Seeking Cosmetic Surgery

...ical Spa, one of the first centers to focus on the growing field of 'ethnic plastic surgery.' Two-thirds of Cultura's patients are minorities and many are black women. Eliot Battle -- a laser treatment expert, who along with Monte Harris, a board-certified otolaryngologist, founded the center six years ago...

Ban Smoking Indoor Workplaces and China Cause for Concern WHO

...n of the world's most enthusiastic smokers, with a growing market of about 320 million dollars making it a magnet for multinationals. Chinese cigarettes are also among the cheapest in the world and a packet can cost as little as $0.08. 'The death toll from diseases associated with tobacco is around one mil...

Device That Targets Brain Cancer Shows Promising Results

...igational device that specifically targets rapidly growing cancer cells with intermediate frequency electrical fields , called Tumor-Treating Fields (TTFields), has found that it more than doubled the median overall survival rates in patients with the most common and aggressive type of malignant brain tumor....

Cyclists to Ride for a Cause: To Create Awareness on AIDS

...wareness about the continued effect of HIV and the growing need for services as the number of people living with the disease grows. Over the course of the weeklong event, cyclists will pass through eight California counties, where each year local residents line roadways and visit rider pit stops to show supp...

Advanced Cancer Treatment Brings New Hope to Michigan Patient

... St. Joseph Mercy Hospital in Ann Arbor is among a growing number of elite hospitals in the country to incorporate the $4 million CyberKnife System as an essential tool in its cancer treatment process. SJMHS is the first health care system in the state of Michigan to offer the CyberKnife System to patients....

Bush Announces Request for $30B, Five-Year Extension of PEPFAR

...age other G8 nations, as well as nations that have growing economies, to make pledges. "The goal of universal access isn't a United States goal, it's a global goal," Ambassador Mark Dybul, who serves as the U.S. global AIDS coordinator and administers PEPFAR, said, adding, "The rest of the world is going t...

Tension Building Up in FDA Over Drug Approvals

...tions. The hearing next week may highlight the growing internal dissension between officials who approve drugs and those who track the safety of drugs after they have been approval. Tension between the groups has long been common, but in recent months it has erupted into sniping. It all came into the o...

Cot Death on Rise in Australia

...on, the statistics seem to reveal there could be a growing level of complacency in the community," she said. "We think it is because people feel the SIDS thing is sorted." Doyle said some parents were worried that following advice to put their babies to sleep on their backs would result in their skulls f...

Genetic Testing Helping Cancer Survivors Fight For Their Loved Ones

... and raise the chances of successful outcomes. A growing number of cancer patients are choosing to be tested for genetic abnormalities that significantly increase the risk of getting the disease in a different form. "With genetic testing, we are able to identify a unique subgroup of patients whose medica...

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