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Abortion Notification, Consent Laws Reduce Risky Teen Sex

...ermine the rates of gonorrhea for women by age and race for the years 1981 through 1998. Gonorrhea rates for teenage girls were compared to those of women 20 and older whose behavior would not be affected by the notification and consent laws. Using the rate of gonorrhea among older women as a control, the...

Mother’s Milk may have no influence on child’s Q

..., socio-economic status and maternal intelligence, race and education were taken into account. The results revealed that when breastfeeding alone was considered, the IQ of the child seemed to have an advantage. However, when other factors like maternal intelligence, home environment and IQ were taken in...

Researchers Estimate Significant Fatty Liver Disease in Children

...en in the community, and adjusted for age, gender, race and ethnicity, the team estimated that NAFLD is present in 9.6% of the children and adolescents living in San Diego County. The team determined it was the most common cause of liver disease in the children and adolescents they studied. NAFLD is def...

Switzerland to stock bird flu vaccine

...d take millions of lives. Other companies in the race to develop pandemic H5N1 vaccines are Sanofi-Aventis, Novartis AG and Baxter International Inc. GT...

Race Affects African-American Survival of Breast Cancer

...nal of the American Cancer Society, indicates that race is associated with unfavorable tumor biology, whic...d to the lymph nodes, showed that African-American race is an independent factor in reduced overall survival rate. The researchers note they could not take...

Medicare Marked by Widespread Racial disparities

...care, most plans do not collect information on the race and ethnicity of their members. "So many of these plans may be unaware they have racial disparities," he said. Trivedi and his colleagues proposed that the federal Medicare program work with individual plans so that ways of monitoring racial gaps i...

Pulmonary Hypertension Discriminates by Race, Gender

...ts of this study provide a new outlook in terms of race and gender as risk factors for increased mortality in IPAH and may provide further insight into the management of IPAH in specific populations.” Source-Nwswise SRM...

Auction in support of fight against Breast Cancer

Ford is auctioning off fighters in pink race gear on e Bay in favor of Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation. October is the Breast Cancer Awareness month and pink is// the symbolic color of Breast Cancer Awareness. Ford worked in collaboration with PKV Racing to create exclusive warriors i...

NYC health agenda: Dishing out calorie content of items on the menu

...n apology of the fast food concept, which seems to race with time in reaching food to the table. Commenting on the proposal, John Whipple, president of the National Council of Chain Restaurants, called it ‘expensive’ and said the end result of such a move would be akin to restaurants digging their own...

Asian-American Teens More Likely Than Whites to Learn Healthier Lifestyles

...concluded, however, that all groups, regardless of race or ethnicity, might benefit from more education on the recommended ways to stay healthy. “An ideal approach would be one in which adolescents heard the same health message from a number of different sources, presented in a number of different manne...

Unholy Grail Found?

...t it involves ‘killing of one member of the human race to help another’. <...

New Jersey Decides to Support $500 M Stem Cell Research

...destruction of embryo and cloning triggering off a race between states to lure beneficial funds. Enmeshed in a tangle of ethical and moral concerns and doubts regarding borrowing, the state finally legalized the research in 2004, being only the second in US to do so. Stem cell research has several posi...

Child Obesity and Diabetes - A Major Problem in India

...countries like India and China are now joining the race that has so far been led by the western countries. All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) , New Delhi conducted a survey on children of age 14 to 18 and reported 17% of 2000 of them were obese or on the overweight side. Globally, 15 perce...

Colorectal Cancer Survival Rates Poorer in African-Americans

...sociation between tumor stage and risk of death by race in colorectal cancer and factors related to ethnic...ntial access has on colorectal cancer mortality by race has not been explored to date. The authors found that African-Americans were more likely to have a...

Mental Health Risks Vary Within the U.S. Black Population

...clinicians need to look beyond crude categories of race in order to learn more about the backgrounds of their clients in order to better treat them. Source-Newswise SM...

Sanitation Emerges as the Winner

...nal.//Sanitation and the flushing lavatory won the race with 1795 votes. The discovery of antibiotics came as a close second with 1642 votes. Fifteen discoveries were short listed which included vaccines, anesthesia, antibiotics and DNA. While doctors considered the discovery of anesthesia to be highly ...

Black and White in ‘Shades of Grey

...ace the blazing equatorial sun. But when the human race began to spread across the terrains of Europe and Asia, eumelanin was produced in accordance to the requirement, enhanced by the selective trends of nature. This resulted in a ‘descent with modification’ as proposed by Darwin, providing the pheno...

Childhood Obesity Linked With Sleep

...s parents’ income and education and the children’s race and ethnicity were taken into consideration. Specifically, the researchers found that sleeping an additional hour reduced young children’s chance of being overweight from 36 percent to 30 percent, while it reduced older children's risk from 34 percen...

Sea Creature's Toxin Could Lead to Promising Cancer Treatment

...so little of its natural form was available that a race soon began to synthesize it in the laboratory. A chemical structure for diazonamide A was published in 1991, but in 2001, Dr. Harran’s group showed that initial report to be incorrect, and uncovered the correct structure. In the first of the two ne...

Preterm Delivery More Common in African American Women

...e pattern of recurrent preterm birth stratified by race and find that the tendency to repeat preterm birth during the same week occurs for both Caucasians and African Americans, but the median age for preterm birth is shifted two weeks earlier in African Americans. These findings together highlight the ...

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