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Access to Pornography Among Teenagers on the Rise

... beliefs by enabling this kind of exposure and not talking with kids about it in any meaningful way,” Thompso...al boys also reported a lower incidence of parents talking with them about sexual media content. Urban girls were most likely to have had discussions with thei...

Mobile Phone Addiction may Cause Psychological Problems

...agers who use mobile phones for many hours a day - talking and sending messages or missed calls - may develop psychological disorders, says a study that advices "a reasonable use" for positive effects. // Francisca Lopez Torrecillas, a lecturer at the department of personality and psychological assessment a...

Drug Addicts-you Could Blame Your Genes

...ed. Says lead author Jeff Dalley, “ What we are talking about here is a possible physical trait producing vulnerability to drug use. "The next step is identifying the gene or genes that cause this diminished supply of brain receptors. "This may provide important new leads in the search for improved ...

Severe PTSD Damages Children's Brains: Study

...how stress affects brain development. "We're not talking about the stress of doing your homework or fightin...en's child psychiatrist Victor Carrion, MD. "We're talking about traumatic stress. These kids feel like they're stuck in the middle of a street with a truck ba...

Child Brain Likely To Be Harmed By Stress

...had to be extreme to cause the damage. "We are not talking about the stress of doing your homework or fighting with your dad," Dr Carrion said. The 15 children he and his team studied all had PTSD as a result of physical, emotional or sexual abuse, witnessing violence or experiencing lasting separation and l...

SMS Help-line to Provide Answers for HIV/AIDS Queries

...lp-line or may have some kind of a mental block to talking directly to a counsellor on information on HIV/AIDS," said Heroes Project executive director Kanika Singh. "People seeking information need a reliable source, particularly for first-level information. And this tech-friendly help-line is a welcome e...

Feud Between Two Medical Publications

... of Lancet’s parent company Reed Elsevier. While talking about this issue, editor of the BMJ (formerly British Medical Journal) Fiona Godlee criticized that the business which is expected to promote health is actually making money out of destroying health. Lancet is owned by the publishing group Reed Els...

An Incompetent Gynecologist

...wing to failed sterilization// procedures. While talking on this issue, his supervisor Dr Mark Stegmann said that Dr. Hasil was having various problems in his family front besides alcoholism and depression. Hasil was asked to resign after it was found out that he had bungled 6 out of 32 sterilization proce...

Saudi Arabia to Set Up Hospital in Jamia University Campus

...sited the university in 2005 and both parties were talking to each other over the last few months about such an initiative. "Our existing health center was too small and this new hospital would cater to the need of over 6,000 students and staffs of the university. The blueprint is ready and construction of...

Girls With Early Puberty at Greater Risk for Drugs, Sex, Alcohol

...Parents of all teenagers have a responsibility for talking to their children and guiding them through romantic relationships and the risks of drug use,” she said. “But this study shows that parents of girls who reach puberty ahead of the peers and who have an older boyfriend should take a special interest.” ...

Electronic Nerve Stimulator Enables Walking

...nce fiction comes true. // From flying in space to talking on a telephone without wires, today's science increasingly resembles yesterday's fiction. And that's becoming more and more true in medicine. For those of us at the AAAS meeting, nothing was more impressive than the demonstration given by Jennifer...

Motivational Interviewing Could Reduce Excessive Drinking by Students

...binge drink at least once a month. “We had been talking about how we could do some kind of brief intervention to ameliorate some of the drinking on campus,” said Michael, who also is associate director of clinical services in Appalachian’s Institute for Health and Human Services. “A lot of the practitio...

The ‘depressed’ Protest Against ‘Delusional Calgara’

...l careful about the language we use, whether we’re talking about religion, culture, health issues or the human brain.” Source-Medinia PRI...

MEG Scanners Are Mega Powerful

..."You can look at how the networks of the brain are talking to each other in real time," said Greg Simpson, director of the Dynamic Neuroimaging Laboratory at the University of California at San Francisco. The machines are designed to "measure the magnetic field pattern around the entire head and deduce from ...

India Should Take the Lead in Stem Cell Research, Expert

...ading biopharma and vaccine company in the US, was talking to reporters in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad. He is participating in the BioAsia 2004 summit being held there. Dr Rutter, who is also the head of Hormone Research Institute at San Fransisco, was conferred the Genome Valley Excellence awar...

Sunburnt Holiday-makers Boost Their Chances of Fatal Skin Cancer

... is so easy to protect your skin in the sun and if talking about my experience encourages people to take better care and avoid the risk of skin cancer it will have been worthwhile.” Dr Rhodes advises that anyone with an unusual skin blemish or a mole that starts to change should get it checked out by the d...

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

...e on the day of contact if a home visitor reported talking to or seeing her. About two months after enrolment, every six months until 2001, and every twelve months thereafter, a psychosocial questionnaire was administered to assess depression /anxiety symptoms based on eight out of the 25-item scale of the...

Ibuprofen Risky for Heart Patients?

...0 patients studied," Farkouh recalls. "Here we are talking about potentially a higher magnitude of impact. The interaction of ibuprofen with aspirin is a bigger public health concern than Vioxx was." Rofecoxib, a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug, was marketed under the brand name Vioxx by Merck for trea...

Household Guns Associated With Higher Rates of Suicide in US

...ve firearms, one cannot talk about suicide without talking about guns," he adds. The bottom line, says Miller, is that "people are less likely to die from attempting suicide when they don't have access to guns in homes." Source-Eurekalert/B...

Merck's Pain Reliever Arcoxia Rejected by US Federal Advisory Panel

...an other medicines in the same class. "What you're talking about is a potential public health disaster," he said. COX-2 drugs have never been shown to be better pain relievers than older NSAIDs like ibuprofen. But doctors eagerly prescribed them in part because they tend to cause fewer ulcers and less gast...

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