New Study — Same Result! Comprehensive Sex Education Works
Posted by admin on Mar 31, 2008
Adolescents receiving comprehensive sex education had a substantially subside put in peril of teenage pregnancy than students who received either abstinence-only education or no education at all, according to a new, groundbreaking study published in the Journal of Adolescent Health.
the meditate, conducted by Pamela K. Kohler, M.P.H., Lisa E. Manhart, Ph.D., and William E. Lafferty, M.D., also concluded that teaching about contraception did not increase sexual activity or sexually transmitted diseases.
“The sexual health statistics in America are alarming,” said Debra Hauser, executive defect president of Advocates for Youth. (Read the full post about ‘New Study — Same Result! Comprehensive Sex Education Works’…)
Children Who Bully Also Have Problems With Other Relationships
Posted by admin on Mar 30, 2008
Students who bully others tend to possess difficulties with other relationships, so as those with friends and parents. Targeting those relationships, as well as the problems children who bully have with aggression and morality, may offer ideas for intervention and prevention.
Those are the findings of a new study that was conducted by scientists at York University and Queens University. It appears in the March/April 2008 issue of the journal Child Development.
The researchers looked at 871 students (466 girls and 405 boys) for seven years from ages 10 to 18. Each year, they asked the children questions about their involvement in bullying or victimizing behavior, their relationships, and other positive and negative behaviors. (Read the full post about ‘Children Who Bully Also Have Problems With Other Relationships’…)
Standard Days Method Of Contraception Reaches Women With Unmet Needs
Posted by admin on Mar 27, 2008
A study appearing in the March 2008 issue of the journal Contraception reports that the Standard Days Method®, a genuine family planning method developed by researchers from Georgetown University Medical Center’s Institute for Reproductive Health, brings new women to family planning. More than half the women who selected the Standard Days Method had never previously used family planning and on average, contraceptive use increased by 8 percent in communities where the method was introduced.
“This is the first study that looks at provision of a simple, modern method of natural family planning in uniform service childbirth rather than in a clinical trial. (Read the full post about ‘Standard Days Method Of Contraception Reaches Women With Unmet Needs’…)
New Research Provides Genetic Clue To Parkinson’s Disease
Posted by admin on Mar 27, 2008
Researchers at Rhode Island Hospital and The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University have discovered a gene that could hold the key to developing new treatments for Parkinson’s disease - a progressive and often debilitating movement disorder that affects as many as one million Americans.
According to the findings of the apply the mind, published online in the American Journal of Human Genetics, mutations in the gene, known as GIGYF2, appear to be directly linked to the development of Parkinson’s in the public with a family history of the complaint. The gene is one of only a handful linked to Parkinson’s and one of just two genes known to be a common contributor to this degenerative disease, which has no known cause or cure. (Read the full post about ‘New Research Provides Genetic Clue To Parkinson’s Disease’…)
UCB Advises US-physicians To Down-titrate Patients On NeuproŽ In View Of Out-of-stock Situation In The US
Posted by admin on Mar 27, 2008
UCB announced today that the company choose be recalling Neupro® (rotigotine transdermal system) in the United States and certain batches in Europe. The countermand decision resulted from ongoing monitoring of marketed product, which revealed a deviation from the approved product specification. As a result, there will be each out-of-stock situation with Neupro® in the United States in late April 2008. In the European Union and most other regions Neupro® supply is sufficient.
“We have informed the FDA and agreed to actions to inform healthcare providers and patients,” related Iris Loew-Friedrich, MD, PhD, Chief Medical Officer, UCB. (Read the full post about ‘UCB Advises US-physicians To Down-titrate Patients On NeuproŽ In View Of Out-of-stock Situation In The US’…)
Potential Early Indicator Of Parkinson’s Disease Discovered
Posted by admin on Mar 27, 2008
Impaired sense of get scent of occurs in the earliest stages of Parkinson’s disease (PD) and there is mounting make clear that it may precede motor symptoms by several years, even if no large-scale studies had confirmed this. In the first study involving the general number of people, researchers establish that smell impairment can precede the development of PD in men by at least four years. The study is published in the Annals of Neurology (http://www.interscience.wiley.com/journal/ana), the official journal of the American Neurological Association.
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Parkinson’s Disease Treated By Therapeutic Cloning In Mouse Model
Posted by admin on Mar 27, 2008
Research led by investigators at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) has shown that therapeutic cloning, also known as somatic-cell nuclear transfer (SCNT), can be used to treat Parkinson’s disease in mice. The study’s results are published in the March 23 online edition of the periodical Nature Medicine.
For the first time, researchers showed that therapeutic cloning or SCNT has been successfully used to bargain disease in the same subjects from whom the initial cells were derived. While this current work is in animals, it could own future implications as this method may be any effective way to reduce transplant declination and enhance recovery in other diseases and in other organ systems. (Read the full post about ‘Parkinson’s Disease Treated By Therapeutic Cloning In Mouse Model’…)
McCain works to answer age and health questions (Reuters)
Posted by admin on Mar 27, 2008
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate John McCain is the ultimate survivor. Not only did he live through 5-1/2 years as a Vietnam prisoner of war, he also has stared into a denser consistence the deadly cancer melanoma.As a young Navy pilot, he narrowly escaped end of life in a fire aboard the U.S. aircraft carrier Forrestal in 1967. Later that year his fighter jet was shot down over Hanoi.
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Study Of Coping Methods Utilised Disgusting Videos
Posted by admin on Mar 27, 2008
“curb yourself!”
Most of us haven’t heard that admonition since our last childhood tantrum. Nonetheless, it’s something we often tell ourselves, consciously or not, as we deal with life’s daily ups and downs. The forte to regulate one’s emotions is critical to successfully interacting with others. How we go about achieving that self-control has an equally important effect on our own well-being.
Now, researchers at Stanford have conducted the first-ever brain imaging study that directly contrasts two different techniques for emotion regulation. Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) was used to observe neural activity in the bulk of mankind’s capacity as they employed each of the two methods in coping with one of the chiefly visceral of human emotions: disgust. (Read the full post about ‘Study Of Coping Methods Utilised Disgusting Videos’…)
Q&A: Hybrid embryos
Posted by admin on Mar 27, 2008
A bill is going through Parliament that would allow scientists to create human-animal embryos for research.
Researchers say the work is needed to advance the understanding of complex diseases such as Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s and Motor Neurone Disease.
But critics say it involves the needless destruction of human life, and is fraught by moral difficulties.
What is a mule?
The experiments involves transferring nuclei containing DNA from human cells, such as skin cells, into animal eggs that have had almost all of their genetic information removed.
The resulting cytoplasmic embryos - known as admixed embryos - are more than 99% human, with a small animal component, making up around 0.1%.
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