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Pediatricians can help prevent future violent behaviors in their patients with a brief, one-time office intervention during a routine exam, according to a new study published in the July issue of Pediatrics.The study involved 5,000 families with children ages 2 to 11 and more than 200 providers at 137 practices associated with the American Academy of Pediatrics' (AAP) Pediatric Research in Office Settings (PROS) network.read more

New evidence suggests that a booster vaccination against H5N1 avian influenza given years after initial vaccination with a different strain may prove useful in controlling a potential future pandemic. The study is published in the August 1 issue of The Journal of Infectious Diseases, now available online. H5N1 continues to pose a major health risk to birds and humans.

Black men and women have substantially lower survival than white men and women in the United States, but US has the highest survival for prostate cancer of all 31 countries included Cancer survival varies widely between countries according to a worldwide study published online today in Lancet Oncology.* More than 100 investigators contributed to the study.

Women exposed to high levels of PCBs (polychlorinated biphenyls - a group of banned environmental pollutants) are less likely to give birth to male children. A study published in BioMed Central's open access journal Environmental health found that among women from the San Francisco Bay Area, those exposed to higher levels of PCBs during the 50s and 60s, were significantly more likely to give birth to female children.

A ground-breaking study by researchers at the School of medicine at LSU health Sciences Center New Orleans published in the August 2008 issue of Resuscitation has major implications for the #1 cause of death of Americans -- sudden cardiac arrest. the researchers stopped the heart of laboratory swine kept at room temperature, declared them dead from cardiac arrest, waited 25 minutes, and then resuscitated them with high doses of oxygen using hyperbaric oxygen therapy.

Call for national research study to investigate the causes of oesophageal cancer The Barrett's Oesophagus Foundation would like to support the Chief Medical Officer's recommendation for a large scale national research study to investigate the risk factors associated with the rising rate of cancer of the oesophagus. This was included in his Annual report published recently, which raised grave concern over the sharp rise in oesophageal (gullet) cancer over the last two decades.

US and UK scientists investigating a gene variant that protects people of African descent from a serious type of malaria, have discovered that it may increase their vulnerability to HIV infection by as much as 40 per cent, because of the way it allows the HIV virus to attach to red blood cells. The study was led by researchers at the The University of Texas health Science Center at San Antonio, and is published in the 17th July issue of Cell Host and Microbe.

Physical, mental, and social impairments affect the lives of many adults who were born prematurely, according to a national study in Norway, published in The New England Journal of medicine.

The results of a new study are being published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, and it relates different issues dealing with the AIDS epidemic and drugs that...

An unusual fracture pattern has been seen in some people who have used bisphosphonates (bone-building drugs) for five years or more. A study published in the May/June issue of The...