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A Brazilian investigative team, collaborating with a Simon Fraser University researcher, is citing an urgent need for targeted interventions among young crack users in cities throughout Brazil, identified as the world's biggest crack market, and further research to better address the problem...

By targeting the factors that may play a significant role in the development of postpartum depression (PPD) in adolescent mothers, researchers at Women & Infants Hospital of Rhode Island believe they have found a way to prevent it. The team - led by Maureen G... More...

A clinical decision support tool helped physicians identify patients at high risk of bleeding complications prior to undergoing a coronary intervention procedure and helped guide the use of bleeding avoidance strategies, leading to less complications and a shorter hospital stay, according to a...

Lindsay Lohan apparently got an unwanted knock at the door today. Dad Michael Lohan tells E! News that he attempted to stage an intervention for Lindsay at her Beverly Hills home this...

A compassion-based meditation program can significantly improve a person's ability to read the facial expressions of others, finds a study published by Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience. This boost in empathic accuracy was detected through both behavioral testing of the study...

An international expert task force is calling on health care providers to aggressively identify and provide care for the millions of people who have suffered their first osteoporosis-related fracture, in order to prevent subsequent fractures... More...

The key ingredients for a successful foster family aren't complicated, said former foster youths in a new study. Most adolescents in foster care simply need a stable home life that provides a sense of belonging, love and someone who shows a genuine interest in their lives. But the new study, by...

A UCLA study has found that a new parent-training program is effective in reducing the risk of low-income, preschool-age Latino children being overweight. Researchers found that after one year, there was a 9 percent reduction in overweight and obese children in the parent-training intervention...

Most of us would agree that prevention is better than cure. But new results out in the journal Clinical Rehabilitation, published by SAGE, indicate that a costly intervention programme designed to reduce early retirement on health grounds in Finland had no measurable effect. The research was a...

Like most Christians,I was raised in a fake faith home.Everyone in my family assumed they were Christians without ever making any meaningful attempt to discover what being a Christ-follower really meant.Yes we attended church but none of us realized that it was a faith pretend church. Like most...

aircraft carrier dispatching? F-18s and E-2s?

Cystic fibrosis (CF) patients with normal to mildly impaired lung function may benefit from a new investigational drug designed to help prevent formation of the sticky mucus that is a hallmark of the disease, according to researchers involved in a phase 3 clinical trial of the drug. Called...

Trying to find one (pref. with a good ending) to view with my girlfriend who is at the bottom of lows....to show her how 'bad' it can be for others and how 'good' it can turnout

A group-based, holistic, mind-body intervention was equally effective in treating persistent fatigue and improving quality of life for breast cancer survivors, regardless of their race. "All women, black and white alike, reported significant improvement in fatigue post program completion, and...

Saddam Hussein posed a severe danger to the world because of his long history of brutality. removing Saddam Hussein will stifle democracy in the Middle East. Iraqi soldiers had fired the first shots. Iraq had decommissioned its nuclear weapons program. All of the above.

Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is a highly malignant digestive tumor with a very poor prognosis. Hypoxia-inducible transcription factor-1α (HIF-1α) is involved in malignant progression in many solid tumors, including PDAC, upregulation of HIF-1α accelerates PDAC progression, but the...

Disease is a private matter to many of us. For many reasons, we want to keep it to ourselves, and no cluster of disorders challenges patients' need for privacy more than inflammatory bowel disease. Teenagers with IBD, including Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis, often have serious trouble...

i heard a a rumor about UTG making one, but rumors are rumors.

The Hidden Costs Of Publicly Financed Private Health Insurance Kaiser Health News The system's opacity gives insurers the upper hand in debates over government payment rates (Austin Frakt, 4/26). Keep Your Government Hands Off My Medicare The Daily Caller We have had socialism creeping into our...

The Hidden Costs Of Publicly Financed Private Health Insurance Kaiser Health News The system's opacity gives insurers the upper hand in debates over government payment rates (Austin Frakt, 4/26). Keep Your Government Hands Off My Medicare The Daily Caller We have had socialism creeping into our...