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Alcohol advice needs to play a greater role in sex education for teenagers
Researchers from the University of Sheffield, UK, found considerable differences between the way that boys and girls aged 14 to 16 viewed a series of sexual…
New Model Developed to Estimate Radiation Skin Doses during CT Guided Interventional Procedures
“It is clear that skin doses in CT guided interventional procedures can become very high. Even for skin doses around 1 Gy, the prospect of repeating a…
Anti-VEGF drugs for retinal diseases could have serious side effects, scientists caution
This finding, published in the November 3, 2008 PLoS ONE, holds implications for the chronic use of promising new anti-VEGF drugs such as Lucentis, which…
Sibling study could lead to better treatments for inherited form of colon cancer
Researchers at Huntsman Cancer Institute (HCI) believe they may be one step closer to understanding how certain forms of colon cancer develop.In a study using…
Seasonal Affective Disorder May Be Linked to Genetic Mutation
About 6 percent of the U.S. population suffers from seasonal affective disorder, or SAD, a sometimes-debilitating depression that begins in the fall and…
Study finds fears of HIV transmission in families with infected parent
Despite ongoing efforts to educate the public about HIV, a new study by researchers from UCLA, the RAND Corp., Harvard University and Children's Hospital…