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Saturday, June 28th, 2008
Residential Transience and Depression: Does the Relationship Exist for Men and Women?
Residential transience may contribute to adverse mental health. However, to date, this relationship has not been well-investigated among urban, impoverished populations. In a sample of drug users and their social network members (n = ...
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Saturday, June 28th, 2008
Check Out That Body: A Community Awareness Campaign in New York City.
The authors evaluate the effectiveness of the small media campaign in raising community awareness about the importance of going for a health check up. Data were collected over time from 535 respondents ages 15-30 ...
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Saturday, June 28th, 2008
Moving from Science to Service: Transposing and Sustaining the Early Risers Prevention Program in a Community Service System.
This paper summarizes an effort to transpose and sustain the evidence-based Early Risers \"Skills for Success\" conduct problems prevention program in a real world community service system. The ...
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Saturday, June 28th, 2008
Predicting the Effectiveness of Prevention: A Role for Epidemiological Modeling.
It is well known that the current combination of aging populations and advances in health technology is resulting in burgeoning health costs in developed countries. Prevention is a potentially important way of containing health costs. In ...
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Saturday, June 28th, 2008
How Much Lung Ventilation is Obtained with Only Chest-compression CPR?
The objective of this 14-pig study was designed to determine the amount of lung ventilation obtainable by only rhythmic chest compression (100/min, 100 lbs). Tidal volume (TV), dead space (DS), and respiration rate (R) were measured ...
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Saturday, June 28th, 2008
Breast surgery in stage IV breast cancer: impact of staging and patient selection on overall survival.
Purpose Retrospective analyses suggest patients with stage IV breast cancer who undergo breast surgery have improved survival. We sought to determine whether surgery and other clinical and staging factors affected ...
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Saturday, June 28th, 2008
Correlates of Help-Seeking Behavior Among At-Risk Adolescents.
This study compared demographic, academic, and clinical characteristics of adolescents at risk for mental health problems who either did or did not request help during a voluntary mental health screening. High school students completed a self-report to identify risk ...
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Saturday, June 28th, 2008
The Effect of Recombinant Neurotoxins from the Sea Anemone Anthopleura sp. on Sodium Currents of Rat Cerebral Cortical Neurons.
We have investigated the action of the recombinant neurotoxins, named Hk7a and Hk2a, whose amino acid sequences differ only in two positions, isolated from the sea anemone ...
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Saturday, June 28th, 2008
Differential Effects of Methionine and Cysteine Oxidation on [Ca(2+)] (i) in Cultured Hippocampal Neurons.
Methionine and cysteine residues in proteins are the major targets of reactive oxygen species (ROS). The present work was designed to characterize the impact of methionine and cysteine oxidation upon [Ca(2+)](i) in ...
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Saturday, June 28th, 2008
A Longitudinal Analysis of Psychiatric Severity upon Outcomes Among Substance Abusers Residing in Self-Help Settings.
A longitudinal analysis of psychiatric severity was conducted with a national sample of recovering substance abusers living in Oxford Houses, which are self-run, self-help settings. Outcomes related to residents\' psychiatric severity ...
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Saturday, June 28th, 2008
Intrauterine fetal death after multiple umbilical cord torsion-complication of a twin pregnancy following assisted reproduction.
BACKGROUND: Patients requiring assisted reproductive techniques may have a higher rate of congenital malformations. Some rare complications of pregnancy might be related to such abnormalities. Torsions of the umbilical cord resulting ...
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Saturday, June 28th, 2008
Effect of human oviductal in vitro secretion on human sperm DNA integrity.
PURPOSE: In the female genital tract spermatozoa interact with the oviductal secretion. The aim of the study was to evaluate the effect of conditioned media (CM) from cultures of human oviductal tissue, on sperm ...
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Saturday, June 28th, 2008
Enhancing Schools\' Capacity to Support Children in Poverty: An Ecological Model of School-Based Mental Health Services.
School based mental health services for children in poverty can capitalize on schools\' inherent capacity to support development and bridge home and neighborhood ecologies. We propose an ecological model informed ...
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Saturday, June 28th, 2008
The association of perceived discrimination with low back pain.
A handful of recent studies have documented perceived discrimination as a correlate of poor physical and mental health status among ethnic and racial minority groups. To date, however, despite a proliferation of research on ethnic disparities in ...
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Saturday, June 28th, 2008
Joint Engagement and the Emergence of Language in Children with Autism and Down Syndrome.
Systematic longitudinal observations were made as typically developing toddlers and young children with autism and with Down syndrome interacted with their caregivers in order to document how joint engagement developed over a ...
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Saturday, June 28th, 2008
Prenatal Depression in Latinas in the U.S. and Mexico.
Objectives The study aimed to investigate the prevalence of depressive symptoms and their associated risk factors during pregnancy in Latinas in the United States (U.S.) and Mexico. Method The sample included 108 women in the U.S. whose ...
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Saturday, June 28th, 2008
Availability, Utilisation and Quality of Basic and Comprehensive Emergency Obstetric Care Services in Malawi.
Objective To establish a baseline for the availability, utilisation and quality of maternal and neonatal health care services for monitoring and evaluation of a maternal and neonatal morbidity/mortality reduction programme in three ...
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Saturday, June 28th, 2008
Social Networks and Social Control of Probationers with Co-Occurring Mental and Substance Abuse Problems.
Probationers with co-occurring mental and substance abuse problems (PCPs) are both subject to considerable social control, and at high risk of probation failure. In this study, we screened 601 probationers for symptoms, ...
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Saturday, June 28th, 2008
Family History of Pancreatic Cancer in a High-Risk Cancer Clinic: Implications for Risk Assessment.
Detailed family history is a critical element of cancer risk assessment. The relative importance of pancreatic cancer (PC) in a close family member, particularly in hereditary breast-ovarian syndrome (HBOS), is not clearly ...
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Saturday, June 28th, 2008
The Effects of Barriers on Health Related Quality of Life (HRQL) and Compliance in Adult Asthmatics who are Followed in an Urban Community Health Care Facility.
This cross sectional descriptive study sought to identify perceived barriers to follow-up care for adult asthmatics who are followed in ...
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Saturday, June 28th, 2008
Intimate Partner Violence: Perceptions of Samoan Women.
The purpose of this study was to examine cultural perceptions, awareness, responses, and actions recommended about IPV by Samoan women served by a Community Health Center (CHC). Theoretical Foundation This investigation is a part of a series of exploratory ...
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Saturday, June 28th, 2008
Spatial Accessibility to Pediatric Services.
The objective of this study was to assess spatial accessibility (SA) to pediatric healthcare services at hospitals in Chiba Prefecture, Japan in 2006. We considered the distribution of general pediatricians and neonatologists relative to the geographical distribution of children using the ...
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Saturday, June 28th, 2008
The Effect of Violence on Asthma: Are Our Children Facing a Double-edged Sword?
Low income, urban children with asthma are experiencing community violence that may contribute to asthma morbidity. The objective of this study was to examine the relationship between caregiver report of feeling unsafe, seeing ...
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Saturday, June 28th, 2008
Factors Associated With Incarceration History Among HIV-Positive Persons Experiencing Homelessness or Imminent Risk of Homelessness.
Among persons living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) experiencing homelessness or imminent risk of homelessness, a history of incarceration may serve as a marker for ongoing risk behavior or health disparities. We examined ...
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Saturday, June 28th, 2008
Casino Gambling Among Older Adults in North Dakota: A Policy Analysis.
This article examined social issues surrounding casino gambling among older adults both nationally and in the state of North Dakota. An exploratory review of gambling trends among older adults and an examination of policies to ...
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