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New Rhode Island Hospital study shows higher rates of trampoline injuries
07-06-2007 · EurekAlert!Study by Rhode Island Hospital researchers on data from 2000-2005 show 531,378 trampoline-related injuries over the study period, with 95 percent of those injuries occurring on home tramplines.
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- Study finds surfing safer than soccer
01-02-2007 · EurekAlert!
While public perception may frame surfing as a dangerous sport, new research begs to differ. In the first study of its kind, researchers have computed the injury rate among competitive surfers and found they are less prone to harm than collegiate soccer or basketball players. Led by researchers at Rhode Island Hospital and Brown Medical School, the findings are published in the January 2007 issue of the American Journal of Sports Medicine.
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- Rhode Island Hospital study confirms RF ablation effective for treating inoperable lung cancer
03-27-2007 · EurekAlert!
The overall results of a study of 153 patients with inoperable lung cancer show RF ablation to be safe and linked it with promising long-term survival and local tumor progression outcomes when compared to the older treatment method of external beam radiation (EBT). The study appears in the April issue of the journal Radiology.
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- Early sex may lead teens to delinquency, study shows
02-26-2007 · EurekAlert!
Teens who start having sex significantly earlier than their peers also show higher rates of delinquency in later years, new research shows. A national study of more than 7,000 youth found that adolescents who had sex early showed a 20 percent increase in delinquent acts one year later compared to those whose first sexual experience occurred at the average age for their school.
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- New Rhode Island Hospital study shows inadequate diagnostic criteria for eating disorders
02-06-2008 · EurekAlert!
A new study by Rhode Island Hospital and Brown University suggests that the DSM-IV criteria for eating disorders have limited clinical utility. Researchers recommend a broadening of the criteria for bulimia, anorexia and binge eating disorder.
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- Protestant countries have higher employment rate, study shows
09-27-2007 · University of Bath
Countries where the main religion is Protestant Christianity have higher employment rates than those where other religions are dominant, according to research from the Department of Economics & International Development published in the American Journal of Economics and Sociology.
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- Tougher gun show controls in California slash sales of weapons linked to crime
06-11-2007 · EurekAlert!
California has succeeded in drastically reducing anonymous and undocumented gun sales and sales of military-style weapons by introducing tighter controls to gun shows reveals a study in the June issue of Injury Prevention.
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- Systolic blood pressure level for patients with heart failure may help predict risk of death
11-07-2006 · EurekAlert!
Patients with heart failure and low systolic blood pressure at hospital admission are more likely to have poor outcomes including higher mortality rates and increased rates of rehospitalization, despite medical treatment, according to a study in the Nov. 8 issue of JAMA.
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- Study shows increase in survival rates of extremely premature infants at London hospital
01-31-2008 · EurekAlert!
Survival rates for the most premature babies at a top London hospital have more than doubled over a 20 year period, according to research published in the latest edition of the journal Acta Paediatrica.
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- Growth in ADHD medication use due to improved ADHD identification in adult and female patients
06-07-2007 · EurekAlert!
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder has been traditionally viewed as a childhood disorder, while ADHD in adults has been underdiagnosed and undertreated. A recent study shows that treatment rates have been increasing in all age groups, and improved identification has contributed to rapidly growing treatment rates for adults. Female patients show the greatest increase of all.
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- Significantly higher success rates with artificial insemination
02-06-2008 · EurekAlert!
In future a new method could help some couples who are childless against their will. The microscopic procedure significantly improves the success rate of ICSI. This was discovered by scientists at the University of Bonn together with colleagues from China and industrial partners in a study of 124 women.
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