Most children do not like the mask. It increases their fear in an already frightening situation. Anxiety, medication effects and the precipitating respiratory problem all combine to increase tachypnea and tachycardia. Stridor and wheezing will both increase in anxious children. Children, especially 2-6 year olds, have the physical strength to make giving a nebulized treatment almost impossible without brute force. They are not likely to submit to our logic or parental threats. [click link for full article]

The Consensus Committee of the American Society of Breast Disease agrees that the use of taxanes and dose-dense scheduling may both benefit patients with early stage breast cancer. Although the widespread use of adjuvant chemotherapy prescribed for early-stage breast cancer has contributed to an improvement in overall survival, the optimal chemotherapeutic regimen is still unknown. [click link for full article]

Children who took part in sex abstinence classes were found to be just as likely to engage in sexual intercourse for the first time at the same age as children who did not receive these classes, say researchers from Mathematica Policy Research Inc, in a study the US Congress had ordered. According this latest research, teenagers first had sex at the age of 14.9 years, regardless of whether they attended sex abstinence classes. [click link for full article]

Children who took part in sex abstinence classes were found to be just as likely to engage in sexual intercourse for the first time at the same age as children who did not receive these classes, say researchers from Mathematica Policy Research Inc, in a study the US Congress had ordered. According to this latest research, teenagers first had sex at the age of 14.9 years, regardless of whether they attended sex abstinence classes. [click link for full article]

A new University of Michigan Medical School study sheds light on cell defects that lead to one common type of ovarian cancer and puts forth a promising new mouse model that already is being used for preclinical drug testing.The study, published in the April issue of Cancer Cell, focuses on ovarian endometrioid adenocarcinoma, the second most common form of a baffling, deadly disease for which early detection methods and effective treatments have been elusive so far. [click link for full article]

Symptoms occurring early in the morning or during the night are problems that are common in Parkinson’s disease but are often inadequately treated or understood. SCHWARZ PHARMA will address this problem in a new large-scale international study RECOVER. [click link for full article]

A study of how the brain of a premature infant responds to injury has found vulnerabilities similar to those in the mature brain but also identified at least one significant difference, according to neuroscientists and neonatologists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.In an animal model of brain injury, researchers showed for the first time that parts of the developing brain are vulnerable to damage from glutamate, a nervous system messenger compound. [click link for full article]

University of Utah geneticists have engineered mice that can develop synovial sarcoma - a significant early step toward developing new treatments for the aggressive, deadly cancer that most often kills teenagers and young adults. [click link for full article]

The first phase of a caloric restriction study in human subjects at the Jean Mayer US Department of Agriculture Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging (USDA HNRCA) at Tufts University found evidence suggesting that calorie-restricted diets differing substantially in glycemic load can result in comparable long-term weight loss. [click link for full article]