A restrictive drinking culture at work curbs an individual?s overall alcohol intake, including outside of work, suggests research published ahead of print in Occupational and Environmental Medicine.
The average person’s lifetime risk of developing colorectal cancer (CRC) is about seven percent and the role of diet in preventing this type of cancer remains under debate.
Cervical cancer vaccine Gardasil was approved by the Food and Drug Administration in June 2006. The federal Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices followed with a recommendation that all girls be vaccinated at age 11 or 12 with the HPV vaccine.
What did the Vikings eat for supper? How good were the grocers in Roman Pompeii? What was it like feasting with the Greeks in the second millennium BC? How can this tell us why we like TV dinners today?
More than half of physicians believe that religion and spirituality have a significant influence on patients’ health, according to a report in the April 9 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.
A new study in Journal of Personality shows that selfless and social behavior is not purely a product of environment, specifically religious environment.
HIV-positive people who say religion is an important part of their lives are likely to have fewer sexual partners and engage in high-risk sexual behavior less frequently than other people with the virus that causes AIDS, according to a study issued today by the RAND Corporation.
A new report released by the Institute of Medicine (IOM) shows that the fight against AIDS is being undermined by the requirement that most US funding to address sexual transmission of HIV go to abstinence-until-marriage programs.
A common asthma inhaler powered by a new propellant is safe and effective but could come at nearly triple the cost to consumers until a generic version hits the market, according to a review in today’s (March 29) New England Journal of Medicine.
Why are so many Pakistani children being educated at religious Madrasas and what, if anything, are these schools contributing to the development process in Pakistan? Do musical events such as “Make Poverty History” or “Rock Against Racism” have any long-term political impact? And how has international aid and development been affected by the so-called “war on terror”?