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Resistance to antibiotics is ancient: study

Scientists were surprised at how fast bacteria developed resistance to the miracle antibiotic drugs when they were developed less than a century ago. Now scientists at McMaster University have found that resistance has been ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Aug 31, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Wastewater clues to illicit drug use

A new chemical analysis of sewage is revealing more detailed information than ever about drug abuse trends.

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Mar 22, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Cocaine images capture motivated attention among users

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory and Stony Brook University (SBU) have conducted the most comprehensive study to date of how cocaine users respond ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Apr 04, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Cocaine-related deaths rise in warm weather

Researchers in the United States have discovered that accidental overdose deaths involving cocaine rise when the average weekly ambient temperature passes 24 degrees Celsius (75 degrees Fahrenheit).

Medicine & Health / Other

created Mar 02, 2010 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Teen marijuana use tilts up, while some drugs decline in use

(PhysOrg.com) -- Marijuana use among American adolescents has increased gradually over the past two years (three years among 12th-graders) following years of declining use, according to the latest Monitoring the Future study, ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 14, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Cocaine: Perceived as a reward by the brain?

Cocaine is one of the oldest drugs known to humans, and its abuse has become widespread since the end of the 19th century. At the same time, we know rather little about its effects on the human brain or the mechanisms that ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created May 19, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 5

Study shows family solution to teen troubles

(PhysOrg.com) -- How do you keep at-risk teens off drugs and out of trouble? According to a new University of Georgia study, family can make a difference.

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Jan 06, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 10

Happiness can deter crime, a new study finds

Happy adolescents report less involvement in crime and drug use than other youth, a new UC Davis study finds.

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Aug 22, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 2

New study finds no cognitive impairment among ecstasy users

The drug known as ecstasy has been used by 12 million people in the United States alone and millions more worldwide. Past research has suggested that ecstasy users perform worse than nonusers on some tests of mental ability. But ...

Medicine & Health / Other

created Feb 15, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 6

3 big developments make AIDS outlook more hopeful

(AP) -- In the nearly 30 years the AIDS epidemic has raged, there has never been a more hopeful day than this. Three striking developments took place Tuesday: U.N. officials said new HIV cases are dropping ...

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

created Nov 23, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Feds propose graphic cigarette warning labels (Update)

(AP) -- Corpses, cancer patients and diseased lungs: These are some of the images the federal government plans for larger, graphic warning labels that will take up half of each cigarette package.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 10, 2010 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Father's incarceration associated with elevated risks of marijuana and other illegal drug use

In a recently published study in the journal Addiction, researchers from Bowling Green State University report evidence of an association between father's incarceration and substantially elevated risks for illegal drug u ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Sep 29, 2010 | popularity 3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

First-of-its-kind study shows supervised injection facilities can help people quit drugs

A study led by researchers at the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS (BC-CfE) at St. Paul's Hospital and the University of British Columbia has found that supervised injection facilities such as Vancouver's Insite connect ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Sep 13, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Healthy families, religious involvement buffer youth against risk factors related to drug abuse

American-Indian adolescents continue to have the highest rates of illicit drug use among all ethnic groups. Although previous research has found that increasing adolescent exposure to protective factors can ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Jul 20, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 12

In US cities, HIV linked more to poverty than race

(AP) -- Poverty is perhaps the most important factor in whether inner-city heterosexuals are infected with the AIDS virus, according to the first government study of its kind.

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

created Jul 19, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0