News tagged with prevention interventions

School-based interventions for obesity

Thanks to the Let's Move initiative, society is becoming more aware of alarming statistics like 1 in 4 children are obese and childhood obesity has nearly doubled over the past two decades! With this platform, nutrition ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jan 06, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers will test suicide prevention program in high schools

With students returning to classes, University of Rochester Medical Center researchers are beginning a large, long-term study of the effectiveness of a unique suicide prevention program in high schools across New York and ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Sep 07, 2010 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Better interventions are needed to reduce HIV risk among men who have sex with men

Although a cognitive-behavioral intervention to encourage men who have sex with men to reduce their substance use and sexual risk behavior (as both are linked) was partially successful, a similar reduction was achieved in ...

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

created Aug 24, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Community interventions and in-home visits may slow excess weight gain in American Indian children

Community intervention can help American Indian families change behavior related to early childhood weight gain and obesity, according to a new Kaiser Permanente and Northwest Portland Area Indian Health Board (NPAIHB) study.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jun 02, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Study finds clinic-based HIV prevention is effective in reducing risk behaviors

UCSF researchers have shown that delivering HIV prevention services to people living with HIV in clinical settings can sharply reduce their sexual risk behaviors.

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

created Mar 24, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

MSU researcher advocates new way to treat autism

Children with autism would likely receive better treatment if supporters of the two major teaching methods stopped bickering over theory and focused on a combined approach, a Michigan State University psychologist ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Jan 28, 2010 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Alcohol abuse screening/brief interventions in community hospital emergency department

There are an estimated 7.6 million alcohol-related emergency department (ED) visits each year in the country. A first step in identifying an alcohol problem is screening all ED patients utilizing two well-researched screening ...

Medicine & Health / Other

created Aug 24, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Workplace e-mail intervention program helps people sit less and eat better

An e-mail intervention program is an effective way to significantly improve diet and physical activity by helping people move more, sit less, and make healthier food choices, according to a Kaiser Permanente Division of Research ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created May 19, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Prevention program helps teens override a gene linked to risky behavior

A family-based prevention program designed to help adolescents avoid substance use and other risky behavior proved especially effective for a group of young teens with a genetic risk factor contributing toward such behavior, ...

Medicine & Health / Other

created May 15, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Is intervention beneficial for brain vessel malformations?

Individuals diagnosed with a brain arteriovenous malformation (BAVM) -- an abnormal tangle of arteries and veins -- are at increased risk of vessel rupture and bleeding that can cause permanent brain damage. Traditionally, ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Apr 01, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0