News tagged with preventive 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 ...
Jan 06, 2011 |
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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
Sep 07, 2010 |
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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
Aug 24, 2010 |
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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.
Jun 02, 2010 |
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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
Mar 24, 2010 |
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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
Jan 28, 2010 |
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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 ...
Aug 24, 2009 |
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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 ...
May 19, 2009 |
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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, ...
May 15, 2009 |
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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
Apr 01, 2009 |
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