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Most teens' attitudes regarding trauma-related injuries, particularly those due to motor vehicle crashes, reflect an sense of invincibility and focus on fate rather than choice, according to new research published in the August issue of the Journal of the American College of Surgeons. Teenage drivers have the highest motor vehicle crash and fatality rate of any demographic group.

Investigators from the Melbourne Center of the international Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research (LICR) and Pacific Edge Biotchnology Ltd today reported that they have developed a test to predict whether a patient will progress rapidly from Stage III melanoma to metastatic Stage IV cancer and death.

The Hereditary Disease Foundation (HDF) is extremely pleased the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved Xenazine, or tetrabenazine, for the treatment of chorea associated with Huntington's disease. "Chorea is a major cause of disability and death in patients with Huntington's disease.

In order to help Indonesia improve its high human mortality due to bird flu (H5N1 influenza), more effective diagnostic methods must be used and improved case management must be implemented to achieve faster treatment with antivirals, according to the authors of an article released on August 14, 2008 in The Lancet.

Globus Medical, Inc., the largest privately held spinal implant manufacturer in the world, announced that the first FLEXUS(TM) Interspinous Spacers have been implanted under an Investigational Device Exemption ("IDE") recently granted to Globus by Dr. Donald Johnson II and Dr. Rhett Murray.

UroToday.com - Cryotherapy is increasingly becoming an acceptable treatment for small (UroToday - the only urology website with original content written by global urology key opinion leaders actively engaged in clinical practice. To access the latest urology news releases from UroToday, go to: www.urotoday.

UroToday.com - In the September 2008 issue of the Journal of Urology, Dr. Robert Abouassaly and associates from the Cleveland Clinic reported that the finding of atypia on prostate biopsy is associated with a high likelihood of underlying malignancy, regardless of the number of cores taken at the initial biopsy.

UroToday.com - In the August 2008 issue of the Journal of Urology, Dr. Firas Ahmed and associates investigated the correlation between certain health risk behaviors and awareness of the PSA test among men residing in California. They hypothesized that men reporting health risk behaviors would have less awareness of the PSA test.

UroToday.com - Dr. Arto Salonen and Finnish colleagues compared intermittent androgen deprivation (IAD) to continuous androgen deprivation (CAD) in 856 patients with locally advanced or metastatic prostate cancer (CaP) treated at 27 clinics in Finland. This report represents an interim analysis of their data.

Ever since Darwin, evolutionary biologists have wondered why some lineages have diversified more than others. A classical explanation is that a higher rate of diversification reflects increased ecological opportunities that led to a rapid adaptive radiation of a clade.

The problem with using a shotgun to kill a housefly is that even if you get the pest, you'll likely do a lot of damage to your home in the process. Hence the value of the more surgical flyswatter.

More than 80 percent of a sample of Air Force women deployed in Iraq and other areas around the world report suffering from persistent fatigue, fever, hair loss and difficulty concentrating, according to a University of Michigan study.

Newborns in Brazil are more susceptible to toxoplasmosis than those in Europe, according to a recent study. Researchers based in Austria, Brazil, Denmark, France, Italy, Poland, Sweden, and the United Kingdom studied the disease's ocular effects in children from birth to four years of age. Details are published August 13th in the open-access journal PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases.

Metacognition refers to the awareness of one's knowledge in different areas. The more comprehensive and accurate this metacognitive knowledge, the better one is able to reflect about his or her own actions and behaviors. "Theory of Mind" (ToM) deals with very young children's understanding of mental life and the ability to estimate mental states.

There are few things more irritating than a fly buzzing around the house. South African's have an unconventional solution to the problem. They hang up a bunch of Roridula gorgonias leaves. Attracted to the shiny adhesive droplets on the leaf's hairs, the hapless pest is soon trapped by the natural flypaper. However, this is not the end of the story. Each R.

Research paper: Self-reported receipt of care consistent with 32 quality indicators: a national population survey of adults over 50 years old in England. BMJ Online First Editorial: Measuring the quality of healthcare systems using composites BMJ Online First.