Background: The timing of pregnancy recognition affects early pregnancy and the timing of prenatal care. Little research has been done on how to make women at risk more alert to the possibility of pregnancy.Design: The study was an RCT performed and analyzed between 2006 and 2007.Setting/participants: Participants were low-income, adult women who were having unprotected [...] Read more »

Background: The delivery of effective interventions to assist patients to improve their physical activity and dietary behaviors is a challenge in the busy primary care setting.Design: Cluster RCT with practices randomized to telephone counseling intervention or usual care. Data collection took place from February 2005 to November 2007, with analysis from December 2007 to April [...] Read more »

Background: Workplaces are important settings for interventions to increase physical activity, but effects have been modest.Purpose: To evaluate the efficacy of Move to Improve, a social–ecologic intervention delivered at the workplace to increase leisure-time physical activity.Methods: A group-randomized 12-week intervention consisting of organizational action and personal and team goal-setting was implemented in Fall 2005, with [...] Read more »

Background: Whether a disparity in diabetes-related death across education levels is widening, narrowing, or stable is not known. This analysis examined trends in diabetes-related death by education levels over a 17-year period.Methods: The first part of the analysis calculated diabetes-related mortality rates for adults aged 40–64 years and adults aged 65–79 years using U.S. Vital [...] Read more »

Background: There are concerns that sedentariness among young people has increased and that this may be detrimental to their health. The purpose of this study was to examine the association between sedentary activities, including small-screen recreation (SSR: watching TV/DVDs/videos, recreational computer use) and cardiorespiratory endurance (CRE) in children aged 11–15 years.Methods: A cross-sectional representative population [...] Read more »

Alkermes, Inc. (NASDAQ: ALKS) announced that its partner, Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceutical Research & Development, L.L.C. (J&JPRD), has initiated a phase 1 study of a four-week long-acting injectable formulation of risperidone for the treatment of schizophrenia. The single-dose, open-label study is designed to assess the pharmacokinetics, safety and tolerability of a gluteal injection of this [...] Read more »

Alkermes, Inc. (NASDAQ: ALKS) announced that its partner, Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceutical Research & Development, L.L.C. (J&JPRD), has initiated a phase 1 study of a four-week long-acting injectable formulation of risperidone for the treatment of schizophrenia. The single-dose, open-label study is designed to assess the pharmacokinetics, safety and tolerability of a gluteal injection of this [...] Read more »

Alkermes, Inc. (NASDAQ: ALKS) announced that its partner, Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceutical Research & Development, L.L.C. (J&JPRD), has initiated a phase 1 study of a four-week long-acting injectable formulation of risperidone for the treatment of schizophrenia. The single-dose, open-label study is designed to assess the pharmacokinetics, safety and tolerability of a gluteal injection of this [...] Read more »

DHEA is a natural circulating hormone and the body’s production of it decreases with age. Men take DHEA as an over-the-counter supplement because it has been suggested that DHEA can reverse aging or have anabolic effects since it can be metabolized in the body to androgens. Increased consumption of dietary isoflavones is associated with a [...] Read more »

Sergio Gonzalez-Arias, M.D., chief of neurological surgery and medical director of Baptist Hospital’s Neuroscience Center, will perform a minimally invasive lumbar discectomy on Wednesday, January 28, at 4 p.m. The webcast will be moderated by Dr. Sean Kenniff, former [...] Read more »