NEWS
By LOS ANGELES TIMES | April 24, 2007
An abortion or miscarriage does not increase a woman's risk of breast cancer, according to results released yesterday from a decade-long study of more than 100,000 women. The study is the most recent in a series that have undercut a concern used by activists to dissuade women from having an abortion. "It's important for women to have the facts," said Dr. Karin B. Michaels of Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, lead author of the study. An expert panel convened by the National Cancer Institute concluded in 2003 that there was no evidence to support a link between abortion and breast cancer, she said, "and our study is very much in line with that."
NEWS
By Douglas Birch | May 4, 1999
A new study of adolescents in poor Baltimore neighborhoods lends scientific weight to the common-sense notion that a good parent is a pain in the neck.A team of researchers from the University of Maryland School of Medicine, in a study released yesterday, found that youths who said they were closely supervised by a parent were only about half as likely to use marijuana or alcohol, sell drugs or have unprotected sex."This gives parents renewed hope and a renewed sense of responsibility," said Dr. Bonita F. Stanton, one of the study's authors.
NEWS
By R. Richard Banks | August 25, 1999
THE NEGATIVE reaction of many civil rights advocates to a recent study regarding the effect of abortion on crime rates is understandable, yet unwarranted.The study by two professors, John J. Donohue III of Stanford University Law School and Steven D. Levitt of the University of Chicago, concludes that as much as half of the precipitous decline in crime rates since the early 1990s is traceable to the legalization of abortion two decades earlier.Crime declined in the 1990s, the study contends, because disadvantaged women in the 1970s, disproportionately black and Latino, had abortions.
FEATURES
By San Francisco Examiner | July 13, 1998
A new study could revive an old debate over whether chiropractic treatment for lower back pain does any good.In the study of 1,310 patients by the Rand Corp., 29 percent of initial chiropractic treatments for lower back pain were found to be inappropriate, 46 percent were ruled appropriate and 25 percent were of uncertain value."Clearly, a 29 percent inappropriateness rate is too high and should be decreased," said study author Dr. Paul G. Shekelle of the West Los Angeles Veterans Affairs Medical Center.
NEWS
By Diana K. Sugg | June 19, 1998
They were single and unemployed, urban men and women who used drugs but didn't use condoms, people whose actions put them at higher risk for getting HIV than anyone else in America.Now the largest study of its kind has found that something as simple as talking can save their lives.They attended seven two-hour sessions that taught them how to correctly use condoms and how to talk with their partners.The participants also learned to understand what might be driving their risky sexual behavior and, in some cases, changed it.The results, reported in today's issue of the journal Science, offer encouragement for anyone who ever tried to teach safe sex.For up to a year after the sessions, the study's participants, including 700 Baltimore residents, doubled their regular use of condoms and posted lower rates of symptoms from sexually transmitted diseases, or STDs.
NEWS
By Peter Hermann | November 18, 1998
An independent review has confirmed that Baltimore police substantially overstated the drop in gun violence over the past four years, according to a summary of the study obtained by The Sun last night.The review conducted by a University of Maryland, College Park criminologist reaches conclusions similar to those of two other studies -- by the police and comptroller's office -- that showed Police Department computer glitches overcounted the number of shootings in years before 1994.Commissioner Thomas C. Frazier boasted last year that shootings had dropped nearly 60 percent from 1993 to 1997.
NEWS
By NEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE | May 20, 1997
Secondhand cigarette smoke is more dangerous than previously thought, Harvard researchers reported yesterday in a study with broad implications for public health policy and probable impact on at least one major lawsuit.The 10-year study, which tracked more than 32,000 healthy women who never smoked, has found that regular exposure to smoking by other people smoking at home or work almost doubled the risk of heart disease.Earlier studies have linked secondhand smoke to heart disease, but the new findings show the biggest increase in risk ever reported, and the researchers say it applies equally to men and women.
NEWS
By Douglas M. Birch | November 16, 1997
GREENVILLE, N.C. -- They arrived at the East Carolina University medical school here yesterday, cloaked in official anonymity, like the jurors in a celebrated criminal case.But the people who underwent six hours of testing yesterday, and the others who will come here next Saturday, aren't being asked to pass judgment.These 60 people are acting as witnesses against single-celled organisms, including Pfiesteria piscicida, the fish-killing microbe accused but not convicted of having made people ill along the tidal rivers that vein North Carolina's coast.
NEWS
By NEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE | May 8, 1997
WASHINGTON -- A national study has conclusively shown that allergic reaction to cockroaches is a major cause of the high level of asthma in children in inner cities, researchers said yesterday.A five-year federally financed study conducted at eight medical centers in seven cities -- including Baltimore -- concluded, as experts had long suspected, that children are at high risk of asthma attacks if they are allergic to cockroaches and their homes show high levels of the insects' body parts and droppings.
NEWS
By LOS ANGELES TIMES | June 18, 1997
In the largest such study to date, federal researchers have found that estrogen replacement therapy among postmenopausal women decreases the risk of developing Alzheimer's disease by more than 50 percent.Experts said the new study out of Baltimore -- which included 472 women monitored for 16 years -- is important because it is the first long-term analysis of estrogen's effects on this disease that affects more than 4 million Americans.Earlier studies had hinted at such a beneficial effect but were much smaller and covered periods of up to only a few months.