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Reuters Health News: 10-05-2004
ROME (Reuters) - Getting drunk may be considered a normal part of having fun for youngsters in northern Europe, but not so in Italy where teenagers look down on friends who drink too much.
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Young adults who were born at a very low weight may have a higher-than-average rate of some psychological problems, a new study suggests.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Does your brother or sister have heart disease? That may be a better predictor of whether you are at risk that your parents' health history, researchers said on Monday.
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Children whose mothers were exposed during pregnancy to common workplace chemicals scored lower on tests measuring language skills, attention and memory, researchers said on Monday.
LONDON (Reuters) - Forty percent of medical students in Scotland believe they could justify having sex with a patient, according to a poll published on Tuesday.
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Black children are less likely to get enough sleep than their white counterparts, which makes them susceptible to poorer school performance and behavioral problems, a study said on Monday.
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Schizophrenics born during the summer in the Northern Hemisphere tend to develop a more severe form of the mental illness than those born during the winter, a study said on Monday.
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - An injection of botulinum toxin (Botox) into the stomach is a safe method of relieving the nausea, vomiting, and abdominal pain that occurs with diabetic gastroparesis, findings from a small study suggest.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. drug safety regulators are coming under fire for their response to years of suspicions, confirmed last week, that arthritis drug Vioxx increased the risks of heart attacks and strokes.
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Higher-income individuals with prostate cancer feel more informed about the disease and more satisfied with their treatment decisions than do their lower-income peers, new survey findings show.
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