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Primary Care Review
Driving Injures
The Coalition for Consumer Health and Safety announced that while more Americans are buckling up when driving cars, they need to be reminded to observe safety warnings on leisure vehicles. In 1990, the number of injures involving bicycles was up II % over 1989. Accidents involving all-tettain vehicles were up 12.7%, and skateboards injured 82,248,... »
Sunscreen Usage
Physicians could bolster teenagers’ use of sunscreens if they explained how sun expo sure causes skin cancer and prematurely ages the skin, claimed researchers from Johns Hopkins University. Most adolescents fail to use sunscreen, even if they have a family history of skin cancer, according to a survey of 220 Virginia teens, 81 %... »
Migraines Effect
Headache experts at Lon don’s Charing Cross Hospital reminded physicians to consider migraine when men complain of weekend head aches. Although migraines effect three times as many women as men, men are more likely to suffer weekend attacks, the team wrote in a letter to The Lancet. Friday night drinking, stress with drawal, reduced caffeine... »
Sex Ratio
Unless told differently, physicians should assume that their high-school-aged patients are sexually active, according to statistics released by the Centers for Disease Control. By 1990; being a virgin put an American high-school student in a distinct minot1ty, according to a survey of 11,631 teens in grades nine through 12. Fifty-four percent had sexual intercourse at... »
Smoking Risk
Smokers learned that their lifetime risk of getting lung cancer is 12 times that of non smokers, and that that rate dropped to a threefold 11sk if they abandoned the habit. In a study of 8,006 Japanese-American men in Hawaii, smokers also faced increased t1sk for cancers of the bladder, esophagus, kidney, mouth and... »