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(HealthDay)—Less than one-third of the 4,700 annual underage drinking-related deaths in the United States result from road crashes, according to a new study. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-drunk-alcohol-teen-deaths.html Health Wed, 17 Apr 2013 10:10:07 EST news285411530 (Medical Xpress)—Teen-age college students are significantly more likely to abstain from drinking or to drink only minimally when their parents talk to them before they start college, using suggestions in a parent handbook developed by Robert Turrisi, professor of biobehavioral health, Penn State. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-pre-college-parents-teens-lessen-college.html Health Tue, 19 Mar 2013 12:09:41 EST news282913775 A one-sided cellphone conversation in the background is likely to be much more distracting than overhearing a conversation between two people, according to research published March 13 in the open access journal PLOS ONE by Veronica Galván and colleagues from the University of San Diego. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-overheard-distracting-background.html Psychology & Psychiatry Wed, 13 Mar 2013 17:00:02 EST news282411084 Parents know that one day they will have to talk to their children about drug use. The hardest part is to decide whether or not talking about ones own drug use will be useful in communicating an antidrug message. Recent research, published in the journal Human Communication Research, found that children whose parents did not disclose drug use, but delivered a strong antidrug message, were more likely to exhibit antidrug attitudes. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-parents-drug-children-detrimental.html Health Fri, 22 Feb 2013 09:33:13 EST news280747986 (AP)—Connecticut lawmakers are reviewing mental health care following the Newtown school shooting, even though they and the public have little insight into what might have been ailing the 20-year-old gunman. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-school-conn-debates-mental-health.html Psychology & Psychiatry Tue, 29 Jan 2013 16:01:04 EST news278697658 (Medical Xpress)—Researchers from the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute's cancer genome project have developed a computer model to identify the fingerprints of DNA-damaging processes that drive cancer development. Armed with these signatures, scientists will be able to search for the chemicals, biological pathways and environmental agents responsible. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-cancer-causing-mutational-signatures-genome.html Genetics Fri, 11 Jan 2013 07:30:01 EST news277110869 A simple word-training program has been found to restore key words in people with a type of dementia that attacks language and our memory for words. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-re-learning-words-lost-dementia.html Alzheimer's disease & dementia Tue, 27 Nov 2012 09:44:07 EST news273231837 A large population- and health systems-based prospective study reports earlier discussions about end of life (EOL) care preferences are strongly associated with less aggressive care in the last days of life and increased use of hospice care for patients with advanced cancer. The study, published November 13 in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, provides the first-of-its –kind scientific evidence that timing of EOL care discussions affects decisions about EOL care. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-earlier-life-discussions-linked-aggressive.html Cancer Tue, 13 Nov 2012 13:58:33 EST news272037501 At hospital shift changes, doctors and nurses exchange crucial information about the patients they're handing over—or at least they strive to. In reality, they might not spend enough time talking about the toughest cases, according to a study led by the University of Michigan. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-shift-simple-hospital-handoff-conversations.html Health Mon, 12 Nov 2012 16:00:06 EST news271953874 (AP)—San Francisco is preparing to become the first U.S. city to provide and cover the cost of sex reassignment surgeries for uninsured transgender residents. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-city-transgender-surgeries.html Other Fri, 09 Nov 2012 03:34:49 EST news271654478 More pediatric hospital physicians are communicating through cell phone text messaging, rather than the traditional pager method, according to research presented Oct. 21 at the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) National Conference and Exhibition in New Orleans. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-pediatric-hospitalists-text-messaging.html Pediatrics Sun, 21 Oct 2012 05:02:28 EST news270014532 A researcher at the University of Southampton in collaboration with an artist at the University of Bradford have developed a brand new educational resource for raising awareness about the 820,000 people in the UK currently living with dementia, including those under the age of 65. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-highlights-people-dementia.html Alzheimer's disease & dementia Tue, 18 Sep 2012 09:11:47 EST news267178290 An evaluation of national data by UC Davis researchers has found that extra weight is not necessarily linked with a higher risk of death. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-above-normal-weight-short-term-death.html Health Fri, 06 Jul 2012 18:43:28 EST news260818998 No matter how much time you've spent training your brain to multitask by playing "Call of Duty," you're probably no better at talking on the phone while driving than anybody else. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-videogamers.html Psychology & Psychiatry Wed, 13 Jun 2012 10:51:28 EST news258803480 (Medical Xpress) -- When a teenager has an argument with their father, who do they seek out to talk through the situation? Do they turn to mom or dad? Associate Professor of Psychology Jeff Cookston explored this question in his latest study. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-family-quarrels-teens.html Psychology & Psychiatry Tue, 24 Apr 2012 07:10:37 EST news254470228 (Medical Xpress) -- Anyone who has ever been to a cocktail party knows how difficult it can be to hear and follow conversations due to a host of distracting noises. Some might have even noticed that if they focus on a person talking, that after a few seconds, it seems to become easier to follow what they are saying. That’s the basis for what researchers call, the “cocktail party effect.” But how and why it works, and sometimes doesn’t is still poorly understood. To find out more, a team of Japanese researchers from NTT Communication Science Laboratories conducted a series of experiments and found, as they report in their paper published in the Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences, that something as innocuous as moving one’s head can upset the cocktail party effect, forcing the listener to once again focus and wait for the clearing-up to kick in again. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-resets-cocktail-party-effect.html Psychology & Psychiatry Tue, 10 Apr 2012 10:08:30 EST news253271287 The vast majority of patients with incurable lung or colorectal cancer talk with a physician about their options for care at the end of life, but often not until late in the course of their illness, according to a new study by Harvard-affiliated Dana-Farber Cancer Institute investigators published in the Feb. 7 issue of the Annals of Internal Medicine. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-end-of-life.html Health Thu, 09 Feb 2012 08:40:01 EST news247998130 (Medical Xpress) -- The happiest young couples may be involved in a different kind of engagement. Young adults who easily engage in rewarding conversations with their partners are less likely to hold onto anger and stress and more likely to be satisfied with the relationship, according to research from Kansas State University. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-optimal-conversations-young-couples-relationship.html Psychology & Psychiatry Thu, 09 Feb 2012 07:30:01 EST news247994155 The likelihood that a man will match his language to that of a female conversation partner depends on how fertile she is, according to a study published Feb. 8 in the open access journal PLoS ONE. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-female-fertility-affects-men-linguistic.html Other Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:29:37 EST news247944564 (Medical Xpress) -- Too much screen time can be detrimental to girls 8 to 12 years old, but there is a surprisingly straightforward alternative for greater social wellness. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-multitasking-social-emotional-tweenage-girls.html Psychology & Psychiatry Fri, 27 Jan 2012 08:52:39 EST news246876741 (PhysOrg.com) -- When it comes to the body's blood supply, maintaining the right balance is crucial. UCLA stem cell scientists have now discovered that in the common fruit fly, this balancing act requires a complex "conversation" involving more parties than originally thought. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-blood-cells-progenitors-critical.html Medical research Thu, 05 Jan 2012 07:02:10 EST news244967157 Young children whose mothers talk with them more frequently and in more detail about people's thoughts and feelings tend to be better at taking another's perspective than other children of the same age. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-moms-children-perspective-taking-ability.html Psychology & Psychiatry Thu, 22 Dec 2011 04:40:01 EST news243750520 (PhysOrg.com) -- “I’ll meet you at the place near the thing where we went that time,” says the character Aaron in the 1987 movie Broadcast News. He and the woman he’s talking to have a lot of common ground, the shared territory that makes conversations work. Common ground is why, after you’ve mentioned Great-Aunt Mildred’s 80th birthday party once in a conversation, you can just refer to it as “the party.” In a new study to be published in an upcoming issue of Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, the authors pinpoint the type of memory required to make common ground work and confirm that people with a particular type of amnesia have trouble making common ground in conversation. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-08-how-do-i-remember-that.html Psychology & Psychiatry Wed, 24 Aug 2011 05:20:01 EST news233381181 That's what viewers of the past HBO series Sex and the City may ask themselves when faced with the prospect of uncomfortable discussions about sexual health with partners, friends and doctors. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-viewers-tv-characters-sexual-health.html Health Wed, 01 Jun 2011 12:13:38 EST news226149208 Patients who undergo surgery are more likely to suffer surgical site infections (SSIs) if the operating theatre is noisy, according to research published in the July issue of BJS, the British Journal of Surgery. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-noisy-infections-surgery.html Other Wed, 01 Jun 2011 09:41:29 EST news226140078