Word: lancet
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...separate report published in November in Lancet, the British medical journal, said that children are more at risk than adults to suffer "memory loss, sleeping disorder and headaches" from using mobile phones. About 10 million children in the U.S. from ages 10 to 19, or 25% of those in that age group, own a wireless phone, according to the Yankee Group, a Boston-based technology-research firm. Think that's high? The proportion is far greater in other count-ries. In Germany, for instance, the figure is 30%; in Finland...
...airline industry, however, disputes the link between cramped seats and DVT, and got support last week from a report in the British medical journal The Lancet by Dutch and Italian researchers, which found no added risk from air travel--or long journeys by any other mode of transportation...
...weight of the evidence really started to tip last year with the publication in the British research journal Lancet of one of the largest and most rigorous studies to date. Doctors in Italy randomly divided 11,000 heart-attack patients into four groups. All were given standard medical care, but some took a fish-oil capsule every day, while others received 300 mg of vitamin E, or vitamin E and fish oil, or just a placebo pill. After two years, only those patients who took fish-oil supplements reduced their risk of dying from a second heart attack...
Sources: Good News--Mayo Clinic Proceedings; Society of Gynecologic Oncologists meeting. Bad News--Journal of the American Medical Association (2/9/00); The Lancet (2/12/00...
Sources: Good News--New England Journal of Medicine (1/6/00); The Lancet (12/11/99). Bad News--Environmental Science & Technology (2/1/00); Stroke (1/7/00...