Depressive Symptoms In Daughters Increased By Mothers' Mental Games A new study in the journal Family Relations examined the effects of a mother's psychological control on the risk for depression of African American adolescents. Researchers found that girls whose mothers played mental games with them like making them feel guilty or withdrawing expressions of love reported much higher levels of depressive symptoms and lower levels of personal agency. Psychological control did not affect the psychological well-being of boys.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comMammograms May Identify Cancers That Would Otherwise Just Regress Researchers in Norway found there was a 22 per cent higher rate of detected breast cancer among women who had mammograms every two years compared to women screened every six years raising the possibility that some breast cancers just regress naturally without treatment. The study was the work of Dr Per-Henrik Zahl, from the Norwegian Institute of Public
Health, Oslo, and colleagues and is published in the 24 November issue of Archives of Internal
Medicine.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comMarried Mothers Spend More Time With Their Children Than Single Mothers A new study in the Journal of Marriage and Family examined differences in the amount and type of time that single, cohabiting, and married mothers spend with their children. Cohabiting and married mothers spend similar amounts of time caring for their children. Results show that single mothers spend less time with their children than married mothers.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comUM Study Finds Late Diagnosis And Under-Treatment To Blame For Disparities In Cervical Cancer Survival Disparities in cervical cancer survival can be traced to differences in access to care for certain racial, ethnic and socioeconomic groups, according to a University of Miami Miller School of
Medicine study of more than 5,300 Florida women. A team of researchers at the Miller School found that racial, ethnic and socioeconomic factors led to late-stage diagnosis and under-treatment of the disease, especially for women who are African-American or poor.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comNew Study Finds Publication Bias Among Trials Submitted To FDA A quarter of drug trials submitted in support of new drug applications to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) remain unpublished five years after the fact, says new research published in the open access journal PLoS
Medicine.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comNQF Showcases ASHP Members' Medication Reconciliation Program An award-winning medication reconciliation program conducted by American Society of
Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP) members was highlighted as an "extraordinarily innovative" example of patient care improvement by the National Quality Forum (NQF) National Priorities Partnership.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.com
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