In 2003, the Youth Behavior Risk Survey reported that 46.7% of high school students had been sexually active.[1] In 2000, 9.1 million of the 18.9 million new cases of STDs came from young people age 15-24.[2] Although the ...

Census data published by professional organizations indicate an upward trend in the number of physician assistants (PAs) working in many specialty fields, including the subspecialty of trauma surgery. As the role of ...

To determine whether a state funding policy influenced access to health care for the uninsured in one county of the American Midwest.

The goal of the study is to determine pedometer accuracy of steps and time for children with disabilities. Eleven girls and seven boys with multiple developmental disabilities participated in six, 80 meter self-paced ...

This study was designed to determine if there is a difference in torque produced with a hamstring curl after a 30 second and 60 second passive static hamstring stretch. Our study included 50 participants (13 males, 37 ...

Older adults constitute 20% of the ED population. Of older patients discharged from the emergency department, 40% receive at least one new medication to add to their already complex medication regimen. The purpose of this ...

As the number of ACL surgeries performed each year rise, giving patients a detailed look at their options for replacement is critical. To accomplish this, the best alternative of allograft or autograft, needs to be identified. ...

In the preceding report in this journal, the authors presented evidence for an electrophysiologic correlate of impaired binaural processing or attention in elderly listeners. In the present experiment, the subjects tested ...