Driving Glioblastoma to Drink

Driving Glioblastoma to Drink

Attempts to treat cancer with drugs that target mutated proteins have met with mixed success. By screening for compounds that alter the phenotype of glioblastoma cells-an aggressive brain tumor-Kitambi et al. identify a potential new treatment of the disease and shed light on an unusual cell death mechanism.

Adolescent exposure to drink driving as a predictor of young adults' drink driving.

The purpose of this study was to investigate the influence of exposure to others' drink driving during adolescence on self-reported driving under the influence (DUI) of alcohol in young adulthood. Data were drawn from 1956 participants with a driving license enrolled in the International Youth Development Study from Victoria, Australia. During 2003 and 2004, adolescents in Grades 7, 9 and 10 (a...

Scotland to bring in tougher drink driving law.

Brazil targets drink driving on the road to fewer deaths.

Jonas Licurgo Ferreira was drunk the night he crashed his car. The 41-year-old resident of Rio de Janeiro had been drinking heavily with a soldier friend who was messing around with a gun in the car when it happened. He hit a post. The gun went off, putting a bullet into Ferreira’s spine. “Now I am paraplegic because of a gunshot,” he says. But he knows that the real harm was done by the alcoho...

Drink, drugs and driving--a survey.