Teen drug use gets supersize study

Chapter 5: Parenting and Teen Drug Use

Teen use of a patient portal: a qualitative study of parent and teen attitudes.

We conducted a qualitative study of the attitudes of teens and parents toward the use of a patient portal. We conducted two teen and two parent focus groups, one teen electronic bulletin board, and one parent electronic bulletin board. Videotapes and transcripts from the groups were independently analyzed by two reviewers for significant themes, which were then validated by two other members of...

Drug discovery gets an academic push.

How Humans Evolved Supersize Brains

There it was, sitting on the mantelpiece, staring at her with hollow eyes and a naked grin. She could not stop staring back. It looked distinctly like the fossilized skull of an extinct baboon. That was the sort of thing Josephine Salmons was likely to know. At the time — 1924 — she was one of the only female students of anatomy attending the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa. On ...

RAMADAN AND CARDIOVASCULAR DRUG USE