Medicine taking behaviour in depression - part 1

Self-Esteem, Depression and Risk-Taking Behaviour in Adolescent Girls

Personalized Medicine, Part 1: Theranostics

HISTORY AND LANDSCAPE Over the past six decades, much evidence has emerged indicating that a substantial portion of variability in drug response is genetically determined, with age, nutrition, health status, environmental exposure, epigenetic factors, and concurrent therapy playing important contributory roles. To achieve individual drug therapy with a reasonably predictive outcome, one must fu...

Risk-taking behaviour of Cape Peninsula high-school students. Part VII. Violent behaviour.

The prevalence of a wide range of risk-taking behaviour among high-school students in the Cape Peninsula, South Africa, was investigated. In this article, the results for violent behaviour are presented. Cluster sampling techniques produced a sample of 7,340 students from 16 schools in three major education departments. A self-administered questionnaire was completed in a normal school period. ...

Youth Athletes and Sports Medicine: Part 1.

Ask many pediatric providers to serve as part of a sports medicine team, and quite likely you will get a lack of perceived comfort with lamentations over insufficient specific training1 and experience. However, ask those same providers to profess aptitude with injury prevention, discussing growth and development, and using risk-benefit analysis, and you will encounter a far more confident respo...

Travel medicine: Part 1–The basics

International travels for tourism and business purposes continue to increase annually, while the global terrorism and the risk of lethal viral infections are currently real concerns. It is important that primary care physicians assess travel risk and adequately prepare the prospective traveler for trips. Appropriate vaccines should be administered and an emergency self-kit recommended. Patient ...