Yale technology translates to sonic golf training tool
...nd effective realtime audio biofeedback device for teaching and training golf. Grober developed a golf club th...has successfully tested his clubs with leading PGA teaching professionals in Pinehurst, Southern California, Maui, and Florida. "From listening to Sonic Golf's ...New self-help technology set to combat eating disorders
...ry, it uses a variety of media, and a mixture of teaching styles to facilitate the learning of self-management. A recent study into the usefulness of the CD-ROM involving 47 sufferers of bulimia revealed significant reductions in binging and self-induced vomiting. The pilot programme, run by the Eating D...Epidemiologist Trichopoulos receives $5.8 million Department of Defense 'Innovator Award'
...tion. More than 300 faculty members are engaged in teaching and training the 900-plus student body in a broad spectrum of disciplines crucial to the health and well being of individuals and populations around the world. Programs and projects range from the molecular biology of AIDS vaccines to the epidemiolog...HIV and ID doctors oppose ideologically driven STI prevention policies
...cience, not ideology. Federal funding for programs teaching abstinence until marriage as the only way to avoid STIs has been increasing since the late 1990s, to nearly $170 million this year. An increase of $39 million is included in President George W. Bush's 2006 budget proposal. Furthermore, US law requi...Explosion of child obesity predicted to shorten us life expectancy
... Massachusetts children, and the primary pediatric teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School. In addition to 325 pediatric and adolescent inpatient beds and comprehensive outpatient programs, Children's houses the world's largest research enterprise based at a pediatric medical center, where its discoveries...2005 H. Trendley Dean Memorial Award
...out 80 publications, and has maintained a vigorous teaching program in Dental Public Health....2005 Research in Dental Caries Award
...or Kidd has been involved with dental research and teaching for over 30 years. She started her research career with studies on model systems to better understand aspects of the dental caries process. Always she has had her eye on practical clinical applications of research knowledge. She has contributed much ...Computerized order entry systems can increase risk of medication errors
...of house staff interaction with a CPOE system at a teaching hospital. They surveyed house staff (N = 261; 88 percent of CPOE users); conducted 5 focus groups and 32 intensive one-on-one interviews with house staff, information technology leaders, pharmacy leaders, attending physicians, and nurses; shadowed ho......eractions of housestaff working in a tertiary-care teaching hospital, which, at that time, ran a popular CPOE system. In addition to a comprehensive survey of almost 90% of the housestaff who use CPOE, the researchers also shadowed the doctors and pharmacists, as well as performed interviews with the hospita...NJIT chemistry professor edits text outlining best laboratory practices
...es in Analytical Chemistry (2003,Wiley) focuses on teaching and reinforcing necessary pretreatment steps used in various aspects in chemical sciences and engineering. Topics include sample preparation in environmental and biological measurements, how to pretreat in microscopy, surface enhancement as a sam...Heart attack treatment gap may be closing for women
...s was determined at discharge in patients from two teaching hospitals and again with follow-up phone calls six-months after discharge. The good news is that both 90 percent of men and women received aspirin and beta-blockers at hospital discharge. Two-thirds of women received statins while 78 percent of men...Older doctors less likely to follow current standards of care
...ulatory Care and Prevention, a unique research and teaching collaboration between Harvard Pilgrim Health Care and Harvard Medical School. The study included a review of 59 previously published papers (comprising 62 individual studies) with a large sample size of doctors. These studies included measures of phy...Teaching a less obvious medical skill -- Ethical decision-making
...-up action," Kaldjian said. Instruction focuses on teaching students a way of reasoning that acknowledges there are different ways to judge what is a right answer. The students also are taught how to articulate their reasons for making decisions. "Ethical decision-making is a complex mix of medical details an...Methamphtetamine's ruinous effects on children documented in Midwest study
...from in-house manufacture of the drug, and parents teaching their children criminal behavior and a paranoid distrust of authority. The same rural isolation that makes it easier to hide the manufacture of the drug also makes it easier to hide evidence of child abuse and neglect, the researchers noted. They hea...The research assessment exercise is damaging UK medicine
...aff is for staff in the NHS to carry an additional teaching burden, which is often difficult to fulfill. The a...improve or maintain RAE ratings, at the expense of teaching and clinical practice. In every other industrialised country, clinical skills are highly prized. It ...Association publishes blueprint to strengthen stroke care from prevention through recovery
...ument," Schwamm said. "It is not about making the teaching hospitals even more comprehensive in their stroke care. This is about equal access for all citizens to high-quality stroke care. It's critical to leverage technology to make the stroke expertise available to all, regardless of their geography or ec...Medical meeting to feature research findings and disease prevention and health promotion sessions
...quality improvement, prevention policy issues, and teaching preventive medicine. The conference will address a wide variety of timely preventive medicine issues, including smoking cessation, terrorism and disaster preparedness, aspirin therapy, obesity, physical activity, emerging infectious diseases, health...Study confirms ICDs more effective in preventing sudden cardiac death than medical therapies
...remier academic medical centers and is the primary teaching hospital of Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine. Northwestern Memorial and its Prentice Women's Hospital and Stone Institute of Psychiatry have 744 beds and more than 1,200 affiliated physicians and 5,000 employees. Providing stat...Study of CPR quality reveals frequent deviation from guidelines
...ugh preliminary, have found similar rates in other teaching hospitals, community hospitals and among paramedics in the field. The European study found even greater deviation. The device that uncovered the problem, however, may help solve it. A follow-up study is already underway at the University of Chicago...Northwestern Memorial chosen to be featured in first-ever mini-med school TV airing on PBS
...ini-Med Schools are educational programs taught at teaching hospital across the country, providing a unique opportunity for the general public to learn from the nation's top physicians just like medical students. First introduced in 1990, today many hospitals have five-year waiting lists for these sessions a...