Protecting human subjects focus of national FDA conference at UH
...ordinators, those involved in institutional review boards (IRBs), institutional officials, pharmaceutical research personnel and medical personnel with an interest in human subjects protection, as well as graduate and undergraduate students. In completing the two-day program, participants can expect to dem...Sleeping Through the Night: Children's sleep expert advises parents
...the National Sleep Foundation, and on the advisory boards of Johnson & Johnson, Parents magazine, and BabyCenter.com. She is a nationally recognized advocate for public education about children's sleep, having appeared on over 150 television and radio broadcasts, and quoted in every leading print publicatio...Rice scientist recognized as pioneer in tissue engineering
...nal Tissue Engineering and member of the editorial boards of the journals Biomaterials, Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews, Cell Transplantation, Journal of Biomaterials Science Polymer Edition, Journal of Biomedical Materials Research, and Journal of Controlled Release. He is also the organizer of the continu...Data protection rules may risk patient safety on wards
Removing patient name boards from hospital wards because they do not comply wit...atients in wards used to be identifiable from name boards at the nursing station and by name cards above their beds. Since their removal, patients have been m...HHS Secretary names UO researcher to national health advisory panel
...ealth care delivery systems and serves on advisory boards to the National Health Care Quality Forum, the Joint Commission for the Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations and the Oregon Commission for Patient Safety....Wipeout! Surfing creates wave of unique injuries
...ir boards, making it easier for them to strike the boards even after they tumble off. "Emergency physicians need to diagnose quickly, but without an understanding of some of the unique aspects of surfing injuries, they're apt to take additional time trying to determine what happened," said lead author ...Employment reduces chronic drug use, UH professors find
... Montoya said. "We have one of the best workforce boards in the country that has been recognized by the Department of Labor and the State of Texas for its leadership in helping people secure employment." During the second year of the study, the researchers' focus shifted to the effect of employment...Duke University's Cohen wins The Gerontological Society of America's 2004 Donald P. Kent Award
...arch and geriatric education. He has served on the boards of both the Hartford and Reynolds Foundations' aging programs. He is renowned for his expertise in hematology-oncology and his work in cancer and aging. The Kent award was created in 1973 in memory of Donald P. Kent for his outstanding leadership in......Family Health Council. She serves on the editorial boards of a number of professional journals and frequently lectures on a number of women's health care topics....Regional review boards improve liver transplant allocation
... can request accelerated listing. Regional review boards can approve or deny these requests, and a new stud...r Transplantation Society (ILTS) shows that these boards fairly and accurately distinguish between high and low risk patients. Their denials of physicians' r...North Shore-LIJ attains accreditation of human research protections processes
...overseeing the use of BRANY's institutional review boards (IRBs) -- committees that review and ensure the integrity and safety of proposed research studies as they relate to human subjects protections -- by BRANY's 138 affiliate members, consisting of hospitals, medical schools and research centers across t...National Academies news: Clinical research involving children
... to clinical researchers and institutional review boards (IRBs) to help them interpret the federal rules, w...hose decisions, the report adds. To assist review boards and investigators, HHS's Office for Human Research Protections (OHRP) should use the committee's rep...2004 Craniofacial Biology Award to Paul Sharpe
... the teeth and jaws. Dr. Sharpe also serves on the boards of many scientific societies and scholarly journals and lectures internationally on his research. The Craniofacial Biology Research Award, supported by the IADR, was established to recognize individuals who have contributed to the body of knowledge ...Internet program and videos net nutritional benefits for kids
...luded radio buttons, colorful graphics, discussion boards and online nursing students to answer questions. Studies have shown that lower income children are at a higher risk for obesity than children from higher income families, with blacks and Hispanics at the highest risk. The study included 137 cultural...Int'l Assoc for Dental Research holds 83rd General Session
...s, located in the IADR Registration Area. Bulletin boards will be available to job recruiters to post job vacancies. There will also be a New Member Orientation Reception (Wednesday, March 10, 1:00-2:00 p.m.), where new members can find out about becoming more involved in the IADR and its specialty Groups a...Ethical review of research in developing countries needed
...cipants was asked for by U.S. institutional review boards significantly more than by host countries. For those studies that were reviewed by local host country institutional review boards, the areas of most concern were cultural appropriateness of the studies, need for local language consent forms, relevanc...Placebo-controlled clinical trials put children with asthma at risk
...d." She said researchers and institutional review boards need to re-evaluate how these types of clinical asthma trials are conducted in the 21st century....M. D. Anderson, African-American churches team up for prostate cancer prevention study
...rs, revival fans, bulletin announcements, bulletin boards and church Web sites. SELECT, sponsored by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and the Southwest Oncology Group (an NCI-supported national research group), is designed to determine whether selenium and vitamin E, or both, can prevent prostate cancer,...Chemical & Engineering News 80th anniversary issue highlights periodic table
...ctricity. Used in dental fillings, printed circuit boards and electrical connectors, it is, of course, used to make some of the most prized pieces of jewelry. Alan Lightman, physicist and novelist and adjunct professor of humanities at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Beryllium. This element has exc...Two to receive American Academy of Ophthalmologys Distinguished Service Award
...ol, for ocular pharmacology. He also serves on the boards of directors of Research to Prevent Blindness, the Doheny Eye Institute, EyeCare America Foundation and is a member of the CEO Roundtable on Cancer. Dr. Gass, of Nashville, Tenn., is being honored for his contributions to the advancement of ophthalmo...