Gender bias in salaries among Pennsylvania M.D.'s, find University of Pittsburgh researchers
...; spend fewer hours per week seeing patients and doing administrative work, but the same number of hours conducting research, teaching and completing patient-related paperwork; and take more time off or to have worked part-time, in most cases because of child care or maternity. Because gender-rela......complete a two-year fellowship. "I had considered doing straight physics," said Nagle, "but I need the connection to people that comes with medicine. This enables me to do both, to move back and forth between clinical care and basic research and, I hope, to bring a little something extra to each."...Government asks UNC to develop school program about alcohol and birth defects
... program to excite young teens and pre-teens about doing science as they explore for themselves the effects of alcohol on developing organisms. Student excitement always has a multiplier effect at home - which a lecturing approach in school toward alcohol use never does - so it would not be surprising if f...Farmers tend to work long past typical retirement age, survey finds
...working beyond age 65 as are people of similar age doing other jobs."These farmers are not about to get off the tractor seat and relax in the rocking chair," said Andrew Sofranko, a professor in the department of human and community development. "About 1,700 farmers responded to the survey, and 25 percent...NIH awards grant to UCSF and Kaiser to strengthen women's health research
... in women's health. And there is a dearth of women doing women's health research," Grady said. "The idea of...women's health and to increase the number of women doing clinical research." The program is geared toward junior faculty-clinical researchers who are in the ...CDC funds will enable UNC-CH to help minimize domestic violence in flood areas
...vide assistance and service while at the same time doing research to understand better how people can cope with disasters." Among activities will be training lay health advisers and workplace managers how to minimize domestic violence at home and in the workplace, Benedict said. Much of the grant money wi...Scientists declare global warming and human impacts are combining destructive forces on coral reefs
...ued a call for humanity to reduce the damage it is doing to coral reefs. Reefs are the foundations of tropical marine ecosystems and provide essential "natural services" to island communities such as food and protection from erosive wave action. Meeting in Indonesiaheart of the worlds marine biological div...How to spot drugs that misfire
...of why oestrogen affects cell division. "It's been doing this for years, and no one knew why," says Dahiyat. The new technique allows millions of different proteins to be generated, each one tagged to the gene that made it. So far Xencor has only tried the technique with proteins produced by single hu...Survey finds chronic pain sufferers unsatisfied with pain treatments
...through comments such as has not helped me and not doing as much to heal me as he/she could. Partners Against Pain commissioned the survey of more than 1,000 people to identify the scope of pain management, including access and barriers to treatment within the United States. According to the National Insti...Welfare to work does not improve mental health
...erstand what moving these women into employment is doing to their health," Kneipp said. "Does it make it better over time or worse? If the multiple challenges that they have, the role strain they are encountering and all of that stress is deteriorating their health further, then it is moving us farther awa...SU scientist receives patent that could revolutionize medical magnetic resonance imaging
...e sensitivity and resolution of MRI images, and by doing so, open up new diagnostic applications for MRI. Honig, who is excited about the potential application of his experiment, never doubted he could resolve the underlying physics questions. "Of course the experiments worked," he says with a grin, "I...Alcohol and drug treatment among HMO patients
...differences in treatment needs. Finally, if I were doing prevention work, or was a teacher or someone else working with adolescents, I would pay attention to the kinds of substance use, including tobacco, that I observed." "One final point," said Humphreys, "is that I hope people who operate HMOs read this......the brain works all the time. The brain at rest is doing the same sort of neuronal firing as it does when stimulated by a task. Brain activity slightly increases when a task is performed and those increases are generally assumed to measure activity." Shulman, in a study published in the January issue o...Getting older and feeling weaker?
...rcent within five years. Many of these workers are doing the same sort of physical work from assembly-line...dustries have increased the average age of workers doing physically demanding jobs. We need to learn what older workers are capable of doing during complex e...Cognitive neuroscience takes on alcohol
... because we all have to sometimes stop what we are doing to reflect and plan more appropriate actions. Impulsive people, including those with ADHD, do not seem to be able to do this as well as others. Accordingly, impulsiveness can lead to a host of problems in school, work, and with peer relations. My ...New research expands understanding of treatment for ADHD
..., says NIDA Director Alan I. Leshner, Ph.D. And in doing so it helps us to better understand the biology of ADHD. Understanding this process can help doctors appropriately diagnose and treat children with the disorder and could eventually provide practitioners with a clearer framework for prescribing the m......d Division of Neurogenetics. "Jeff Chamberlain is doing some of the most exciting research in the world on the problem of muscular dystrophy," said Dr. Bruce Ransom, chair of the Department of Neurology. A gift of $775,000 from the McCaw/Muscular Dystrophy Association Fund will help support his research. ...Specifying alcohol-related brain damage in young women
...al problems like working with maps or puzzles, and doing mental arithmetic were less accurate in heavy-drin...vie" of activity in the brain while the subject is doing a mental task. "FMRI allowed us to examine very subtle changes in blood and oxygen use in the ...NHLBI launches sleep & children education program with Garfield the Cat as "Spokescat"
...hem - the understanding that sleep is important to doing your best in whatever you do, including school activities, sports and other extracurricular activities, and good family relationships and friendships. According to Lenfant, "We want young children to understand that they need at least nine hour...