NIH funds seven science education partnership awards
...y will broaden delivery of its MEDMYST project, an episodic adventure series concerning infectious diseases and the microbes that cause them, while Minnesota's Science Museum will produce and tour an exhibition highlighting the emergence of new illnesses such as SARS and Avian flu. Finally, Boston University ...Heavy, lifetime alcohol users may be toasting metabolic syndrome
...n current low-level drinkers. "A history of heavy, episodic drinking carries a greater risk of developing meta...Fan. "Young people who tend to become involved in episodic drinking rather than moderate drinking should be discouraged." The researchers concluded that it is...What happens in the brain when we remember our own past?
... brain activity in one set of regions, whereas the episodic thought "One Friday afternoon my dog got away and ...o note that losing this ability to recall personal episodic memories as a result of serious brain injury can be tremendously devastating to an individual and th...Stressed mice quicker to get skin cancer
...rget them for destruction. Acute stress, which is episodic and time-limited, such as parachuting or riding a roller coaster, may have the opposite effect of chronic stress. "Acute stress actually can rev up the immune system," Tausk says. Tausk and his team will conduct more studies to find the cancer pathw...Older people with the 'Alzheimer's gene' find it harder to 'remember to remember' even if healthy
...es of how the allele also is linked to problems in episodic retrospective memory, even without any signs of dementia. Given these findings, clinicians can help even healthy e-4 carriers to improve their prospective memory. Having been found to be an important "exception to the rule" about the impact of this...Computerized order entry systems can increase risk of medication errors
...ons to surmount the following barriers enhanced by episodic and incomplete error reporting, which is standard, and management belief in these reports, which obfuscates and compounds problems. (5) Plan for continuous revisions and quality improvement, recognizing that all changes generate new error risks," the...