This year's Wakley Prize essays
...g remarks of Dr Amanda Kvalsvig, reflecting on her experiences of medicine, deafness, and the tendency of others to avoid 'asking the elephant'-when people make assumptions about disabled people, rather than finding out for themselves. In the second prize essay (TB and you and me . . . personal reflections),...UNC study reveals few problems banning smoking at NC schools
...lth coordinators and students, to learn what their experiences were. Few of the potential problems expected before passage of the policy actually arose in any county, Goldstein said. "A commonly cited barrier preventing passage of 100 percent Tobacco-Free School policies involves fear over loss of teachers o...Stevens' Cattabiani helps link doctors, hospitals worldwide
...by Dr. Grasso as a result of his profound personal experiences during the 1991 Peruvian cholera epidemic. The name AYUDAMOS derives from the Spanish, meaning "We Help." AYUDAMOS has been responsible for the distribution of more than $1,250,000 worth of goods and services without direct funding of any...UCSD Medical Center receives NIH contract to set up National Tuberculosis Educational Curriculum
...echnology Unit Director. The combination of their experiences provides the TCCC with management, research, teaching and outreach expertise. Dr. Catanzaro began working in 1966 with the TB branch of the U.S. Public Health Service, receiving intensive training in the prevention, management, and control of TB. ...Morning headaches associated with depression, anxiety disorders
...a Swedish study, 5 percent of the population often experiences morning headache. Maurice M. Ohayon, M.D., D.Sc., Ph.D., of Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, Calif., investigated the prevalence of chronic morning headaches (CMH) in the general population, and their relationship to sociodemographi...Brain reverberations during sleep
...ting neuronal reverberation following novel waking experiences can occur in several forebrain sites and is strongly enhanced during slow-wave sleep. Because neuronal reverberations are sustained for long periods, this may support a mechanism to recall and amplify memories until they are effectively stored. On th...Physicians can help family members caring for dying loved ones
...e end of life, physicians may not only improve the experiences of patients and family, but also find greater sust... a fundamental opportunity to support the profound experiences of family care giving." Additional authors of these recommendations include Joshua Hauser, MD, from ...Study finds most pediatric residents satisfied with primary care training
...idents were asked to base their responses on their experiences over the prior academic year. Almost all of the pediatric residents surveyed (97 percent of respondents) said the value of their faculty preceptor as a good role model played a more important part in their continuity satisfaction than the preceptor's...Civil rights campaign issues at Harvard
...d, HMS faculty presentations about their extensive experiences in the Movement, a panel discussion about current civil rights, social justice, and health disparities issues, performances by young people from the community, and an award presentation to Boston public school children sponsored by the HMS Office for...Researchers find weaknesses in Arkansas public health system
...me critical. Natural outbreaks serve as excellent experiences on which to recognize and correct barriers to public health management." ...UCL study establishes common biological ground for maternal and romantic love in humans
...th romantic and maternal love are highly rewarding experiences that are linked to the perpetuation of the species, and consequently have a closely linked biological function of crucial evolutionary importance," said Andreas Bartels, of UCL's Wellcome Department of Imaging Neuroscience. "Yet almost nothing is kno...At AAAS: Biocomplexity panel on human-nature interactions
...seholds)learn from past experience and adapt these experiences to futureland-use decisions." The $2.7 million, 5-year project began in2001. "Human Ecodynamics in the Hawaiian Ecosystem, 1200-200 YearsBefore the Present" presented by Patrick Kirch, University ofCalifornia at Berkeley: About 1200 years ago, Poly...Ratings of teen-rated video games do not always fully describe content
...ine, to ask patients and their parents about their experiences with video games and to actively mediate any poten...ormation and actively engaging in their children's experiences with video games, parents can make the best choices and promote their children's healthy development...Study moves in on why astronauts suffer bone loss
...a limb is immobilized in a cast, when an astronaut experiences zero gravity, or whenever a person lies down, the weight-bearing bones of the body such as those in the spine and leg, are relieved of their burden, a condition known as skeletal unloading. When skeletal unloading persists for several weeks, bones st...MCOs shortchange minority Medicaid patients
...wn. Asian non-English speakers reported the worst experiences but the study found that African Americans, Hispan...hnic minorities are more a result of the different experiences with care for White versus minority people enrolled in the same plans than the minorities being in t...Anti-epilepsy drug, topiramate, effective at preventing migraine headaches
...at approximately 11 percent of the U.S. population experiences migraines and the prevalence is thought to be about the same in other industrialized countries. Jan Lewis Brandes, M.D., from the Nashville Neuroscience Group, Nashville, Tenn., and colleagues, evaluated the efficacy and safety of topiramate for migr...International public health expert Jeffrey Koplan addresses emerging infectious diseases conference
...Koplan, MD, MPH, will bring his personal views and experiences to bear on the critical interactions among government and the scientific and public health communities as he delivers a plenary lecture at the 4th International Conference on Emerging Infectious Diseases on Tuesday, March 2 at 8:30 am at the Atlanta ...Study examines physical, emotional well-being following breast cancer treatment
...ve been many studies of the physical and emotional experiences of women newly diagnosed with breast cancer, and in recent years several studies have examined the experiences of long-term cancer survivors. However, there is little information available on the experiences of ...College education protects Caucasian women against obesity more than African American women
...health care providers and women learn how mid-life experiences affect health and quality of life during aging. The study is co-sponsored by the National Institute on Aging (NIA), the National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR), the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Office of Research on Women's Health, and ...Evidence suggests that the brain can switch to 'automatic pilot' during learning
...he idea for the experiment from their own personal experiences with the tasks. "We were going through these size comparisons, and we had this subjective feeling that after a few times, we weren't really thinking about the size of the object. We were just executing a response," he said. Such learning becomes auto...