UNC study: Most N.C. family practitioners engage in unrecognized community service
...ity practice and all who served as family medicine faculty members at the state's four medical schools. The o...ucation," Goldstein said. "More than 85 percent of faculty and community practice family physicians reported participating in volunteer service in the previous...Physicians may not be accurate in their confidence levels of their diagnoses, says Pitt study
... medicine residents and 72 general internists with faculty appointments and at least two years of post-reside...e in the diagnosis. "Focusing on the residents and faculty physicians, what we found was that correctness and confidence were not aligned in about 1/3 of the c...Advertising by academic medical centers may risk eroding public trust, says study
...erica's Best Hospitals." The researchers, all DMS faculty and members of the VA Outcomes Group in White River Junction, VT, interviewed each center's marketing department and obtained all non-research-related print advertisements distributed by the honor roll centers during 2002. They found that while 16 ...Organizational traits associated with quality patient care are essential to home care nursing
... a study conducted by a Rutgers College of Nursing faculty member. This is the first step towards researching the impact of the nurse work environment on patient care outside of hospital setting. The study, "Organizational Attributes Valued by Hospital, Home Care and District Nurses in the United States and...Researchers search for first sign of congestive heart failure
... Heart Institute and two at MCG. He joined the MCG faculty in 2001....The Gerontological Society of America announces Hartford Fellowship recipients
...ivate the next generation of geriatric social work faculty as teachers, role models and mentors for future generations of geriatric social workers. Nickle will be writing her dissertation on the "Systematic Review and Meta Analysis of Interventions Relevant to Quality of Life for Persons with Intellectual Di...RIT takes eye-tracking research to next level
...a team including graduate student Justin Laird and faculty members Mitch Rosen and Ethan Montag, is funded by the Sharp Research Laboratory of America. In this case, Pelz's team is exploring how people view rapid motion on the new class of large displays. Knowing how fast an object is moving across a viewer...Stanford patient is first to test new treatment for peripheral arterial disease
...disease," said Michael Dake, MD, a former Stanford faculty member who recently became chair of radiology at the University of Virginia and is the principal investigator of the multi-center study. "We're hoping to translate that success to the peripheral circulation, especially in the legs where blockages can...Rural America vulnerable to bioterrorism and natural disaster threats
...l Campbell, Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) faculty member, and Joshua Frances, research assistant and co-investigator of the report, are leaders in rural preparedness at HSPH's Center for Public Health Preparedness and helped organize the conference. Michael Meit, Director of the University of Pittsb...Epidemiologist Trichopoulos receives $5.8 million Department of Defense 'Innovator Award'
...rning, discovery, and communication. 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 ...Protecting human subjects focus of national FDA conference at UH
...ll be top Texas Medical Center representatives and faculty from The University of Texas Health Science Center, Baylor College of Medicine and M.D. Anderson Cancer Center. We've also had pre-med students from the local chapter of the American Medical Student Association sign on as volunteers. I'm really ple...Philanthropist Paul F. Glenn launches labs for aging research at Harvard Medical School
...e resources will be used to recruit two additional faculty members focused on aging research and to build out the labs with advanced research technology and animal models. Additionally, research pilot grants will be awarded by a steering committee to investigators wanting to investigate novel areas of molec...2005 Award for Basic Research in Biological Mineralization
...nd post-doctoral studies. In 1986, she joined the faculty at USC School of Dentistry as a Research Assistant...facial Molecular Biology. In 1993, she joined the faculty at UTHSCSA, in 1998 she was promoted to Professor with tenure, and in 1999 became the Dental School'...2005 Behavioral Sciences & Health Services Research Award
...Europe and Africa. He has inspired numerous junior faculty members in Finland, and continues to be an inspiration for his colleagues in Nordic countries, as well as in several developing countries. Many of Dr. Hausen's colleagues have gone on to publish well-regarded research in the area of caries risk asses...Awards & fellowships at the International & American Association for Dental Research General Session
...de in different formats. Dr. Stookey served on the faculty at Indiana University from 1964 until his retirement in 2001. He continues to be an active researcher, and, in 2002, he received the IADR Distinguished Scientist Award for Dental Caries Research. This is the 14th year of the Borrow Award, which consi...Common anesthetics appear safe for developing fetal brain
...opy, was originally conceived in the 1970s by Duke faculty member Franz Jobsis. Light in the near-infrared range can easily pass through skin, bone and other tissues. However, within these frequencies of light, the oxygen-carrying molecules within red blood cells known as hemoglobin absorb light to an extent...Curious female rats survive tumors longer
... to disease." Cavigelli, who joined the Penn State faculty in August, detailed the results at the American Psychosomatic Society meeting in Vancouver, Canada, in a paper, Exploratory Tendency During Infancy and Survival in Female Rats with Spontaneous Tumors. She conducted the study while she was a postdocto...Columbia researchers receive $3 million to combat genetic killer of infants & toddlers
...clinical care to patients with SMA. " Key Columbia faculty members who have been funded by the SMA Foundation or are involved in SMA research include: Umrao Monani, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Neurology in the Center of Neurobiology and Behavior at CUMC is responsible for identifying drug targets. He was ...School-based smoking prevention programs ineffective
...rnal of Adolescent Health includes an editorial by faculty of the Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education at the University of California, San Francisco. The commentary discusses the larger implications of the study's findings and offers some potentially more effective anti-smoking strategies such...More training needed to care for growing geriatric population
...visits to nonprimary-care specialists and suggests faculty development and curriculum changes be made to better prepare future physicians to handle this growing patient base. In 2001, 53 percent of ambulatory (outpatient) visits by patients 65 and older were to nonprimary-care specialists, an increase of 13 ...