Hartford Institute/AACN award honors nursing schools for innovative gerontology education
...portant initiative. We are delighted to be able to foster and showcase nursing schools in the forefront of meeting their responsibilities to adequately prepare students through outstanding geriatric curricula, says Mathy Mezey, EdD, RN, FAAN, professor of nursing education and director of the Hartford Insti......rs of McCaw Cellular Communications. The gift will foster new directions in the study of a group of genetic diseases characterized by progressive degeneration and weakness of the muscles that control movement. In some types of muscular dystrophy, the heart and other organs are affected as well. There is no...New AstraZeneca awards program recognizes, supports future leaders in neurology and psychiatry
...s. A key initiative for achieving this goal is to foster innovation through the support of those most in need of funding young clinicians and researchers, said Ron Polinsky, M.D., Vice President, Global CNS Medical Director, AstraZeneca. Through the Young Minds in CNS Awards Program we will create partne...Application deadline extended for new AstraZeneca neurology, psychiatry awards
...straZeneca created the Young Minds program to help foster scientific innovation and improve treatments of CNS diseases. The peer-reviewed program will award five US $20,000 unrestricted career development awards in October 2001 to support a range of activities including research, educational efforts, trave......ent future abuse. More than 6,000 children are in foster care in Sacramento County. UC Davis Foster-Care He...am has provided initial evaluations for some 2,000 foster children since its inception nearly three years ago. More than 150 babies are born at UC Davis Medi...UCSF begins clinical trials for new bionic ear for profoundly deaf adults
...provided by use of the Clarion CII Bionic Ear will foster the development of next-generation speech processors to improve speech understanding and sound quality for implant users, Lalwani said. More than 30 leading medical centers throughout North America are participating in clinical studies using the new...Teaching human side of patient care is best done at the bedside, say medical educators
...culum of formal courses and seminars has failed to foster humanism in physicians-in-training. They discovered that barriers to teaching humanism are created informally, within the "hidden curricula" in medical schools. Through an institutions "hidden curriculum," medical trainees are socialized into the c...Psychologists identify best aggression-prevention programs in schools
...sical aggression. -- Be culturally sensitive and foster collaboration between schools, families and neighborhoods Aggression prevention programs should be developed in a manner that is responsive to the specific needs and values of the school and its surrounding community. Location of school, cultural bac...Doctors steer sick patients away from capitated HMOs
...ws that even well-intentioned physician advice may foster risk selection, say Wynia and colleagues. Risk selection undermines insurance pools by causing disproportionate enrollment of less costly patients into certain health plans. This is expensive for some payers, who overcompensate health plans with heal...New index developed by Yale researcher to assess the risk of mortality in an elderly population
New Haven, Conn. In order to foster sound health care programs and policies concerning an aging population, a Yale researcher has devised a new index that forecasts which patients are most likely to die within one year after being discharged from the hospital. "Its very important to be...At 2 years, cocaine babies suffer cognitive development effects
...ry and mental health status and characteristics of foster caregivers. The team used newly standardized versions of the major infancy development tests. And they were able to maintain more than 90 percent of the participants during the study, and at two years, 100 percent of the sample had at least one follo...Academic Medicine highlights strong DMS education in patient care
...fice of community based education and research, to foster interdisciplinary community-based education. As part of this centralized approach, DMS has succeeded in developing a uniform system of rewarding community-based faculty, and identifying and recruiting sites using an interdisciplinary approach. DMS al...National Jewish receives major grant to study air pollution and asthma
... Thrasher in the mid 1970's to provide grants that foster an environment of creativity and discovery aimed at finding solutions to children's health problems, particularly those that have been insufficiently researched or investigated. National Jewish is the only medical and research center in the U.S. dev...Columbia neurobiology fellow wins major career award from 2002 Burroughs Wellcome funding program
...d Career Awards Program was established in 1995 to foster the development of promising biomedical researchers early in their careers and to help them make the transition from postdoctoral researcher to full-fledged independent investigator. Dr. Scott, who will receive a $500,000 grant from the Burroughs Wel...Caring for children with emotional disorders grows increasingly stressful over time
...ors caregiving by the child's family as opposed to foster care or hospital treatment. According to this view, which has been gaining support among researchers and mental healthcare professionals since the 1980s, children with emotional and ...World Heart Day spotlights cardiovascular disease pandemic
...tion. The World Heart Forum has set four goals: to foster research into a better understanding of international cardiovascular disease population trends; to develop prevention guidelines with common principles that can be tailored to a country's unique cultural patterns; to develop programs in medical schoo...Internal medicine organizations agree on principles of recertification program
...ommitment of our organizations to work together to foster excellence in the practice of medicine for our patients and for the profession," said Bernard M. Rosof, MD, co-chair of the joint ABIM/ACP-ASIM committee that discussed recertification issues. Dr. Rosof is also immediate past chair of the ACP-ASIM Bo...$4.5 million awarded to create community drug abuse prevention trials network
...management practices and financial strategies that foster the sustainability of such models in community settings.According to NIDA Acting Director Dr. Glen R. Hanson, "While there have been studies evaluating various drug abuse prevention interventions, very few studies have looked at the processes and mec...NIAID releases 20th anniversary edition of Jordan Report on vaccine research
...sectors. The Institute has created new programs to foster these relationships and spur vaccine research and development. For example, the NIAID Challenge Grants and Partnerships Program provides matching funds to companies who commit their own dollars toward developing vaccines and other medical interventio......stimated 14 to 22 million Americans. The plan will foster research to identify genetic, environmental and infectious causes of autoimmune diseases and to develop new treatments and prevention strategies. "Each year, millions of Americans suffer pain, illness and even death as a result of multiple sclerosis,...