UNC study: Most N.C. family practitioners engage in unrecognized community service
...ns give in their practices, as well as charity and free professional care. "Our study shows that nearly all family physicians reported participating in community service at some time in their professional careers," he said. "For most, this was an ongoing activity, suggesting it is a core aspect of their p...Pitt marks 50th anniversary of its Salk polio vaccine with reunion, scientific symposium
...cal marker honoring the Salk team. Both events are free and open to the public. To best accommodate guests, the University is requesting those wishing to attend the community celebration to RSVP by calling 1-800-258-7488. Advance online registration for the symposium is encouraged. More information about ...Economist: Cuba's state-run baseball doesn't go to bat for players
...sional play at bargain prices in ballparks largely free of commercial gimmicks and hype. But an economist now weighs in with research showing that Cuba's government-run baseball system exploits its players, while offering its fans less-even competition between teams than in the market-driven United Stat...NIH state-of-the-science panel calls for 'demedicalization' of menopause
...c evidence. The panel members came to this process free of academic or financial bias regarding the conference topic. As conditions for their inclusion on the panel, they must have never published data or opinions that could be used to answer the conference questions and they must hold no financial intere...Infant vernier acuity is comparable to that of adults
...shed in March in the Journal of Vision, an online, free access publication of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO). The data from this study also suggest that vernier testing could be a substitute for the traditional Snellen eye chart test for children or others who cannot read ......his is an indicator of DNA damage caused by oxygen free radical activity in the body. Blood samples were a...e authors conclude that traffic fumes boost oxygen free radical activity and therefore DNA damage, and that environmental levels should be curbed to protect...Giant iceberg B-15A edges past floating ice pier
... early March local tides and currents lifted B-15A free from its temporary resting place, an event coincid... on the ability of the tides and local currents to free the southernmost end of the iceberg, and to close the gap between the iceberg and the ice tongue." ...NJIT taps into solar energy to power new campus center
...nd voltaic (electricity), whereby sunlight photons free electrons from the silicon surface. When photons from the sun's rays hit the silicon surface of a solar cell, they are absorbed by the electron of the silicon atom. The supercharged electron now has enough kinetic energy to leave the host atom. Th...Protein that helps skin cancer spread identified by Stanford researchers
...VII is required for the skin cancer cells to break free from the neighboring skin tissue and spread - a step that turns an otherwise benign tumor into a killer. "When we blocked this sequence we also blocked the cancer from spreading," said Khavari, who is also chief of dermatology at the Veterans Affairs...US life expectancy about to decline, researchers say
...e hope." The full text of the article is available free on the journal's web site at http://www.nejm.org . Olshansky will also present the results of the paper at the Second International Conference on Healthy Ageing and Longevity in Brisbane, Australia on March 20....Community-based care beats standard clinic in lowering heart
...unity. It also was near bus and subway stops with free parking available nearby. The apartment living ro...rescription cards that allowed patients to receive free medication related to the treatment of coronary risk factors. Patients at both facilities had acces...Community care tops medical care at preventing heart disease in black Americans
...l nurse practitioner at a neighborhood clinic, and free charge cards for medications are almost nine times...r. All participants in both groups had access to free medication in the form of a charge card good at the local pharmacy. Free access to risk-factor-redu...Simple blood test may help to predict cardiovascular risk in older women
... of follow-up. Only participants who were entirely free of clinical CVD and cancer at the beginning of the study were included in the analysis. Women in the fourth quartile (highest WBC) had a doubled risk for coronary heart disease death compared with women in the first quartile (lowest WBC), after stat...Computational tool predicts how drugs work in cells, advancing efforts to design better medicines
...d protein targets, eliciting therapeutic responses free of unwanted side effects. The research, which appears in the March 4 issue of Nature Biotechnology, reports on collaborative work by a team of biomedical engineers and chemists at Boston University. The team was led by Tim Gardner, an assistant pr...English-speaking Hispanic youth more likely to have sex early
..., family structure, program location, religiosity, free school lunch, grades, rural residence, acculturation, and ethnicity. Specific attention was given to the influence of their integration into U.S. culture among Hispanic teens. The primary language spoken by the respondents (English, Spanish, or both...Study shows faces are processed like words
...d in February in the Journal of Vision, an online, free access publication of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO). It has been suggested that faces and words are recognized differently, that faces are identified by wholes, whereas words and other objects are identified by parts...Brain tumor with dismal prognosis in infants can be cured in older children
... is the time after treatment that a person remains free of severe treatment side effects, recurrence or progression of cancer, or death from treatment side effects or the cancer itself. The study also demonstrated that older children who experienced relapse of ATRT could be saved using ICE chemotherapy (i...Society of Hospital Medicine to launch new medical journal
...is produced six times a year and has been provided free to approximately 10,000 hospitalists in the U.S. Hospital Medicine is the nation's fastest growing medical specialty. Hospitalists are physicians whose primary focus is the general medical care of hospitalized patients. There are at present approx...Chemicals in apples could reduce the risk of breast cancer, Cornell study in rats suggests
...ts help prevent cancer by mopping up cell-damaging free radicals and inhibiting the production of reactive substances that could damage normal cells. "Studies increasingly provide evidence that it is the additive and synergistic effects of the phytochemicals present in fruits and vegetables that are respo...Parents who quit smoking may influence their offspring to quit as young adults
...ng-cessation guidance, Bricker said. Resources for free smoking-cessation assistance include: The National Cancer Institute's Smoke Quitline at (877) 44U-QUIT or www.smokefree.gov . The Washington State Health Department Tobacco Quitline at (877) 270-STOP or www.quitline.com . "The first step to quit...