Nutrition education program teaches children how to make healthy food choices
...ens valuable skills including self-responsibility, language arts, and basic computer and keyboarding skills. The majority of teachers were highly satisfied with the program components and outcomes, and plan to use it again....Cranberry component linked to reduced stroke damage
...ls is affected. Stroke can cause paralysis, affect language and vision, and cause other problems. Stroke is the nation's third leading cause of death and a leading cause of serious, long-term disability in the United States, according to statistics from the American Stroke Association. Cranberry also ha...Childhood abuse related to alcoholism in Native Americans
...men's likelihood of alcohol problems. "The women's language finding is hard to interpret because with our data...we can't say which came first, alcohol problems or language skills. It could be that the language facility was learned in tribal sobriety programs and was not a...Differences in cancer screening rates reported
... differences -- attributed to cultural, education, language and other barriers -- persist even when comparing like income levels or health insurance status across racial and ethnic groups. Lower screening rates reduce the odds of early detection for hundreds of thousands of Californians and survival rates for...A picture perfect test of well-being: Graphic assessment tool tunes into life satisfaction
... to see well, may have limited formal education or language skills, and who may be too sick or frail to respond to lengthier or more complex measures. Gueldner suspects the tool will even give a research voice to persons with mild to moderate cognitive impairment. Well-being, Gueldner says, is recognized as "...The European Cancer Patient Coalition - challenges for the future
...Just over 50% of Europeans claim to speak a second language with around 40% speaking English, 10% German, 7% S...ian." Additionally, fluency in English as a second language declines with age, Ms Redmond said. Linguistic difficulties also contribute to the digital divide in...Gender and geography increase racial disparities in health care, Dartmouth study shows
...ist not just because the color of your skin or the language you speak, but also because of your zip code." Even among white women, rates ranged from 2.0 per thousand in New York City to 7.2 per thousand in St. Louis. In other findings, the article notes than nationally, rates of knee replacement were higher...Minority children: over- or underrepresented in medical research?
...t the University of Chicago, "but that may reflect language barriers and how race and ethnicity data are reported. We are currently trying to tease this out in a follow up study." Twenty-five years ago, the primary concern of organizations that oversee human research was fairness in the distribution of risk...Rejection really hurts, UCLA psychologists find
...be more similar than we realized." "In the English language we use physical metaphors to describe social pain like 'a broken heart' and 'hurt feelings,'" said Naomi I. Eisenberger, a UCLA Ph.D. candidate in social psychology and the study's lead author. "Now we see that there is good reason for this." Eisenbe...Data mining gains ground in key sectors
... The development of the predictive modeling markup language (PMML) offers the advantage of enabling data mining vendors to share models. "As vendors continue to ratify PMML, which is still evolving, data mining will be more easily deployed and readily accepted," says Valenti. Data mining is also increasingly ...Unusual form of memory loss often confused for Alzheimer's disease
...ause that is characterized by a relentless loss of language but with memory relatively preserved. Once conside... primary progressive aphasia, the ability to write language may be less impaired than the ability to speak it. Others develop agrammatism, using inappropriate w...Hispanics face high rates of unstable health care coverage, low rates of preventive care
... to costs. "Lack of insurance, unstable coverage, language barriers, and low income all contribute to the growing health care crisis among Hispanics," said Doty....Both languages active in bilingual speakers
...ystem that monitors the code switching between one language and another." While no one knows exactly how the c... first and second languages. "In the absence of language specific cues, words in both of the second language speaker's languages compete for selection well i...Cognitive impairment worse than expected in seniors, says University of Pittsburgh study
...cts the areas of the brain that process memory and language and the areas that help keep attention and focus. "We were surprised at how prevalent the condition was and how other medical conditions increased people's risk to have MCI," Dr. Lopez said. "This emphasizes the importance of good medical care in pr...Mayo Clinic researchers discover how key cancer protein works
...ontrol of the cell cycle to stop cancers." In the language of science, their principal finding is this: That a specific biochemical modification known as "phosphorylation" (fos-for-a-LAY-shun) is required at certain cell-cycle stages to activate proteins associated with the BRCA1 gene. These proteins are ess...ACP Foundation health communication conference to discuss literacy, technology, & ethnic disparities
...ic disease is impacted by cultural differences and language barriers among patients, physicians, and other health professionals. The conference will begin at 8:30 AM and run until 3:30 PM. Those interested in attending should contact the Foundation for more information toll free at 877-208-4189 or via email a...ACP publishes 'Medical Meanings,' second edition
...dically oriented or not, who savors the romance of language and the fertile interplay of thought, word, and deed." (JAMA) Dr. Haubrich is a clinical professor of medicine at the University of California at San Diego and senior consultant emeritus at the Scripps Clinic, La Jolla. He is the author or co-author ...UCLA study examines health of California seniors
...k of access to health-care services and often face language and cultural barriers within the health system," said Diane Yamashiro-Omi, senior program office of The Endowment, who oversees a program that is focused on prevention strategies, and works to build the leadership and advocacy skills of this populati...PET scan predicts Alzheimer's more accurately
... as memory loss, behavioral changes and changes in language ability. The average age of the patients was 66. ...advances to a progressive deterioration of memory, language and mental functions. Alzheimer's affects approximately 400 million people in the United States, and...... areas involved in spatial orientation, speech and language development, and attention (upper and lower parietal lobes), spreading to the areas involved in executive functioning, attention or motor coordination (frontal lobes). Further, the areas that integrate these functions matured the last in this age ran...