New scientific advances in gastroenterology
...AM (EST) on Wednesday, November 3, 2004. Lunchtime media briefings are planned on the following topics: Monday, November 1, 2004, 12:30 PM (EST) "Irritable Bowel Syndrome in 2004: The Impact of New and Emerging Therapies on Quality of Life" Call-in number: 1-800-588-3167, access code 1176# Lawrence J. B...Team-centered program effective in reducing disordered eating among athletes
... nutrition, effective exercise training, drug use, media images of women and depression prevention. The researchers found that athletes participating in the ATHENA program reported significantly less ongoing and new use of diet pills, and less use of amphetamines, anabolic steroids, and sport supplements. ...AAN, ANA announce support for embryonic and adult human stem cell research
...t a science briefing on stem cell research for the media in early December. ...Tip sheet for the October 26, 2004 Neurology
...October 26, or can be obtained in advance from AAN media relations staff. Related content: The American Academy of Neurology guideline on the management of concussion in sports is accessible at www.aan.com . ...Aiding decision making for Baby Charlotte and Baby Luke
...th the help of current guidelines, and without any media coverage. What is clear from these two complex, difficult, and emotionally involving cases is that legal recourse was sought because agreement between parents and medical teams could not be reached. But are the courts the best place to resolve such c...'Science of better' convenes operations researchers in Denver
...ecisions. Following are meeting highlights for the media -- Procter & Gamble Wins Top Decision-Making Award INFORMS Award. Procter & Gamble is being recognized by INFORMS for its far-reaching integration of operations research (OR) into the decision making structure of the firm to tackle issues suc...Prescriptions for antibiotics to prevent anthrax uncommon after the 2001 anthrax attacks
...s between October 2001 and January 2002. However, media reports suggest that even more prescriptions were given out by individual physicians. Nathaniel Hupert, M.D., M.P.H., of the Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, N.Y., and colleagues reviewed the electronic medical records of outpat...Leading MRSA experts address emergence of 'superbug'
...A and all its complexities, Pfizer is sponsoring a media teleconference to be held on Oct. 20, 2004. Topics that will be addressed in the teleconference include: What MRSA is and how it has emerged MRSA risk factors The cost of MRSA mortality, morbidity and overall healthcare costs MRSA treatment...World's largest medical eye meeting to be held in New Orleans
...nvention Center in New Orleans. Members of the media interested in receiving media credentials to attend the Joint Meeting and Subspecialty Day meetings can register online at www.aa...Prof: Local health campaigns not reaching adults with bad habits
...cements or by planning activities to attract local media coverage," says Mohan Dutta-Bergman, an assistant ... this at-risk group, then money is being wasted on media events and press releases to generate news stories. In addition, the public service announcements ar...Media invitation first annual EDCTP Forum
...Prime Minister of Mozambico, invite members of the media to the press conference of the first Annual EDCTP Forum in Rome, Italy on 29 September 2004. The objective of the Forum is to bring together scientists from Europe and Africa to jointly develop strategies towards identifying and assessing the most pr...NSF, AAAS announce winners of 2004 Visualization contest
...cognize outstanding achievement in use of graphics media to illustrate research processes and results. The... photographs, illustrations, graphics, interactive media and non-interactive media. All works must have been completed in the 2003-2004 calendar years. En...Federal policy has failed to prepare nation for possibility of bioterrorism
...ith smallpox received a flurry of attention in the media and by the Bush administration. In December 2002, President Bush announced a plan to encourage health-care workers to volunteer to get the smallpox vaccine. But neither the voluntary Bush plan nor the Smallpox Emergency Personnel Protection Act, pa...Transplant of pig tissue may reduce stroke size and damage
...dies in culture that showed brain cells exposed to media collected from the encapsulated choroid plexus survived oxygen deprivation. Now he's looking long-term at how the encapsulated versus "naked" tissue is tolerated in his animal model. Non-human primate studies will be needed as well before human tria...Children walk nearly as much as their grandparents did
...greater publicity given by both national and local media to a small number of specific events such as child abductions and related dangers," says Colin Pooley. Other project findings were that people in their sixties are much more mobile than at any time in the past, but also that older people may also adj...Friedman School of Tufts: Policy Points
While much of the discussion in the media about obesity has focused on nutrition policies, such as dietary guidelines, or a debate about individual responsibility, a recent article in the Annual Review of Nutrition takes a different tack. Agricultural and economic policies, combined with foo...Handwashing program decreases incidence of diarrhea among children in Pakistan
...resented the findings of the study today at a JAMA media briefing at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. Nearly 2 million children worldwide die annually from diarrheal disease, according to background information in the article. Previous studies have estimated that handwashing promotion interventi...Incentive-based intervention with nutritional component improves health status of children in Mexico
...resented the findings of the study today at a JAMA media briefing at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. According to background information in the article, more than half of the yearly 10.8 million deaths of children younger than 5 years worldwide are attributed to malnutrition. Malnourished chil...World mental health surveys find mental disorders highly prevalent and often untreated
...sented the findings from the study today at a JAMA media briefing held at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. Co-Principal Investigators of the Survey, Dr. Kessler and Dr. T. Bedirhan stn from the World Health Organization, together with co-authors from The WHO World Mental Health Survey Consortiu......resented the special communication today at a JAMA media briefing at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. According to background information provided by the authors: "Chronic diseases are the largest cause of death in the world, led by cardiovascular disease (17 million deaths in 2002, mainly from ...