Appreciation of humor doesn't change with age
...ent included: (i) Sign in a hotel -- "Visitors are requested to turn off the lights when they leave the room". In the second test, participants were asked to select the correct punch lines for 16 incomplete joke stems. Each joke stem had four different endings of which only one was the correct (humorous) punc...For the blind, a computer navigation system with its own map
...e hand, the system provided specific directions as requested and communicating with the computer by voice was surprisingly easy despite its limited vocabulary. However, its style more command and response than conversational took some practice. Additionally, because the GIS database consists only of the UF c...Journal of Rehabilitation R&D releases latest issue
...ournal of Rehabilitation Research & Development is requested in all news coverage....Inner city adolescents identify jobs, education as keys to their future
...s in the June issue of Pediatrics. "The adults who requested the survey originally assumed that the main concerns of urban teenagers would be avoiding teen pregnancy and violence. We designed a survey to directly ask teenagers what they thought." Approximately 1,750 8th, 9th and 12th graders participated in th...Improving communications and support for doctors, patients and partners
...continuity of patient care. Half the GPs surveyed requested faxed notification of admission and discharge from hospital. Recent advances in breast cancer management was identified by 65% of GPs as an area in which they required further professional development, and a massive 92% asked for a resource director...DFG to support twelve new Clinical Research Units
...l research. Fourteen initiatives were selected and requested to submit detailed applications. Twelve Clinical Research Units have now been approved:molecular mechanisms of opioid analgesia in inflammatory pain, FU Berlinbiomechanics and biology of bone healing: individual, strain-appropriate osteosynthesis, H...Study finds troubling trends in hepatitis C screening, diagnosis and referral
...ed elevated liver enzymes. Ten percent of patients requested it. Of all those tested, 10 percent turned out to be infected, and about half were referred to a specialist for follow-up. Meanwhile, almost half of the 57 patients who tested positive and went on to have a liver biopsy turned out to have significan...Parents benefit by accompanying children on ambulance trips between hospitals
... parents to ride with their children if the parent requested it. During the study period, the transport team did not actively encourage parents to ride in the ambulance. However, as a result of its study the transport team now routinely asks if a parent wants to accompany the transport. Dr. Woodward added that...Liver disease may be being missed in primary care
...abnormal result for liver function based on a test requested by their doctor between January and June 1995. Of ...rther investigation, yet no further tests had been requested for 91. 66 patients had been partially investigated by their doctor and, in seven patients, results ...Dana-Farber Cancer Institute opens Zakim Center for Integrated Therapies
... the Integrated Therapy Center. Consent forms for requested services are signed by both patient and physician to avoid any unwanted side effects from combining various treatments. Rosenthal said that in addition to studying these therapies, administrators and clinicians will also examine, from a big picture p...A&E departments could help resolve the national shortage of corneal donors
...r corneal tissue. Consent for corneal donation was requested from the relatives of all patients pronounced dead in one accident and emergency department in Scotland from April to July 1999. In addition, a simple questionnaire assessed relatives' attitudes towards corneal donation. Of 25 patients, consent was g...Vulnerable groups less likely to receive early HIV drug therapy
...ble to get medical appointments on the same day as requested were more likely to have early HAART access. The scientists from the University of California at Los Angeles, the University of California at San Diego, the Veterans Affairs San Diego Health Care System, RAND Health, Rutgers University, and the Vete...New study finds multiple myeloma linked to radiation exposures of nuclear workers
...ional Institute for Occupational Safety and Health requested and paid for the study because of previous reports suggesting a link between exposure to ionizing radiation and cases of the cancer at the Hanford site, Wing said. "Our study, which was the largest ever done on this question in U.S. nuclear workers,...Many Virginians would increase taxes for K-12 education, study finds
...ed to end the life of a terminally illpatient when requested by the patient and the family, although 18 percent...channual survey is also reserved for special items requested by statepolicy-makers, by Virginia Tech faculty members for small unfunded researchprojects, or by o...Hospital study shows more patients could qualify for free care coverage
... funds were being usedappropriately. The division requested Massachusetts hospitals to submit a record of free careand bad-debt writeoffs from the 1996 fiscal year, information that was sent tothe state Department of Revenue for matching with state income tax records. Income data were matched using patients' ...IOM Report Offers New Look At U.S. Vaccine Priorities
...e major supporter of vaccine research nationwide - requested thereport in 1995 as a follow-up to two IOM reports issued a decade earlier. A1985 report focused on priorities for vaccine development in the United States,and a second report, published in 1986, focused on vaccine development indeveloping countrie......lth in California." More than twenty-five topics requested by women in the Bay Area will bediscussed including women's sexual health, herbal remedies and dietarysupplements, menopause, and learning to negotiate. Teen Health 2000, which will run concurrently with the women's symposium, willcover topics such a......one." Based on these results, U-M researchers have requested approval to begin a PhaseII trial of the cancer vaccine with IL-2 in adults with advanced metastaticmelanoma. Dendritic cells alert the immune system to cancer by presenting pieces ofdigested tumor proteins called antigens to white blood cells called...