Acting techniques may help doctors empathize with their patients
Business scholars for more than 20 years have explored the concept of 'emotional labor,' or the management of emotions to present a certain image in service workers. Now, researchers from the University of Washington Business School and Group Health Cooperative have t...Public interest advocates question NIH Enhanced Access policy
...nspires and leads the community of researchers and scholars to accept the public trust invested in them. Today we urge them to do so." "What will we consider success?" asked Sharon Terry, president and CEO of the Genetic Alliance. "Plainly put, today a patient with cancer does not have immediate or even timel...New rights to access, but for most transparency is still as clear as mud
...t is why he has brought together a select group of scholars from Britain and the United States, and people with hands-on experience of introducing and operating freedom of information legislation (see Notes for Editors). Professor Hood said: "We will be exploring what the introduction of transparency does to ...New 'ITN Scholars Program' provides junior faculty opportunity to develop clinical trials expertise
...owships will provide salary support for one or two scholars annually with additional allowances for travel and housing. The ITN Scholars Program was designed to help create a pool of highly trained academic researchers with broad clinical trials experience in the emerging field of immune tolerance therapies....Penn professor earns 2004 award from the American College of Psychiatrists
...d annually. Dr. Evans was chosen from among those scholars and scientific investigators who have displayed excellence in research and who are devoted to assisting people suffering from mood disorders. Mood disorders encompass those psychiatric disorders in which a disturbance of mood is the predominant feat...'Fatally flawed' legal analysis will not stand
Washington DC (November 18, 2004) Legal scholars advising the Alliance for Taxpayer Access quickly dismissed the faulty analysis made by the American Physiological Society's outside counsel suggesting the National Institutes of Health's public access plan will infringe copyright claims of grantees ...New compounds effective against Alzheimer's disease onset and progression
...hui Hu and Hantamalala Ranay Ranaivo, postdoctoral scholars in the Drug Discovery Training Program....GSA confers 2004 Distinguished Mentorship in Gerontology Award to the Michigan's Jackson
...rican American graduate students and post-doctoral scholars that over time have become some of the leading scholars in the field. To be eligible for the prize, the mentor must have had influence on graduate, undergr...Physics World Digest August 2004: Eye surgery sharpens up
...lved a problem that has puzzled archaeologists and scholars for centuries by locating the site of the Second Temple in the Old City of Jerusalem. Asher Kaufman, emeritus professor of physics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, believes that the temple, which was at the centre of worship and national identi...Health education PhD program ranked one of top in nation
...eighting for the ranking system was established by scholars and leaders in the field of health education....UCI center finds perchlorate may be acceptable in drinking water at higher levels
...ater than 6 ppb. The URWC convened a committee of scholars in consultation with state health officials, environmental health scientists, toxicologists, engineers and economists to determine the nature and the effect of different standard levels on human health, California's water supplies, the types of treat...Twelve scholars to receive support to strengthen the field of geriatric social work
Twelve scholars have been selected as Hartford Faculty Scholars an... the field of geriatric social work. This year's scholars will administer projects across a wide range of topics, from assessing the psychosocial needs of ter...2004 Geriatric Oral Research Award to Slade
...d international standing, he is one of the leading scholars in his field. The award, funded by Sunstar Butler, was established to stimulate, encourage, and recognize outstanding research accomplishments in the field of geriatric oral research, especially research in the basic and clinical epidemiological scie...Urban areas organized in well developed partnering 'markets'
...exual relationships, identities and behaviors, the scholars found. "We saw this most clearly in cases in which...Chicago team found during a three-year study. The scholars interviewed 2,114 people in the city and nearby suburbs and also talked with 160 community represent...NHGRI launches Social and Behavioral Research Branch
...ment technologies, statistical expertise, visiting scholars and trainees, and common library and meeting space. Third, it gives an identity and high visibility to social and behavioral research within the NIH intramural research program. And finally, it allows for interdisciplinary and cross-institute trainin...Caloric sweetener use grows worldwide; soft drinks are chief culprit, study shows
... that provide energy but few other nutrients. Many scholars assert that the reduction in milk consumption in the United States is linked with the increase in intake of these calorically sweetened beverages." Because of limited research, they said, the implications of these dietary shifts on human heal...New program establishes distinguished scholar in thrombosis
...patients." Traditionally, funding is available for scholars to do clinical research or basic science. The Distinguished Scholar award will instead support activities such as the development of public policy, patient education models, or economic analysis of treatment or care delivery in this patient group. ...Respiratory health endowment to coordinate public education about asthma
...d Scholar, GSK highlights the importance of giving scholars an opportunity to develop new scientific innovations to benefit physicians and their patients," said Richard S. Irwin, MD, FCCP, President of the American College of Chest Physicians. "The collaboration between the ACCP and GlaxoSmithKline will make...HHS awards $14 million to support Bioethics Research Center
...g facilities for faculty, researchers and visiting scholars for studies in bioethics, public health and integr...Learning Complex. The complex will house visiting scholars and interns who participate in bioethics programs. Participants will include representatives from v...Penn State to host national symposium on fertility decline in developed countries
...vesting in children now than in the past. Family scholars from across the nation will converge on Penn State on October 9-10 for the Penn State Annual National Family Symposium to examine the reasons for depressed fertility and the factors people consider when deciding whether or not to have children and wh...