UCI launches nation's first medical education program focused on Latino culture
...turally underserved. If I'd have created a medical school program to achieve this goal, it would have been e...s to launch new PRIME initiatives at other medical school campuses. Based on the health needs of California's medically underserved groups and communities, pr...Parental control of media influences behavior
...-rated movie restrictions well through junior high school and that this has important health benefits. In addition, parents should be just as serious about PG-13 restrictions for adolescents 12 and under." Other studies have looked at the effect of general parenting behaviors in adolescent smoking. But th...Parents can provide accurate reports of their children's ADHD symptoms
...t the day. "ADHD had been looked on as affecting school time only, so it was assumed that teachers were th...ll aspects of a child's life. In addition, middle school children often have several teachers, which makes getting comprehensive assessments of behavior from...Patient safety gets boost with $10 million grant
...istance of students and faculty at the engineering school as well as research and development experts at Bio...e as an adjunct faculty member at the Case medical school and consultant on the development of the center and its programs. ...Study measures risks of exclusive pipe smoking
...use has been rising among American middle and high school students. Although the associations between smoking and cancer and other diseases have been well studied, few studies have focused on those who smoke pipes exclusively, and those that have were small and not able to consider confounding factors, such...Incentive-based intervention with nutritional component improves health status of children in Mexico
...fers if they complied with requirements concerning school attendance and maintaining certain health care appointments for services such as immunizations, well baby care and growth monitoring of children, prenatal and postnatal care, check-up visits for other family members, and a mandatory session on nutrit...Highlights of June Journal of the American Dietetic Association
...d dietary intake patterns of 4,144 middle and high school students. Healthful weight-control behaviors were defined as increasing fruits and vegetables and decreasing foods high in fats and sugars in moderation. Unhealthful weight-control behaviors were defined as skipping meals, fasting, using food substi...Chronic care medicine: Physicians say 'help!'
...were 46.7 years old and had graduated from medical school 19.4 years prior to taking the survey. Twenty-six...s. In addition, those who graduated from medical school within 10 years of taking the survey also were less likely to report inadequate training. "This find...May/June 2004 Annals of Family Medicine tip sheet
...sual acuity. Left uncorrected, amblyopia may harm school performance, ability to learn, self image, and may be a risk factor for future total blindness. Visual impairment caused by refractive error, amblyopia, strabismus and astigmatism is a common condition among young children, affecting five to 10 perce...Oral History Research Office and NYU Child Study Center receive grant for oral history project
...eaching an oral history curriculum in eight middle school classrooms in New York City's Chinatown, a community that was particularly hard hit by the attacks on the World Trade Center. The classes train the students in the art of oral history interviewing, and provide them with opportunities and resources to...Speech recognition experts at OGI School of Science & Engineering receive nearly $700,000 in grants
...searcher who joined the Hillsboro, Ore.-based OHSU school to focus on ways to make speech technology useful for education and health. Computer systems, obviously, do not hear the way humans do, though they can be trained to "talk," albeit without much intonation or expression. By creating a computer system ...Studies indicate healthy eating may affect cancer development, improve digestive system
...appearance and found that while it is common among school children, healthy eating habits appear to play a p...ective role against the condition. A total of 700 school children completed a questionnaire that ranked RAP into three scales: pain intensity, non-pain sympt...Medical College of Georgia to establish clinical campus at Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital
... medical education, a community-based mini-medical school and high school/college health care pipeline activities. "My dream for this is that over time the Albany campus could grow to be a site where a student could spend their whole third-year of medical school," said Dr. Fincher. "This could also be a wo...New UNC research finds high rate of chlamydia in U.S. young adults
...merican and 1 percent Native American.toward home, school and religion that could affect health....Tackling medical schools' informal curriculum
...g to teach or assess it in the full sense. At our school we are hoping to make our competency-based curricu...uchman, is that this is the first time any medical school has tried to transform its entire culture in the service of improving medical education. "The organi...Three Harvard Medical School endowed chairs named simultaneously in sleep medicine
...today's announcement as an historic moment for the school and in the evolution of the field of Sleep Medicine. "This generous and timely support will greatly accelerate advances in sleep and circadian rhythm research. At a time when nearly 40 million Americans suffer with sleep disorders, many find numerous...New study: Small, frequent doses of caffeine best strategy for staying awake
...s of education in sleep in their four-year medical school curriculum - the majority of these patient groups ... in our nation's schools, with 60 percent of grade school and high school children reporting that they are tired during the daytime and 15 percent of them adm...New asthma program in Detroit public schools may improve student grades and decrease absences
(NORTHBROOK, IL, May 10, 2004) Detroit public school children living with asthma may have fewer absence.... "Asthma and its symptoms can greatly impact the school life of a child," said Noreen M. Clark, PhD, University of Michigan School of Public Health, Ann Arb...Conference promotes breast and cervical cancer awareness in Nigeria
...of Ibadan, the oldest and most prestigious medical school in sub-Saharan Africa. A specialist in cancer risk assessment and prevention, Olopade studies young women with breast cancer. One of her current research projects involves untangling the genetic and environmental factors that contribute to early-on......,' he says. 'More work needs to be done within the school environment, as well as in the family. But we may also have to think about health warnings on foods and advertising.' In the morning, Professor Jane Wardle of University College London will give a presentation on changing individuals' weights. She wi...