Indiana University Cancer Center receives National Cancer Institute designation
...hip, research-related administrative functions and shared researchresources. The only NCI-designated Clinical Cancer Center in Indiana, it hasalready begun discussions of collaboration with Purdue University'sNCI-designated cancer research center. "The IU Cancer Center is an important building block in IU's...Unprotected anal sex increasing in San Francisco
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... "First, friends are chosen mainly on the basis of shared activities and discussions of prejudice and stereotyping may be rare in adolescents' interactions with their friends, which would produce limited influence. Secondly, adolescents may influence each others' behaviors, but not their attitudes; there i...Many Virginians would increase taxes for K-12 education, study finds
...urvey results demonstrate that it is not a concern shared by mostVirginians," says Alan E. Bayer, director of Virginia Tech's Center for SurveyResearch and co-investigator of the annual surveys. "Both local school boardsand state legislators should be aware of these poll results before makingpossibly unpopu...UCSF Cancer Center joins elite group of National Cancer Institute-designated centers
...is money will help to fundresearch infrastructure, shared research facilities and administration at theUCSF Cancer Center. "NCI-designation is a testimonial to our commitment to translational andclinical research," says Frank McCormick, PhD, FRS, director of the UCSF CancerCenter. "It is also a recognition ...Hospitalists should work with patients' primary care physicians, according to UCSF researchers
...protections for patients, such as confidentiality, shared medical decisionmaking, and patient autonomy. The hospitalist is a departure from the way doctors have traditionallyfunctioned in hospitals. In the past, patients' PCPs would manage theirinpatient care, however, with the hospitalist, the PCP no l...Seniors need group housing, not homes
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...ily recipes to meet low-fathigh-fiber criteria and shared them on the job at taste tests and recipecontests." As a result, the trial changed the atmosphere at the work site. In addition toincreased access to healthy food, employees experienced support from theirco-workers and from management for trying to ...Women at high risk for breast cancer may avoid mammograms
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...s of recipients with those donated by siblings who shared only half of the recipients’ HLA antigens. The researchers found that long-term survival rates of HLA-identical kidneys were the same as HLA-mismatched kidneys, provided the donors’ mismatched HLA antigens were inher...National Science Foundation Awards Knowledge And Distributed Intelligence Grants
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