Outstanding scholars set to improve geriatric social work in U.S.
...ountry will have the necessary pool of trained and skilled geriatric social workers by creating faculty leaders specialized in geriatric research and teaching. The Faculty Scholars Program is a major step toward increasing the visibility and desirability of geriatric social work so as to increase faculty com...Screening the controversy continues
... multi-disciplinary expert teams who become highly skilled at diagnosing, treating and managing the disease. However, he stressed that it was important to acknowledge that there could be drawbacks to screening. False positive results caused stress and anxiety for many women, particularly if a biopsy had als...Lack of trained staff and technical support exposes patients to increased risk of cancer progression
... advanced technology, given the shortage of highly skilled personnel and linear accelerators, can raise the departmental workload and could ultimately lead to an increase in waiting time. This is a psychological burden to the patient and his or her relatives. It might even cause a further loss in tumor contr...Big plans on a small scale: NSF funds centers for nanoscale research
...the pre-college level designed to develop a highly skilled workforce, advance pre-college training, and to advance the public understanding of science and engineering....Wayne State chemist wins national award for new ways to make nature's molecules
...said. Key to his designs are catalysts, the highly skilled construction workers of chemistry. Montgomerys team bases its catalysts on reactive nickel and has devised new ways to use them.They act like a zipper, making lots of connection points all at one time, he explained. Applications can be developing che...South Pasadena chemist wins national award for designing new catalysts
...nia Institute of Technology, Pasadena. Like highly skilled construction workers, catalysts make possible the building of structures - in this case, molecular structures, one after another - without themselves being incorporated into the assembly. His starting materials are usually molecules containing at lea...Study: Ripped aortas kill often, but new knowledge may aid survival
...an kill you swiftly and painfully if you don't get skilled help - or even if you do. That bleak reality is the central conclusion from new results in a major international study of the phenomenon. But the data also seem to give some clues that could help cut the death toll. In several talks and posters ...Study published in JAMA supports an alternative treatment approach in Parkinson's disease
... patients (subjects) under the cooperative care of skilled and experienced research physicians.......lly in areas where resources for recruiting highly skilled workers or for providing in-house training have been low," Ms. Potter said. "Together, all eight training centers will make a remarkable difference in public health services around the country."...What does the man-machine system demand? Cognitive task analysis in medical decision making
...has led to considerable insight into the nature of skilled performance in professional domains. However, much of this research remains to be exploited in developing computer systems to improve decision making in professional practice. This presentation will discuss application of an approach known as cogniti...Brains of those in certain professions shown to have more synapses
...ore synapses found in subjects with intellectually skilled professions, suchas engineering or teaching," said...cation, witha high-level category corresponding to skilled occupations requiring more than a high school degree. The researchers examined tissue from the upper...Gene responsible for cerebral venous abnormalities found
...sions may not be removable,most of them are. Once skilled neurosurgeons can remove the dangerousabnormalities, a patient can become symptom-free often for life. "This project nicely illustrates how multiple scientific areas can bebrought to bear to facilitate studies in human genetics," said Dr. Eri......also rated their high-achieving children as better skilled socially, butnot necessarily more cooperative or well-behaved. "This isn't surprising because talented children usually thrive inschool," said Robinson. "But we had hoped that these children would have lovedschool because their best hope and ...... which is significantlyless than would be spent on skilled nursing care alone when a patient isconfined to his or her bed for the number of weeks that prior treatment optionsmight involve," says Dr. Jensen. Mayo Clinic and the University of Virginia are two of a few centers nationwidethat offer vertebropla...GPs Of The Future Will Be Information Specialists
...eral practitioners of the future will be "..highly skilled medical generalists and information specialists and the only essential doctors at the whole of healthcare practice" writes Dr Toby Lipman in this week's BMJ. Commenting on recent claims that the role of the general practitioner in the future will be...Margin Width The Key To Control Of Ductal Carcinoma In Situ Of The Breast
...ters. Theyhave the all the resources - in terms of skilled radiologists, surgeons, andpathologists, working as an integrated team." "The current paradigm requires radiation therapy for all patients withDCIS who elect breast preservation," concludes Silverstein. "This paper maychange such thi...Better Emergency Medical Assistance Should Be Provided At Marathons
...les call for a high degree of mobility of a doctor skilled in resuscitation, paramedical ambulances and an effective means of radio communication. They conclude that 70 athletes have died in the past ten years in the UK at such sporting events and that the "....current haphazard system....should not be allo...First Patients Enrolled In NIH Clinical Trial On Effects Of Marijuana In HIV Patients
...reat patientswho are in clinical studies requiring skilled medical and nursing care,monitoring, and control. In addition to studying the pharmacokinetics of THC and antiviral druginteractions, the research team will monitor caloric intake of patients andconduct tests of body composition to see if THC has any...UCSF Hospitalists May Be Key To Shorter, Less Costly Hospital Stays
... are more experienced in this attending role, more skilled in itand for whom this role is a larger part of their professional identity," saidRobert M. Wachter, MD, UCSF associate professor of medicine and epidemiology. Wachter is associate chairman of UCSF's Department of Medicine, chief of theMedical Servi......ibraries of thousands ofpotential drugs. Just as a skilled host can facilitatesocializing between strangers at a cocktail party, these atoms ofzinc and cadmium pair up small molecules known as monomers,searching for a fruitful combination. Everyday chemistry thengoes to work to "decide" which of the resultin...