Lifelong career adds up to top honors for UH math professor
...us of the University of Jyvaskyla in Finland. No stranger to international accolades, Glowinski has had a long and distinguished career in mathematics, teaching and research on both sides of the Atlantic, having been born in Paris, France, and receiving his Ph.D. there from the University Pierre and Marie C...Elevated rates of trauma may put urban American Indian women at increased risk for contracting HIV
...etime high-risk sexual behavior such as sex with a stranger or an HIV-positive individual, and, therefore, may have been even more likely to be exposed to HIV." The study was part of a comprehensive assessment of HIV risk behaviors, including intravenous drug use, and prevention needs among American Indians ...Rise in stranger homicides not linked to mental illness
...policy, finds a study in this week's BMJ. Instead, stranger homicides are more likely to be related to alcohol...owever, contrary to popular fears, perpetrators of stranger homicides were less likely to have a mental illness or to have been under mental health care than pe...Enzyme replacement therapy found to effectively treat patients with Fabry disease
...LES, CA (October 24, 2002) - Raul Hernandez was no stranger to sports activity, and was active in Little League by the time he was 10 years old. But one day while running a short race at school, Raul experienced an intense burning sensation in his feet that turned his world upside down. From that day forwar...Model dental school curriculum to address disparities in oral health care
...ose services can be delivered." "The college is no stranger to outreach," said Dean Bruce Graham. "But the new curriculum will make community collaboration an integral part of the dental school program." Over the five-year term of the grant, UIC will work in partnership with community clinics, charitable orga...Infants of depressed mothers show atypical brain activity
...ding the mother silently playing withthe infant, a stranger silently approaching the infant and then leaving theroom, a familiar research assistant silently playing with the infant, and themother leaving the room and then returning to the infant. In the non-social situations and two of the playful-interactio...12-year-old Oregon girl is first child to receive new bone growth material in her skull
...issue ofskull Portland, Ore. -- Emily Lang is no stranger to surgeries. She's already had 121of them in her short 12 years to correct various medical conditions related todeformities she was born with. But the one she will undergo on August 23 isdifferent. This surgery will help get her one step closer to e......oming out of surgery wouldrather see Mom than some stranger like me in a white coat," said Apfelbaum. Older people are particularly concerned about losing control andindependence, even temporarily, he added, and appreciate regaining fullawareness and mobility quickly after surgery. Many surgical procedures to...