Dyslexia may involve both vision and hearing
...is even before school age and better methods for teaching people with reading disabilities. "Until now, experts have thought that dyslexia was either a visual processing problem or a problem involving language areas of the brain," said Wallace. "But our study suggests that it's actually a problem combining ...Sound helps augment poor vision for some tasks
...n people with vision problems such as cataracts by teaching them to use both senses." For the study, participants sat in a dark room and were asked to point to the location of a randomly placed light. Sometimes, the light occurred at the same time as a sound. Participants with good vision could easily locali...Study finds classroom study groups more effective when organized by social networks
...re classroom -- was shown to be less effective for teaching health promotion. Also less effective was a third method in which the teacher both selected the leaders and assigned the students. This is one of the first studies to demonstrate the use of social network data to design a health promotion interventi...Class on psychological skills helps college athletes perform better, study finds
... pre-game rituals and routines. A big focus was on teaching imagery techniques, he said. Students learned how ...hysically performing," Maniar said. In addition to teaching psychological skills related to athletics, the class also involved sections on solving problems on a...HHS awards $14 million to support Bioethics Research Center
... will allow the university to provide research and teaching facilities for faculty, researchers and visiting scholars for studies in bioethics, public health and integrated bioscience programs. Tuskegee University's center is the nation's first bioethics institute dedicated to addressing issues that involve...President names eight elite scientists and engineers to receive National Medals of Science
...to four centuries worth of experience in research, teaching and leadership inside their fields and extending across many other disciplines as well." NSF, an independent federal agency that funds and supports fundamental scientific research at the nation's universities, administers the National Medal of Sc...Device measures force used to deliver a baby
...ntors believe their device also could be used as a teaching tool, helping obstetricians-in-training learn how to assess the amount of force they use during a routine delivery. The electromyographic instrument, which measures electrical impulses in the muscles of the forearm, was devised and constructed by a t...Teens struggle to find accurate, useful health information online
...ical Internet Research, suggests the importance of teaching teens better search strategies as well as encouraging Web site designers to target teens. "I think a lot of people don't understand how important the Internet has become in terms of health care delivery," says Caroline Richardson, M.D., a study autho...Patient simulator improves performance of clinical trial coordinators
...ions that may occur. "While traditional methods of teaching new material involve reading and lectures, the sim... shown that interactivity is a superior method for teaching medical professionals. "In terms of the learning process, the simulator provides the next best thing...Study shows people with Alzheimer's can benefit from exercise combined with caregiver training
...ion were the 12 hour-long sessions with caregivers teaching them how to introduce exercise, make it easy and f... for patients with Alzheimer disease combined with teaching caregivers how to manage behavioral problems would help decrease the frailty and behavioral impairme...'Voice academy' Web site, funded by NIDCD grant, helps teachers address voice problems
...upations of people who seek help at voice centers, teaching is among the highest," Ostrem said. "We wanted to create an accessible online resource because, provided the right information, an estimated 75 percent of teachers with voice problems can initiate solutions on their own." Some people naturally have a...New breast cancer mannequin to revolutionize teaching of breast cancer awareness
...ike. The quest to create this unique breast cancer teaching aid began when three highly motivated disabilit...tics engineer Dr Nick Tucker to help them create a teaching aid that would assist them in teaching breast cancer awareness and self inspection to people with le...Study of hip replacement patients finds 80 percent eligible for minimally invasive surgery
...ck doing yoga three weeks after the operation, and teaching yoga at 6 weeks." Berger, who pioneered the appro... in the country, and is part of a training program teaching fellow orthopedic surgeons this procedure. So far, about 100 surgeons have been trained with 20 to ...'Shifty-eyed' monkeys offer window into brain's social reflexes
...ryday social interactions, said Platt, but also in teaching them. "When you're teaching another person, you often engage with them in 'joint attention,' where you establish attentive conta...UCSD team finds that ethics consultations reduce futile end-of-life treatments
... were Montefiore Medical Center/Weiler Division (a teaching hospital for Albert Einstein Medical School), New ...ork City; Hennepin County Medical Center (a public teaching hospital affiliated with the University of Minnesota Medical School), Minneapolis, Minn.; Swedish Co...American Academy of Ophthalmology announces outstanding humanitarian service award recipients
...as dedicated himself to providing medical care and teaching to underserved populations throughout the world, especially in Central America and the Middle East. In 1993, Dr. Della Rocca, and his wife Darlene, founded the Volunteer Health Program (VHP), a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing ophthalmic...Communications training leads to better medical student performance, according to new study
...believe this study establishes that the systematic teaching ofcommunication skills is critical to effective an...ons competence will be useful to other schools for teaching as well as evaluation purposes." The study, performed at three medical schools, found that comprehen...Immunosuppressant everolimus significantly reduces life-threatening heart transplant complications
...the study. Temple University Hospital is a 657-bed teaching hospital located on Temple University's Health Sciences Center campus in Philadelphia. The hospital provides a comprehensive array of inpatient and outpatient services to its surrounding community and highly specialized tertiary services to the enti...College students get better grades when they take psychological principals courses
...s. "In effect, this class is teaching the students psychology. The only difference is th...Overall, Tuckman said the study shows the value of teaching students the skills they need to succeed in college. "The......t researchers are always under pressure to do more teaching and administration. We have set up this scheme in response to demand to free some of the UK's top social scientists to produce excellent research. The quality of the applicants, and of the people we have appointed, shows that this scheme fills a real...