New Hampshire lung disease research center funded
...stdoctoral fellows, and developing closer research ties among the collaborating groups in New Hampshire. Senior Dartmouth faculty will serve as investigators, leaders and mentors on the program, and Dartmouth and Keene junior faculty will head the individual research projects. Program co-directors are Jo...MSU site of national breast cancer center
...ce in this field, but also has important community ties that will contribute greatly to this project. Reaching out to the community and sharing information is a critical aspect of this project, she said. The center will include a community outreach and translation core group that will seek input from com...Students of mixed races report suffering more health problems
...1997, Add Health showed that strong and supportive ties between parents and children helped protect adolescents against risky behaviors, including substance abuse, early sexual activity, pregnancy, emotional distress, suicide and violence. Feeling connected with one's school and, in some cases, one's reli...Exercise sharpens focus, decision-making among aging adults
...o improve their ability to ignore distractions. It ties brain changes to cognitive changes, Kramer said. "We continue to find a number of cognitive benefits in the aerobic group that are very consistent with results found in the animal literature," he said. "The brain circuits that underlie our ability to...Internet program and videos net nutritional benefits for kids
...panic students in communities with strong cultural ties were more likely to succeed in lowering dietary fat and had stronger family support than those living in more culturally diverse areas."Although this area was low-income, there was a cultural center, outdoor markets, stores and clinics," Frenn said. ...Video games, not TV, linked to obesity in kids
... a screen instead of playing sports. A second view ties TV watching to eating, either through a barrage of ads (mostly for food) or because children snack while watching. Vandewater says she finds the persistence of the view that watching television makes kids fat puzzling, given much research to the cont...Two-way link between heart disease and autoimmunity
...autoimmune disease makes heart disease worse. This ties in with the proposed role of immune cells in forming atherosclerotic lesions. The authors were surprised to find also that atherosclerosis worsens autoimmunity. The new mice had more severe autoimmune symptoms than the parent mice that were only susc...New UNC study shows Hurricane Floyd boosted abuse and non-abuse brain injuries in children
...and disruption to -- lives, property and community ties in our state may have contributed to an increase i..., as well as financial hardship and loss of social ties for families caught in the worst of the flooding," she said. "Our conclusion was that families are v...Millions of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders at increased risk for type 2 diabetes
...ons" speaks to the strong intergenerational family ties in Asian American and Pacific Islander communities and encourages people at risk to make lifestyle changes now so they can live a long and healthy life and enjoy their loved ones in the future. "We are asking Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders ...Major overhaul needed in end-of life care for patients with dementia
...ty Center for Aging Research, in an editorial that ties together the four papers. The pace of death, he adds, "has slowed so suddenly that we seem to have lost our ability to recognize it." As a result, "we find ourselves poorly trained, our systems poorly designed, and our patients and communities poorl...Major overhaul needed in end-of life care for patients with dementia
...ty Center for Aging Research, in an editorial that ties together the four papers. The pace of death, he adds, "has slowed so suddenly that we seem to have lost our ability to recognize it." As a result, "we find ourselves poorly trained, our systems poorly designed, and our patients and communities poorl...More efficient ways of managing patient flow may benefit Los Angeles County/USC hospital
...at the degree to which the triage decision process ties up available resources, such as specialist physicians or equipment. Maybe the emergency room is taking away all of the hospital's resources to treat inpatients, which means they will stay longer and you'll have fewer beds for newly admitted patients....Mental health crisis looming for tsunami survivors, warns psychologist just back from Indonesia
... all of the countries involved." Kyes has ongoing ties to Indonesia, where he has done work for 15 years. He heads a collaborative program between the UW and Bogor Agricultural University that includes research and training components, as well as an effort to conserve a number of endangered primate speci...Dartmouth awarded $21.8 million NSF grant
... departments and programs at the college will have ties to the CCEN, including the departments of education, mathematics, psychological and brain sciences, and the Native American Studies program and the digital resources at Baker Library. A partnership with professionals at the Montshire Museum of Scienc...US cancer researchers launch first American-Israeli cancer conference
...symposia "With this conference, we want to foster ties and recognize the contributions that Israelis make to the international cancer effort and create real opportunities for the development of new therapeutic, prognostic and diagnostic approaches, based on interactions between scientists in this country...Neurobehavioral function during coma, stroke rehabilitation effective for elderly
...f stress urinary incontinence. Education, social ties linked to quality of life in tracheoesophageal speakers, pg 115 This study investigates quality of life in adult men who received a total laryngectomy as treatment for laryngeal cancer and who use a tracheoesophageal (TE) prosthesis to speak. Thirty...