Professionalism and professional ethics in medicine
...Medicine contains several articles relevant to the topic of professionalism in medicine and/or professional ethics. The Archives of Internal Medicine is one of the JAMA/Archives journals. "Several years ago, a study conducted by a group at Vanderbilt University demonstrated that unsolicited complaints abou...Waist size linked to diabetes risk in adult men
...study authors also urge that more research on this topic be conducted with cohorts that include women and different ethnic and racial groups, since the Health Professionals Follow-Up Study only followed a cohort of largely white, professional men who are likely to be healthier than the average American. "C...Cardiovascular health disparities must be eradicated
...morial Hospital in Chicago, whose editorial on the topic appears in the same Circulation issue. "The reason for creating a meeting was not merely to discuss the problem, which has been done before, but to try to create a blueprint of the next steps that organizations, including the American Heart Associati...Sex selection popular among infertile women
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...t methods are used is another story as well as the topic of a text edited by Somenath Mitra, PhD, professor of chemistry, at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT). Sample Preparation Techniques in Analytical Chemistry (2003,Wiley) focuses on teaching and reinforcing necessary pretreatment steps use...UC Irvine's undergraduate research programs receive $900,000 funding boost
...also to realize the benefits of analyzing the same topic from different angles," said Daniel Stokols, co-principal investigator of the NIH grant and director of the UCI Health Promotion Center. The program is a joint endeavor of UROP, the School of Social Ecology and UCI Health Promotion Center....How the stories of ordinary people could give them more say over planning decisions
... narratives of people talking in-depth about how a topic forms part of their life-histories. Now, for the first time, these methods are to be used in an investigation aimed at giving far greater insights into the social, cultural and other factors which lie behind people's attitudes and reactions to techno...Physicians' response to religion-related conflicts in medicine
...d act in response to such discrepancies has been a topic of discussion; however, little is know about how these disagreements should actually be negotiated. Farr A. Curlin, M.D., from the University of Chicago, and colleagues conducted one-to-one, in-depth interviews with 21 physicians in order to expl...Risks from labor after prior cesarean delivery low, study reports
...re the current study, the only information on this topic was from studies that reviewed discharge codes from hospital records, Dr. Spong said. Such analyses, undertaken after the fact, may fail to include important information about the birth. Moreover, the few studies that had been conducted generally d...Cedars-Sinai medical tipsheet for Dec. 2004
...amas TM " support group, focused on this important topic with the presentation, "Sex and Menopause: What's Age Got To Do With It?" Dr. Sheila Bolour is available for interviews on this topic. SPECIALIST SUGGESTS PREGNANT WOMEN REQUEST INFLUENZA VACCINE TO PROTECT BOTH MOM AND BABY Women who are expecting...NYU Child Study Center raises a record $3.4 million at Seventh Annual Child Advocacy Award Dinner
...uss seizures, but too many of us shy away when the topic comes to child psychiatric disorders like depression," said Harold S. Koplewicz, M.D., Director of the NYU Child Study Center. Guests at the Dinner included Arthur Altschul, Trustee, The Whitehead Foundation; The Honorable Alfonse D'Amato; Cyn...Research explores why some internationally adopted children excel while others struggle
... some of whom also have a personal interest in the topic as family members of internationally adopted (IA) ... Most of the previously reported studies on this topic have looked at children as infants, toddlers, and preschoolers. This panel will also discuss new dat...Penn addictions expert, Charles P. O'Brien, MD, PhD, receives prestigious, international honor
...f science to the people of Amsterdam. This year's topic is addiction. The tradition started in 1563 as a way to educate the Amsterdam community about science specifically, anatomy with the hopes of reaching those not formally enrolled in school. It was revived in the 20th century and formalized throug...Nerve navigation findings prompt new direction for spinal cord research
..." Focal adhesion kinase already is a hot topic among scientists studying how cells migrate and how tumor cells spread. Now, Dr. Xiong and her collaborators have found the enzyme also plays an important role in central nervous system development. She explains that for axons to journey ac...Experts debate benefits, dangers of chlorine in C&EN point-counterpoint
...t happened at a forum on a different, but related, topic of sustainability, sponsored by the news magazine Chemical & Engineering News, a publication of the American Chemical Society, the world's largest scientific society. As a result of a "vigorous and provocative debate" about chlorine at that forum, th...NIDA sponsors frontiers in addiction research mini-convention
...Behavioral Neuroscience of Nicotine Addiction. The topic areas of this session highlight a range of research, including motivationally positive and negative aspects of nicotine, identifying the nicotine receptor in the human brain, and dopamine-based and nondopamine reward pathways. The NIDA co-chairs are ...Healthy foods choices highlighted during National Chemistry Week, Oct. 17-23
..., infection and other conditions. Research on this topic was highlighted at a recent ACS national meeting in New York. To learn more about National Chemistry Week, please visit http://www.chemistry.org/kids . For more details on the research cited above, visit http://center.acs.org/appl...Generation gap widened in social spending for elders compared to children
...roportion of the population living in poverty, the topic has received little attention." Social welfare spending for each group as a percentage of the gross national product (GNP) remained relatively unchanged over the 20-year period hovering between 4 and 5 percent of the GNP for children, and beginning ...Consumers with health insurance are willing to help cover costs for uninsured people
...he subject of universal healthcare is always a hot topic but never more so than in an election year. A recent study in the Journal of General Internal Medicine may have the answer to the question - Will those who currently have health insurance be willing to sacrifice in order to insure the millions of pe......ne layer is starting to recover is a hotly debated topic at the moment." The stratospheric ozone layer protects life on Earth from harmful ultraviolet (UV) radiation. The ozone thinning represented here is ultimately caused by the presence of man-made pollutants in the atmosphere such as chlorine, origina...