Study: Katie Couric wakes up America on colonoscopy screening
...ity spokespeople like Katie Couric to help get the word out....'Expert guide to infectious diseases' published
...t Guide to Infectious Diseases cannot be the final word on a subject so vast. Its aim is more modest but of equal importance: to be the best source for the essential information sought by the primary care physician." The guide is the work of 51 contributing editors and Dr. Tan. An opening chapter reviews...Pregnancy, birth rates fall among young women exposed to elementary school intervention program
.... What is amazing is that without ever saying the word 'sex,' we can have this kind of effect on the pregnancy rate. The cost-benefit to society is significant." Lonczak added: "I was surprised that at age 21 an elementary school intervention is still having an effect. It could have a permanent effect ...Do celebrities help sell new medicines?
...nalist Ray Moynihan suggests that by spreading the word about osteoporosis, she is inadvertently helping t... paid her own way to the meeting, by spreading the word about osteoporosis, she is inadvertently raising awareness about the latest trend in global drug pro...Rush receives Magnet Award for excellence in nursing
... great our nurses are, it's great to hear that the word has spread nationally. Congratulations to all Rush nurses," said Dr. Larry Goodman, president and CEO of Rush. The application included examples of innovative approaches to providing health care or a unique professional commitment to strengthening e...N.C. Health Choice program boosting access to dental care for poor children, study shows
...s to continue the program. We also need to get the word out to dentists across the state about the program, increasing their knowledge about it and encouraging their participation." Left untreated, tooth decay can lead to persistent, severe pain, missed school, inability to eat, poor nutrition, a swollen ...Do stroke therapies really work?
...are often encouraged to sing a song containing the word they are seeking. The hope is that embedding it in...this way, stroke patients learn to recall a stored word by a different route. Yet despite therapy, many patients fail to recover some lost functions. This ...Physics tip sheet #19 June 26, 2002
...ut 60 others shows that the shortest path from one word to another is surprisingly small at just over three steps. Less than one per cent of word pairs are separated by more than four steps. The authors suggest that this connectivity is related t...Jefferson Lab/Hampton University partnership results in new medical instrumentation center
...MI. "We pool expertise in one place and we get the word out," she says. "The idea is to become an international resource for medical physics and to invite physicians, companies and patient advocacy groups to partner with us." Groundbreaking for a new CAMI research facility on campus at Hampton University...Powerful burn-prevention video wins national award
...es. "We hope this recognition will help spread the word about this video and the powerful lessons it contains," says Pamela Pucci, RN, B.S.N., the Injury Prevention Nurse Educator, who led the video's development for the U-M Trauma Burn Center, part of the U-M Health System. "And, we thank the Friends of ...Brain can reorganize after traumatic injury
...rformed a memory test that involved seeing related word pairs flash on a computer screen (for example, pen...ew seconds. The subjects were then shown the first word of each pair and asked to recall the second word. While they performed this test, their brain activi...FINAL ALERT: RPB Science Writers Seminar in Eye Research to be held in Washington, DC Sept. 22-25
... after surgery for congenital cataract; the latest word on the newly developed abilities to predict and perhaps prevent retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) in utero as well as postnatally. Plan on arriving early on Sunday in time to join us for a noon-hour bagel nosh. Here, now, a rundown of some of the oth...For the blind, a computer navigation system with its own map
... the researchers named DRISHTI, after the Sanskrit word for vision. While in the early stages, the system is a promising attempt to address the difficult problem of helping the blind get around in a world designed for sighted people. Nationwide, about 1.1 million people suffer from blindness. Speaking int...Recruitment of 50,000 sisters of women with breast cancer
...e of volunteers who have agreed to help spread the word about the study, the internet, and other media. ...t cancer advocacy and support groups to spread the word about the Sister Study and our need for 50,000 women participants. Breast cancer advocates, in fact,...Right side of brain learns language skills after stroke
...aw three letters at a time and were asked to say a word that began with those three letters. For example, ...aw the letters "COU" they might say "cougar." Each word stem appeared several times during the experiment. The patient group was slower and less accurate, ...U-M School of Nursing team develops software to track work of nurses and results
...ional status. The program's developers hope to get word this fall about funding. University of Michigan Hospital and Health Centers has contributed to the project and plans to use the application in one Health System unit later this year. The Veterans Health Administration also is a potential partner for ...The Lancet Neurology November press release
... is well known in media circles that including the word "sex" in a headline is a sure-fire way of attracting the attention of potential readers. It is understandable, therefore, why a paper published in the Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry (JNNP) entitled "Is multiple sclerosis a sexuall...Amid food safety concerns, K-State professor believes consumers ready for irradiated meat products
...ox said. "It's unfortunate because simply with the word 'irradiation' it is very easy for opponents to scare consumers away from the process, just because of the negative connotations associated with irradiation. But again, when consumers have been informed and they know the facts, a majority of them are ...Aging lowers activity in brain's language areas; performance unaffected
...ed reading pairs of words and deciding whether the word pair was a homonym, e.g., "reign" and "rain." They also performed a word meaning task that involved reading pairs of words and deciding whether each word pair was a synonym,...