Many parents fail to set rules to limit children's exposure to tobacco smoke, according to new study
... The results show the need for more public health efforts to ban smoking in public and other enclosed places, say the authors, in order to protect children form the effects of secondhand smoke....Largest NIH grant for NYU will create research network in dental practices
...places NYU College of Dentistry in the vanguard of efforts to improve the practice of healthcare in the United States. " Dr. Jonathan Ship, the PEARL Network's principal investigator and chair, said, "The PEARL Network seeks to organize, train, inspire, and facilitate a network of dental practitioners to c...Pediatricians must confront community-based threats to health
...e health of children, including the groundbreaking efforts at URMC. Building on an already strong institutional commitment to community health, in 1996, the Pediatric Links to the Community (PLC) program was created at URMC to further the study of the unique health challenges for economically disadvantaged ...Randy 'Duke' Cunningham, Miss America 2005 Deidre Downs and Dan Haney receive public service awards
...hrough his committee work in the House and related efforts on behalf of the biomedical research community. His leadership was instrumental in achieving the five-year doubling of the budget for the National Institutes of Health. As Miss America 2005, Deidre Downs has made funding for childhood cancer researc...Patients with heart disease can lower cardiovascular risk factors with exercise, stress management
...pment of IHD and its complications. Consequently, efforts to alter psychosocial risk factors, particularly in the setting of cardiac rehabilitation, have received increased attention. However, the effects of behavioral interventions to reduce adverse cardiac events has been uncertain. James A. Blumenthal, P...Risk of HIV transmission highest in early stage of infection
...prevention efforts. Traditionally, they explained, efforts have focused on those who are not yet infected and on those with established infection. The highest rate of transmission in the study, however, occurred in early infection, when few infected persons are aware of their infection status or receive the ...2005 Potamkin Prize goes to neurologists for research in early detection of Alzheimer's disease
...earliest symptomatic stage of the disease. Current efforts focus on detection of preclinical Alzheimer's, prior to the onset of symptoms, using imaging modalities and assays of biological fluids." John H. Growdon, MD, of Harvard University, who chaired the committee that selected the Prize recipients, said, ...50 years after Salk polio vaccine: Status of global eradication efforts
...fing to discuss status of global polio eradication efforts and challenges to achieving a polio-free world by 2008 WHEN: 12:40 p.m., Tuesday, April 12 WHERE: Room 701, University of Pittsburgh Alumni Hall, 4227 Fifth Ave. Reporters may participate via telephone conference call by dialing 800-860-2442 ...Fink receives National Pharmacy Leadership Award
...fessional practice or mentoring. "Fink's tireless efforts on behalf of pharmacy became apparent as the committee reviewed the package submitted by your supporters," said Mary L. Euler, Pharm.D., Executive Director of PLS. "He has impacted so many lives and for that we want to say thank you on behalf of the ...Salk's legacy, current and future challenges to vaccine development topic of briefing
...nstitute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases; leads efforts aimed at developing an HIV vaccine John B. Robbins, M.D., chief, Laboratory of Developmental and Molecular Immunity, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development; has pioneered vaccines for diseases that are prevalent in infants and child...Children's hospital neurologist receives Young Investigator Award in spinal muscular atrophy
...n. "Through this award, I will be able to focus my efforts on understanding the cellular and molecular basis of SMA disease." Sahin's previous training and work has focused on the molecular mechanisms of axon guidance. His research will continue to examine the hypothesis that the protein SMN (produced by the...Study: Level I trauma centers boost head injury survival
... to the closing of level I centers, and additional efforts made to delineate the specific interventions used at the Level I centers that make such a difference," he said....Certain weight control behaviors may precipitate obesity among adolescent girls
...t problems." These results suggest that prevention efforts should target those adolescents with these particular high-risk behaviors to understand what is causing the rise in obesity and to hopefully facilitate the design of effective preventative programs to stop this public health epidemic, said Stice....Tissue engineering experts discuss orthopaedics applications
... technologies to enhance the healing of ligaments, efforts to produce tissue-engineered cartilage, and the possibility of use stem cells derived from muscle to improve bone healing. These advances could provide better treatments for sports injuries, cleft palate and osteoporosis, the researchers said. "The p...Abnormal lung cancer screening results may help smokers quit
...scans may enhance primary and secondary prevention efforts by potentially providing increased interaction with health care providers, increased cognitions about one's own cancer risk, and reinforcement for smoking abstinence with lung CT scan screening."...Early stage breast-cancer rates are rising as incidence of invasive cases are leveling
...sults of this study suggest that our public-health efforts to increase the use of breast-cancer screening mammography, primarily appear to have altered the types of breast cancer that are being diagnosed most frequently in the United States, as we have found that the number of invasive cases being diagnose...Probable cause sequences for WTC collapses finalized
...rs affecting the performance of the buildings, the efforts of emergency responders and the ability of occupants to escape prior to the collapses. In turn, NIST has identified a number of future practices and technologies that potentially could have enhanced building performance and life safety capabilities o...Heart valve ring reverses damage from congestive heart failure, easing symptoms
...art failure is a ventricular disease, but previous efforts to reshape the ventricle by repairing the mitral valve have been hit-or-miss," says Bolling, who heads the U-M's Mitral Valve Clinic and is a professor of surgery at the U-M Medical School. "This ring's special three-dimensional shape makes it easier...Public leadership in neurology award honors Leeza Gibbons for Alzheimer's awareness efforts
...ering of neurologists. Gibbons will talk about her efforts in the keynote speech at the meeting's awards lunc... Viste, Jr., MD, chair of the AAN Foundation. "Her efforts to educate the public about Alzheimer's disease and advocate for those affected have made a signific...APA applauds new California regulations for inpatient psychological services
.... The new regulations are a result of longstanding efforts by organized psychology to enforce laws already on the books. The new regulations resulted from recent negotiations between DHS and Psychology Shield, a non-profit organization devoted to improving patient care in California's state-operated mental h...