ACS News Service Weekly PressPac -- January 31, 2007
... ACS NEWS SERVICE Jan. 31, 2007...Weekly PressPac - ALL CONTENT IS FOR IMMEDIATE USE EXCEPT ARTICLE #5 (EMBARGOED FOR 9 A.M., EASTERN TIME, Feb. 5, 2007) ...... ... Contact:...Embargoed Jan./Feb. Annals of Family Medicine tip sheet
...Nearly all the pharmaceutical ads consumers see on television are based on emotional appeals, and few provide necessary details about the causes of a medical condition, risk factors or lifestyle changes that may be appropriate alternatives to pharmaceutical interventions. In a content analysis of 38 unique pharmaceutical advertisements that ran during peak television viewing times, researche...ACS News Service Weekly PressPac -- January 3, 2007
... ACS NEWS SERVICE...Weekly PressPac - January 3, 2007...ALL CONTENT IS FOR IMMEDIATE USE EXCEPT ARTICLE #5 (EMBARGOED FOR 9 A.M., EASTERN TIME, JAN. 8, 2007) ...... ... The American Chemical Society (ACS) News Service PressPac is your access point for d...Public meeting Jan. 4 on research priorities on EHS aspects of engineered nanoscale materials
The Nanoscale Science, Engineering, and Technology (NSET) Subcommittee of the National Science and Technology Council's Committee on Technology is holding a public meeting on Thursday, January 4, 2007 in Arlington, Va., to receive input on research needs related to the environmental, health, and safety (EHS) aspects of engineered nanoscale materials. The NSET Subcommittee is looking for input on...Jan/Feb Annals of Family Medicine tip sheet
... Anger greatly increases a person's chances of injury, especially among men, according to this study of more than 2,500 patients. Based on interviews of people who had been seriously injured and were seeking care at an emergency department, researchers found that 31.7 percent reported some degree of irritability just before the injury, 18.1 percent reported feeling angry and 13.2 percent rep...JCI table of contents, January 26, 2006
...... ... Cataracts are a leading cause of blindness worldwide. Using a rat model of cataract formation, Masayuki Mori and researchers at Shinshu University Graduate School of Medicine in Japan have now found a link between cataracts and cholesterol. The study, appearing online on January 26 in advance of print publication in the February 2006 issue of the Journal of Clinical Investigation repo...JCI table of contents: January 19, 2006
...... Vitamin D signals to prevent bone loss during osteoporosis... ... The risk of bone fracture resulting from falls increases as we age due to bone loss and osteoporosis. Physicians have routinely prescribed vitamin D and vitamin Drelated drugs to retard bone loss, but until now, little was known about the specific targets of vitamin D in bone. In a study appearing online on January 19 in ad...Annals of Internal Medicine tip sheet for Jan. 17, 2006
... A large prospective study -- perhaps the most definitive yet of the relationship between exercise and dementia -- found that older adults who exercised at least three times per week were less likely to develop dementia than those who were less active (Article, p. 73). The study participants were 65 or older with normal mental function at the beginning of the study. They were followed for si...News Briefs from the January issue of CHEST
... New data reveal that the asthma drug salmeterol may lead to an increased risk of respiratory- and asthma-related deaths in African American patients. In the Salmeterol Multicenter Asthma Research Trial (SMART), researchers from GlaxoSmithKline, Research Triangle Park, NC, National Jewish Medical and Research Center, Denver, CO, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, and Wake Forest Univer...RSVP: Telecon on Hurricane Katrina Survivor Initiative - Jan 5
... Harvard Medical School, through a grant by the National Institute of Mental Health, will recruit 2,000 survivors of Hurricane Katrina to create the Hurricane Katrina Community Advisory Group. The group will provide ongoing information to policy-makers to help monitor the pace of recovery of the more than two million families whose lives were disrupted by Hurricane Katrina, with a strong emph...Annals of Internal Medicine tip sheet for Jan. 3, 2006
Please call for articles from Dec. 19-23, 2005, or on Jan. 2, 2006. ACP and Annals of Internal Medicine will close for the week of Dec. 26. Sorry for the inconvenience. ... ...1. ... ...A survey of internists--physicians practicing internal medicine--whose board certification was up for renewal in December 2002 found that the most common reasons for participating in recertification were to main...AACR establishes new lectureship in honor of Dr. Jane C. Wright
PHILADELPHIA -- Continuing a 45-year-old tradition of honoring outstanding achievement in cancer research, the American Association for Cancer Research is pleased to announce the addition of a new lectureship to its series of annual awards. ... ...The AACR-Minorities in Cancer Research-Jane C. Wright Lectureship will be given to an outstanding scientist who has made meritorious contributions to t...