AACR establishes new lectureship in honor of Dr. Jane C. Wright
...the New York Cancer Society. She has held numerous appointments in hospitals and Medical Schools, and has held leadership positions and memberships in numerous associations, such as the Board of Directors of the American Cancer Society, New York; a founding member of the American Society of Clinical Oncology; and...NCI's Patient Navigator Research Program: Questions and answers
...treatment appointments; identifying and scheduling appointments with culturally sensitive caregivers; coordinating care among providers (such as screening clinics, diagnosis centers, and treatment facilities); arranging for translation/interpretation services; ensuring coordination of services among medical perso...Direct-to-consumer advertising may influence physicians' prescribing decisions
...o request (control condition). The patients made appointments for office visits with 152 primary care physicians in Sacramento, Calif., San Francisco, and Rochester, N.Y., between May 2003 and May 2004. The scenarios included patients telling their doctor that they had seen an advertisement for Paxil on TV an...Richard A. Meyer, MD, receives the 2005 AIUM William J. Fry Memorial Lecture Award
... in that capacity for 30 years. In addition to his appointments at Children's Hospital, Dr. Meyer is a staff physician at the University Hospital in Cincinnati, where he has been since 1976. He is a nationally and internationally respected echocardiographer and has been invited as a visiting professor throughout ...Facial trauma may cause significant social and behavioral problems
...s said they would participate, but missed numerous appointments before deciding they were not interested in partic...lation would correspond with the inability to keep appointments and participate in this study," Persing said. Persing said he next will look at the psychological ...4D proton therapy, radiation-resistant tumors, interpreting medical images
...rizona.edu/krupinski/index.html ), who holds joint appointments in the radiology and psychology departments at the University of Arizona, is a leader in Medical Image Perception research, which seeks to discover the root causes of interpretation errors and find ways to avoid them. She is the first of several spe...ARVO announces 2006 Friedenwald Award winner
... of Rochester's Center for Visual Science. He has appointments in the University's Departments of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Optics, Ophthalmology, and Biomedical Engineering. Williams received his doctorate in psychology from the University of California, San Diego. He holds eight patents and has authored ...NMR method rapidly solves 8 target genomic structures
...to crystallography," said Szyperski, who has joint appointments in the departments of biochemistry and structural biology in the UB School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, as well as in the College of Arts and Sciences. "There are many high-profile proteins that don't crystallize or don't do so easily. For X-...Arts program provides services, guidance to HIV/AIDS patients
...to acceptance and healing. Kellman, who has joint appointments in the School of Art and Design and College of Medicine at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, began working first-hand with HIV/AIDS patients at a community hospital as part of a small pilot program launched in 2000. In its first year, t...Many body-conscious teens use supplements to improve physique
...or most people to attain" says Field, who also has appointments at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School. "Girls' concerns about their bodies are well known, but I don't think it's on parents' radar screens that their sons might have body concerns -- 'I'm not big enough, I'm not strong enough, I...Insurance status affects ability to secure necessary, timely follow-up medical appointments
...., and colleagues examined the access to follow-up appointments according to insurance status in nine U.S. cities ...ent) of 430 privately insured callers were offered appointments within a week. Callers who said they had private health insurance were more likely to receive appoin...Pediatricians may fail to diagnose obesity in kids, Saint Louis University research shows
...of nearly 33,000 children who had routine doctor's appointments between 1997 and 2000. They found that a diagnosis of obesity was recorded on charts during less than 1 percent of well-child visits. The national rate of obesity among children at that time was substantially higher -- between 13 and 15 percent. When...UK liver services need urgent improvement
...ommon problems, while waiting times for outpatient appointments were often unacceptable, with only seven hospitals able to offer an urgent appointment within two weeks. An earlier survey also showed the need for a substantial increase in consultant liver specialists (hepatologists). Recent initiatives to improve ...Insurance company rewards to doctors and hospitals may not improve care
...r standard, however, they became unwilling to make appointments for people who could not come in quickly. If a patient called on Monday and wanted to make an appointment on Friday, the patient might be refused because the doctor didn't want this to count against his 48-hour on time performance. "There is so muc...ASH and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation partner to launch new award program
...ek to increase the number of academic and research appointments among minority hematologists. Through the ASH-AMFDP, ASH will fund at least one AMFDP hematology scholar per year. Upon being chosen for the award, each scholar will spend at least 70 percent of his or her time in research activities in association...Doctors call for urgent review of cancer initiative
...eral Infirmary. "Increased waiting times for other appointments have also been noted and this has raised fears that the target may actually be leading to a delay in diagnosing cancers in many patients." However, the authors do acknowledge that being seen promptly has an important psychological effect on worried p...Johns Hopkins celebrates its first century of neuroscience
...Another 78 Hopkins faculty have secondary or joint appointments in neuroscience, including two dozen or so whose primary appointments are in the departments of Neurology, Neurosurgery or Psychiatry. In the Department of Neurology, the...Nov. 11 event celebrates a century of brain science at Johns Hopkins
...Another 78 Hopkins faculty have secondary or joint appointments in neuroscience, including two dozen or so whose primary appointments are in the departments of Neurology, Neurosurgery or Psychiatry. In the Department of Neurology, the...GSA confers 2005 Distinguished Mentorship in Gerontology Award to USC's Bengtson
...stdoctoral students, all of whom have tenure-track appointments are working in the field of aging. Bengtson is also a past GSA president. To be eligible for the prize, the mentor must have had influence on graduate, undergraduate, and professional students as evidenced by the number and accomplishments of their m...Dr. Tallie Z. Baram wins nation's top epilepsy research award
... of Medicine in Houston. She followed with faculty appointments at University of Texas at Houston and its M.D. Anderson Cancer Center and at USC, before joining UCI in 1995. In 2002, she founded the UCI Epilepsy Research Center, and she is currently the scientific director of the UCI Comprehensive Epilepsy Progra...