Urban neighborhoods affect how people think about health
... central to urban living," said Barnes, whose next book provides an in-depth look at economic costs incurr...isions faced by the working poor in Gary, Ind. The book will be released this summer. "It is more difficult for people to focus on their own their illnesses...ACP releases 5th Edition of its respected ethics manual
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...en Ray Society has recently published the abstract book for its Annual Meeting in New Orleans, LA, on May 15-20, 2005. It features abstracts on the latest radiology research that will be debuted at the Annual Meeting. If you are a journalist and you'd like a copy mailed to you, please contact Jason Ocker ...Child sex abuse policy recommendations published in Science magazine
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...D and co-authorHedwig Freitag, MD are editors of a book on Pediatric Epilepsy Syndromes and their Surgical Treatment and are continuing with clinical research on their outcome data which now spans 10 years. Their interests include quality of life studies and both are in the process of performing a long-te...Lessons to be learnt from life at the very limit
...er Dr Hugh Montgomery and Nick Lane, author of the book 'Oxygen: the Molecule that Made the World'. The afternoon session will cover the recently announced Xtreme-Everest expedition ( http://www.xtreme-everest.co.uk ), detailing the plans of a team of UCL doctors from the Centre for Aviation, Space and Ex...University of Kentucky researcher wins American Heart Association award
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...ors will select from a list of local hospitals and book an appointment while the patient waits. This has a national implementation date of the end of December 2005. "The application screens are slow, and the computers often fail to pick up the programs. There is no integration with existing clinical syste...Arabic translation of doctoral thesis on Yemeni health workers
... and distribution costs. With this translation the book is now also accessible for health workers and other Arabic speakers who are interested in women and development....Short on time, long on feeling: Study suggests deadlines intensify emotions
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...e patients. All the participants received a recipe book containing both recipes and methods that follow the workshop's guidelines. In a follow-up study, a significant decrease was shown in the disease activity index of the patients that participated in the workshop. Today, these workshops are an integral......medicine, has published "Hypertension," the latest book in the ACP Key Diseases Series, to provide a neede...23 contributing authors provide the answers. The book includes numerous tables and summaries of key points. Furthermore, each topic, including hypertensio...Does vitamin C help prevent or treat the common cold?
Linus Pauling's book Vitamin C and The Common Cold , published in 1970, was a bestseller and led many people to believe in the value of the vitamin for cold prevention and treatment. But an article in this month's PLoS Medicine reviewing all of the best clinical resea...Child early intervention programs make for healthier adults
...tions included home visits, parent groups, toy and book libraries, pre-kindergarten programs, and health and developmental monitoring. Families enrolled three months before the child's birth and participated until the child reached kindergarten age. Of 282 children initially enrolled in BEEP, the investig...MCG faculty contribute to textbooks on geriatric, pediatric hypertension
...ty rates contributing mightily, he says. The first book on hypertensive children explores issues such as risk factors and assessment. Dr. Harshfield and MCG Research Manager Martha E. Wilson authored a chapter on Ethnic Differences in Childhood Blood Pressure. Dr. Frank A. Treiber, director of the Georgia...Dr. Kountakis edits first textbook on the frontal sinus
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...th resuscitation on infants was recorded in a 1754 book by Benjamin Pugh, A Treatise of Midwifery, and there are biblical references to the custom. Yet modern medical texts do not mention that inhalation of oxygen decreases carbon dioxide levels and the effects on blood flow; consequently it is not part ...Swamped city: New Orleans and nature
... a primary source of flooding in the city, and the book describes the engineering efforts that slowly, but...pened frequently up through the 1890s." Colten's book also makes note of the social impacts or implications of the city's flooding problems. "Oftentimes,...New book on independent living through smart technologies available from Wiley
... photographs, illustrations, and case studies, the book focuses on specific high-technology solutions. The book also examines such areas as basic assistive technologies, human-computer interactions, driving, tran...