Creating a new questionnaire to assess alcohol problems among college students
...ort measures used to assess alcohol problems among college students. Researchers have created an alternative... problems. Heavy drinking by some students on U.S. college campuses is well documented; however, much remains unknown about the exact nature of problems caused...Nation's experts to answer questions about attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder
...hievement and are less likely to be high school or college graduates. U.S. household income losses due to ADHD total nearly $77 billion each year. With school back in swing, parents and teachers may suspect that their child or a child in their care has ADHD. ADHD Experts on Call provides a valuable resour...Rutgers College of Nursing faculty member to receive distinguished alumna award
...ademic programs on all three Rutgers campuses. The college offers a master's program with unique practitioner specialties and the only doctoral (Ph.D) nursing degree in New Jersey. ...Federal grant to expand MCG pipeline programs for minorities
...ers to intense Saturday sessions that help prepare college students for the national Medical College Admissio...Brown said. Through the grant, each participating college will annually enroll eight academically strong, motivated rising sophomores, teach the Saturday sess...NIMH expands public health education effort
...sh. The PSAs feature Rodolfo Palma-Lulin, a recent college graduate who shared his experience with depression in the hopes of encouraging other Latino men to talk about their depression and seek treatment. "It took me years to understand that what I was experiencing was depression. Getting help made such an ...Penn study finds physically abused boys may be more likely to commit domestic violence as adults
...studies have shown abuse prevalence of 28% in male college graduates and 51% in active duty soldiers in the United States Army.) The study also found that approximately 75% of the identified abuse was carried out by parents, and of these cases, a considerably larger share was attributed to mothers than to f...Epidemic of chronic diseases focus of Oxford Health Alliance Conference
... obesity crisis, while Yale's efforts to transform college food will be outlined by Yale student Sarah Milby of Community Health Educators Nutrition Group. Lars Rebien Srensen, CEO of healthcare company Novo Nordisk, and John Seffrin, President of the American Cancer Society, will join John Bell of Oxford ...Research by Mailman School of Public Health cites New Jersey's high healthcare costs
...in New Jersey," said Michael P. Riccards, a former college president who is the Institute's Executive Director. "With her papers, Sherry Glied will help generate the debate and discussion that is so important to policy-making in our state." The Hall Institute conducts and supports scholarly research; prese...Study: N.C. parents want tobacco use prevention to become higher priority
... were male, 72 percent were white, 44 percent were college graduates, and 30 percent had a child under age 5. Just over 20 percent of parents of high school students said that their child had never smoked, and only 5.6 percent reported that their children currently smoked cigarettes, Goldstein said. About 97...Thanksgiving gluttony misaligned with 'intuitive eating' approach examined in new study
...Hawks and Ashley Harris -- identified a handful of college students who are naturally intuitive eaters and compared them with other students who aren't. Participants were then tested to determine how healthy they were. As measured by the Intuitive Eating Scale, developed by Hawks and others to measure the de...Two studies find ways to block the 'freshman 15'
...of pounds students gain during their first year of college -- could be as simple as stepping on a scale every...l of Obesity, weighed a group of first-year female college students at the beginning and end of the semester. Women who had no further contact with the resear......dentified, or means should be developed, to inform college members as to expectations and obligations regarding the duty to provide care during a communicable disease outbreak. 2. Governments and the health care sector should ensure that: a. care providers' safety is protected at all times, and providers are...Rutgers College of Nursing faculty member to receive a Diva Award
...Nursing at Rutgers College of Nursing, came to the college in 1996 when she retired as the Assistant Surgeon General and Chief Nurse Officer of the U.S. Public Health Service. During her time at the U.S. Public Health Service, as a community health and maternal/child specialist, Plotnick was in charge of mor...Squinting while staring at a computer monitor can cause painful dry eye
... scientist in optometry. The researchers asked 10 college students to squint at different levels. All participants had 20/20 vision in both eyes. The researchers attached two tiny electrodes to the lower eyelids of each student. The electrodes were also attached to an electromyogram, a machine that records ...Radiologists tackle diagnosis of puzzling football injuries
...CL) tears. ACL tears are fairly common among elite college football players, and 80 percent of meniscal tears that occur in association with ACL tears are in the outer knee joint. "Tackling is usually done from the outside of the knee, imparting a load that traps the lateral meniscus in addition to tearing t...Johns Hopkins study suggests link between caffeine dependence and family history of alcoholism
...0 percent were married, 50 percent had a four-year college degree and 23 percent reported having an advanced degree. Fifty-seven percent had a lifetime diagnosis of caffeine dependence, and 52 percent reported having a family history of alcoholism. Thirty-two percent had both risk factors, and 23 percent had...Medical College of Wisconsin study
... had graduated from high school, some had obtained college degrees, and one had postgraduate training. None had any prior experience working as case managers insuring uninsured children, but all received specific training for the study. "By eliminating the racial/ethnic element having people from the same...Gatton livestock studies spurred a flu-fighter
...ined his passion for science while studying at the college that grew into UQ Gatton, and tomorrow will return to the campus to receive the Gatton Gold Medal 2005 from UQ Chancellor The Hon Sir Llew Edwards, AC. He will also address a Gatton graduation ceremony. Professor von Itzstein said he was a 15-year-o...'Doctor Franklin's Medicine' explores founding father's vast medical legacy
...d formal medical training and even fewer possessed college degrees. "What distinguished Franklin from the myriad other colonials who practiced or dabbled in medicine was that he approached clinical medicine with the mindset of an experimental natural philosopher," Finger writes. "He skillfully designed exper...Hazardous alcohol use by young adults goes far beyond college campuses
...recent media attention given to drinking among the college crowd, at-risk alcohol use is neither unique to, n...Medicine, at the University of Michigan. "Although college is typically known for frequent partying and alcohol consumption, individuals who do not attend coll...