Case study: cross-cultural bioethics training program helps fight African 'brain drain'
...m lost contact with only one trainee. The programs directors have also learned to require monthly progress reports and to finance each practicum in stages to ensure timely completion. Backgrounds of the 23 trainees who have gone through the program to date have varied; former trainees include a philosophy p...Mice with a migraine show signs of brain damage
...ms of stroke. Friedman, a member of the board of directors of the American Headache Society who has treated thousands of headache sufferers, echoes Nedergaards call for a greater emphasis on prevention. Its astounding just how many migraine sufferers do not see a doctor and are not on a medication to preve...Majority of state Medicaid programs have or plan to have 'pay-for-performance' programs
...in this area. An overwhelming majority of Medicaid directors state that their pay-for-performance priority is o...directors, conducted follow-up interviews with the directors and their staffs, and reviewed a range of documents and Web-based resources on the programs. The stu...GSA confers 2006 Nathan Shock New Investigator Award to NIA's de Cabo
...or at the NIA, de Cabo also serves on the board of directors of the American Aging Association. The main focus of his research is to elucidate mechanisms involved in the anti-aging effects of caloric restriction. His knowledge and expertise in the fields of plasma membrane redox, aging, and nutrition have also...American College of Physicians publishes 'Stroke'
...filiated institutions, who are professors, medical directors and researchers in the fields of neurology, neurosurgery, and radiology. The book's 18 chapters include: "Overview of the Approach to the Stroke Patient," "Antithrombolytic Therapy," "Carotid Artery Disease," "Stroke in Young Patients," "Aneurysms a...Children's Hospital Boston neurosurgeons to perform brain tumor removal during live Web cast
...and Mark Kieran, MD, PhD, the surgical and medical directors of the Brain Tumor Clinic, a collaborative program with Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, will also be on-hand to discuss the neuro-oncological aspects of the procedure, while Craig D. McClain, MD, and Keith Ligon, MD, will comment on the anesthesia and ...New international guidelines for heart transplant candidates standardize patient care
...iew board and then presented to the ISHLT board of directors for approval. Revisiting Listing Criteria for Heart Transplantation The first task force, charged with Revisiting Listing Criteria for Heart Transplantation, produced a report particularly focused on patient outcomes. This task force, working to ...Heart transplant program at Northwestern Memorial Hospital celebrates anniversary
...d Edwin McGee, Jr., M.D., the medical and surgical directors respectively for the advanced heart failure program. "I am very proud of the program that we have established at the Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute's Center for Heart Failure," said Dr. O'Connell. "Heart failure and heart transplant patients benefi...Vaccinate or not? Treat or not? Study looks at tricky health decisions
... get it, and 73 percent of those acting as medical directors would choose to vaccinate large numbers of patient...g even greater risks. The same is true for medical directors of hospitals or insurance plans, who must make defensible, justifiable decisions for groups of patie...New engineering center to transform sensor technology
...raction of the size and cost." The center's deputy directors are Anthony Johnson, professor of physics and professor of computer science and electrical engineering and director of the Center for Advanced Studies in Photonics Research at University of Maryland, Baltimore County, and Matthew Fraser, associate pr...Clinton Foundation, Yale and Ethiopian Ministry of Health forge partnership
...ries will spend one year working side-by-side with directors of 10 to 12 public hospitals and health bureaus in Ethiopia. With their Ethiopian partners, this group will identify systemic changes that can improve access to, and delivery of, health care services to the population of 76 million people. "I am ple...Improving recovery from spinal cord injuries: $3.7 million grant will create rehabilitation network
...holic University of America, will serve as program directors of NCARRN. A faculty member at GUMC since 1988, Bregman served as chair of the Department of Neuroscience from 1999-2005. The goal of her research program is to identify the requirements of developing and mature CNS neurons for survival and axonal r...Air ambulance research identifies best intubation method
...nding on the experience of the crews. "EMS medical directors must carefully match the choice of intubation medications to the training and skill levels of the system's providers," said Bozeman. "In some systems, using basic oxygen and techniques to keep the airway open -- and not attempting intubation -- is th...Avantogen and Innovate merge key oncology program, RP101, RP101
...Chairman of Innovate. Two additional non-executive directors will be nominatedby Avantogen. Lee Cole, Chairman of Bioaccelerate Holdings Inc, will join the Innovate Board, and Dr Frank Armstrong the CEO of Bioaccelerate will continue as a Director. The Chairman of Innovate, Mr Paul Hopper said that "the propos...Teens' healthy food choices foiled by early lunch, soft drink machine income and parents who cater
...ate researchers sent surveys to school foodservice directors at half (271) of the public high schools in Pennsy...t rural. Twenty-five percent of the foodservice directors reported that lunch periods are scheduled before 10:30 a.m. and the researchers found that an early ...Principals' and foodservice directors' perceptions differ on food policy
... The researchers sent surveys to the food service directors at half (271) of the public high schools in Pennsy...found that more principals than school foodservice directors reported the existence of enforced policies. The researchers write, "A troubling finding in our res...Autism Speaks makes major funding commitment for unprecedented national autism database
...autism research, today announced that its board of directors has voted to fund a program for the development of a national autism database. Kennedy Krieger Institute, one of the nation's leading treatment centers for autism and other developmental disorders, will develop the open, interactive database. Autism...Popularity doesn't necessarily make Prozac best antidepressant choice
...ychiatrist Xavier Amador, a member of the board of directors for the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill, said, "Prozac was available years before other SSRIs. Since, as a group, the SSRIs were far safer than [earlier antidepressants] the first one, Prozac, became hugely popular. It has tremendous name reco...Debilitating jaw and neck pain targeted through $19 million NIH support, multidisciplinary center
...at the UNC School of Public Health, are co-program directors for the Orofacial Pain: Prospective Evaluation and Risk Assessment (OPPERA) study. "Whereas health problems such as heart disease and cancer have been the focus of many epidemiologic studies and for which there are many experts, other common, under-s...Groundbreaking consensus: pediatric cardiology training recommendations
...n our training recommendations." "Training program directors from around the country were involved in developing the recommendations," added Dr. Graham. "This effort had wide, grassroots support. It was reviewed a number of times by a number of organizations, and we're very happy to be able to publish it for t...