Carnegie Mellon psychologist receives NIH grant
...Medical Association demonstrating that people with diverse social networks and greater sociability have bette...lished, for example, that people with numerous and diverse relationships are less susceptible to infection than others. "What we don't know is how our social e...The myth of the medical malpractice claims crisis
...lly-oriented articles of interest to scholars in a diverse range of law and law-related fields, including civil justice, corporate law, criminal justice, domestic relations, economics, finance, health care, political science, psychology, public policy, securities regulation, and sociology. Bernard S. Black p...Notch protein signaling directs early T-cell development
...igators found that Notch, a protein that regulates diverse cell-fate decisions in multi-cellular organisms, is active in very early T-cell progenitors in the thymus of mice. Notch contributes to the subsequent differentiation of these early T-cell progenitors into T cells. "Notch signaling instructs multi-...New pediatrician workforce policy addresses growing challenges in health care
...ians that is not keeping pace with an increasingly diverse population of U.S. children; High geographic vari...uit a larger percentage of culturally and racially diverse pediatricians to accommodate the increasing population of minority children. "We really face a crisi...A TV in the bedroom is associated with lower standardized test scores among third grade students
...n had an average age of 8.5 years, were ethnically diverse and evenly divided between the sexes (53 percent girls). The children reported an average of 3.3 television sets per households and almost all had a VCR. Seventy-one percent of the children had a TV set in their own bedroom and 71 percent had access ...Television in the bedroom may hurt child's school performance
...ling for the same variables." The study followed a diverse group of third-grade students from six schools in northern California. During the course of a school year, nearly 400 students and their parents were asked to report on the types of media available in the home, including television, videotapes, compu...Conflicts pitting doctors vs. patients / kin is #1 issue in medical ethics, Canadian experts say
...s developing models of clinical ethics practice in diverse health care settings and continuing education programs for health care providers. Top 10 Ethical Challenges in Health Care: Canadian Ethicists Rank 1 -- Disagreement between patients/families and health care professionals about treatment decisio...Antibiotics appear to have little benefit for uncomplicated lower respiratory tract infections
...ct infection. However, recent reviews have come to diverse conclusions about the likely effectiveness of antibiotics and a recent review confirms a moderate effect of antibiotics on illness course; the debate continues unabated about the role of antibiotics because these reviews are relatively small. There a...Endocarditis infection commonly related to health care factors, increasingly due to staph
...large, prospectively collected, and geographically diverse cohort of patients with IE existed before now, the global significance and impact of regional variations on the characteristics, treatment, and outcome of S aureus IE has not been known. Vance G. Fowler, Jr., M.D., M.H.S., of Duke University Medical ...New computer program uses brain scans to assess risk of Alzheimer's
...ther studies and expanded to include PET data from diverse patient groups," adds Dr. De Leon. "But we're confident this is a strong beginning, demonstrating accurate detection of early Alzheimer's disease. Now we have a better tool to examine disease progression, and we anticipate this might open some doors...Minority youths self-esteem grows, not shrinks over time
...he experiences of ethnically and socioeconomically diverse teens. A new study published in the latest issue of the Journal of Research on Adolescence focused on Black, Latino, and Asian American students from lower and working class families at a public high school in New York City. The researchers found t...Saving virtual lives with nanobots goal of UH-led project
...recognize students who demonstrate excellence in a diverse range of technical and artistic pursuits. According to Microsoft, entries are expected to address the competition theme to "imagine a world where technology dissolves the boundaries between us." Out of about 2,000 participants in the world qualif...US Latinos may develop Alzheimer's disease symptoms at earlier age than white, non-Latinos
...ugh Latino people are a geographic and genetically diverse group, some reports suggest that they may differ from Anglo (white non-Latino) individuals in several Alzheimer's disease (AD) characteristics, according to background information in the article. Differences shown in previous studies include a higher...Study of iron overload yields surprising results
...SALEM, N.C. Early results of the largest and most diverse screening study of a genetic condition that causes too much iron to build up in the body show that Asians and Pacific Islanders have the highest mean levels of iron in their blood of all ethnic groups involved, including African Americans, Caucasians...Technique may speed drug production, reduce costs and waste
...a catalyst to form two chemical bonds and create a diverse range of indole-containing compounds. These compounds could then be used to make drugs now on the market or form the basis of new therapeutic drugs. Lautens says this new molecular-level technique could equal big savings and less environmental impact...Researchers find that chocolate compound stops cancer cell cycle in lab experiments
...te compound exerts multiple independent effects on diverse cellular processes. That will be the subject of future studies here." Co-authors of the study from Georgetown University are first author Danica Ramijak, Nicole Thompson, and Linda Metheny-Barlow. Leo Romanczyk from Masterfoods, USA, and other coll...Post-traumatic stress disorder common among refugees in western countries
... the fact that it is difficult to know whether the diverse refugee groups contributing to this analysis were representative of the refugee populations resettled in western countries. Nevertheless, our review suggests that at least several tens of thousands of current refugees in western countries have post-t...ISHLT updates guidelines for heart and lung transplants
...LT has created several task forces, comprised of a diverse group of its members, all of whom are active in transplant medicine. The task forces are reviewing: criteria for placing patients on a waiting list for a donor organs; pharmacological, surgical and device based intervention to successfully bridge pat......o (UCSF). She conducted a survey of 580 ethnically diverse Northern California ninth-graders in the first study to investigate adolescents' perceptions of the consequences of having oral sex as opposed to vaginal sex. The survey showed that these young teens considered oral sex to be significantly less risky...