U of M hosts business planning for pandemic influenza
...eavitt, Michael Osterholm, director of CIDRAP, and former DHHS Secretary Tommy Thompson. Conference attendees will hear presentations that address legal, healthcare, infrastructure, human resource, government support, and transportation issues that affect all industries. Business sectors will then break o......room was made possible by a 50,000 donation from a former patient. The room is furnished with a queen size bed, television and other amenities to make the couple comfortable. Both the husband and wife undergo simultaneous polysomonography, a sleep test that monitors brain activity, eye movements, muscle a...From pills to bills: Pharmacist turned senator to speak at UH event
... of the Texas Senate Democratic Caucus and was the former president of the National Hispanic Caucus of State Legislators. At the last Texas Pharmacy Association convention, she donated a gavel used in the Texas Senate for the convention's auction that UH pharmacy students then acquired because of how it re...ELBW infants appear to be reaching functional outcomes as young adults similar to NBW infants
...studies, details of certain functional outcomes of former ELBW infants at young adulthood are unknown. Saroj...dy to determine the outcomes at young adulthood of former ELBW infants followed from birth in comparison to a group of normal birth-weight (NBW) children, rec...Sound nutrition for children is an unmet human right
...t a good idea, it's a right," challenges Webb, the former chief of nutrition for the UN World Food Programme. "It's a human right. And it's as yet an unmet right."...ACPM conference to feature research findings, practice innovations in preventive medicine
...into practice and policy. Kenneth Kizer, MD, MPH, former President and CEO of the National Quality Forum, will discuss transformational changes in healthcare and quality improvement. Gualberto Ruano, MD, MPH, from Genomas, Hartford Hospital, and Mark A. Rothstein, JD, from the University of Loulsville, wi......encountered it in the early 1990s on a trip to the former Soviet Union. Ziskin was intrigued but extremely skeptical about the alleged power of millimeter wave therapy because only positive results had been reported. "Although there were many studies of millimeter wave therapy in the Russian literature, t...World's pledge to halve hunger by 2015 looks like empty promise
...ricultural Research (see companion story) and is a former director general of the International Food Policy Research Institute. With 10 million children dying every year from disease and hunger, the world is increasingly unstable. "It's very sad and makes the world much more dangerous, because more people w...Former smoker-led intervention program helps women quit
...eatment and support from community health workers former smokers familiar with the physical and social environments of public housing units. They also participated in small, weekly group sessions for six weeks that included empowerment counseling and group prayer. Two community health workers attended meet...Preventive Medicine 2006 conference to feature quality improvement and patient safety
...into practice and policy, Kenneth Kizer, MD, MPH, former President and CEO of the National Quality Forum and now with Medsphere, will discuss transformational changes in healthcare and quality improvement, and Paul Antony, MD, MPH, Chief Medical Officer for the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of...Problems at World Anti-Doping Agency will 'drive innocent athletes out of sport'
...rotocols. One high profile example of this was the former British middle-distance runner, Diane Modahl, whose urine sample was left at room temperature for more than 48 hours allowing bacteria to change the nature of the sample. "WADA's procedures for collecting and analysing samples do not usually follow...New rotavirus vaccine joins routine infant immunization schedule
...Dr. Plotkin, an emeritus professor at Wistar and a former director of Infectious Diseases at Children's Hospital, developed a number of previous vaccines, including the vaccine that has eradicated rubella (German measles) in the United States. "This vaccine against a major childhood killer will impact the l...First long-duration mission for an ESA astronaut onboard the ISS
...ean to clock up the most time in space, overtaking former ESA astronaut Jean-Pierre Haigner's 209 days over two missions (including the 189-day ESA/CNES Perseus mission to Mir in 1999). In fact, by the end of this mission, Reiter may have become one of the select few to have spent more than a year in space....Latest research shows how mantrams can even tackle post-traumatic stress disorder
...reams that had occurred for 10 to 11 years" said a former veteran and one of the 66 people taking part in the survey. "I have racing thoughts. I think about a ton of things what I'm going to do about this and what I'm going to do about that and then I start the mantram and it helps" added another. A thir...BIDMC's Harvey Goldman, MD, receives distinguished pathologist award
...distinguished service as senior pathologist of the former Beth Israel Hospital, and chairman of the departments of pathology at the former New England Deaconess Hospital and New England Baptist Hospital. Goldman assumed his current positio...Reducing fine particulate air pollution cuts mortality risk
...percent in Topeka and 40 percent in Watertown, and former smoking ranged from 21 percent in Harriman to 25 percent in both Topeka and Watertown," said Dr. Laden. The annual mean concentration of PM2.5 (fine particulate matter) declined during the eight-year study period by 7 micrograms per cubic meter of ai...Mayo Clinic to host inaugural National Symposium on Health Care Reform in May
...derator is Judy Woodruff, broadcast journalist and former CNN anchor. At the end of each panel discussion, symposium attendees will identify priority solutions that will serve as the focus of a series of policy forums that will form around the highest priorities identified. The forums will present recomme...Newt Gingrich to speak about saving lives and saving money now
...dent health policy education initiative, will host former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, who will discu...Juvenile Diabetes Foundation. Gingrich serves with former Sen. Bob Kerrey, D-Neb., as co-chairman of the National Commission for Quality Long-term Care. In ad...ACP publishes 'Medicine in Quotations,' second edition
...t Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia and former Chairman of the Board of Regents of the American College of Physicians. His books include Multiple Sclerosis: The History of a Disease, and three books on the treatment of multiple sclerosis. In addition, he has written numerous articles on medical h......man olfaction. Coauthors of Chen's study included former Rice undergraduate students Ameeta Katdare and Nadia Lucas, a Rice Century Scholar....