Iowa's Maas wins GSA's 2006 Doris Schwartz Gerontological Nursing Award
...m's Mark Dallas Hotel. The meeting is organized to foster interdisciplinary interactions among clinical, administrative, and research professionals who specialize in the study of the aging process. Maas is most known in gerontology circles for her work on the care of persons with Alzheimer's Disease in nur...ITN America's Freund to receive GSA's 2006 Maxwell A. Pollack Award
...m's Mark Dallas Hotel. The meeting is organized to foster interdisciplinary interactions among clinical, administrative, and research professionals who specialize in the study of the aging process. Freund is the president and executive director of ITN (Independent Transportation Net) America, an organizati...GSA confers 2006 Distinguished Mentorship in Gerontology Award to UTMB's Markides
...m's Mark Dallas Hotel. The meeting is organized to foster interdisciplinary interactions among clinical, administrative, and research professionals in the field of gerontology. In his academic courses, Markides frequently describes health disparities in the U.S. population and then challenges students to h...USC's Gatz wins the Gerontological Society of America's 2006 Donald P. Kent Award
...m's Mark Dallas Hotel. The meeting is organized to foster interdisciplinary interactions among clinical, administrative, and research professionals in the field of gerontology. Gatz has long contributed to a number of international collaborations. She has become an ambassador for the American field of gero...GSA confers 2006 Joseph T. Freeman Award to University of Wisconsin's Carnes
...m's Mark Dallas Hotel. The meeting is organized to foster interdisciplinary interactions among clinical, administrative, and research professionals in the field of gerontology. Upon her arrival at the University of Wisconsin's medical school in the early 1980s, Carnes established the VA Interdisciplinary T...Stanford's Carstensen to receive GSA's 2006 Distinguished Career Contribution to Gerontology Award
...m's Mark Dallas Hotel. The meeting is organized to foster interdisciplinary interactions among clinical, administrative, and research professionals in the field of gerontology. Carstensen's theoretical advances in the field of psychology and aging have defined and continue to shape the study of social and ...University of Western Ontario's McMullin wins GSA's 2006 Margret M. Baltes Award
...m's Mark Dallas Hotel. The meeting is organized to foster interdisciplinary interactions among clinical, administrative, and research professionals who specialize in the study of the aging process. A winner of Canada's 2004 Premier's Research Excellence Award, McMullin is an internationally recognized scho...Doctor urges health-care workers to be alert to suicide risk amongst cancer patients
...oviding better symptom control we might be able to foster the desire to continue living."...UC Davis at forefront of national initiative to transform research to improve human health
...ity at large. By creating a dynamic environment to foster these collaborations, our new center will accelera...est in programs and administrative structures that foster collaborative and translational research. These include a new strategic plan focused on research and...Penn leads $98 million translational medicine collaboration
...opment of interdisciplinary structures designed to foster and facilitate research and education in the emerg...f infrastructure support will advance the pace and foster new areas of critical research." One example of how the grant will streamline research is by develo...$83.5 million NIH grant to Pitt establishes Clinical and Translational Research Institute
...Translational Science Institute (CTSI), which will foster the development of clinical and translational rese...ate their existing resources with new initiatives; foster new research, training and community-focused programs that ensure patients, especially minority and ...National study: Patients poorly prepared for end-of-life decisions
... of resuscitation in the hospital context and that foster discussions between patients, their family members, and physicians may improve the quantity and quality of communication and decision-making at the end of life," Dr. Heyland suggests. The new findings are published in the September issue of the inte...Prevention programs for young rural teens can reduce methamphetamine abuse years later
...program is a school-based intervention designed to foster general life skills as well as teach students tactics for resisting pressure to use drugs. "While some of these results are very promising, further research needs to be done to investigate the applicability of these particular programs to nonrural ...Increase in severe poverty in the US has serious implications for public health
...examination of policies enacted in recent years to foster economic progress. ...Community model effective in allotting anti-AIDS meds, Stanford doctor says
...are children of community activists who have died, foster parents, essential health-care workers and patients most likely to adhere to a treatment regimen. To gauge the effectiveness of the program, the researchers examined data for more than 1,500 of the group's patients in four countries: Burkina Faso, ...International AIDS Vaccine Initiative calls for new measures to search for an AIDS vaccine
...nitiatives to accelerate AIDS vaccine development, foster capacity building in developing countries, and build and sustain long-term commitment from multiple stakeholders. The initiatives are detailed in IAVI's biennial flagship publication, the AIDS Vaccine Blueprint 2006: Actions to Strengthen Global Res...Virtual communities may foster mental health in severely ill kids
...- Pilot research into how virtual environments can foster positive development in severely ill youth who are at risk for mental-health problems has earned Marina Bers, assistant professor of child development at Tufts University, a 2005 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers. This awa...Osteoarthritis initiative releases first data
...iagnosis and monitoring of osteoarthritis (OA) and foster development of new treatments, has released its first set of data. Making this information available to researchers worldwide will expedite the pace of scientific studies and identification of biological and structural markers (biomarkers) for OA. Re...NIDA announces recommendations to treat drug abusers, save money and reduce crime
...sits, child abuse and neglect, lost child support, foster care and welfare costs, reduced productivity, unemployment, and victimization. The cost to society of drug abuse in the year 2002 was $181 billion--$107 billion associated with drug-related crime. "We know what works to treat addiction, based on o...Rush University Medical Center maintains Magnet status for quality nursing
... that attract and retain highly skilled nurses and foster an environment that promotes quality patient care. In all, a little more than 200 hospitals out of approximately 5,000 hospitals nationwide have been awarded Magnet designation since the program was formally established in 1993. "Everyday our nursi...