USC law professor battles schizophrenia
... - she was valedictorian at Vanderbilt University, graduated with honors from Yale Law School, was a Marshall scholar at Oxford and today is a respected legal scholar at University of Southern California Gould School of Law. And, since adolescence, Saks has battled schizophrenia and acute psychosis. After d...Advocates ask fashion industry to support braille clothing tags; talking Web site
...hite Cane Label is pretty obvious, says Brill, who graduated in May from RIT with a bachelors degree in advertising and public relations. This is a new idea; its never been done before, she says. We are very confident that, once the idea is put on the table, people will begin to believe in it just as much ...Research probes seniors' plans for end-of-life care
...an 10,000 men and women, now in their mid-60s, who graduated from Wisconsin high schools in 1957. In 2003-04, a random subsample of more than 7,000 WLS participants completed phone interviews and mail questionnaires that probed their plans for end-of-life care. Slightly more than half, or 53 percent, had nam...Older motorists improve driving performance with physical conditioning
... by a physical therapist who guided them through a graduated exercise program directed at physical abilities potentially relevant to driving based on earlier studies. They exercised for seven days a week for 15 minutes, focusing on the hips, ankles, knees, shoulders, hands and feet. Therapists noted gait abnor...Ronald W. Busuttil receives American Surgical Association's highest honor
...ching the next generation of surgeons." Busuttil graduated magna cum laude from Loyola University in New Orleans and earned his M.D. and Ph.D. degrees at Tulane University. He served his surgical residency at UCLA under Dr. William P. Longmire Jr., UCLA's first chairman of surgery, and trained in transplanta...Study finds decline in nursing faculty primary barrier to nursing program expansion
...rocess, studying the educational mobility of newly graduated RNs with a variety of entry degrees in North Carolina. The study followed one cohort of 3,384 new graduates who were licensed in 1984 (2,850 remained active in the study at the 10-year point and 2,418 remained active in the study at the 20-year poin...UCLA study finds severe shortage of Latino dentists
...h and Culture finds that the number of Latinos who graduated from dental schools, and hence able to acquire licenses to practice dentistry in California, fell by nearly 80 percent between 1982 and 1999 from 74 to 15 percent, even as the states Latino population increased by 42.7 percent (7.7 million to 10 mill...Ren receives IADR Young Investigator Award
...ge between her research and clinical practice. She graduated in Dentistry from Wuhan University, China (1996), and in Orthodontics from Peking University (Cum Laude, 1999), and her PhD (2003) degree work was carried out at the University of Nijmegen, the Netherlands. The IADR Young Investigator Award, suppor...Undergrad: Mothers in African study undereducated on diarrhea
...ood diarrhea in this population." Mediratta, who graduated from Portage Central High School and Kalamazoo Area Math and Science Center in 2004, hopes to continue his involvement in that cause. "I am strongly committed to this research because diarrheal disease can be cured," he said. "Eradicating one of t...U of MN study finds children with leukemia are living longer
...up at 67 percent. 40 percent of the AML survivors graduated from college compared to 52 percent of siblings and 34 percent of the general U.S. population. 93 percent of the survivors and 98 percent of the siblings were employed, and 92 percent of the survivors reported having health insurance compared to 89 ...Teen girls make better health choices with intervention program
...er for members of the community. Students who have graduated from Teen Esteem could then continue the program. Our next step is to extend the hours and benefits of the existing program, then make the program available to other schools that have expressed interest. We will be looking for corporate partners and ...Georgetown establishes leading institute for global and national health law
...rector at Goldman Sachs in New York. Linda O'Neill graduated from Georgetown University's School of Nursing & Health Studies in the same year and is the current chair of the School's Board of Visitors....ASTRO awards $240,000 to four cancer researchers
... education from the University of Chicago where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa with a B.A. in biology. He continue...Manhattanville College in Purchase, N.Y., where he graduated summa cum laude with a B.A. in chemistry. He continued on to New York University where he received a...NOVA documentary honors pioneering African American chemist Percy Julian
...versity in Greencastle, Ind., at the age of 17; he graduated first in his class in 1920. He then taught for two years at Fisk University before enrolling in a Master's program at Harvard. In 1929, a Rockefeller Foundation grant enabled Julian to study natural products chemistry at the University of Vienna, w...'Heroes of Chemistry' honored for medical, green chemistry breakthroughs
...with Rohm and Haas Company in Valbonne, France. He graduated as a chemical engineer from Institut de Chimie et Physique Industrielles de Lyon in 1976. Richard Dobrowolski is a senior scientist with Rohm and Haas Company. He received a B.S. in chemistry from Philadelphia University in 1977. William Finch, P...Graduated driver licensing reduces fatal crashes by 11 percent
...is study strongly underscores the effectiveness of graduated licensing laws. To states searching for solutions ...stem and the U.S. Census Bureau to examine various graduated driver licensing programs and fatal crash statistics in 36 U.S. states with graduated driver licensi...Lower literacy means poor health and poor health care access for older people
...ion, "which suggests that simply asking if someone graduated from high school will not tell you whether the person can understand his or her physician or read a prescription bottle. For our patients' sake, we need to be careful not to make assumptions about literacy skills. It is our responsibility, as clinici...Manchester unveils made to measure medical stockings
... Dr Tilak Dias, Head of the WLIC, said: "Sustained graduated compression is the key to healing a venous ulcer. Currently this involves four layers of compression bandaging which needs to be reapplied weekly or twice weekly. "Scan2Knit allows the doctor to prescribe the desired pressures for differing clinical ...Internet research builds cancer patients' confidence
...o be females between the ages of 50 and 60 who had graduated from college and made more than $60,000 a year. During the survey, Bass and her colleagues began to see strong parallels between Internet use and the patients' feelings about their treatment. Those who used the Internet and those who received Intern...Brain processing of speech sounds is different in some southern English speakers
...e language." After Conrey finished her thesis and graduated from Rice in 2002, she continued her research in Potts' lab to acquire more data for the study and then submitted the paper to the journal Brain and Language, which published it last August. "The methods used for this study allowed us to begin invest...