Africa: International volunteer impact small, but significant
...international volunteers as a last resort measure, judging that it is not very cost effective, as compared with investment in local capacity," says Laleman. "In countries in Southern and Eastern Africa hardest hit by HIV/AIDS, the reliance on international health volunteers, especially doctors, is likely to ...Polish journalist scoops first prize in prestigious European award
...on, based on facts and science. I am delighted the judging panel recognised it as the important issue. Linda Geddes a correspondent with the New Scientist magazine and Maria Valerio Sainz who writes for the online version of Spanish newspaper El Mundo were joint runners up and will receive a prize of 5,000...IOF Bone Apptit campaign wins prestigious communications award
...esident Lionel Zetter said: "The Excellence Awards judging process is tough and competition is strong, so winning an award is a great achievement. It is confirmation that IOF's Bone Apptit campaign is amongst the best in the field." The IOF team, working with a limited budget, developed a strategy and rela...Diet and lifestyle -- In the cancer fight, eating well is the best revenge
...ese other variables should also be considered when judging an individuals risk and the need for follow-up colonoscopies at the appropriate time." Fruit and vegetable intake and head and neck cancer in a large United States prospective cohort study: Abstract 849 A new study among AARP members shows that...RAND study finds higher quality outpatient care greatly benefits chronically ill patients
...monstrate their results by creating a novel way of judging care based on a more detailed picture of how patient complexity and burden of illness influence the way patients are treated. Studies of the quality of medical care have been confounded by the fact that the sickest patients usually receive the lar...Transforming knowledge into economic benefits -- EPSRC's First Knowledge Transfer Challenge Awards
...rizes at stake the competitors had to convince the judging panel, in a Dragon's Den style approach, that they are offering the best investment for the prize money. The five finalists already have a strong record in knowledge transfer activity, where their research has been transformed into a business venture...ESC recommends interdisciplinary collaboration in non-invasive imaging
...tive tests. New criteria need to be developed for judging the quality of diagnostic research. Expertise in clinical diagnosis and imaging needs to be encouraged in universities, and funding should be available for research in diagnostic methods as an integral component of basic, epidemiological and clinica...Type of stress, not duration, key to heart enlargement
DURHAM, N.C. -- When judging whether or not an enlarged heart is healthy or potentially at risk for heart disease, the nature of the physiological stress that produced the enlargement is more important than the duration of the stress, according to a new study led by Duke Univers...CMA should reinstate CMAJ editors unless they have a valid explanation for their dismissal
...da) state: "We believe the appropriate standard in judging whether a conflict is about editorial independence is whether an alternative compelling explanation is available. In the CMAJ case, no such explanation has been forthcoming. Without fair processes to protect editorial independence, the burden of proo...March/April 2006 Annals of Family Medicine Tip Sheet
...s of primary health care and develop the basis for judging adequacy of evidence for judging the quality of care based on patient's problems rather than on specific diagnoses. She calls for a b...Brain-scanning technology reveals how we process brands and products
...chers discovered that even when the consumers were judging products on unmistakably human terms, they still used the part of the brain associated with inanimate objects. "Although we may use similar vocabularies to describe people and products, we can't say that the same concepts are involved," explain the r...Humans ignore motion and other cues in favor of a fictional stable world
...round, and, as a result, they made gross errors in judging the size of objects. Intriguingly, these results imply that observers are more willing to adjust their estimate of the separation between the eyes or the distance walked than to accept that the scene around them has changed in size. More broadly, the...Initial results help clinicians identify patients with treatment-resistant depression
... is the next best treatment option? Beyond just judging safety and efficacy, STAR*D measured practical outcomes, including, in subsequent phases of the study, how well the individual is actually functioning even a year later. The goal of the trial was remission. People who become symptom-free generally f...Feeling fat in the festive season? It's all in your mind
...nd body dysmorphic disorder who have problems with judging the size of their body might similarily have a distorted representation of their body image in the parietal cortex. These are areas which would be worth exploring in future research, to establish whether this region of the brain is involved in anorex...In autism and related disorders, recognizing emotion is different than identity
...ncouver. "These results suggest that problems with judging facial expressions in these patients may be related more to the processing of emotion than to the perception of faces." Future study would include functional imaging of these individuals while they perform the identity and expression recognition task...Funding for biomedical research doubles in last decade
...e investment decisions and can create a barrier to judging the value of research to society. Previous articles have examined specific sectors, but few have done so comprehensively. Dr. Moses and colleagues conducted a study to determine the level and trend from 1994 to 2004 of basic, translational (the appli...A 'mind-reading' mum - rich or poor - is key to baby's progress
...semi-skilled jobs. But the study found that it was judging how well a mother understood how her baby ticked, not assessing her social and financial status, which gave the best steer as to the child's development. Dr Meins said: "In recent years, largely through Government initiatives such as Sure Start, peop...2005 Wistar Institute Science Journalism award winner announced
...ticle in the magazine. The six members of the 2005 judging committee were: Deborah Blum (co-chair), professor of journalism, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and a 1992 Pulitzer Prize winner; Joe Palca (co-chair), senior science correspondent for National Public Radio; Sue Goetinck Ambrose, science writer fo...