Fink receives National Pharmacy Leadership Award
... qualities, especially among pharmacy students. By peer recognition, the society encourages participation in all pharmacy activities. UK students who are members of the College of Pharmacy's chapter of PLS nominated Fink for the leadership award. The award is sponsored by Procter and Gamble is given annua...Execution by lethal injection is not humane or painless suggests study
...n, documentation of anaesthesia, or post-procedure peer review. They also noted that neither state had a record of the creation of its protocol. The investigators also analysed data from autopsy toxicology reports from 49 executions in Arizona, Georgia, North Carolina, and South Carolina. They found that ...Pregnant women with epilepsy face dilemma
...eutic trials. Each monthly issue features original peer reviewed articles, progress in epilepsy research, brief communications, editorial commentaries, special supplements, meeting reports, book reviews, and announcements. About the International League Against Epilepsy The International League Against ...Medical-errors gap widens between best and worst hospitals: Healthgrades study
...tion from AHRQ that hospitals be compared to their peer group. All data was risk adjusted, so that hospitals with sicker patient populations could be compared equally with others. The 13 AHRQ indicators are: Death in low mortality Diagnostic Related Groupings (DRGs) Decubitus ulcer Failure to res...University of Kentucky researcher wins American Heart Association award
...on several national research awards, and serves on peer review committees including the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Progression of Cardiovascular Disease in Type I Diabetes Grant Review Panel. He has published over 60 articles, book chapters and abstracts. "Dr. Bruemmer exemplifies what we are ab...Girl juvenile offenders exhibit more problems, risks than boys
...ore problems than boys in areas such as family and peer relations, physical health, mental health, traumat...ability, or taking responsibility for actions; and peer relations, which involves having friends who are in trouble with the law. "Girls are having trouble...Group-based education improves diabetes self-management, studies find
... with individuals in a group format and having the peer support makes it work in more than one way." Other challenges inherent in such programs include finding ways to reach communities and ensuring that patients return for follow-up visits. "Certainly dropout has been a problem in diabetes education prog...Boston University psychologists find neurological mechanism for subliminal learning
...functional magnetic resonance imaging, or fMRI, to peer into the brains of participants. Using fMRI, the team will essentially be able to look directly into the portion of the brain involved in subliminal learning....UK College of Public Health earns national accreditation
...a self-study document and host a team of qualified peer reviewers who validate the self-study during an on-site visit to the campus. While on site, the team interviewed university officials, administrators, faculty, staff, students, alumni, community leaders and other important constituents, inspected fa...Study links race to risk of advanced colorectal cancer, death
...://www.interscience.wiley.com/cancer-newsroom ), a peer reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society. Colorectal cancer is common, causing 11 percent of all cancer-related deaths in the United States. Prognosis is dependent on the stage of disease at diagnosis, treatment, and, according to many studi...Three reasons not to believe in an autism epidemic
...eking to share achievements with other people" and peer relationships less sophisticated than would be predicted by the individual's developmental level. As another example, the 1980 criterion of "gross deficits in language development" was replaced by the 1994 criterion of difficulty "sustain[ing] a con...Childhood predictors of smoking in adolescence
...monly cited are parental smoking during childhood, peer pressure during adolescence, and larger lung volumes. Becklake and colleagues investigated these and other possible predictors of teenage cigarette smoking and found that salivary cotinine, a measure of uptake of environmental tobacco smoke, was a s...Obesity in kids: New research funded in W.A.
...ocial group; they are more likely to be targets of peer bullying, have greater feelings of isolation and depression, lower self esteem, and higher levels of school absenteeism, Professor Cross said. The research will ask stakeholders and parents about models of dealing with obesity in children, which has...Popular kids more likely to smoke than less popular classmates
...ders) but as they age, they will increasingly face peer influence to smoke by popular students in the clas...programs in schools. Prevention programs that use peer leaders have been found to be more effective than ones led by teachers, but if popular students embr...Perceptions of peer opinion influences attitudes about obesity
...." The next two studies showed the attitudes of a peer group are more influential than a group that is not as closely allied, and the type of information provided-that obesity is genetically-related or completely within the person's control-also influenced the subjects' attitudes. Puhl said approaches t...Adolescents' HIV risk reduced with community intervention
...tion consisted of AIDS education, skills training, peer influence and both family and neighborhood support to avoid and reduce high-risk behavior among adolescents. The authors said community-level interventions have proven to be successful with gay men, injection drug users and inner-city women, but this...Hepatitis C drug proves cost-effective in helping patients with treatment-induced anemia
... research will appear in the Oct. 1 edition of the peer reviewed Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology. A PDF of the full study is available. FUNDING: Spiegel is supported with funding by a VA HSR&D Research Career Development Award. The research was also funded by Amgen Inc. Global Health Outcom...The ACCP strives to close the 10/90 gap between rich and poor nations
... The ACCP has taken a leadership role among its peer organizations in being responsive to professional colleagues in developing economies. Ameer notes, "The published paper signals to its constituents and other stakeholders that the ACCP is poised to make important contributions to world health throug...UK foot and mouth epidemic was a human tragedy, not just an animal one
...r, regular sharing of intelligence, debriefing and peer support for front line workers, increased community involvement in disaster management, and wider more flexible access to regeneration funding and rural health outreach work....Elsevier announces a publishing partnership with the Ambulatory Pediatric Association
... ( http://authors.elsevier.com ), streamlining the peer review and editorial process. A special call for papers on "Insuring Children's Health Care" has been issued by the editors. "We're pleased at the opportunity to add this unique journal to our core collection of Pediatrics titles," adds Josh Spiele...