WPI team receives $1.8 million to study atherosclerotic plaque progression and rupture
...s, Joseph D. Petruccelli and Homer F. Walker, both professors of mathematical sciences, and Chun Yuan, professor of radiology, bioengineering, and electrical engineering at the University of Washington School of Medicine. The team also includes researchers at the University of California, Irvine, Shinshu Univer...New lifestyles, new data planners need a modern definition of the 'family'
...es and deaths, censuses and surveys, according to professors Mike Murphy, of the London School of Economics, and John Ermisch, of the University of Essex, 'Changing household and family structures and complex living arrangements', is published today by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) to accompa...UC Riverside psychologist explores human perception, finds 'wow factor'
... faculty members, mentoring at least two assistant professors each year and providing teaching consultation....Sociologists find low self-esteem at 11 predicts drug dependency at 20
...ol use may have good cause to worry. FSU sociology professors John Taylor and Donald Lloyd, along with University of Miami professor emeritus George Warheit, found that low self-esteem and peer approval of drug use at age 11 predicted drug dependency at age 20. The researchers came to that conclusion after anal...Do bicycle helmet laws prevent head injuries and improve health?
... against helmet legislation are flawed, argue four professors of epidemiology from Canada and the US. They challenge her interpretation of the data she presents and point to several independent studies showing a protective association between wearing bicycle helmets and head injuries. They also refer to studies...Extreme personality poses risk of ADHD, conduct disorder
...new Florida State University study. FSU psychology professors Jeanette Taylor and Chris Schatschneider, FSU doctoral student Kelly Cukrowicz and University of Minnesota Professor William Iacono found that children with ADHD or conduct disorder had more negative emotions - aggressiveness, tension and feelings of...No-hands origami: New DNA self-assembly makes more complex structures, more easily
...in factories but beakers. Indeed, two biochemistry professors at the University of Notre Dame, Marya Lieberman and Koshala Sarveswaran, plan to use Rothemunds technique in tests using electron beams to guide complex DNA structures into place on silicon wafers. "The nice thing about what Pauls done is that hes t...Have targets improved performance in the English NHS?
...rmance and what ought to happen in the future, ask professors Gwyn Bevan and Christopher Hood? The key target for accident and emergency departments was the percentage of patients to be seen within four hours. In 2002, before any target was set, 23% of patients spent over four hours in accident and emergency, b...Three Pitt 'teacher-scholars' honored by NSF with CAREER awards
...n (NSF) has awarded three University of Pittsburgh professors the Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award, its most prestigious honor for junior faculty members. The award supports the early career-development activities of those teacher-scholars who most effectively integrate research and education wit...Florida Tech funding increases for Alzheimer's care technology
...0 contract energizes the drive of two Florida Tech professors to develop information and communication technology (ICT) that promote quality of life for caregivers of Alzheimer's disease patients. Dr. Annie Becker, director of the Florida Tech National Center for Small Business Information, received the contrac...The long research road to a new vaccine
...man Endowed Chair in Vaccinology; both are adjunct professors at Wistar. Plotkin, an emeritus professor at Wistar, was the developer of a number of vaccines, including the rubella vaccine responsible for eradicating that disease in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control. "This new vacci...Any national childhood flu-vaccine program should include evaluation component
...inson Center's Public Health Sciences Division and professors of biostatistics at the University of Washington School of Public Health and Community Medicine. "The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices and several states are considering recommending annual influenza vaccination in groups beyond the curre...UNC nutrition researchers dispute claims that obesity problem is exaggerated
...d stigmatizes." Stevens and Popkin, both nutrition professors at UNC-Chapel Hill, beg to differ. "There is very strong evidence to indicate that...the incidence of obesity is increasing in just about all of the countries in which we have information," Stevens wrote. "... Definitions of 'epidemic' are not confin...University of Toronto-led ethics network to help guide Grand Challenges in Global Health initiative
...In the short term, the group along with bioethics professors Abdallah Daar (Director of Ethics and Policy, McLaughlin Centre for Molecular Medicine), Jerome Singh (visiting professor in Public Health Sciences from the University of KwaZulu-Natal) and Ross Upshur (Family and Community Medicine) will help facil...Resolved to lose weight? Social cues encourage overeating: University of Toronto study
...ished in Physiology & Behavior. U of T psychology professors Peter Herman and Janet Polivy examined more than 30 years of research to survey the principles governing overeating and obesity. They found that while medical approaches continue to emphasize hunger and satiety as the root of the obesity epidemic, th...New findings help explain how brain pathways control body weight
...well and Elmquist, both of whom are also associate professors of medicine at Harvard Medical School (HMS). In the first, the brain receives sensory input from the body (including information provided by circulating hormones such as leptin and ghrelin and from fuels such as glucose and fatty acids). It then inte...Researcher says flu responders can learn from 1918 epidemic
...uhlenberg College. In each case, Higgins said, the professors have helped him focus on a component of the flu epidemic to gain a clear perspective on its causes, scope, legacy and lessons. As a result, Higgins has found himself growing increasingly concerned with what he describes as a "bifurcated health ca...Antipsychotic drugs linked to increased risk of death for some elderly Alzheimer's patients
...M.P.H., and Constantine G. Lyketsos, M.D., M.H.S., professors of psychiatry at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, cautioned that clinicians should consider both the risks and benefits for patients suffering from dementia, such as Alzheimer's disease, and when possible delay prescribing so-called s...CDC awards UGA researchers $900,000 grant to study teen behaviors in high school
...investigators are Deborah Bandalos and Andy Horne, professors in the College of Education and Trisha Reeves, an associate professor in the School of Social Work. Orpinas says aggression among high school students can take many forms, ranging from teasing and name-calling, to pushing and shoving, to the extreme......ai, Ph.D. and Marcos Arevalo, M.D., both assistant professors of obstetrics and gynecology. They found that couples who use fertility awareness-based methods of family planning to prevent pregnancy engage in more frequent sex before and after the fertile time, and have less sex during fertile days. Frequency o...