Many parents fail to set rules to limit children's exposure to tobacco smoke, according to new study
...s and guardians at 15 pediatric residency-training programs in the New York-New Jersey metropolitan area who were waiting for their child's appointment with their pediatrician. The adults were asked to identify from a list of possible rules which family smoking restrictions were in place within their family. ...Last call for Annual World of Children award nominations
... has played a major role in developing and running programs for dying and bereaved children at Island Hospice and Bereavement Service, Africa's first hospice. Marie de la Soudiere, New York, USA , established emergency care for children in war torn countries. She has directly impacted nearly 1 million c...Study shows light therapy to effectively treat mood disorders, including SAD
... treatment has been tried in clinical and research programs for non-seasonal mood disorders, Alzheimer's disease, jet lag, insomnia, eating disorders and other behavioral problems. A more recent light therapy approach is "dawn simulation," which attempts to simulate an earlier dawn through exposure to artific...It takes a village to improve the health of children
...and other co-authors provided examples of training programs and strategies for involving pediatricians in community health issues. No single best-practice training model exists, nor should it, for each community and each residency training program is different in its resources and needs, the authors stress. ...ACP guidelines to treat obesity cover diet, exercise, drugs and surgery
...ign," says Vincenza Snow, MD, director of clinical programs at ACP. "Patients should know their BMIs like they know their age, blood pressure and cholesterol numbers, and doctors should track their patients' BMIs like they follow blood pressure." Weight-Loss Drugs ACP identifies six drugs that according to ...Endangered species: Who will teach anatomy in 2010?
...hanges in the structure of anatomy departments and programs that occurred over the past few decades. The article notes, however, that there are enough qualified persons in the pipeline to reverse this shortage as long as the academic community provides incentives to encourage new faculty members to teach gro...Golf-related head injuries in children increasing along with sport's popularity
...ggest precautionary guidelines and safety training programs to reduce golf-related injuries, proper storage of golf equipment and adult supervision of golf club and golf cart use. Most states, including Georgia, require a driver's license to operate a golf cart on roadways. Dr. Rahimi already has taken his f...Randy 'Duke' Cunningham, Miss America 2005 Deidre Downs and Dan Haney receive public service awards
...her reign as Miss America, Downs launched outreach programs for cancer patients and research in her home state of Alabama. She created "Making Miracles," a program where high school students volunteer in the cancer unit at Children's Hospital in Birmingham. Later, she spearheaded an initiative to persuade the...Young scientists awarded for achievements in cancer research
...ation for Cancer Research is holding three special programs for young scientists at this year's Annual Meeting: the AACR-Thomas J. Bardos Science Education Awards for Undergraduate Students, the Undergraduate Student Caucus and the AACR Special Program for High School Students. The meeting will be held at the...US service academies to collaborate with UNC, Andrews Air Force Base, Duke in knee injury study
...r shaping effective ACL injury prevention training programs for individuals engaged in vigorous physical activity, including male and female athletes. "This is the largest prospective cohort study put in place to address risk factors for ACL injury," said the study's principal investigator, Dr. Stephen W. Ma...Money doesn't buy happiness - - except when disability strikes
...s, retirement planning and "safety net" government programs for the seriously ill and disabled. The study will be published in an upcoming issue of Psychological Science, the flagship journal of the American Psychological Society. It's based on an analysis of data from 478 older Americans who were interviewe...Study: Level I trauma centers boost head injury survival
...l I and II hospitals, but in reality, the training programs in Level I centers allow better 24/7 monitoring and intervention in regards to critically ill and injured patients," said study co-author Jerris Hedges, M.D., professor and chairman of emergency medicine, OHSU School of Medicine, and chief of emergen...Certain weight control behaviors may precipitate obesity among adolescent girls
...ly facilitate the design of effective preventative programs to stop this public health epidemic, said Stice....Case finds dental patients agreeable to tobacco interventions
...y providing them with information on how to access programs that can offer interventions....ACHRI study finds CellCept improves survival in pediatric heart transplant patients
...has consistently been recognized as one of the top programs in the nation. In 1999, the program was named one of the 10 best in the nation by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in the vital areas of one-year survival rate and speed of transplant receipt. In 2001, ACH became the only children's h...Exercise may not be good enough to reduce mild hypertension in older people, Hopkins experts say
...d pressure and is part of prevention and treatment programs for an estimated 90 percent of adults in the Unite...ector of clinical and research exercise physiology programs at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and its Heart Institute. "But current exercise g...7th Annual AIDS Science Day at Yale April 22
... offer an opportunity to improve existing HIV/AIDS programs and to build coalitions to support improved services. Another goal is to increase collaboration between the community and the university. The event is sponsored by CIRA. Events include panel presentations, a poster session, 18 community booths and a ...The American Academy of Nurse Practitioners hosts 20th Annual National Conference
...xpert faculty presentations, workshops and special programs than ever before. In addition, an exhibit hall filled with a variety of pharmaceutical, medical supply and equipment companies, recruiters and publishing houses will showcase the latest in goods and services to support the nurse practitioner....NMDP welcomes IOM recommendation for fully integrated cord blood system
...OM to provide an assessment of existing cord blood programs and inventories and to make recommendations to enhance the structure, function and utility of such programs....Independent voice rises to help consumers navigate health care
... individuals who are eligible for public insurance programs and assisting them in enrolling in these programs." Counties covered by the organizations include San Francisco, San Diego, Fresno, Los Angeles, San Mateo, Sacramento, El Dorado, Placer, Yolo and Orange. For more information on the HCA, go to www.h...