Extended duration work shifts risky to the safety, well-being of medical interns, patients
...nship between the number of extended duration work shifts (greater than or equal to 24 hours in length), rep...medical errors and the number of extended duration shifts worked in a month were both significant predictors of stress. Compared to months in which no extend...Soft contacts designed for cone-shaped cornea
...lace is still a challenge, as blinking notoriously shifts contacts. The scientists used existing stabilizing techniques, such as making the lenses bottom-heavy, to coax them into correct orientation....Childhood obesity intervention shows promising results
...tant given todays obesigenic environment where the shifts continue to be observed in the opposite direction," says Economos. A key element of the intervention was the work done in collaboration with Somerville schools. Economos and her team planned and implemented a range of initiatives designed to prov...Decision making by the growing elderly population is uncharted territory
...periences tends to rise over time. So how do these shifts affect a persons ability to make sound decisions? It turns out that it depends on the situation. In some decisions, thinking harder about unfamiliar information will produce the best decisions, and older adults are likely to fare less well, says El...NeuroArm: Navigating the future of surgery
... spatial resolution at which surgeons operate, and shifts surgery from the organ towards the cell level." Designed to be controlled by a surgeon from a computer workstation, neuroArm operates in conjunction with real-time MR imaging, providing surgeons unprecedented detail and control, enabling them to ma...Rapid response was crucial to containing the 1918 flu pandemic
...e to be in attendance. New York mandated staggered shifts at factories to reduce rush hour commuter traffic. Seattles mayor ordered his constituents to wear face masks. The first study found a clear correlation between the number of interventions applied and the resulting peak death rate seen. Perhaps more ...Darveau receives Periodontal Disease Research Award
...rk has provided the impetus for two major paradigm shifts in the understanding of the host response to periodontal bacteria. As early as 1995, Dr. Darveau was one of the first scientists to recognize the ability of the periodontal pathogen P. gingivalis to down-regulate inflammatory responses in the gingiva...Two-thirds of nursing students believe it's wrong to lie to patients, twice as many as in 1983
...elt that a good nurse should be prepared to change shifts at short notice to help out. By 2005 this figure had fallen to 23 per cent. 1983 students were much more decisive about their attitude to shift changes. Only six per cent were unsure of their response, compared with 25 per cent in 2005. Five ...Media coverage of autism differs dramatically
...anges in the way people think or behave. Likewise, shifts in public values can cause broad changes in the direction of scientific thinking. The group dubbed this behavior "flocking." "It characterizes the way people, scientists and organizations flock to and from certain ideas, tools and, like birds, goal...Effective medical response reduced deaths of critically injured after London bombings
... Dr Brohi comments: "A 'damage control' response shifts the trauma centre to an almost military footing, where all efforts are directed precisely at saving life and limb while maintaining the hospital's casualty receiving capability." (Quote by e-mail; does not appear in published paper) The authors con...Doctors' extended duration work shifts are associated with medical errors and adverse events
...te year (interns) has showed that working extended shifts is associated with increased reporting by the doct... higher in months in which more than five extended shifts were worked. These errors apparently translated into adverse patient events; even in the months in...Kennedy Krieger awarded $9 million to study learning disabilities in growing ranks of adolescents
...urs at the precise time when classroom instruction shifts from teaching and practicing "bottom up" skills (basic word recognition and decoding) to "top down" skills (fluency and comprehension of content). While it is increasingly acknowledged that the leap from "bottom up" to "top down" skills is not automa...Forget basal body temperature -- check out her clothes
...new body of research showing subtle and surprising shifts in women's behavior each month as they approach their most fertile period, including a propensity to flirt with men other than their mates and an inclination to stray from their routine in ways that are suggestive of mate-shopping. Meanwhile, the fin...Serotonin receptor: A rheostat in brain for emotion that may be linked to depression
...e, modulating the reactivity of the amygdala. Such shifts may drive the improvements in depressed mood and affect that result from SSRI treatment," explained Dr. Hariri, who plans to conduct additional studies in both healthy volunteers and patients with depression in order to better understand the specific...Work-family conflict common among registered nurses, study shows
...20 percent worked evenings. Others worked rotating shifts or non-standard shifts....ESA experiments with spaceflight participant Ansari to ISS
...ich is normally held in the extremities by gravity shifts centrally, causing high red cells density in blood vessels in the upper part of the body; this induces a response, which aims at resetting the mass of red blood cells by means of their selective destruction, and that causes in turn a temporary anaemi...Wear and tear of stress: the psychoneurobiology of aging
...vated cortisol reduces lean mass, bone density and shifts fat distributions that can precede the onset of many age-related diseases like osteoporosis, metabolic syndrome, Alzheimer's disease and major depression. But, she added, certain behavioral factors, like lifestyle and exercise can modify some of thes...Smoking out the links between nutrition and oral cancer
... elucidate mechanisms responsible for the observed shifts in folate form distribution due to smoking." In a study using the same participants, Elizabeth Johnson, PhD, scientist in the Carotenoids and Health Laboratory at the USDA HNRCA and an assistant professor at the Friedman School, and colleagues, con...Obesity an increasing obstacle to medical diagnosis
..."In the long term, this country must make cultural shifts that promote more exercise and a healthier diet." ...New fruit fly protein illuminates circadian response to light
...ace and the fruit fly was better able to adjust to shifts in the light-dark cycle. Future studies in the Sehgal lab will focus on continuing to identify other molecules required for the circadian response to light. "Some of the molecules required for the circadian light response in flies may be conserved...