Endangered species: Who will teach anatomy in 2010?
...shortage of experienced faculty members willing to teach gross anatomy to medical and dental students, as w...knowledged having difficulty recruiting faculty to teach this important subject. "Whereas an adequate number of students are receiving training in gross anat...Exercise, stress management show physiological benefits for heart patients
...e sources of stress in their everyday lives and to teach them strategies to respond more adaptively to those stresses. Patients enrolled had stable heart disease, meaning they did not experience chest pain while at rest, and exhibited evidence of myocardial ischemia, or reduced blood flow to the heart, du...ACP and ACP Foundation launch 3-year effort to improve diabetes care
...lth care team and will work to raise awareness and teach the best practices in diabetes care. The initiative will develop a self-management tool kit to help patients become working partners with their health care providers in diabetes care. The patient materials will include information for vulnerable pop...College students likely drink much more alcohol than they think they do
...ings. The first is that we have totally failed to teach students some of the most basic information about alcohol - what a single serving is. It also tells us that students' answers on alcohol surveys are probably inaccurate. How could they be [accurate] if researchers and students have different defini...Easing the anxiety of pregnancy after miscarriage
... When she decided to pursue a doctorate and teach in academia, Ct-Arsenault chose the topic of pregnancy after perinatal loss for her doctoral thesis. She was shocked by the lack of sensitivity among care givers to the issue of miscarriage as a maternity nurse in the '80s and the topic became her pa...Lessons to be learnt from life at the very limit
...w lessons learnt from life at the very limit might teach us something about every day healthcare. Conference speakers include some of the leading authorities in the world of high altitude physiology and critical care including Everest summiteer Dr Sundeep Dhillon, intensive care consultant and mountaineer...Jefferson Lab scientists build small-animal imager for German Cancer Research Center
...ith explained. "We'll also use this opportunity to teach the researchers how to use the camera and conduct their own calibration work." Mastering the machine's capabilities and the calibration process will be critical to the cancer researchers' work as they will be using more than a dozen different radioph...End-of-life care involves a more holistic approach
...hip is a means to stimulate innovative programs to teach students about patient care at the end of life through a clinical and networking model. "This initiative represents an exciting partnership amongst McMaster's Faculty of Health Sciences, Hamilton Health Sciences and St. Joseph's Healthcare, and as s...Go to the tape: Video replay improves radiology residents' performance
...eedback, similar to what sports instructors use to teach students proper form, is a beneficial educational tool for improving the performance of radiology residents, say researchers from McGill University Hospital Center in Montreal, Canada. During a six-week period, six radiology residents were videotaped...Federal NIH office clears Ohio State research program
...stion is a federally supported project intended to teach researchers how to effectively use a specific animal model in studying the microscopic damage spinal cord injuries can cause, and to better assess potential treatments for such injuries. "We are teaching other spinal cord injury researchers from arou...New NHLBI-sponsored study shows programs can teach children to eat healthier
Parents, take heart: You can teach your child to eat healthier. A study of preadolescent children found that those who attended a behaviorally oriented nutrition education program and were taught to follow a diet low in saturated fat and dietary cholesterol adopted significantly bett...Newly published summer camp health guideline advises parents, camp directors
...r camps. The new guideline recommends that parents teach their children how to use rescue inhalers or EpiPens (allergy-calming epinephrine injection devices) long before the kids go to camp, and to work with camp officials to specify what situations might require children to use the devices. And camp offic...New food allergy research consortium focuses on peanut allergy
... will conduct a two-pronged educational program to teach parents and children how to avoid food allergens, and train pediatric health care professionals to treat and prevent food allergy....Malpractice litigation wrongly blamed for inconsistent health care
...cal education and culture. Medical schools "do not teach modern quality assessment and improvement techniques. Instead, they teach students to make independent judgments and to treasure clinical autonomy. "This training may often b...Lymph nodes harbor information on whether breast cancer will recur
... looking at the immune status of lymph nodes might teach us even more about a specific breast tumor. They found that the 'immune profile' (i.e. the number and composition of immune cells) of an axillary lymph node can independently predict the chances that the cancer will come back. This suggests that lymp...Scientists breed special rats to learn more about hypertension
...st starting to discover what this animal model can teach us." Chappell and colleagues are presenting three reports on their research this week at the American Heart Association's 59th Annual Fall Conference and Scientific Sessions of the Council for High Blood Pressure Research in association with the Coun...Program may improve physicians' knowledge about diseases caused by bioterrorism agents
...Internet can be used to distribute a curriculum to teach physicians to diagnose and care for patients exposed to or infected with a likely bioterrorism agent. Early recognition is essential to minimize the potentially devastating impact of a bioterror attack." (Arch Intern Med. 2005; 165: 2002-2006. Avail......isk of chronic diseases," Taveras said. "We try to teach families how to make healthier choices when they choose to eat out and to encourage a well-balanced diet when eating in." At the beginning of the study, 3.5 percent of girls and 6 percent of boys reported eating four to seven servings of fried food a...Preventing communication errors in telephone medicine
... telephone, only six percent of residency programs teach telephone medicine. Reisman said case studies, as part of a curriculum in telephone medicine or in medical errors, will result in better doctor-patient communication. "The many benefits include enhanced diagnostic accuracy and improved patient satisf...Federal grant to expand MCG pipeline programs for minorities
... academically strong, motivated rising sophomores, teach the Saturday sessions on their campus and pay a portion of the cost. Pre-med advisors at the colleges will serve as program coordinators. "This illustrates their commitment to their students," Ms. James said. Students are making quite a commitment as...