Conference to focus on healthcare systems' response to disasters and overloads
...will address the entire SAEM Annual Meeting on the topic of the Medical Reserve Corps as a tool to augment surge capacity on Thursday, May 18 immediately following the Opening Reception at 6:30 PM. Surge capacity, the ability of a hospital or healthcare system to meet extraordinary needs of the community i...Early cat exposure can increase some children's eczema risk
...ntradictory data out there already, clearly it's a topic that needs further research."...Computer-based screening may encourage discussions about domestic violence
...professional in the emergency department about the topic but does not guarantee that domestic violence would be addressed, according to an article in the May 22 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. Reluctance to raise sensitive issues prevents many physicians from iden...How to cut energy waste in China, India, Brazil said crucial to forestalling climate change
...ct initiatives fit well with that objective. The topic of energy efficiency is now granted special attention (along with "energy development") in all of China's energy-related planning. The project report highlights potential savings as well in the industrial, construction and transportation sectors. "O...Daniel Zheng wins SIAM's first prize at INTEL-ISEF
... says Black. "I was partly inspired to select this topic because of my father," says Zheng. "He has done so...th defects. I was also motivated to look into this topic by curiosity. Not a lot is known about maternal-age-related defects and I thought that with mathemat...Health risks continue well after the surgery is over
... to avoid them, says Dr. Meiler. He talked on this topic at the 53rd Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Anesthesiologists June 1-3 and is guest editor of the June issue of Anesthesiology Clinics of North America devoted to the matter. A few studies have been done across the broad spectrum of the top...More than one-third of disaster victims may suffer from stress disorder
...aid Sandro Galea, lead author of an article on the topic appearing in the current issue of Epidemiologic Reviews. "Our analysis also shows that the most important risk factors for the development of PTSD are the extent of exposure to the disaster and the scope of the disaster." Funded in part by the Nation...Report recommends immediate improvements for Arizona's Pandemic Preparedness Plan
...Avian Influenza following a conference held on the topic in late April 2006. The committee found that the plan, while quite detailed and improved over the previous version, could be made much more effective in several ways. The report recommends that the Arizona Department of Health: strengthen its communi...Studies of married couples, soccer and hockey teams focus on brain's response to stress
... into mock arguments by choosing with the couple a topic frequently discussed and unresolved in the relationship. The couples were then asked to discuss the topic during a 10-minute period and arguments were video-taped. Prior to provocation, half the couples rec...UCI epilepsy researcher receives nation's top neuroscience prize
... form of epilepsy in infants. Her research on this topic also identifies targets for the design of new and more effective drugs that may help calm these childhood seizures without the side effects of drugs designed for adults. A native of Israel, Baram earned a doctorate from the Weizmann Institute of Scie...Male sexual abuse survivors struggle in relations with health care providers -- study
...man," said Lasiuk, who co-authored a paper on this topic in the June 2006 edition of the journal Issues in Mental Health Nursing. "Many male survivors felt that health care providers are more skeptical toward male claims of abuse than they are of similar female claims. When the abuser was a woman, there wa...Meechan receives IADR Research Award in Pharmacology
.... Meechan's research interests have focused on the topic of local anesthesia and pain control in dentistry. His work has been recognized by the British Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons and the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow. In addition to and as an expansion of his work...ASTRO announces 2006 Gold Medal winners
...apy. His numerous papers and presentations on this topic have led to the widespread interest in this field. Dr. Ling has been an active researcher for thirty years, with numerous grant awards from NCI, ACS, DOE, DOD and others. He has been an important leader in medical physics in some of the premier insti...UK aging expert signs on as keynote speaker for GSA's annual meeting
...unning Reith Lecture series. His five talks on the topic of aging were later published in a book titled The End of Age. These and other media appearances have proven Kirkwood's unique ability to communicate developments in aging research to the greater public. Three years ago he even collaborated with a...Low literacy increases risk of death and misunderstanding of medical consent forms
... Internal Medicine, a special issue devoted to the topic of health literacy. In another study led by Sudore that appears in the same issue, findings showed that only 28 percent of adults understood a highly simplified medical consent form the first time they encountered it, even after extensive modificat...Immune system police learn early and sometimes badly
... "The next question we will ask, which is a hot topic right now, is what antigens trigger receptors on regulatory T cells?" says Dr. Pacholczyk. "What do they recognize? We know now they are coming from the thymus but how they are being generated is still a question. We want to look into the nature of a...Kids need more time than adults give them, study finds
...robe so-called change blindness in children, a hot topic in psychology circles especially when it pertains to gauging the veracity of children who are called upon to give eye-witness testimony in court. The results surprised Shore. "When it comes to many aspects of attention, an eight-year-old's skill...High-fat, copper-rich diets associated with increased rates of cognitive decline in older adults
...uthors conclude. "The supporting evidence on this topic is limited. The strength of the association and the potential impact on public health warrant further investigation." (Arch Neurol. 2006;63:1085-1088. Available pre-embargo to the media at http://www.jamamedia.org .) ...Epilepsy medication proving ineffective over time
... however, Loscher believes that AED tolerance is a topic that has yet to be fully explored, and that more long-term clinical trials are becoming increasingly necessary. "Despite the convincing experimental evidence," Loscher says, "tolerance to the effectiveness of AEDs seems to have been forgotten." Res...OSA 'Frontiers in Optics' annual meeting celebrates 90th anniversary of innovation in optics
...Goldstein, Harvard Medical School, USA Technical topic highlights include: The use of photon imaging to monitor blood flow in mice after stroke Advances in imaging the eye in optical exams and studies of the eye; improved retinal imaging and eye examinations for people with diabetic retinopathy, an e...