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...mmon than previously thought, in patients who were visiting a physician for a physical problem or illness. "Anxiety often manifests as a physical symptom like pain, fatigue, or inability to sleep, so it is not surprising that one out of five patients who come to a doctors office with a physical complaint ...African scientists will train at Emory University in latest drug discovery techniques
...ement in industrial or academic positions." The visiting scholars will initially come from South Africa, but scientists from all over sub-Saharan Africa will soon take part in the training. "To effectively battle the neglected infectious and immunologic diseases of poverty, the transfer of money and tech...Men with hypertension who drink moderate amounts of alcohol may have a lower risk of heart attack
...NO Quality of Life and Wageningen University and a visiting scholar at HSPH when the study began. The study appears in the January 2, 2007, issue of the Annals of Internal Medicine. The researchers analyzed data from 11,711 hypertensive men from the Health Professionals Follow-Up Study, which was launched...It's OK for men with high blood pressure to have a drink or two, new study finds
...ands at the time of the study and was working as a visiting scholar at the Harvard School of Public Health, which sponsors the Health Professionals Follow-Up Study. An accompanying editorial, by Victor Kipnis, PhD, at the National Cancer Institute, and others, discusses measurement error in nutritional epid...Dually porous glass shows promise in helping damaged bone regenerate
... engineering at the Instituto Superior Tecnico and visiting professor at the IMI-NFG. Marques began experimenting with the sol-gel process, a technique that uses relatively low temperatures to prepare glass. The process inherently promotes nanoporosity; to achieve interconnected macroporosity, Marques added a...New info on eating disorders in two Stanford/Packard children's studies
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... malaria and some types of cancer. Dr Doolan is a visiting scientist at the Queensland Institute of Medical Research (QIMR). She is also currently the Scientific Director of the Malaria Program, Naval Medical Research Center (NMRC), in Silver Spring, USA. Her research focuses on the field of malaria - sp...Hospital-acquired infections -- Inevitable?
... Dr. Nash added. The supplement can be accessed by visiting The American Journal of Medical Quality website at http://ajmq.sagepub.com ....University of Western Ontario's McMullin wins GSA's 2006 Margret M. Baltes Award
...lia, the U.S., and Germany. She was also awarded a visiting professorship at the University of Bremen (Germany) in 1999. Over the past ten years, McMullin is the author of three refereed books and monographs, two dozen journal articles and book chapters, and has given over 50 presentations at professional me...Individualized strategies needed for prevention of malaria in long-term travelers
...nformation in the article. For long-term travelers visiting malaria-endemic countries, recommendations for prevention have been difficult to standardize due to the diversity of long-term travelers and their itineraries, the variation in the quality of and access to medical care, the limited data on malaria in...Major cancer study aims to identify protein markers for early-stage disease
...mber of the UCSF Comprehensive Cancer Center and a visiting scientist in Berkeley Lab's Life Sciences Division. Co-principal investigators are Joe W. Gray, PhD, associate laboratory director for life and environmental sciences at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, UCSF professor...Washington, DC getting a summertime air quality exam
...rsity Research Campus, Beltsville, Md., is hosting visiting scientists, graduate students and instruments for a six-week-long series of intensive observations. The experiment is also evaluating the next generation of instruments used in daily weather forecasting, as well as tracking one of the strongest green...AGD2006Denver: The only meeting for the entire dental team
...rewery Denver Art Museum Register online by visiting http://www.agd.org/denver06/ . The ADAA will conduct meetings in conjunction with AGD2006DENVER....Patient care threatened by workforce shortage
...ng in Australia as a result of doctor shortages, a visiting US expert has warned. Professor Larry Green, Senior Scholar in Residence at the Robert Graham Center in Washington, said the trend of redesigning the medical workforce to allay the shortage ofhealth care workers in the US, is "complicated, developin...Research reinforces findings that Chinese exercises benefit older adults
...ers have omitted Qigong from their research," said visiting kinesiology professor Yang Yang. "As a result, previous researchers may not have documented all of the health benefits possible from traditional Tai Chi training." Yang, a Tai Chi master with three decades of experience, said Tai Chi and Qigong are...Team approach to rare cardiovascular, renal surgery at UT Southwestern provides impressive results
...er when Mr. Enfinger saw blood in his urine. After visiting several specialists, Mr. Enfinger was referred to Dr. Arthur Sagalowsky, professor of urology and surgery at UT Southwestern Medical Center. Dr. Sagalowsky diagnosed Mr. Enfinger with renal cell carcinoma. Cancers of the kidney and renal pelvis are t...How cow warts, clergy sex surveys moved along cancer vaccine
...lomavirus or BPV in cows, and Bonnez found himself visiting veterinarians and others with access to cows with warts, seeking samples. In the world of warts, cows offer a particularly plentiful lode of papillomavirus, Bonnez said, because they are particularly rich in viral particles. Many other warts, such as...NIH holds state-of-the-science conference on tobacco use, June 12-14
...vice by calling 1-800-MED-DIAL (1-800-633-3425) or visiting http://www.nih.gov/news/radio/index.htm ....Diagnosis and treatment of osteoporosis falls shortnon adherence compounds issue
... to keep up with their treatment. Curiously, women visiting different pharmacies or physicians had a higher risk of stopping treatment, suggesting that health care providers are either unaware of or fail to emphasize the seriousness of osteoporosis. Osteoporosis patients who discontinue their medication are ...Smoking, diabetes predict different forms of peripheral artery disease
...l in Limoges, France conducted this study while a visiting scholar in the Department of Family and Preventive Medicine at the University of California, San Diego. He and colleagues examined 403 men and women (average age 69) with LV-PAD and 290 with SV-PAD (average age 68) who were previously suspected of ha...