Last call for Annual World of Children award nominations
... Maryland, USA , founded the Children to Children volunteer program to provide foster children with duffle bags, stuffed animals and inspirational letters to make their household transitions less threatening. HOW TO NOMINATE AN INDIVIDUAL: Nomination forms can be completed and submitted via World of Child...Randy 'Duke' Cunningham, Miss America 2005 Deidre Downs and Dan Haney receive public service awards
...ng 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 state of Alabama to offer a "Curing Childhood Cancer" automobile license plate, the purchase of which helps to fund cancer research. Dan Han...Exercise variety - not intensity - appears to reduce some Alzheimer's disease risk
...ve dementia at the onset of the study. Each study volunteer was asked to fill out a questionnaire about the frequency and duration of the 15 most common types of physical activity in older adults, including walking, household chores, mowing, raking, gardening, hiking, jogging, biking, exercise cycling, dancin...Breast CT reaches clinical testing: May improve on mammography
...Howell, a professor of pathology at UC Davis and a volunteer in preliminary clinical testing of the breast scanner. "But the more important advance will be if breast CT does detect tumors earlier than mammography. The earlier and smaller a cancer is when it is detected, the less the chance that it has spread t...OHSU study says national injury prevention program working
... Burns' life shifted gears again, when he became a volunteer for ThinkFirst, a national brain and spinal cord injury prevention program with its Oregon chapter at Oregon Health & Science University. As a VIP, or Voice for Injury Prevention, Burns now speaks to Portland-area students about the dangers of high-s...Study demonstrates longest reported survival rate for locally advanced lung cancer patients
...als are research studies conducted with people who volunteer to take part. Each study answers scientific questions and tries to find better ways to prevent, screen for, diagnose, or treat a disease. Most clinical research that involves the testing of a new drug progresses in a series of steps, called phases. P......f AZT to treat AIDS, among many others. "Patients volunteer as partners in research here at the NIH Clinical Centerbecause they recognize how important their participation is to bettertreatments and therapies for the future," said NIH Clinical Center DirectorJohn I. Gallin, M.D. "The Safra Family Lodge will h...New haptics systems challenge stroke patients to grasp, pinch, squeeze their way to recovery
... cyber tasks, said McLaughlin. In one instance, a volunteer was "extremely enthusiastic about the space tube task and said she wanted to use the system at home." That is critical to post-stroke recovery. "It's not easy to keep patients motivated and engaged in daily, repetitive exercises," McLaughlin said,...$3 million NIH grant focuses on workplace obesity
...he diet and activity levels of Kodak employees who volunteer to participate. The URMC team expects to carry out...iety of job functions will have the opportunity to volunteer to participate. Also, at the end of the project, the Medical Center will provide the company with sc...Placebos can bring emotional relief
...earchers tested the effect of placebo treatment on volunteer subjects' ratings of unpleasant pictures, such as images of mutilated bodies. Other researchers had shown that people's expectation of pain relief plays a major role in the effectiveness of placebos. So, in their experiments, the researchers first in...Study confirms intensive treatment of diabetic patients significantly reduces heart disease
...C study (which is a remarkable 93% of the original volunteer base), the intensively treated patients had a 57% reduction in the number of serious cardiovascular events such as heart attacks and strokes -- compared to the conventionally treated group. According to the ADA, the risk of heart disease is about 10 ...Going to extremes to improve human health
...eart Medical Center in Eugene. About 40 physicians volunteer their expertise by teaching and assisting with research in the human physiology labs. "The chamber allows us to monitor minute changes in the vascular and respiratory systems of subjects both at rest and when exercising," Minson explained. "It's alre...Red and Charline McCombs contribute $30 million to M. D. Anderson research effort
...tonio Spurs and Denver Nuggets. In addition to his volunteer leadership at M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Mr. McCombs has led many national, state and local organizations including the San Antonio Chamber of Commerce and Development Board, United Way of San Antonio and Bexar County and The University of Texas L...Size of brain structure could signal vulnerability to anxiety disorders
... unpleasant memory. Over a period of two days, 14 volunteer study participants viewed a series of digital photos of two different rooms. Each room contained a lamp that was turned on sometimes with a red light, sometimes a blue light. On the first day, participants viewed the photos several times, and then...Family environment is a significant predictor of adolescent obesity
...ch as school clubs, marching band, part-time jobs, volunteer work, church activities or household chores -- are less likely to become overweight. Crossman utilized data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, a school-based tool designed to assess the health of adolescents in grades 7 throug...Survey finds many Katrina evacuees had chronic health problems and no health insurance
...ater without help from any agency of government or volunteer group," said Blendon. "Many of those who did not evacuate were in poor health and circumstances to begin with and many said they were physically unable to leave." Among those surveyed, 98% are from the New Orleans area. In surviving this tragedy, an ...Medication appears effective in treating teen heroin addiction
... of Vermont from October 2001 to December 2003. A volunteer sample of 36 opiate-dependent adolescents (aged 13-18) took part in the study. They were randomly assigned to a 28-day, outpatient, medication-assisted withdrawal treatment with either buprenorphine or clonidine. Both drugs were provided along with...A new analysis of a standard brain test may help predict dementia
... At the beginning of the testing process each volunteer was also given a baseline EEG test at the Brain Research Laboratories at NYU School of Medicine. They were tested there several more times over the next 7 to 10 years. Over this period, 27 of the 44 subjects developed mild cognitive impairment or ful...NIAID launches first Phase II trial of a 'global' HIV/AIDS vaccine
...rticipants nor the researchers will know whether a volunteer is receiving the study vaccine or the placebo until the end of the trial....Older patients with acute coronary syndromes not getting recommended treatment
...ork," she said. Dr. Alexander noted that hospitals volunteer to participate in CRUSADE and they receive web-based educational sessions about the treatment of acute coronary syndromes. The study focused on the specific treatments recommended by ACC/AHA guidelines, so it did not collect data on aspects of care o...