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Vitamin A directs immune cells to intestines
A key set of immune cells that protect the body from infection would be lost without directions provided by vitamin A, according to a recent study. A team of researchers found retinoic acid is necessary for two of the three types of innate immune cells that reside in the int... |
Indicators of Occupational Health and Safety: Mortality from or with pneumoconiosis - MN Dept. of Health
Occupational Health and Safety Home
Occupational Health and Safety Surveillance Program
Occupational Health Indicators
WSWS Curriculum
Mortality From or With Pneumoconiosis
There are two Occupational Health Indicato... |
Mesotherapy is a medical specialty that involves injecting microscopic quantities of natural extracts, homeopathic agents, pharmaceuticals and vitamins into the skin. It can be used to eliminate cellulite, promote weight loss, treat aging skin and redundant (sagging) skin, and rejuvenate the hands and neck.
Although Me... |
The Neuroimmunology of Anhedonia
Gabbay, Vilma Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, United States
See 31 grants from Vilma Gabbay
See 5619 grants from Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Adolescent major depressive disorder (MDD) is a major public health concern associated with significant morbidi... |
Retired Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens makes a case for change: Book review
President Obama presents the Presidential Medal of Freedom to retired Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, author of "Six Amendments: How and Why We Should Change the Constitution."
(Getty Images file photo)
Star-Ledger Guest Colum... |
PerkinElmer Launches Automated Quantitative Pathology Imaging System
New Platform Helps Research Immuno-oncologists and Pathologists Accelerate the Study of Cancer
By PerkinElmer | January 31, 2017
PerkinElmer, Inc., a global leader committed to innovating for a healthier world, today announced the launch of its Vectra... |
Gram stains: a resource for retrospective analysis of bacterial pathogens in clinical studies.
Usha Srinivasan, Sreelatha Ponnaluri, Lisa Villareal, Brenda Gillespie, Ai Wen, Arianna Miles, Brigette Bucholz, Carl F Marrs, Ram K Iyer, Dawn Misra, Betsy Foxman.
We demonstrate the feasibility of using qPCR on DNA extracte... |
Ecologists gain insight into the likely consequences of global warming
A new insight into the impact that warmer temperatures could have across the world has been uncovered by scientists.
A new insight into the impact that warmer temperatures could have across the world has been uncovered by scientists at Queen Mary, U... |
The Seductiveness of the Interval
Hamza Walker, 2010
In 2006, Romanian President Traian Basescu organized the Commission for the Study of the Communist Dictatorship in Romania. Conducted 17 years after the fall of Nicolei Ceausescu’s regime, the commission’s goal remains unclear. Was it prompted by the pursuit of justi... |
General LGBT Health
Promoting LGBT health and wellbeing through inclusive policy development
In this paper we argue the importance of including gender and sexually diverse populations in policy development towards a more inclusive form of health promotion. We emphasize the need to address the broad health and wellbeing... |
California Requirements for a Gluten Free Commercial Kitchen
By Leanne Clute
Leanne Clute
Female chef cooking in a restaurant kitchen (Image: Dick Luria/Photodisc/Getty Images)
For decades doctors believed that a gluten-free diet was only designed for those with celiac disease. There has recently been a growing trend i... |
Harvard Women's Health Watch
In Brief: Cognitive behavioral therapy helps ease tinnitus discomforts
Cognitive behavioral therapy helps ease tinnitus discomforts
Published: April, 2007
Most of us have experienced ringing in the ears, often after
exposure to loud noise. Although it's a bother, it usually goes
away. But n... |
The Appliance Of Compliance
BY Louise T. Dunne
Sector-specific, geographic and legal obligations are creating a multi-layered millstone of compliance around the neck of industry. Businesses striving to achieve regulatory compliance often end up with management systems for each certification, resulting in multiple data ... |
Light-driven 'Molecular Brakes' Provide Stopping Power For Nanomachines
Researchers in Taiwan report development of a new type of "molecular brake" that could provide on-demand stopping power for futuristic nanomachines. The brake, thousands of times smaller than the width of a human hair, is powered by light and is th... |
New mouse model reveals a mystery of Duchenne muscular dystrophy
Stanford University Medical Center
Children with Duchenne muscular dystrophy often die as young adults from heart and breathing complications. Now, researchers have developed a mouse model that accurately mimics the course of the disease in humans.
Childr... |
Plant Parasite 'Wiretaps' Host
Dodder vines on a tomato plant. The white flowers are dodder. New research shows that chemical signals from the host, called RNA, plant pass deep into the parasite. (Neelima Sinha/UC Davis photo)
A parasitic plant that sucks water and nutrients from its plant host also taps into its commu... |
Functional outcomes and efficiency of rehabilitation in a national cohort of patients with guillain - barré syndrome and other inflammatory polyneuropathies.
Roxana Alexandrescu, Richard John Siegert, Lynne Turner-Stokes.
To describe functional outcomes, care needs and cost-efficiency of hospital rehabilitation for a U... |
Posted by Eric Haun September 28, 2016
European Scientists Coordinate Open Ocean Observatories
European scientists are joining forces to better understand oceanic change, by coordinating ocean data acquisition, analysis and response on scales ranging from the provincial to the global.
Marking a major milestone, the fir... |
Regulation of microRNA-155 in atherosclerotic inflammatory responses by targeting MAP3K10.
Jianhua Zhu, Ting Chen, Lin Yang, Zhoubin Li, Mei Mei Wong, Xiaoye Zheng, Xiaoping Pan, Li Zhang, Hui Yan.
Accumulating evidence suggest that numerous microRNAs (miRNAs) play important roles in cell proliferation, apoptosis, and ... |
Forty steps carved in granite lead down from the winding path of Newport’s Cliff Walk to the crashing waves of the Atlantic Ocean. Above, past wildflowers and thick brush is a pathway through a formal hedge that seems perfect for a child’s entrance to a secret garden. Beyond, rising high on a formal lawn is one of the ... |
Colonisation and Land Use Change on Rathlin Island Using a Multi-Proxy and sedaDNA Approach to Lake Sediments and Soils.
School of Geography
Prof AG Brown
No more applications being accepted
How good is research at University of Southampton in Geography, Environmental Studies and Archaeology
Rathlin is a small island i... |
PloS one 2016-12-10
Long-Circulating Curcumin-Loaded Liposome Formulations with High Incorporation Efficiency, Stability and Anticancer Activity towards Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma Cell Lines In Vitro.
[Mohamed Mahmud, Adriana Piwoni, Nina Filipczak, Martyna Janicka, Jerzy Gubernator]
The incorporation of hydrophobic dru... |
Recurrence of prostate cancer is significantly lower in men with blood group O
European Association of Urology
A man’s blood group can affect the chance of a recurrence of prostate cancer after surgery, according to new research. This is the first time that this relationship has been demonstrated. Specifically, this ne... |
Chasing the golden egg: Vaccination against poultry coccidiosis
Sharman, PA
Smith, NC
Wallach, M
Katrib, M
Parasite Immunology, 2010, 32 (8), pp. 590 - 598
P>Eimeria species, of the Phylum Apicomplexa, cause the disease coccidiosis in poultry, resulting in severe economic losses every year. Transmission of the disease ... |
Home Featured stories Exercise-related Changes in Estrogen Metabolism May Lower Breast Cancer Risk
Exercise-related Changes in Estrogen Metabolism May Lower Breast Cancer Risk
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PHILADELPHIA — Changes in estrogen breakdown, or metabolism, may be one of the mechanisms by which aerobic exer... |
Research News @Vanderbilt
Math Master: Sylvia T. Bozeman, MA’70, Honored with National Medal of Science Committee Appointment
Sylvia Bozeman (KAY HINTON)
Sylvia Bozeman enrolled in Vanderbilt’s graduate program in mathematics in 1968, one year after the program was integrated, and went on to become the first African Am... |
Sleep-deprived preschoolers eat more
Sleep-deprived preschoolers eat more, says CU Boulder study. Credit: CU Boulder
The preschoolers, all regular afternoon nappers, were deprived of roughly three hours of sleep on one day - they had no afternoon nap and were kept up for about two hours past their normal bedtime - befo... |
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Skillful Leadership is More than Competency
In the Summer 2017 issue of the MIT Sloan Management Review, Eric J. McNulty argues against the perception of leaders as “sets of competencies.” He writes that any approach to leadership development that shoehorns huma... |
McKenzie River Trust
The McKenzie River Trust protects and cares for special lands and the rivers that flow through them in western Oregon.
The McKenzie River Trust is a nonprofit land trust that was formed in 1989 for the protection of critical habitat and scenic lands in the McKenzie basin. We expanded our service ar... |
Transitioning American Veterans
By Dr. Pietro Savo We find ourselves challenged to support the strengths and needs of veterans as they transition from a military life to pursuing higher education. This challenge finds its home well within the framework of Schlossberg’s transition model, which was developed to assist wi... |
Novel susceptibility loci identified for osteoarthritis
Five novel single nucleotide polymorphisms are significantly associated with osteoarthritis, including one near the nucleostemin-encoding gene, according to a study published online July 3 in The Lancet.
(HealthDay) -- Five novel single nucleotide polymorphisms (S... |
Abstract:The US Geological Survey (USGS) is completing a national assessment of coal resources in the five top coal-producing regions in the US. Point-located data provide measurements on coal thickness and sulfur content. The sample data and their geologic interpretation represent the most regionally complete and up-t... |
Antarctic circumpolar current carries 20 percent more water than previous estimates
By analyzing four years of continuous measurements of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current at Drake Passage, the narrowest point in the Southern Ocean, oceanographers have concluded that the current carries 20 percent more water than previ... |
Aging Chinese Face a Bleak Picture
High Rates of Poverty, Disability and Mental Illness Haunt Elderly, Pose Growing Economic Challenge
An elderly man sits in his house in Yuangudui village, in China's Gansu province.
Tom Orlik
BiographyTom Orlik
BEIJING—China's elderly are poor, sick and depressed in alarming numbers, ... |
Increasing Uptake Of Carbon Dioxide By Soils Points To Promising Way To Mitigate Greenhouse Warming
American Institute Of Biological Sciences
A group of researchers led by Wilfred M. Post of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory describes in the September 2004 issue of BioScience an approach to assessing "promising" techni... |
Green nanotech can reduce risks to poor nations
Regulating nanotech is challenging, says Rajender Varma, but green chemistry could help developing countries 'leapfrog' to cleaner, healthier products.
There have been major breakthroughs in nanomaterials for use in healthcare situations and some of these have already mov... |
Organic Material on Mars—The Case Gets Stronger
Contamination from Earth now seems less likely at the Curiosity landing site.
The Sheepbed mudstone, an ancient habitable lake in Gale Crater on Mars. (NASA/JPL)
By Dirk Schulze-Makuch
At the recent Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in Texas, two research groups led ... |
Academic journals » Health and Medicine Journals » American Journal of Health Education » Article details, "Children's Physical Fitness and Academic..." Academic journal article
American Journal of Health Education
Children's Physical Fitness and Academic Performance By Wittberg, Richard A.; Northrup, Karen L.; Cottrel... |
Most internet resources for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis are inaccurate, incomplete and outdated
After evaluating content on idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis on almost 200 websites, researchers with medical backgrounds found that the information on IPF from these sites was often incomplete, inaccurate and outdated.
After... |
Researchers map carbon footprint of UK towns and cities
Institute of Physics (IOP)
The London borough of Newham is famed for producing talents such as Idris Elba, Plan B and Mo Farrah, whilst also playing host to the Olympic Stadium and West Ham United Football Club. Now an international group of researchers have found... |
Title: Paleoecological Reconstruction of the Holocene Fire Regime at Mud Lake, Eastern Ontario, near St. Lawrence Islands National Park
Authors: Ellwood, Suzanne Margaret
Ellwood_Suzanne_M_201001_MES.pdf3.68 MBAdobe PDFView/Open
Keywords: paleoecologypaleolimnologycharcoalfire historyrestoration
Abstract: Wildfire is a... |
The Past isn't Past
On the State of the Liberal Arts
For teachers, one of the most enjoyable things to do is spend time being students again.
So it was that I spent the past weekend at Transylvania University’s seminar on Twenty-First Century Liberal Education, along with 18 other academics from a variety of liberal ar... |
17 Scalds burns in children under 3 years: an analysis of neiss narratives to inform a scald burn prevention program
Wendy Shields,
Eileen McDonald,
Andrea Gielen,
Kaitlin Pfisterer
Johns Hopkins Center for Injury Research and Policy, USA
Background objectives To determine the incidence of paediatric scald burns for ch... |
TBI and dementia: Link or no link?
Published Friday 14 July 2017 Published Fri 14 Jul 2017
By Yella Hewings-Martin PhD
Researchers are using population studies and animal models to investigate how TBIs might lead to progressive neurodegeneration in some patients.
Whether or not traumatic brain injury predisposes indi... |
At MIT, Holdren Issues Call for Action on Climate Disruption
James F. Smith
John P. Holdren, President Obama's chief science and technology advisor, draws a grim picture of our world at the end of this century if we fail to start slashing greenhouse gas emissions that are ravaging the global climate: Summers will be da... |
Tag: Convocation
Author Andrew Solomon explores differences that unite us in convocation
Award-winning author, lecturer and activist Andrew Solomon presents “Far from the Tree: How Difference Unites Us” Thursday, Feb. 2 at 11:10 a.m. in the Lawrence Memorial Chapel as part of Lawrence University’s 2016-17 convocation s... |
Vascular effects of exercise training in CKD : current evidence and pathophysiological mechanisms
Van Craenenbroeck, Amaryllis H.
van Craenenbroeck, Emeline M.
Kouidi, Evangelia
Vrints, Christiaan J.
Couttenye, Marie M.
Conraads, Viviane M.
Cardiovascular disease remains the main cause of morbidity and mortality in pat... |
Prostate Issues in Non-Neutered Male Dogs
by Dondi Ratliff
A veterinarian's physical examination can determine a male dog's prostate health.
Dean Golja/Digital Vision/Getty Images
The two major reasons for neutering a nonbreeding dog have been for better behavior and health. As one of the species to have a prostate, an... |
Hydrotropic fractionation of birch wood into cellulose and lignin: A new step towards green biorefinery
Gabov, K., Fardim, P., and da Silva Júnior, F. G. (2013). "Hydrotropic fractionation of birch wood into cellulose and lignin: A new step towards green biorefinery," BioRes. 8(3), 3518-3531.
Hydrotropic treatment is a... |
Prevnar 13(TM) is based on the scientific foundation of Prevnar(R) (Pneumococcal 7-valent Conjugate Vaccine [Diphtheria CRM197 Protein]), the standard in pneumococcal disease prevention for infants and young children. It contains the seven serotypes in Prevnar (4, 6B, 9V, 14, 18C, 19F and 23F), plus six additional sero... |
Graham Priest
Logic: A Very Short Introduction
A Very Short Introduction
Logic is often perceived as having little to do with the rest of philosophy, and even less to do with real life. In this lively and accessible introduction, Graham Priest shows how wrong this conception is. He explores the philosophical roots of t... |
So, friend or foe? ID management and access control
by Charles Hayhoe
Whether it's Basel II, Sarbanes-Oxley, or the FSA's updated Combined Code, many organizations are struggling to meet current compliance requirements. But it seems the burden is only set to get worse.
Implementation of the new capital rules is not due... |
Notes from the Undergrad: An undergraduate’s introduction to Anne Sexton
By Jane Robbins Mize Jane Robbins Mize is a senior in English and Liberal Arts Honors and is a current intern in the Ransom Center’s public affairs department. She recently worked in the Anne Sexton papers for her English class “Women’s Autobiogra... |
Insulin secretion disrupted by increased fatty acids
September 9, 2013 Patients with type 2 diabetes have increased levels of circulating glucose and fatty acids, which lead to disease complications. In healthy individuals, β cells within pancreatic islets release insulin in response to glucose and incretins, which are... |
More than half of all cancer is preventable, experts say
More than half of all cancer is preventable, and society has the knowledge to act on this information today, according to health researchers. Investigators now outline obstacles they say stand in the way of making a huge dent in the cancer burden in the United St... |
Penn Medicine Honored for its Historic Role in the History of Microbiology Share This Page
Penn Medicine Honored for its Historic Role in the History of Microbiology May 22, 2009 PHILADELPHIA – The University of Pennsylvania was honored by The American Society for Microbiology last Friday with a plaque dedication cerem... |
Healthcare Costs Concerns Impact Provider Rationing Behavior
A study found that more than half of providers rationed some medical services from patients because of healthcare costs in the past six months.
By Jacqueline Belliveau
July 22, 2016 - It is not uncommon to hear patients say that healthcare costs are going up,... |
Neoadjuvant Interferons: Critical for Effective PD-1–Based Immunotherapy in TNBC
Natasha K. Brockwell, Katie L. Owen, Damien Zanker, Alex Spurling, Jai Rautela, Hendrika M. Duivenvoorden, Nikola Baschuk, Franco Caramia, Sherene Loi, Phillip K. Darcy, Elgene Lim and Belinda S. Parker
Natasha K. Brockwell
Department of B... |
Hydrophilic superparamagnetic nanoparticles: Synthesis, characterization, and performance in forward osmosis processes
Title:Hydrophilic superparamagnetic nanoparticles: Synthesis, characterization, and performance in forward osmosis processesAuthors:Ge, Qingchun; Su, Jincai; Chung, Tai Shung Neal; Amy, Gary L.Abstract... |
The Public Health Disparities Geocoding Project Monograph
Geocoding and Monitoring US Socioeconomic Inequalities in Health: An introduction to using area-based socioeconomic measures
Generating ABSMs
Analytic Methods
Multi-level Modeling
Case Example
U.S. Census Tract Poverty Data
Painting a Truer Picture of the Public... |
Scientists use DNA to ID rarest whale
Print The world's rarest whale, the spade-toothed beaked whale, has been spotted for the first time in New Zealand. The whale stranded and died on a beach in December 2010.
(New Zealand Department of Conservation)
The world's rarest whale has been spotted for the first time, in New... |
MBSR (Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction)
Mindfulness based stress reduction, or MBSR, is structured course that teaches participants how to practise mindfulness through simple meditation and movement (based on Yoga stretches & Tai Chi). Developed over the past 30 years, courses teaching mindfulness have been extensive... |
One of the great composers of the nineteenth century, Schumann was the quintessential artist whose life and work embody the idea of Romanticism in music. Schumann was uncomfortable with larger musical forms, such as the symphony and the concerto (nevertheless, representative works in these genres contain moments of gre... |
NMR thermometer takes reactor's temperature
By Manisha Lalloo23 October 2013
Non-invasive technique can tease out hot and cold spots in reactors to help chemical engineers improve themScientists in the US have used NMR to create temperature maps of reactions taking place inside catalytic reactors. Their technique opens... |
PreHypertenion: Does It Really Matters?
Picture source: http://ww1.prweb.com Even High-But-Normal Blood Pressure Elevates Stroke RiskPeople with prehypertension have a 55 percent higher risk of experiencing a future stroke than people without prehypertension, report researchers at the University of California, San Dieg... |
Antibody-based drug helps 'bridge' leukemia patients to curative treatment
Study reports complete cancer remission rate higher than conventional chemotherapy for acute lymphoblastic leukemia
In a randomized Phase III study of the drug inotuzumab ozogamicin, a statistically significant percentage of patients with acute ... |
Wende Museum To Open The World's Largest Cold War Visual Archive In Historic Armory Building In Culver City, California
100,000 EASTERN EUROPEAN ARTIFACTS FROM 1949-1989 TO BE UNVEILED IN SUMMER 2014
CULVER CITY, Calif., Feb. 12, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The Wende Museum's archive of 100,000 artifacts and artworks from the... |
Maintaining Functioning Urban Ecosystems Can Significantly Improve Human Health and Well-Being
Kathryn Campbell, Victoria.
7 November 2012 Essay, Science & ToolsBiodiversity, Development, Ecosystem services, JusticeKathryn Campbell
With the global urban population expected to double to around 6.5 billion by 2050, the f... |
to save this paper Pathways into and out of Poverty: A Study of Household Wealth Dynamics in Rural Kenya
Listed author(s):Muyanga, Milu
Jayne, Thomas S.
Burke, William J.
Registered author(s): William J. Burke Thomas S. Jayne Abstract For the past half-century, African governments and development agencies have experime... |
Social Hierarchies and the Formation of Customary Property Law in Pre-Industrial China and England
Taisu Zhang, Duke Law SchoolFollow
comparative legal history, kinship, hierarchy, social status, social norms, custom, mortgages, Dian, Confucianism
Comparative lawyers and economists have often assumed that traditional C... |
Cedars-Sinai Neuroscientists Pinpoint Key Gene Controlling Tumor Growth in Brain Cancers
AANS Neurosurgeon | Newsline
Discovery could result in more accurate prognoses and help fuel development of new treatmentsCedars-Sinai investigators have identified a stem cell-regulating gene that affects tumor growth in patients ... |
Wildfire and an example of its important link to the ecosystem
Soil Science Society of America (SSSA)
A dilemma is smouldering -- even as wildfires top the current headlines. New research highlights the practice of aggressive fire suppression by using studies at Lake Tahoe as an active example.
For centuries before whi... |
Clinical Focus
> LDL Cholesterol
Study: Statins Cost-Effective for Older Patients
But adverse effects could be an issue MedpageToday
by Salynn Boyles Salynn Boyles, Contributing Writer August 10, 2015 Treating all elderly people in the U.S. with lipid-lowering drugs would result in 8 million additional statin users and... |
Cells' grouping tactic points to new cancer treatments
The mechanism that cells use to group together and move around the body has been discovered by scientists at UCL -- a finding that has implications for the development of new cancer treatments.
The study, which used embryonic cells, points to a new way of treating ... |
Explore > Wanderlust Review: Metafictional Murder in South Korea
Credit: @DiyaonKorea
From left: Deborah Smith, Han Yujoo, Houman Barekat
Ahead of this year’s upcoming International Translation Day at The British Library, last July saw a special Wanderlust event take place at Free Word.
Exploring the ways in which tran... |
Colorado River, Meet the Sea
Posted by Sandra Postel of National Geographic's Freshwater Initiative on April 12, 2013
This post is part of a series on the Colorado River Delta.
Walking the mudflats of the Colorado River Delta in northwestern Mexico, my feet touch silt and sediment that originated in the U.S. Rocky Moun... |
Low back pain-related beliefs and likely practice behaviours among final-year cross-discipline health students
Briggs, Andrew
Slater, Helen
Smith, Anne
Parkin-Smith, G
Watkins, K
Chua, Jason
Background: Evidence points to clinicians' beliefs and practice behaviours related to low back pain (LBP), which are discordant w... |
Gene Expression Analysis Direct from RNA
What is a Gene Array?
The Basics: What is a Gene Array?
Gene arrays are solid supports upon which a collection of gene-specific nucleic acids have been placed at defined locations, either by spotting or direct synthesis. In array analysis, a nucleic acid-containing sample is lab... |
Daily vibration may combat prediabetes in youth
Georgia Health Sciences University
Daily sessions of whole-body vibration may combat prediabetes in adolescents. In mice that mimic over-eating adolescents headed toward diabetes, 20 minutes of daily vibration for eight weeks restored a healthy balance of key pro- and ant... |
Antifibrinolytic drugs reduce blood loss during cardiac surgery
Oct 17, 2007 The amount of blood loss that occurs during major complex surgery is limited by the body’s ability to form blood clots. These close off small vessels and prevent more blood leaking out of the patient’s circulatory system. One problem is that t... |
Sample records for rotator cuff surgery
Biologics in rotator cuff surgery
Schär, Michael O; Rodeo, Scott A
Pathologies of the rotator cuff are by far the most common cause of shoulder dysfunction and pain. Even though reconstruction of the rotator cuff results in improved clinical outcome scores, including decreased pa... |
Title: Regulation of polyglycerophospholipid biosynthesis
Authors: Ross, Timothy Kieran
Abstract: Cardiac ischaemia is a condition in which there exists an imbalance between the myocardial oxygen demand and coronary arterial supply. Biochemical complications arising from cardiac ischaemia include ATP depletion, a net l... |
How Secure Is Your Supplier?
By Margaret Millett
Companies use third-party vendors today to help accomplish their goals and objectives in a cost effective manner. However, by using third parties or service providers the board of directors and senior management are not relieved of their supervision responsibility. They ... |
The vitamin that keeps on giving
by KIM N. ARREY, RD September 2010
We know the role vitamin D plays in the prevention of osteoporosis and colon cancer. However, a flurry of recent studies have linked vitamin D to other diseases. These studies also indicate that a significant proportion of the population is deficient... |
Orthopaedics is the medical specialty that focuses on injuries and diseases of your body's musculoskeletal system. This complex system includes your bones, joints, ligaments, tendons, muscles, and nerves, and allows you to move, work, and be active.
We are providing the following resources to help you have the best ort... |
Climate Change column: Preserve Cashes Ledge and save fish
By Charlotte Kahn Ipswich@wickedlocal
The “extreme” drought ended with 5.5 inches of rain in January, for which we thank the rain gods. But it’s sobering to recall that 14 inches of rain broke all records in the Mother’s Day Flood of 2006. And according to town... |
New Partnership for Healthy Futures
Minister for Local Government and Minister for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Partnerships
The Honourable Mark Furner
A $150,000 Palaszczuk Government partnership with one of Queensland’s largest Indigenous-controlled health organisations is helping to Close the Gap of disadva... |
New oral drug candidate for African sleeping sickness
A new oral-only treatment for sleeping sickness has entered Phase II/III clinical study in patients with late-stage sleeping sickness in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and soon in Central African Republic (CAR). The study, initiated by the Drugs for Negl... |
Phlebotomy course offers training in Bozeman, Great Falls
A new Montana State University healthcare course combines online learning with hands-on training to prepare students for the Certified Phlebotomy Technician exam. The course is designed for people who plan to work for a clinical laboratory, public health departm... |
Piscinae
Author James Higginbotham
Publisher The University of North Carolina Press
Pisciculture--the process of raising fish--held a lasting fascination for the people of ancient Rome. Whether bred for household consumption, cultivated for sale at market, or simply kept in confinement for reasons of aesthetic apprecia... |
Should local leaders pursue devolution deals for health care?
Felicity Dormon
Place-based and integrated care is fashionable in health and social care policy. There are a plethora of initiatives aiming to make them happen. Examples include the better care fund, Integrated care pioneers, Vanguards, Sustainability and Tr... |
Molecular phylogeography of the asp viper Vipera aspis (Linnaeus 1758) in Italy: evidence for introgressive hybridization and mitochondrial DNA capture
.The occurrence of variation in body size and reproductive traits of Vipera aspis was assessed by analysing 74 reproductive females of different populations, collected ... |
West Virginia 's Wildlife Conservation and Restoration Program By Kathy Leo
Despite more than a century of conservation work, much still remains to be done to ensure that all wildlife species will exist for future generations. In response to this challenge, Congress appropriated $50 million nationwide in 2001 for the W... |
International CCN Society
The CCN family of proteins: a 25th anniversary picture
Perbal A.,International CCN Society | Perbal B.,French National Center for Scientific Research
Journal of Cell Communication and Signaling | Year: 2016
The CCN family of proteins is composed of six members, which are now well recognized as... |
INTEGRATION OF FISHERIES INTO COASTAL AREA MANAGEMENT
2. Interactions
Both capture fisheries and aquaculture may generate positive and/or negative impacts on the coastal area and these need to be taken into account in the definition of policy measures for the sector. Synergistic and complementary impacts tend to be sim... |
Forestlands and LEED certification: Green building standards should be expanded
By Scott Hayes Through good and bad times, Oregon's millions of acres of forests and woodlands help drive Oregon's economy and provide an array of public benefits. Our private forestlands support 120,000 jobs and the livelihoods of countles... |
A Study of Peer Instruction Methods with High School Physics Students
Karen Cummings and
Stephen G. Roberts
This paper reports on the results of an experiment to test the use of a Peer Instruction (PI) pedagogical model in a small class, high school environment. The study reports findings based on a population of 213 h... |
World Trade Center identifications pushed forensic DNA technology
At the end of more than three years, New York City's Office of Chief Medical Examiner (OCME) identified 58 percent of the 9/11 World Trade Center attack victims, thanks to innovative genetic analysis techniques, intergovernmental and family cooperation a... |
Caregiving and Japanese welfare
Japanese citizens in Singapore
Ying Shan Kung, National University of Singapore [About | Email]
Volume 17, Issue 2 (Article 6 in 2017). First published in ejcjs on 27 August 2017.
This article explores how Japan’s political economy has affected the lives of Japanese citizens living outsi... |
Obesity and Asthma — What's the Connection?You can't always prevent asthma, but studies are finding a new risk factor that you may be able to do something about. Find out how obesity and asthma are related, and what you can do to manage your asthma.By Diana RodriguezMedically reviewed by Niya Jones MD, MPH
If you're ov... |
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