AScribe Medicine News Service articles from April 2008

AScribe Medicine News Service archives from April 2008

Indiana University Study Finds Majority of U.S. Physicians Favor National Health Insurance; Support Has Grown 10 Percent Over Past 5 Years.
April 1, 2008... Byline: Indiana University School of Medicine INDIANAPOLIS, April 1 (AScribe Newswire) -- The largest survey ever of American physicians' opinions on health-care financing has found that 59 percent of doctors support government legislation...

Vanderbilt Autism Experts Available for Interviews About World Autism Day, April 2.
April 1, 2008... Byline: Vanderbilt University NASHVILLE, Tenn., April 1 (AScribe Newswire) -- A variety of Vanderbilt University experts are available for interviews on autism. The United Nations designated April 2 World Autism Day in November 2007. ...

SIGCHI Announces Best of CHI 2008 Award Winners; Conference Honors Research That Addresses Problems of Accessibility, Homelessness, Healthcare, Emerging Markets.(Conference news)(Awards list)
April 3, 2008... Byline: Association for Computing Machinery FLORENCE, Italy, April 3 (AScribe Newswire) -- ACM SIGCHI - the official sponsor of CHI 2008, the premiere international conference for Human-Computer Interaction - today announced the winners of...

Charles N. Bertolami Assumes Presidency of American Dental Education Association.
April 4, 2008... Byline: American Dental Education Association WASHINGTON, April 4 (AScribe Newswire) -- Charles N. Bertolami, D.D.S., D.Med.Sc., Herman Robert Fox Dean of the New York University (NYU) College of Dentistry, was installed as ADEA President...

Ronald J. Hunt Becomes American Dental Education Association President-Elect.
April 4, 2008... Byline: American Dental Education Association WASHINGTON, April 4 (AScribe Newswire) -- Ronald J. Hunt, D.D.S., M.S., Harry Lyons Professor and Dean of the Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) School of Dentistry, was installed as ADEA...

Join Fran Drescher's Cancer Schmancer Foundation at the National Dress Well, Be Well Event Being Hosted by Bloomingdale's.
April 4, 2008... Byline: Betsy Mullen Consulting LOS ANGELES, April 4 (AScribe Newswire) -- - This Saturday, April 5, 2008, join Fran Drescher's Cancer Schmancer Foundation at the national Dress Well, Be Well event being hosted by Bloomingdale's....

American Dental Education Association Awards Ceremony Honors Contributions to Dental Education.
April 7, 2008... Byline: American Dental Education Association WASHINGTON, April 7 (AScribe Newswire) -- The American Dental Education Association (ADEA) recognized the contributions of many dental educators, researchers, and students at the 2008 ADEA...

Hopkins Performs Historic 'Six-Way Domino' Kidney Transplant; Six Donor-Recipient Pairs Interchange Kidneys in Simultaneous Group Procedure.
April 8, 2008... Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions BALTIMORE, April 8 (AScribe Newswire) -- Surgical teams at Johns Hopkins performed what is believed to be the first six-way donor kidney swap among 12 individuals Saturday, April 5. The 10-hour...

Columbia Business School Announces Winners of Ninth Annual Outrageous Business Plan Competition.
April 8, 2008... Byline: Columbia Business School NEW YORK, April 8 (AScribe Newswire) -- Columbia Business School announced today the winners of its Ninth Annual A. Lorne Weil Outrageous Business Plan Competition. Chosen from a record 46 submissions, the...

Society's Benefit From Treating Substance-Abusing Arrestees Would Far Outweigh Costs, Urban Institute Analysis Finds.
April 8, 2008... Byline: The Urban Institute WASHINGTON, April 8 (AScribe Newswire) -- The benefit to society would top $46 billion annually if drug-using arrestees participated in treatment programs, a new report from the Urban Institute concludes. Giving...

Bay Area Couple Participate in First Ever Sextuple Kidney Transplants; 12 People, 6 Donor-Recipient Pairs, Interchange Kidneys in Simultaneous Group Procedure.
April 8, 2008... Byline: National Kidney Foundation of Northern California & Northern Nevada SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., April 9 (AScribe Newswire) -- A Bay Area couple participated in an historic kidney swap Saturday, April 5, at The Johns Hopkins Hospital in...

PoWeR Releases Groundbreaking Lipodystrophy Resources for HIV-Positive People.
April 8, 2008... Byline: Program for Wellness Restoration HOUSTON, April 8 (AScribe Newswire) -- Program for Wellness Restoration, PoWeR, released the results of the largest online patient surveys performed to date on lipodystrophy options and resources...

Bay Area Couple Participate in First Ever Sextuple Kidney Transplants; 12 People, 6 Donor-Recipient Pairs, Interchange Kidneys in Simultaneous Group Procedure.
April 9, 2008... Byline: AScribe, The Public Interest Newswire SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., April 9 (AScribe Newswire) -- A Bay Area couple participated in an historic kidney swap Saturday, April 5, at The Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland. Jeanne...

Researchers Pilot New Electronic System for Infectious Illness.
April 10, 2008... Byline: Harvard University Medical School BOSTON, Mass., April 10 (AScribe Newswire) -- Researchers at Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Harvard Medical School, Atrius Health, and the Massachusetts Department of Public Health have created and...

Live Surgery, New Research, Leading Sports Medicine Experts; Hospital for Special Surgery Hosts 2nd Annual Symposium; Media Invited to Attend.
April 10, 2008... Byline: Hospital for Special Surgery NEW YORK, April 10 (AScribe Newswire) -- Hospital for Special Surgery today released the following media advisory. - - - - WHEN: Friday, April 18, 8:15 a.m. - 4:55 p.m. (ET) Saturday, April...

New Guggenheim Fellow to Study Psychotherapy Rise in China.
April 11, 2008... Byline: University of California, Davis DAVIS, Calif., April 11 (AScribe Newswire) -- UC Davis anthropologist Li Zhang, an associate professor of anthropology at UC Davis who is studying the rise of psychotherapy in contemporary China, has...

American Cancer Society's Legislative Day 2008 to Focus on Cures, Not Cuts.
April 11, 2008... Byline: American Cancer Society SACRAMENTO, Calif., April 11 (AScribe Newswire) -- On Tuesday, April 15, American Cancer Society's California Division volunteers and staff from throughout the state will come together in Sacramento to meet...

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Honors Dana-Farber Cancer Institute With 2nd Annual Health Care Excellence Award; Dana-Farber's Innovative Approach to Patient and Family-Centered Care Seen as Industry Best Practice.
April 14, 2008... Byline: Dana-Farber Cancer Institute BOSTON, April 14 (AScribe Newswire) -- Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts (BCBSMA) announced today that Dana-Farber Cancer Institute has been selected as recipient of its second annual Health Care...

State Public Health Officials Move to Protect the Most Vulnerable People in America During a Pandemic: Recommendations Available for Public Comment.
April 15, 2008... Byline: Association of State and Territorial Health Officials ARLINGTON, Va., April 15 (AScribe Newswire) -- The Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO) has created a unique partnership to help protect the American...

RAND Study Finds One in Five Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans Suffer From PTSD or Major Depression.
April 17, 2008... Byline: RAND Corporation WASHINGTON, April 17 (AScribe Newswire) -- Nearly 20 percent of military service members who have returned from Iraq and Afghanistan -- 300,000 in all -- report symptoms of post traumatic stress disorder or major...

Rotman School of Management Professor Gary Latham Appointed President of Psychology Organization.
April 18, 2008... Byline: Rotman School of Management TORONTO, April 18 (AScribe Newswire) -- A professor at the University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management was appointed President of The Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP)...

Canada Moves Toward BPA Ban; Wal-Mart Will Pull All BPA-Laced Items.
April 18, 2008... Byline: Environmental Working Group WASHINGTON, April 18 (AScribe Newswire) -- A day after Wal-Mart, the world's largest retailer, announced plans to pull all products containing the toxic chemical BPA from store shelves, Canada began...

Sickest Patients Still Struggle Under New Medicare Part D Benefit.
April 22, 2008... Byline: Harvard University Medical School BOSTON, Mass., April 22 (AScribe Newswire) -- A recent study finds that the advantages of the new Medicare Part D drug benefit - a program that for the first time offers Medicare recipients...

One4One Campaign to Raise $1 Million to Improve Cervical Cancer Education and Resources; Every Woman is Urged to Talk to Her Healthcare Provider about Ways to Help Prevent Cervical Cancer.
April 24, 2008... Byline: Edelman Public Relations NEW YORK, April 24 (AScribe Newswire) -- One4One, a unique program focused on empowering women to help make a difference in the fight against cervical cancer, starts today during National Minority Cancer...

Purdue Expert Says U.S. Has Low Risk of Receiving Contaminated Drugs.
April 28, 2008... Byline: Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., April 28 (AScribe Newswire) -- A Purdue University expert says distribution of contaminated pharmaceuticals in the United States is a concern, but an individual's risk of receiving such a...

Johns Hopkins Professors Elected to National Academy of Sciences.
April 30, 2008... Byline: Johns Hopkins University BALTIMORE, April 30 (AScribe Newswire) -- Gregg L. Semenza, M.D., Ph.D., a professor of pediatrics at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and Jane I. Guyer, Ph.D., a professor of anthropology at the Johns...

Bisphenol A in Plastics Turns Ursinus College Researcher/Mother Into a Skeptic: Expert Available.
April 30, 2008... Byline: Ursinus College COLLEGEVILLE, Pa., April 30 (AScribe Newswire) -- Plastics, and the chemical bisphenol A (BPA) contained in some plastics, are under increased scrutiny from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Food and Drug...

Wisconsin Biomedical Engineering Students Design Meaningful Medical Solutions.
April 30, 2008... Byline: University of Wisconsin - Madison MADISON, Wis., April 30 (AScribe Newswire) -- When University of Wisconsin-Madison junior Claire Flanagan graduates in May 2009 with bachelor's degrees in biomedical engineering (BME) and...

Air Pollution: 26 California Counties Still Fail, 19 Counties Receive 'A' Grades in American Lung Association's Annual Nationwide State of the Air Clean Air Test; Policy Initiatives and Community-Based Efforts Have More Work to Do.
April 30, 2008... Byline: American Lung Association LOS ANGELES, May 1 (AScribe Newswire) -- For the first time, a city outside of California tops one of the most polluted lists in the American Lung Association's State of the Air: 2008 report released...