AScribe Medicine News Service articles from January 2007

AScribe Medicine News Service archives from January 2007

Sex-Crazed Teens, Overhyped Abductions and Booze Bunk: Worst Science Journalism of 2006.
January 2, 2007... Byline: Center for Media & Public Affairs WASHINGTON, Jan. 2 (AScribe Newswire) -- The Statistical Assessment Service (http://www.STATS.org) -- a non-profit, non-partisan media research organization affiliated with George Mason University...

Don't Tell Her She Can't Succeed; Smith College Study Reveals How Stereotypical Messages Affect Women's Brains.
January 4, 2007... Byline: Smith College NORTHAMPTON, Mass., Jan. 4 (AScribe Newswire) -- When told she will not succeed, a woman's brain can take on an emotional burden that inhibits her ability to succeed, according to a Smith College study that documents,...

University of Arizona Doctor Leads Virtual Medical Team for Amazon Swimmer.
January 4, 2007... Byline: University of Arizona TUCSON, Ariz., Jan. 4 (AScribe Newswire) -- Physicians at The University of Arizona are leading a virtual medical team to assist Martin Strel, a Guinness-record marathon swimmer, as he swims the Amazon River...

Dr. Robert B. Stroube Assumes Leadership of Foremost National Association of State Public Health Officials.
January 5, 2007... Byline: Association of State and Territorial Health Officials WASHINGTON, Jan. 5 (AScribe Newswire) -- Virginia State Health Commissioner Robert B. Stroube, MD, MPH, will take up the reins of the Association of State and Territorial Health...

Emory University, Finland National Public Health Institute to Build Global Public Health Network With $20 Million Gates Foundation Grant; International Association of National Public Health Institutes Will Build International Community of 'CDCs'.
January 10, 2007... Byline: Emory University Health Sciences Center ATLANTA, Jan. 10 (AScribe Newswire) -- Emory University, in partnership with Finland's National Public Health Institute, KTL (Kansanterveyslaitos), has received a five-year grant of nearly $20...

Emory University Announces New Global Health Institute; Dr. Jeffrey Koplan Directs University-Wide Initiative Focused on Developing Nations.
January 10, 2007... Byline: Emory University Health Sciences Center ATLANTA, Jan. 10 (AScribe Newswire) -- Emory University announced today a new Global Health Institute that will help address the most pressing health challenges around the world, particularly...

Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center Director Raymond DuBois Jr. to Return to Home State For Post at M.D. Anderson.
January 10, 2007... Byline: Vanderbilt Medical Center NASHVILLE, Tenn., Jan. 10 (AScribe Newswire) -- Raymond DuBois Jr., M.D., Ph.D., will leave his position as director of the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center later this year to return to his native Texas as...

American Cancer Society, Queens Library, Queens Cancer Center, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Will Launch Queens Library Healthlink Initiative.
January 11, 2007... Byline: Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center NEW YORK, Jan. 11 (AScribe Newswire) -- Memorial Sloan-Kettering today released the following advisory. - - - - WHO: Speakers: Borough President Helen Marshall; City Councilmember...

Non-Verbal Communication Expert on Bush Speech: 'Not a Moment of Heartfelt Rhetoric'.
January 11, 2007... Byline: University of Maryland, College Park COLLEGE PARK, Md., Jan. 11 (AScribe Newswire) -- President Bush's Iraq television address last night conveyed "a stony lack of genuine intention, and he appeared disingenuous when he accepted...

Milestones in Reproductive Health: Gala Event to Celebrate Over-the-Counter Availability of Plan B Emergency Contraception.
January 11, 2007... Byline: Public Health Institute OAKLAND, Calif., Jan. 11 (AScribe Newswire) -- The Public Health Institute today released the following advisory. - - - - WHAT: Milestones in Reproductive Health: A gala event to celebrate...

The Century Foundation Offers a Primer on the Complex Issues in the Stem Cell Debate; Health Policy Fellow Leif Wellington Haase Is Available for Interviews and Commentary.
January 11, 2007... Byline: The Century Foundation NEW YORK, Jan. 11 (AScribe Newswire) -- The House is expected to vote today on a bill to expand federal investment in stem cell research and to lift federal restrictions imposed by President Bush on this...

Public Health Institute Hosts California Health Strategy Summit: Working Together to Improve Health in California.
January 11, 2007... Byline: Public Health Institute OAKLAND, Calif., Jan. 11 (AScribe Newswire) -- The California Health Strategy Summit is an unprecedented forum created to address complex health systems issues and establish a varied constituency whose...

T.J. Maxx, Joslin Diabetes Center Working to Conquer Diabetes in Style.(Company overview)
January 11, 2007... Byline: Joslin Diabetes Center BOSTON, Jan. 11 (AScribe Newswire) -- Joslin Diabetes Center, global leader in diabetes research, care and education, is proud to announce its national in-store cause-marketing promotion with T.J. Maxx in...

Joslin Diabetes Center Launches National Clinical Trial to Explore If Anti-Inflammatory Drug Can Improve Glucose Control in Type 2 Diabetes; Adults With Poorly Controlled Type 2 Diabetes Sought to Participate in Multi-Center Clinical Trial Funded by NIDDK.
January 16, 2007... Byline: Joslin Diabetes Center BOSTON, Jan. 16 (AScribe Newswire) -- Joslin Diabetes Center scientists are taking their groundbreaking research on the role of inflammation in type 2 diabetes to a new level this month with the launch of a...

Health Summit to Address Key Health Issues Facing California.
January 17, 2007... Byline: Public Health Institute OAKLAND, Calif., Jan. 17 (AScribe Newswire) -- The inaugural California Health Strategy Summit will bring together leaders from throughout the state to address the challenges posed by communicable disease...

Coalition for Genetic Fairness Sees Light at the End of Discrimination Tunnel.
January 17, 2007... Byline: Genetic Alliance WASHINGTON, Jan. 17 (AScribe Newswire) -- The Coalition for Genetic Fairness applauded President Bush's comments today at NIH. The President said, "I really want to make it clear to the Congress that I hope they...

Red Sox Slugger Wily Mo Pena on Base for Joslin Diabetes Center.
January 17, 2007... Byline: Joslin Diabetes Center BOSTON, Jan. 17 (AScribe Newswire) -- Boston Red Sox Wily Mo Pena is teaming up with Joslin Diabetes Center's Latino Diabetes Initiative for the Beisbol y Salud Diabetes Awareness Project. Pena will host this...

Joslin Diabetes Center Names Ranch C. Kimball, Former Romney Chief Economic Advisor and Distinguished Business Veteran, as Seventh President.
January 19, 2007... Byline: Joslin Diabetes Center BOSTON, Jan. 19 (AScribe Newswire) -- Ranch C. Kimball, a distinguished leader in business who served as Secretary of Economic Development for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts under former Governor Mitt...

University of Texas at Dallas Facility to Be Dedicated Jan. 26; Center for BrainHealth's Frances and Mildred Goad Building Will Serve Patients, House Researchers, Clinicians, Students.
January 22, 2007... Byline: University of Texas at Dallas RICHARDSON, Texas, Jan. 22 (AScribe Newswire) -- The new home of the Center for BrainHealth, a highly regarded clinical and research arm of The University of Texas at Dallas, will be formally dedicated...

T. Boone Pickens Donates $5 Million To University of Texas at Dallas to Advance Brain Health.
January 22, 2007... Byline: University of Texas at Dallas RICHARDSON, Texas, Jan. 22 (AScribe Newswire) -- Dallas businessman and philanthropist T. Boone Pickens has donated $5 million to The University of Texas at Dallas to fund educational and research...

Researchers: Microwave Oven Can Sterilize Sponges, Scrub Pads.
January 22, 2007... Byline: University of Florida GAINESVILLE, Fla., Jan. 22 (AScribe Newswire) -- Microwave ovens may be good for more than just zapping the leftovers; they may also help protect your family. University of Florida engineering researchers...

Health-Care Trend Moving Focus on Healing, Not Sickness, Expert Says.
January 22, 2007... Byline: Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., Jan. 22 (AScribe Newswire) -- In years to come, hospitals and other health-care facilities will look more like hotels or resorts and less like the institutional, often inconveniently designed...

Is Where You Live Affecting How You Live? PolicyLink Opens The Policylink Center for Health and Place; Center Will Focus on How Neighborhood Environments, Community Factors Impact Health.
January 22, 2007... Byline: PolicyLink OAKLAND, Calif., Jan. 22 (AScribe Newswire) -- It seems like every week America finds itself in the grips of a new "health crisis": the Obesity crisis, the Asthma crisis, the Cancer crisis, the Diabetes crisis, and on...

California Pacific Medical Center Elects New Chair of its Board of Directors.
January 22, 2007... Byline: California Pacific Medical Center SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 22 (AScribe Newswire) -- Scott Minick, longtime executive and board member of leading pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, has been elected as the new Chair of the Board...

Researchers: Microwave Oven Can Sterilize Sponges, Scrub Pads.
January 23, 2007... Byline: University of Florida GAINESVILLE, Fla., Jan. 22 (AScribe Newswire) -- Microwave ovens may be good for more than just zapping the leftovers; they may also help protect your family. - - - - PLEASE NOTE: To guard against the...

Harvard Medical School's Center for Health and the Global Environment Honors the Prince of Wales; His Royal Highness Is Recipient of 10th Anniversary Global Environmental Citizen Award; Actress Meryl Streep, the Hon. Al Gore Will Present Award.
January 27, 2007... Byline: Harvard University Medical School NEW YORK, Jan. 28 (AScribe Newswire) -- His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales will today receive the Global Environmental Citizen Award from Harvard Medical School's Center for Health and the...

Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center Receives $6.5 Million Grant to Study Tumor Environment.
January 29, 2007... Byline: Vanderbilt Medical Center NASHVILLE, Tenn., Jan. 29 (AScribe Newswire) -- Like a seed needs soil to grow and flourish, a tumor relies on its environment to grow and spread in the body -- something the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center...

Jennifer A. Pietenpol, Ph.D., Named Interim Director of Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center.
January 29, 2007... Byline: Vanderbilt Medical Center NASHVILLE, Tenn., Jan. 29 (AScribe Newswire) -- Jennifer A. Pietenpol, Ph.D., has been selected to lead the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center as interim director. Pietenpol, Ingram Professor of Cancer...

Good Oral Health Practices Should Begin in Infancy: Advice From the American Dental Association During National Children's Dental Health Month.
January 29, 2007... Byline: American Dental Association CHICAGO, Jan. 29 (AScribe Newswire) -- February is National Children's Dental Health Month and as the American Dental Association (ADA) kicks it off with its Fifth Annual Give Kids A Smile Day on...

Coalition for Genetic Fairness Applauds House for Holding Hearing.
January 30, 2007... Byline: Genetic Alliance WASHINGTON, Jan. 30 (AScribe Newswire) -- The Coalition for Genetic Fairness, an alliance of advocacy organizations, health professionals and industry leaders working to educate Congressional policymakers and staff...

Overweight Decreases in Cambridge Students K to 8: New Findings from Researchers, Clinicians, Public Health Officials, Public School Staff Collaborating on Weight and Fitness Assessments.
January 30, 2007... Byline: Cambridge Health Alliance CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Jan. 30 (AScribe Newswire) -- The Cambridge Health Alliance today released the following advisory regarding promising new data about overweight kids in Cambridge. - - - - What:...

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Launches $1 Billion Capital Campaign; 'Mission Possible: The Dana-Farber Campaign to Conquer Cancer' to Focus on Furthering Cancer Research and Life-Saving Treatments.
January 31, 2007... Byline: Dana-Farber Cancer Institute BOSTON, Jan. 31 (AScribe Newswire) -- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute today launched the most ambitious fundraising campaign in its history and the largest ever hospital-based campaign in New England....

Media Fellowship on Meth and Children Available at Vanderbilt University.
January 31, 2007... Byline: Vanderbilt University NASHVILLE, Tenn., Jan. 31 (AScribe Newswire) -- Vanderbilt University encourages active journalists to apply to attend its 2007 media fellowship for "Meth Rescue: Meth's Effects on Children, Families and the...