AScribe Medicine News Service articles from January 2008

AScribe Medicine News Service archives from January 2008

Expanded 2008 Vision Grant Award Program Announced.
January 4, 2008... Byline: Preeclampsia Foundation MINNEAPOLIS, Jan. 4 (AScribe Newswire) -- The Preeclampsia Foundation (PF) announced today that it is expanding its research grant program this year, with a goal of making up to four grants from a total pool...

California Pacific Medical Center Teams Up With Dartmouth Medical School; Bi-Coastal Partnership Benefits Students, Physicians, Patients.
January 9, 2008... Byline: California Pacific Medical Center SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 9 (AScribe Newswire) -- California Pacific Medical Center and Dartmouth Medical School, an Ivy League institution in New Hampshire, are partnering to train a new generation of...

California Gets Mixed Grades in Tobacco Report Card; Californians Largely Protected From Secondhand Smoke; State Fails to Make Proper Investment to Reduce Disease and Death.
January 9, 2008... Byline: American Lung Association SACRAMENTO, Calif., Jan. 10 (AScribe Newswire) -- California scored a range of grades from A to F in the American Lung Association's State of Tobacco Control 2007 report, which highlighted success in...

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Launches National Program to Build Next Generation of Academic Nurse Leaders; $28 Million Nurse Faculty Scholars Program Offers Career Development to Promote Ranks of Junior Faculty.
January 10, 2008... Byline: School of Nursing, Johns Hopkins University PRINCETON, N.J., Jan. 10 (AScribe Newswire) -- The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) today announced a new scholars program to develop the next generation of nurse leaders in academia...

Leading National Experts Available to Address Cervical Cancer Prevention During National Cervical Cancer Awareness Month.
January 10, 2008... Byline: Edelman Public Relations NEW YORK, Jan. 10 (AScribe Newswire) -- Cervical cancer is the second most common cause of cancer death in women worldwide. In January (National Cervical Cancer Awareness Month), more than 800 women will be...

ADEAGies Foundation Announces Winners of Inaugural William J. Gies Awards for Vision, Innovation, Achievement; Awards to be Presented at Celebration in Conjunction With 85th American Dental Education Association Annual Session.(Awards list)
January 15, 2008... Byline: American Dental Education Association WASHINGTON, Jan. 15 (AScribe Newswire) -- The ADEAGies Foundation is pleased to announce the winners of the inaugural William J. Gies Awards for Vision, Innovation, and Achievement. Named after...

Florida Philanthropists Phillip and Patricia Frost Give $1 Million to Scripps Florida; Lobby of Drug Discovery Building On Scripps' New Jupiter Campus to Be Named In Their Honor.
January 16, 2008... Byline: The Scripps Research Institute JUPITER, Fla., Jan. 16 (AScribe Newswire) -- Florida physician, businessman and philanthropist Phillip Frost and his wife, Patricia Frost, an ardent supporter of education and the arts, have donated $1...

The Palo Alto Medical Foundation's Fremont Center Opens Urgent Care Center.
January 16, 2008... Byline: Palo Alto Medical Foundation FREMONT, Calif., Jan. 16 (AScribe Newswire) -- The Palo Alto Medical Foundation's (PAMF's) Fremont Center now offers extended weekday hours and weekend hours for patients with urgent...

LSU Health Sciences Center Dental School to Be Awarded Top National Honor.
January 16, 2008... Byline: LSU Health Sciences Center NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 16 (AScribe Newswire) -- The School of Dentistry at LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans has been selected as the inaugural academic dental institution recipient of the William J. Gies...

Beth Israel Deaconess Boards Commit Two Hospitals to Ambitious Quality, Safety and Patient Satisfaction Goals.
January 17, 2008... Byline: Beth Israel-Deaconess Medical Center BOSTON, Jan. 17 (AScribe Newswire) -- Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) and Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital-Needham (BID-Needham) are taking unprecedented steps to commit each hospital...

State of the Union Address: Tips for Watching.
January 17, 2008... Byline: University of Maryland, College Park COLLEGE PARK, Md., Jan. 17 (AScribe Newswire) -- President Bush gives his seventh - and final - State of the Union Address to the nation January 28. University of Maryland Visiting Associate...

Stanford Business School Research: Does a Wine's Price Tag Affect Its Taste?
January 18, 2008... Byline: Stanford Graduate School of Business STANFORD, Calif., Jan. 18 (AScribe Newswire) -- In what will be music to the ears of marketers, the old adage that you get what you pay for really is true when it comes to that most ephemeral of...

Colgate University Faculty Available to Discuss and Interpret the 2008 U.S. Presidential Campaign.
January 21, 2008... Byline: Colgate University HAMILTON, N.Y., Jan. 21 (AScribe Newswire) -- What does former President Bill Clinton's affair with Monica Lewinsky have to do with the 2008 U.S. presidential campaign? Plenty, according to political science...

Researchers Propose Consumers Buy Yearly 'Drug Licenses' as New Way to Pay for Prescriptions.
January 21, 2008... Byline: RAND Corporation SANTA MONICA, Calif., Jan. 21 (AScribe Newswire) -- Changing the way consumers pay for prescription drugs so that the system more closely resembles paying for cell phones or computer software could increase drug...

American Dental Association Launches Smile Healthy Program; New Logo Will Help Consumers Make Smart Product Choices.
January 22, 2008... Byline: American Dental Association CHICAGO, Jan. 22 (AScribe Newswire) -- The American Dental Association (ADA) announced today the launch of its new "Smile Healthy," certification program aimed at helping consumers identify which foods...

College Football Games Lead to Increase in Assaults, Vandalism; University of Colorado Denver Professor and Graduate Student Create First-Ever Study to Examine Relationship Between College Football and Crime.
January 22, 2008... Byline: University of Colorado Health Sciences Center DENVER, Colo., Jan. 22 (AScribe Newswire) -- College football games are linked to aggressive behavior, according to a new study by Daniel I. Rees, PhD, associate professor of economics...

Step Away from the Keyboard -- Handwriting Still Important: Vanderbilt Expert Available to Comment for National Handwriting Day, Jan. 23.
January 22, 2008... Byline: Vanderbilt University NASHVILLE, Tenn., Jan. 22 (AScribe Newswire) -- Handwriting might be a lost art to many, but it plays a critical role in how we learn and express ourselves, Vanderbilt handwriting expert Steve Graham says. Jan....

University of California, Santa Barbara Psychologist Wins National Academy Prize.
January 22, 2008... Byline: University of California, Santa Barbara SANTA BARBARA, Calif., Jan. 22 (AScribe Newswire) -- Today the National Academy of Sciences announced that a psychologist from the University of California, Santa Barbara, will be honored...

Kids Learn More When Mom Is Listening.
January 23, 2008... Byline: Vanderbilt University NASHVILLE, Tenn., Jan. 23 (AScribe Newswire) -- Kids may roll their eyes when their mother asks them about their school day, but answering her may actually help them learn. New research from Vanderbilt...

ACTION Campaign to Combat Substance Abuse Meets Initial Goal to Enlist 500 Agencies Nationwide.
January 24, 2008... Byline: University of Wisconsin - Madison MADISON, Wis., Jan. 24 (AScribe Newswire) -- In the four short months since its launch in October 2007, the University of Wisconsin-Madison-based ACTION Campaign to combat substance abuse has...

American Dental Association Honored for Older Adults Oral Health Program.
January 24, 2008... Byline: American Dental Association CHICAGO, Jan. 24 (AScribe Newswire) -- The Associations Advance America Awards program has named the American Dental Association (ADA) to its 2008 Honor Roll, a national awards competition for innovative...

National Kidney Foundation to Present 2008 Champion of Hope Awards at Annual Golden Gala Benefit.
January 28, 2008... Byline: National Kidney Foundation of Northern California & Northern Nevada SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 28 (AScribe Newswire) -- The National Kidney Foundation of Northern California & Northern Nevada will proudly present Champions of Hope Awards...

Society for New Communications Research Announces 2008 Fellows.
January 28, 2008... Byline: Society for New Communications Research PALO ALTO, Calif., Jan. 28 (AScribe Newswire) -- The Society for New Communications Research (http://www.sncr.org), a global, nonprofit think tank focused on the latest developments in media...

Open Wide! Nation's Dentists Address Access With Free Care for Kids; Underserved Children to Benefit From Annual Give Kids a Smile Events.
January 28, 2008... Byline: American Dental Association CHICAGO, Jan. 28 (AScribe Newswire) -- February is National Children's Dental Health Month and on Feb. 1, more than 51,000 dental professionals will provide free dental services to more than 500,000...

'Full Frontal Scrutiny' Web Site Exposes the Work of Front Groups; Consumer Reports WebWatch, Center for Media and Democracy Collaborate on Blog-Driven, Wiki-based Site Inviting Contributions From Interested Readers.(Website overview)
January 29, 2008... Byline: Consumers Union YONKERS, N.Y., Jan. 29 (AScribe Newswire) -- Full Frontal Scrutiny (http://www.frontgroups.org), a joint project of two non-profit organizations with a strong history of independent, public interest investigative...

Cummings School Receives Rockefeller Foundation Grant; Veterinary Health Services Key to Preventing, Controlling Human and Animal Diseases.
January 30, 2008... Byline: Rockefeller Foundation NORTH GRAFTON, Mass., Jan. 30 (AScribe Newswire) -- The Rockefeller Foundation has awarded the Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University a grant to assess veterinary health services in...

Mary Pittman Takes Leadership of Public Health Institute, One of Nation's Largest Non-Profit Public Health Organizations.
January 30, 2008... Byline: Public Health Institute OAKLAND, Calif., Jan. 30 (AScribe Newswire) -- The Public Health Institute (PHI) announced today that Mary Pittman now serves as president and chief executive officer of PHI, one of the nation's largest...

Journal Celebrates Pioneer in Human Computer Interaction.
January 31, 2008... Byline: University of Maryland, College Park COLLEGE PARK, Md., Jan. 31 (AScribe Newswire) -- For only the second time in its 19-year history the International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction is honoring one of the field's founding...