AScribe Medicine News Service articles from March 2009

AScribe Medicine News Service archives from March 2009

Narcolepsy Network Announces Suddenly Sleepy Saturday - A Day for Narcolepsy Awareness: Saturday, March 7.
March 2, 2009... Byline: Narcolepsy Network NORTH KINGSTOWN, R.H., March 2 (AScribe Newswire) -- Narcolepsy Network Inc. announced today that it has designated Saturday, March 7, 2009, as Suddenly Sleepy Saturday - A Day for Narcolepsy Awareness. This date...

New Indiana University Simon Cancer Center Web Site Section Helps Patients, Families.
March 3, 2009... Byline: Indiana University School of Medicine INDIANAPOLIS, March 3 (AScribe Newswire) -- For some cancer patients, the soles of their feet and the palms of their hands burn or tingle, while others may become forgetful because of some types...

University of South Florida: USF Health and Lehigh Valley Health Network Affiliation to Create New Model of Medical Education.
March 6, 2009... Byline: University of South Florida Health Sciences TAMPA, Fla., March 6 (AScribe Newswire) -- The University of South Florida's College of Medicine (USF) and Lehigh Valley Health Network (LVHN) have announced an affiliation that will...

University of Central Florida Study: Hyperactivity Enables Children With ADHD to Stay Alert.
March 9, 2009... Byline: University of Central Florida ORLANDO, Fla., March 9 (AScribe Newswire) -- A new University of Central Florida study may explain why children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder move around a lot -- it helps them stay...

UC Santa Barbara Stem Cell Researchers Applaud Obama's Action.
March 9, 2009... Byline: University of California, Santa Barbara SANTA BARBARA, Calif., March 9 (AScribe Newswire) -- Stem cell researchers at UC Santa Barbara were pleased this morning after President Obama lifted the ban on federal funds for embryonic...

RAND Study Finds Pay for Performance for Medical Groups Stimulates Changes in Practice.
March 10, 2009... Byline: RAND Corporation SANTA MONICA, Calif., March 10 (AScribe Newswire) -- A large group of California physicians given financial incentives to improve the quality of medical care have begun to embrace an array of changes important to...

American Dental Association Launches Evidence-Based Dentistry Web Site; Initial Database Features Over 1300 Systematic Reviews.
March 10, 2009... Byline: American Dental Association CHICAGO, March 10 (AScribe Newswire) -- The American Dental Association (ADA) announces the launching of EBD.ada.org (http://www.ebd.ada.org), the Web site dedicated to evidenced-based dentistry (EBD)....

Leaders in Health and Genetics Acknowledged by Genetic Alliance Awards; Awardees Recognized as Key Contributors to Transforming Health Through Genetics.
March 10, 2009... Byline: Genetic Alliance WASHINGTON, March 10 (AScribe Newswire) -- Genetic Alliance, a nonprofit health advocacy organization, announced that Joseph D. McInerney, Frank Lehmann-Horn, Gautam Naik, and Talecris Biotherapeutics will be...

American Dental Education Association Hosts Training to Increase Diversity of Dental Students.
March 12, 2009... Byline: American Dental Education Association WASHINGTON, March 12 (AScribe Newswire) -- As dental schools strive to admit more students from diverse backgrounds, admissions committees are challenged to identify candidates who possess the...

ADEAGies Foundation to Present William J. Gies Awards for Vision, Innovation, and Achievement; Awards to be Presented March 14 in Conjunction With 86th American Dental Education Association Annual Session.
March 12, 2009... Byline: American Dental Education Association WASHINGTON, March 12 (AScribe Newswire) -- The ADEAGies Foundation is pleased to announce that the William J. Gies Awards for Vision, Innovation, and Achievement will be presented on Saturday,...

American College of Surgeons Recognizes Mayo Hospitals for Exemplary Outcomes; Rochester Methodist, Saint Marys Are the Only Minnesota Hospitals to Receive Designation.
March 13, 2009... Byline: Mayo Clinic ROCHESTER, Minn., March 13 (AScribe Newswire) -- The American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (ACS NSQIP) has recognized Mayo Clinic's Rochester Methodist and Saint Marys hospitals as...

American Dental Education Association to Testify Before House Appropriations Subcommittee in Support of Dental Education, Research.
March 17, 2009... Byline: American Dental Education Association WASHINGTON, March 17 (AScribe Newswire) -- On behalf of the American Dental Education Association (ADEA), James Q. Swift, D.D.S., will testify on March 18, 2009 in support of dental education...

Ronald J. Hunt Becomes American Dental Education Association President.
March 19, 2009... Byline: American Dental Education Association WASHINGTON, March 19 (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...

James Q. Swift, D.D.S., Receives American Dental Education Association Distinguished Service Award.
March 19, 2009... Byline: American Dental Education Association WASHINGTON, March 19 (AScribe Newswire) -- James Q. Swift, D.D.S., received the American Dental Education Association's (ADEA) Distinguished Service Award during the 2009 ADEA Annual Session and...

Spring Dreams in New York City.
March 19, 2009... Byline: Narcolepsy Network NEW YORK, March 19 (AScribe Newswire) -- The Narcolepsy Network will have a first cocktail party fundraiser in New York City on Monday, March 23 at 6 p.m. at "Twenty Four Fifth" (24 Fifth Ave. between 9th and...

International Conference on Dreams Focuses on Earth Dreaming.(Conference news)
March 19, 2009... Byline: International Association for the Study of Dreams BERKELEY, Calif., March 19 (AScribe Newswire) -- The International Association for the Study of Dreams (IASD) will hold its annual interdisciplinary conference June 26-30 at the...

Family Caregiver U.S. Postage Stamp Campaign Initiated by Volunteers of the National Family Caregivers Association.
March 20, 2009... Byline: National Family Caregivers Association KENSINGTON, Md., March 20 (AScribe Newswire) -- A United States postage stamp honoring the more than 50 million family caregivers in America is officially "under consideration" by the U.S....

Library of Free Pandemic Flu Materials Debuts.
March 23, 2009... Byline: National Public Health Information Coalition MARIETTA, Ga., March 23 (AScribe Newswire) -- To strengthen the nation's preparedness for a potential influenza pandemic, the National Public Health Information Coalition (NPHIC) has...

Association of State and Territorial Health Officials Shows Strong Support for Community Water Fluoridation.
March 23, 2009... Byline: Association of State and Territorial Health Officials ARLINGTON, Va., March 23 (AScribe Newswire) -- The Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO) has issued a statement supporting the Healthy People 2020 goal to...

Inventor of G-Suit Dies; Dr. Earl Wood Was Mayo Pioneer in Aerospace Medicine.
March 23, 2009... Byline: Mayo Clinic ROCHESTER, Minn., March 23 (AScribe Newswire) -- Earl Wood, M.D., Ph.D., the Mayo Clinic investigator credited with inventing the high-altitude pressure suit worn by pilots and astronauts, died March 18 in Rochester,...

TB Cases Increase in 19 Local California Health Jurisdictions, While Statewide TB Cases Decrease; American Lung Association in California Urges Prevention Investment on World TB Day, March 24 and TB Awareness Week, March 23-27.
March 23, 2009... Byline: American Lung Association OAKLAND, Calif., March 23 (AScribe Newswire) -- While tuberculosis (TB) cases dropped 1.1 percent in California (2008 compared to 2007), increases were experienced in 19 of California's 61 local health...

Transcending Politics to Save Lives: First Middle East Cardiology Conference to Bring Divergent Groups to Midwest for Common Cause.(Conference news)
March 24, 2009... Byline: Indiana University School of Medicine INDIANAPOLIS, March 24 (AScribe Newswire) -- Cardiologists from Israel, Palestine, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates and other countries in the Middle East will gather in...

Safe Driving Education Should Be Part of Routine Teen Physicals, Hopkins Children's Experts Say.
March 24, 2009... Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions BALTIMORE, March 24 (AScribe Newswire) -- The "are you driving yet?" talk should become part of every pediatrician's regular physical exam for teenagers, Hopkins Children's experts say. ...

CACM Reports: The Changing Human Relationship With Computers; March Issue Examines Impact of User Evolution From Desktop Systems to Mobile Interfaces.
March 25, 2009... Byline: Association for Computing Machinery NEW YORK, N.Y., March 25 (AScribe Newswire) -- Human interaction with computers has been radically transformed by the integration of computer systems beyond the workplace and into home life,...

Billions Spent on Health IT Stimulus Could Lead to Major Boom ... or Bust; Experts Identify Tremendous Opportunity to Create Burgeoning Ecosystem, Warn Against Spending on Inefficient Technologies.
March 25, 2009... Byline: Children's Hospital Boston BOSTON, Mass., March 25 (AScribe Newswire) -- The more than $19 billion dollars of funding provided for health care information technology (IT) in President Obama's economic stimulus package offers a...

Kenya Government Appoints Emergency Health Workers to Permanent Positions.
March 26, 2009... Byline: IntraHealth International, Inc. CHAPEL HILL, N.C., March 26 (AScribe Newswire) -- The Government of Kenya has approved a complete absorption of more than 870 health workers contracted over the past three years through an Emergency...

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute President Comments on Senators Kennedy and Hutchison's Cancer Legislation.
March 26, 2009... Byline: Dana-Farber Cancer Institute BOSTON, March 26 (AScribe Newswire) -- Following is a statement by Edward J. Benz, Jr., M.D., President of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Co-Chair of the Research Working Group for the 21st Century Cancer...

Senators Kennedy and Hutchison Garner Association of American Cancer Institutes Praise for 21st Century Cancer ALERT Act.
March 26, 2009... Byline: Association of American Cancer Institutes PITTSBURGH, March 26 (AScribe Newswire) -- Senators Edward M. Kennedy and Kay Bailey Hutchison introduced legislation Thursday that will revitalize the fight against cancer by updating and...

American Dental Association Convenes Major Summit on Improving Access to Dental Care.
March 27, 2009... Byline: American Dental Association CHICAGO, March 27 (AScribe Newswire) -- Nearly 150 stakeholders from non-profit groups, government agencies and private industry met March 23-25 at a summit on access to dental care convened by the...

American Dental Education Association and National Matching Services Inc. Streamline Process for Obtaining a Postdoctoral Residency.
March 27, 2009... Byline: American Dental Education Association WASHINGTON, March 27 (AScribe Newswire) -- The American Dental Education Association (ADEA) has partnered with National Matching Services Inc. (NMS) to implement a single access point to...

Media Mental Health Forum Held by Entertainment Industries Council in St. Louis; Congressman Russ Carnahan, KSDK Channel 5, Former Governor Bob Holden and Webster University Collaborate to Bring Attention to Mental Health in St. Louis.
March 27, 2009... Byline: Entertainment Industries Council ST. LOUIS, March 27 (AScribe Newswire) -- The Entertainment Industries Council, Inc. (EIC), the premiere non-profit organization dedicated to raising awareness of health and social issues, presented...

American Dental Association President Urges Congress to Shore Up Indian Health Service Dental Care.
March 27, 2009... Byline: American Dental Association WASHINGTON, March 27 (AScribe Newswire) -- American Dental Association (ADA) President John S. Findley, D.D.S., told the U.S. House Committee on interior appropriations charged with funding the Indian...

Low-Income Families With Sick Children Often Enrolled in High-Deductible Health Plans; When Employees Don't Have a Choice of Plans, Children With Chronic Illness Could Be at Risk.
March 29, 2009... Byline: Children's Hospital Boston BOSTON, March 30 (AScribe Newswire) -- High-deductible health plans are increasingly used by healthy people who are unlikely to incur high medical expenses. But they also end up enrolling many low-income,...

Dr. Sandra C. Andrieu Becomes American Dental Education Association President-Elect.
March 30, 2009... Byline: American Dental Education Association WASHINGTON, March 30 (AScribe Newswire) -- Sandra C. Andrieu, Ph.D., Professor and Associate Dean of Academic Affairs at the Louisiana State University School of Dentistry (LSUSD), was installed...

Rotavirus Vaccines Have Potential to Save 2.5 Million Lives by 2025; New Briefing Paper on Burden, Prevention of Rotavirus Issued as Global Health Community Focuses on Near-term Promise of Rotavirus Vaccines.
March 31, 2009... Byline: PATH SEATTLE, March 31 (AScribe Newswire) -- Rotavirus vaccines have the potential to save more than 2.5 million lives by 2025, according to a briefing paper released today by PATH. The vaccines are already in use in North America,...

The Future of Computer-Human Interaction: Researchers, Practitioners, Educators and Students Gather to Explore How Digital Lives Create New Worlds.
March 31, 2009... Byline: Association for Computing Machinery BOSTON, March 31 (AScribe Newswire) -- The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) is hosting the annual conference on Computer-Human Interaction, CHI 2009 (http://www.chi2009.org), the premier...

Invitation to Cover 'Treating the Whole Woman - From Motherhood Through Menopause,' a Penn Medicine Media Seminar at Pennsylvania Hospital.
March 31, 2009... Byline: University of Pennsylvania Health System PHILADELPHIA, March 31 (AScribe Newswire) -- Americans are living longer than ever before, and statistically, women live even longer then men. But in many ways, it's still a man's world....