AScribe Medicine News Service articles from November 2007

AScribe Medicine News Service archives from November 2007

Children Exposed Daily to Personal Care Products With Chemicals Not Proven Safe.
November 1, 2007... Byline: Environmental Working Group OAKLAND, Calif., Nov. 1 (AScribe Newswire) -- From baby shampoo to diaper wipes, children use products every day containing chemicals that have not been assessed for their hazards to children, according...

Statement by ADA President Mark J. Feldman on the Native American Full Access to Dental Care Act.
November 1, 2007... Byline: American Dental Association CHICAGO, Nov. 1 (AScribe Newswire) -- "The American Dental Association applauds Reps. Ron Kind (D-WI) and Dave Camp (R-MI) for introducing legislation that will help bring more dentists into the Indian...

Urban Kids With Asthma Need More Frequent Check-Ups, Johns Hopkins Study Suggests.
November 4, 2007... Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions BALTIMORE, Nov. 5 (AScribe Newswire) -- Because even mild asthma among young inner-city children appears to be more unpredictable than ever, four or more check-ups a year after diagnosis is a wise...

Coalition for Genetic Fairness Commends Francis S. Collins as He Receives Presidential Medal of Freedom.
November 5, 2007... Byline: Genetic Alliance WASHINGTON, Nov. 5 (AScribe Newswire) -- The Coalition for Genetic Fairness commended Francis S. Collins for receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom today for his work in sequencing the human genome. Sharon...

New Starlight Starbright 'Fun Center' Lifts Spirits of Pediatric Patients at California Pacific Medical Center; Fun Center, Sponsored by Hollywood Entertainment, Brings Entertainment to Children at their Bedsides.
November 5, 2007... Byline: California Pacific Medical Center SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 5 (AScribe Newswire) -- Children undergoing treatment at California Pacific Medical Center will be smiling brighter and laughing a little more, thanks to a multi-media Fun Center...

Patient Safety Experts Advance Internal Hospital Safety Rating System.
November 6, 2007... Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions BALTIMORE, Nov. 6 (AScribe Newswire) -- In a bid to clean up misleading institutional safety comparisons and go further to fix safety problems, Johns Hopkins experts are proposing standard...

Purdue University Seeks Entrants for Life Sciences Business Plan Competitors.
November 6, 2007... Byline: Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., Nov. 6 (AScribe Newswire) -- Purdue University is seeking entrants for a business plan competition that will award a total of $174,000 in cash and business services for startup companies...

Hospice Use Saves Money for Medicare, Duke Study Finds.
November 7, 2007... Byline: Duke University DURHAM, N.C., Nov. 7 (AScribe Newswire) -- Hospice care not only provides dying people with quality-of-life benefits, but also provides significant savings to Medicare, says a new study from Duke University. "We...

Pollution From Marine Vessels Linked to Heart and Lung Disease; Annual Mortalities From Ship Emissions Could Increase by 40 Percent by 2012.
November 7, 2007... Byline: Rochester Institute of Technology ROCHESTER, N.Y., Nov. 7 (AScribe Newswire) -- Pollution from marine shipping causes approximately 60,000 premature cardiopulmonary and lung cancer deaths around the world each year, according to a...

Current Efforts to Control Outbreaks of Drug-Resistant TB Are Failing, Say Advocates; Groups Convene in Cape Town to Explore New Approaches to Managing TB in Regions With High HIV Rates.
November 8, 2007... Byline: Open Society Institute CAPE TOWN, Nov. 8 (AScribe Newswire) -- Current approaches to diagnosing and treating tuberculosis are ineffective and do not reach the majority of people with drug-resistant TB, particularly in regions with...

The Lawyer's Role in the Multi-Billion Dollar World of Mass Tort Lawsuits: Vanderbilt Professor Talks About Vioxx Settlement, Offers a Creative Solution to Manage High-Stakes Claims.
November 9, 2007... Byline: Vanderbilt University NASHVILLE, Tenn., Nov. 9 (AScribe Newswire) -- Vioxx, Fen-Phen, Agent Orange, silicone breast implants, asbestos. This is just a short list of the major personal-injury lawsuits that have dominated the...

Southern California High School Students Say 10 Percent of Fellow Athletes Use Anabolic Steroids, But Only 1 Percent Admit Usage, LA84 Foundation Study Finds.
November 14, 2007... Byline: LA84 Foundation LOS ANGELES, Nov. 14 (AScribe Newswire) -- Only 1 percent of Southern California high school students report using anabolic steroids themselves, but claim 10 percent of athletes at their school and 10 percent to 25...

American Dental Association Outlines Successful Environmental Efforts.
November 14, 2007... Byline: American Dental Association CHICAGO, Nov. 14 (AScribe Newswire) -- Through the implementation of its best management practices (BMPs), the American Dental Association is taking the lead on protecting the environment, the ADA told...

Noteworthy Number of John Jay Faculty to Present at the 2007 American Society of Criminology Conference in Atlanta.(Conference news)
November 15, 2007... Byline: John Jay College of Criminal Justice NEW YORK, Nov. 15 (AScribe Newswire) -- John Jay College of Criminal Justice had a record number of scholars presenting research papers at the American Society of Criminology (ASC) Annual Meeting...

Mead Johnson, Indiana University School of Medicine Center to Focus on Infant Nutrition and Immune System Research.
November 15, 2007... Byline: Indiana University School of Medicine EVANSVILLE, Ind., Nov. 15 (AScribe Newswire) -- Mead Johnson Nutritionals and Indiana University School of Medicine announce the development of a Center for Nutrition and Immunity that will...

California Pacific Medical Center Unveils Unique Rehab Terrain Park; First-of-Its-Kind Space Helps Patients Re-Learn How to Walk, Navigate Bumps and Barriers of the Real World.
November 16, 2007... Byline: California Pacific Medical Center SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 16 (AScribe Newswire) -- A new therapeutic park is adding a real-world twist to help patients learn how to walk again after an injury or stroke. The Archibald/Ehrenberg...

Gettysburg College Counselor Serves Up Advice for Families, Students Around the Holidays.
November 16, 2007... Byline: Gettysburg College GETTYSBURG, Pa., Nov. 16 (AScribe Newswire) -- As college students head home for Thanksgiving dinner with their families, a Gettysburg College counselor is serving up advice to make the meeting a meaningful one....

Reading Tests That 'Misread' Some Children.
November 19, 2007... Byline: University of Maryland, College Park COLLEGE PARK, Md., Nov. 19 (AScribe Newswire) -- Screening tests widely used to identify children with reading problems are being misapplied, landing students in the wrong instructional level and...

University of Virginia Device Offers Pharmaceutical Makers Fast, Cheap, Safe Way to Screen Potential Drug Compounds.
November 19, 2007... Byline: University of Virginia CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., Nov. 19 (AScribe Newswire) -- A new device invented by researchers at the University of Virginia could save pharmaceutical companies significant time and money in screening potential new...

$60 Million USAID Grant Goes to Indiana and Moi Universities' AMPATH Program to Combat Aids in Kenya.
November 19, 2007... Byline: Indiana University School of Medicine INDIANAPOLIS, Nov. 19 (AScribe Newswire) -- AMPATH, a program that grew out of the partnership between Indiana University School of Medicine and the Moi (Kenya) University Teaching and Referral...

American Dental Education Association Releases Report on Emerging Allied Dental Workforce Models.
November 20, 2007... Byline: American Dental Education Association WASHINGTON, Nov. 20 (AScribe Newswire) -- The American Dental Education Association (ADEA) released the report "Emerging Allied Dental Workforce Models: Considerations for Academic Dental...

Grant Allows Kansas State Counseling Services to Create Anti-Suicide Web Site.(Website overview)
November 20, 2007... Byline: Kansas State University MANHATTAN, Kan., Nov. 20 (AScribe Newswire) -- Counselors at Kansas State University know that cultivating a good attitude is one of the best ways to head off the worst choice a student can make during a...

Flush No More: Old Medications Should Go Out With the Trash, According to Director of Kansas State's Pollution Prevention Institute.
November 20, 2007... Byline: Kansas State University MANHATTAN, Kan., Nov. 20 (AScribe Newswire) -- Sending your outdated or unneeded medications down the drain, the standard disposal tactic for years, has been added to the list of environmental taboos,...

Kansas State Researcher Receives Grant to Better Understand and Diagnose Porcine Circovirus; Work Could Lead to Next Vaccine.
November 20, 2007... Byline: Kansas State University MANHATTAN, Kan., Nov. 20 (AScribe Newswire) -- When the National Pork Board wanted to research how to eradicate the latest strain of porcine circovirus, Kansas State University's Richard Hesse stepped...

American Dental Education Association's Center for Educational Policy and Research Names Three New Staff Members.
November 20, 2007... Byline: American Dental Education Association WASHINGTON, Nov. 20 (AScribe Newswire) -- The American Dental Education Association (ADEA) is pleased to announce that three new staff members have joined the ADEA Center for Educational Policy...

Give Bargaining a Chance, Suggests High-Stakes Poker Study From University of Toronto's Rotman School.
November 21, 2007... Byline: Rotman School of Management TORONTO, Nov. 21 (AScribe Newswire) -- Negotiating a settlement instead of continuing the fight is a known way to reduce costs and increase gains in a variety of areas such as litigation and labour...

Merck Company Foundation Expands Immunization Training Program Through Indiana University School of Medicine, Moi University Partnership.
November 21, 2007... Byline: Indiana University School of Medicine INDIANAPOLIS, Nov. 21 (AScribe Newswire) -- A grant that funds immunization training centers coordinated by the Indiana University School of Medicine and its Kenyan partner Moi University School...

Johns Hopkins Installs First 320-Slice CT Scanner in North America; Device Safely Images Whole Heart or Brain, as Well as Tiny Blood Vessels.
November 26, 2007... Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions BALTIMORE, Nov. 26 (AScribe Newswire) -- The first 320-slice computed tomography (CT) scanner in North America, the most powerful X-ray imaging machine in its class, has been installed and is in...

Vanderbilt Doctors Warn Against 'Merry Christmas Coronary'.
November 27, 2007... Byline: Vanderbilt Medical Center NASHVILLE, Tenn., Nov. 27 (AScribe Newswire) -- Some studies indicate that death rates from heart attacks and stroke as well as non-heart-related causes spike during the holiday season. Researchers have...

Lower HIV Estimate Should Not Detract From World AIDS Day, Duke Global Health Director Says.
November 27, 2007... Byline: Duke University DURHAM, N.C., Nov. 27 (AScribe Newswire) -- Last week, UNAIDS and World Health Organization (WHO) released a report saying they had previously overestimated the number of people infected with the HIV virus. But such...

St. Lawrence Prof's Study Shows All-Nighters Equal Lower Grades.
November 28, 2007... Byline: St. Lawrence University CANTON, N.Y., Nov. 28 (AScribe Newswire) -- With end-of-semester finals looming, here's an exam question: Will pulling an all-nighter actually help you score well? To the dismay of college students...

American Dental Education Association, Colgate-Palmolive Announce Partnership to Create Dental Plaque Biofilm Curriculum.
November 29, 2007... Byline: American Dental Education Association WASHINGTON, Nov. 29 (AScribe Newswire) -- The American Dental Education Association (ADEA) and Colgate-Palmolive have partnered to create a curriculum on dental plaque biofilm (commonly known as...

Galapagos and Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Therapeutics Announce New Drug Discovery Collaboration Worth Up to $8.1 Million U.S. Dollars.
November 29, 2007... Byline: Cystic Fibrosis Foundation BETHESDA, Maryland, Nov. 29 (AScribe Newswire) -- Galapagos NV (Euronext & LSE: GLPG) and Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Therapeutics, Inc. (CFFT), the non-profit affiliate of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation,...

Founding Dean for Colorado School of Public Health Announced.
November 29, 2007... Byline: University of Colorado Health Sciences Center AURORA, Colo., Nov. 29 (AScribe Newswire) -- Chancellor M. Roy Wilson, MD, MS, of the University of Colorado Denver announced today that he has appointed Richard F. Hamman, MD, MPH,...

Do We Need the Bells and Whistles? Educational Toys May Be Coal in the Holiday Stocking; Simple Retro Toys May Be the Best Holiday Gifts, Advise Developmental Psychologists.
November 30, 2007... Byline: Temple University PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 30 (AScribe Newswire) -- The recent recalls of various children's toys have parents and would-be Santas leery this holiday season, but it may just be the thing to push consumers to be more...

Aging Improves Parent-Child Relationships, Research Shows.
November 30, 2007... Byline: Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., Nov. 30 (AScribe Newswire) -- The majority of relationships between parents and their adult children improve as parents transition to old age, a Purdue University researcher has found. ...