AScribe Medicine News Service back issues 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.
Apr 01, 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 to establish national health insurance ...
Vanderbilt Autism Experts Available for Interviews About World Autism Day, April 2.
Apr 01, 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. Vanderbilt has a campus broadcast ...
SIGCHI Announces Best of CHI 2008 Award Winners; Conference Honors Research That Addresses Problems of Accessibility, Homelessness, Healthcare, Emerging Markets.(Conference news)(Awards list)
Apr 03, 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 the annual "Best of CHI" awards. The ...
Charles N. Bertolami Assumes Presidency of American Dental Education Association.
Apr 04, 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 on April 2 at the 2008 ADEA Annual ...
Ronald J. Hunt Becomes American Dental Education Association President-Elect.
Apr 04, 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 President-elect on April 2 at the 2008 ...
Join Fran Drescher's Cancer Schmancer Foundation at the National Dress Well, Be Well Event Being Hosted by Bloomingdale's.
Apr 04, 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. Bloomingdale's will donate ten percent of ...
American Dental Education Association Awards Ceremony Honors Contributions to Dental Education.
Apr 07, 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 Annual Session and Exhibition held in ...
Hopkins Performs Historic 'Six-Way Domino' Kidney Transplant; Six Donor-Recipient Pairs Interchange Kidneys in Simultaneous Group Procedure.
Apr 08, 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 surgeries used six operation rooms and ...
Columbia Business School Announces Winners of Ninth Annual Outrageous Business Plan Competition.
Apr 08, 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 title of Most Outrageous Business ...
Society's Benefit From Treating Substance-Abusing Arrestees Would Far Outweigh Costs, Urban Institute Analysis Finds.
Apr 08, 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 more arrestees access to treatment ...
Bay Area Couple Participate in First Ever Sextuple Kidney Transplants; 12 People, 6 Donor-Recipient Pairs, Interchange Kidneys in Simultaneous Group Procedure.
Apr 08, 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 Baltimore, Maryland. Jeanne Heise, a ...
PoWeR Releases Groundbreaking Lipodystrophy Resources for HIV-Positive People.
Apr 08, 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 along with a free Spanish translation of ...
Bay Area Couple Participate in First Ever Sextuple Kidney Transplants; 12 People, 6 Donor-Recipient Pairs, Interchange Kidneys in Simultaneous Group Procedure.
Apr 09, 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 Heise, a Peninsula resident, has suffered ...
Researchers Pilot New Electronic System for Infectious Illness.
Apr 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 tested a set of computer programs that ...
Live Surgery, New Research, Leading Sports Medicine Experts; Hospital for Special Surgery Hosts 2nd Annual Symposium; Media Invited to Attend.
Apr 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 19, 7 a.m. - 4:30 ...
New Guggenheim Fellow to Study Psychotherapy Rise in China.
Apr 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 been awarded a 2008 Guggenheim ...
American Cancer Society's Legislative Day 2008 to Focus on Cures, Not Cuts.
Apr 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 with legislators and lobby to save ...
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.
Apr 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 Excellence Award. The recognition comes ...
State Public Health Officials Move to Protect the Most Vulnerable People in America During a Pandemic: Recommendations Available for Public Comment.
Apr 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 people most at-risk during one of the ...
RAND Study Finds One in Five Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans Suffer From PTSD or Major Depression.
Apr 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 depression, yet only slight more than ...
Rotman School of Management Professor Gary Latham Appointed President of Psychology Organization.
Apr 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) earlier this month at the group's annual ...
Canada Moves Toward BPA Ban; Wal-Mart Will Pull All BPA-Laced Items.
Apr 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 moving forward with a total ban of the toxic ...
Sickest Patients Still Struggle Under New Medicare Part D Benefit.
Apr 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 prescription drug coverage - are mixed. On the ...
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.
Apr 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 Awareness Week. One4One urges women to ...
Purdue Expert Says U.S. Has Low Risk of Receiving Contaminated Drugs.
Apr 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 drug is very low. "Tragic ...
Johns Hopkins Professors Elected to National Academy of Sciences.
Apr 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 Hopkins University Krieger School of ...
Bisphenol A in Plastics Turns Ursinus College Researcher/Mother Into a Skeptic: Expert Available.
Apr 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 Administration (FDA) and mothers of ...
Wisconsin Biomedical Engineering Students Design Meaningful Medical Solutions.
Apr 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 biochemistry, she might display her diploma next ...
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.
Apr 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 today. But overall, in a 2008 mixed report ...