Each year since 1984, the Fellowship Program in Academic Medicine for Minority Students, sponsored by Bristol-Myers Squibb Company since 1990, gives 35 outstanding students grants to conduct biomedical research. The program provides the fellows with mentors to help them complete medical school and encourage them to pursue careers in academia and medical research.
"For many, the Screening Program will break the dangerous cycle that affects people with eating disorders. No one should suffer needlessly with the pain, fear, and shame associated with eating disorders when help is available," said NMHA President Mike Faenza. "Eating disorders, like all mental illnesses, are real, common and treatable. Our screenings provide a message of hope."
With a $6 million National Science Foundation grant and a group of researchers and educators from the University of Missouri-Columbia, middle- school students across the nation may soon be learning more mathematics and learning it better than before.
Medical training has taken an artistic turn for some students at Yale University School of Medicine. Irwin M. Braverman, M.D., professor of dermatology and in the Cancer Center at Yale, has introduced students to a method of learning that takes them out of the traditional classroom and into the museum.
MEDIA CONSENSUS CONFERENCE: Opportunity to explore and determine consensus among the media and psychiatry on controversial psychiatric issues in today's news
Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University have taken an important step toward determining how the body comes to be identified as part of the self. The results of their unusual experiment appear in the scientific journal Nature today.
If hostilities break out in Iraq, Rice's James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy will open its International Conference Facility (ICF) for a specified period of time to provide local, regional, national and international media outlets expert analysis of events.
Many people who claim to be lactose intolerant really aren't, says Dennis Savaiano, dean of Purdue University's School of Consumer and Family Sciences. The problem, Savaiano says, is that dairy foods can be difficult to digest, and people who don't eat these foods often enough haven't acclimated themselves to the foods.
Research led by Rice University geologists estimates that within 400,000 years a new volcano could erupt in northern California, relatively soon in geologic terms.
Investors seeking to understand high finance should examine haute couture because finance and fashion styles are often cut from the same cloth, says a Bucknell finance professor.
A college education is designed to broaden minds and expand critical thinking, but it also should teach us how to better monitor what we say. This is especially true on the job, where a conversation about a popular television show can move very quickly from around the water cooler to a court of law.
Land use is a confusing and volatile issue in the Hoosier state in the '90s.
The chance of becoming obese in adulthood can be predicted based on the age at which a child is thinnest, according to a study by a physician at Children's Hospital Medical Center of Cincinnati.
DALLAS -- Monitoring cancer therapy and the global warming debate are among topics that will be discussed here March 29 through April 2 at the 215th national meeting of the American Chemical Society, the world's largest scientific society.
Since the onset of the AIDS epidemic, many health care professionals have been hesitant or unwilling to treat people with HIV. But those attitudes may be changing. The results of a study of first-year medical students at the University of Chicago and the University of New Mexico indicate that barriers to care may be decreasing for people with HIV and AIDS.
Active listening techniques tuaght by many marriage counselors do not work when couples are in conflict. Instead a new study shows that "olnly those newlywed men who are acceptingof influence from their wives are winding up in happy, stable marriages, says John Gottman, University of Washington psychology professor
Stephen Zunes, USF assistant professor of politics and director of the USF Peace and Justice Studies Program, says "The threatened United States military strikes against Iraq are a bad idea..."
"Alcohol and Drugs on American College Campuses: Issues of Violence and Harassment," a report published by the Core Institute at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale (SIUC), is being mailed this week to college presidents nationwide. The report is based on surveys from 89,874 students at 171 institutions and describes issues of collegiate violence, harassment and campus climate.
Scientists at UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas believe newly discovered hormones produced in the brain may influence development of obesity and diabetes.
Tip Sheet from New Scientist for 2-18-98
The International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI) received a $4 million award from The Starr Foundation to advance HIV vaccine research and development.
The American Academy of Dermatology urges Americans not to decrease their sunscreen use following a report this week at the Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) questioning the protective benefits of sunscreen.
A new technique had been developed to treat nerve-related localized and widespread discomfort/pain -- Automated Twitch-Obtaining Intramuscular Stimulation (ATOIMS) -- performed with a battery-powered device that places a flexible, Teflon pin into trigger points in the muscle, inducing a self-healing cycle for pain relief.
Diuretics, drugs that help lower blood pressure by helping the body to eliminate excess fluid, appear to have an extra weapon against coronary artery disease and stroke, according to a study in this month's Hypertension: Journal of the American Heart Association.
The common microbe, Chlamydia pneumoniae, which is responsible for pneumonia, bronchitis and sinus infections, is linked with severe high blood pressure, according to a study in this month's Hypertension: Journal of the American Heart Association.
Bell Labs scientists have combined free-space optics and microscopic mirrors to route and switch individual wavelengths, or colors, of light on optical fiber.
On-line resources to assist reporters in covering Steve Hanke, the Johns Hopkins University economist who is advising Indonesian president Suharto on implementing a currency board.
The corporate practice of managing earnings by carefully timing the sale of investment securities leads analysts to overvalue a company's common stock, says Eric Hirst, an accounting professor at the University of Texas at Austin.
University of Iowa faculty members spend an average of 31.4 hours a week on teaching activities. The study marks the first time that the UI faculty has documented all of its teaching activities, including not only regularly scheduled classes, laboratories and seminars but also time spent preparing for classes, evaluating student assignments, holding office hours, advising students, providing individualized instruction, and working on special projects with honors, masters and doctoral students.
Recent scientific data show that SEROQUEL(R) (quetiapine fumarate) tablets, the latest entrant for the treatment of schizophrenia, offer patients a new treatment option that not only addresses both the positive and negative symptoms of the disease, but does so with few of the traditional side effects of conventional or other atypical antipsychotic medications.
A ceremony in Christchurch, New Zealand on February 20, 1998 marks a significant milestone in the U.S. Navy's withdrawal from the U.S. Antarctic Program (USAP) after 42 years.
Narcolepsy is more common in people over 40 than previously thought by physicians and the general public, according to a study published in the February issue of Neurology, the American Academy of Neurology's scientific journal.
Scientists from several research institutes will aim new detectors at the sun's corona during the February 26 solar eclipse, searching for structures they've never before observed. The scientists will use NSF's C-130 Hercules aircraft to conduct many of their studies.
Taking vitamin B2 every day can help prevent migraines, according to a report in the February issue of Neurology, the scientific journal of the American Academy of Neurology.
Recent publicity about a gene mutation found in a family with a hereditary form of Parkinson's disease led families of Parkinson's patients to worry about genetic transmission of the disease to offspring and siblings. A new study puts the discovery in perspective.
Employer market power can be a major force for promoting quality and value of health care for Americans, according to a new report by the federal government's Agency for Health Care Policy and Research (AHCPR).
A controlled burn near Kennedy Space Center in Florida is providing scientists with data for improving a computer model that aims to predict the course of wildfires in realtime, providing a tool for fire fighters and fire prevention efforts.
Departing Punta Arenas, Chile, in mid-February, 26 scientists representing 10 countries will sail aboard the ocean drilling ship JOIDES Resolution to collect core samples from the continental rise and shelf of the Antarctic Peninsula.
More than 300 physicians, nurses, lawyers, scientists, ethicists, consumers, and journalists will gather in Cambridge, Mass., for a conference on the medical, legal, and social impact of new genetic technologies. The conference is sponsored by the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, the American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics, and the George Washington University Medical Center.
Three tips from Los Alamos 1) A textbook for quantum computing. 2) New materials for future space mission detectors. 3) Shake the ground to squeeze out all the oil.
Children without health insurance are more than three times as likely to go without necessary health care as insured children are, according to a new study of nearly 50,000 children nationwide. The study also revealed that uninsured children are six times as likely as insured children not to have a usual source of primary medical care.
Heartstyles, the first-ever study examining the attitudes and behaviors of people with high blood pressure, revealed that hypertensive patients can fall into one of four profiles, providing physicians with insights for new, individualized approaches to treatment and arm patients with a new awareness of the issues that impact their ability to successfully control their hypertension.
White students tend to evaluate essays written by Black students less critically than similar essays written by other White students, according to research to be reported in the March issue of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
One of the first studies undertaken to examine the effects caregiving has on care recipients found that physically disabled older adults may not always receive the appropriate amount of help they need, and nearly 40 percent reported emotional distress from receiving assistance.
Researchers from Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons in collaboration with the National Institute on Aging (NIA) have discovered that the ApoE genetic test for Alzheimer's coupled with a thorough clinical evaluation may help to confirm the diagnosis.
Poised to have one of the more unique views of this month's solar eclipse is Michigan State University astronomer Jeff Kuhn who will watch it through a small hole in a plane, 18,000 feet above the surface of the Earth.
Does your toddler show little interest in communicating with others? Does your 2-year-old not yet communicate with words? Is your 3-year-old's speech difficult to understand? If so, your child may need the services of a speech-language pathologist.
LSU researchers have created a tiny sensor to help determine when bones are healed and a unique instrument to test the health of cartilage.
Scientists from Boston University's College of Engineering have developed the first objective diagnostic tool to determine whether a patient suffers from congestive heart failure. A simple mathematical analysis of the pattern of a person's heartbeat detects the problem with 100 percent accuracy, report the scientists in the February 16th issue of Physical Review Letters.
Where do you look for clues to ancient El Nino floods? In one of the planet's driest spots.
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