Evidence is presented in many ways and to interpret various patient and disease-related outcomes can be both confronting and confusing. However, systems and resources exist to help take complex information and adjust outcomes to reflect the potential benefit, or risk, specific to a patient...
U.S. scientists committed to finding answers to reducing and eliminating what are known as neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) that plague the world's poorest people in developing countries, urged the FDA to include in its orphan classification the neglected infections of poverty that also affect...
Approximately 9 million Americans have peripheral arterial disease (P.A.D.), a common and dangerous vascular disease that can lead to heart attack, stroke, amputation and death. Unfortunately, many with the disease do not even know they have it. September is P.A.D. Awareness Month, and the...
Dr. Marilyn Miller, professor of ophthalmology at the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine, was awarded the Howe Medal by the American Ophthalmology Society, the specialty's premier professional society. The Howe Medal is awarded for long years of devotion to the science of...
Newcastle actor Tony Scott George is running in the Bupa Great North Run on 19 September to raise funds for Alzheimer's Society in honour of his grandfather. Twenty-three year old Tony, from Fenham, Newcastle upon Tyne, has signed up for the iconic half marathon in memory of his granddad, John...
hunger games, the uglies? i like books that maybe take place in the future where society is corrupted and the author writes a suspenseful novel that revolves on a specific thing that our society today has faltered on.
you know you know like how the hunger games series, well it doesn't really...
hunger games, the uglies? i like books that maybe take place in the future where society is corrupted and the author writes a suspenseful novel that revolves on a specific thing that our society today has faltered on.
you know you know like how the hunger games series, well it doesn't really...
The Biophysical Society is delighted to announce its 2011 Society Fellows. Fellows are chosen based on their demonstrated excellence in science, contributions to the expansion of the field of biophysics, and support of the Biophysical Society. The Fellows will be honored at the Awards Ceremony...
The Biophysical Society is pleased to announce the recipients of its 2011 Society awards. The eight recipients will receive their awards at the Society's 55th Annual Meeting on Monday, March 7, 2011 at the Baltimore Convention Center in Baltimore, Maryland. The awardees are: Shelagh...
"The Colorado Society of Anesthesiologists (CSA) strongly disagrees with NPATCH's support for allowing nurses to administer anesthesia without physician supervision. Regrettably, their action was not unexpected. It is disturbing that NPATCH and others would support policies whereby a patient's...
And I am really having trouble getting started. It's for an entrance essay and I have written about 20 drafts and none of them are doing me any good. I keep going off in other directions. Would anyone be kind enough to offer a few pointers?
Oh, I am so sorry Ricky. Those rotten typos that...
The Australian Psychological Society (APS) will offer psychological assistance to sportspeople and sporting organisations to deal with drugs in sport as part of a new government initiative. As part of the Australian Government's $20...
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In recognition of his lifetime contributions to the prevention sciences, the Society for Prevention Research has awarded Dr. Gilbert J. Botvin its prestigious Presidential Award. Dr. Botvin is a professor of psychology in public health and professor of psychology in psychiatry at Weill Cornell...
On August 23rd, a federal district judge issued a temporary ban on federal funding for embryonic stem cell research. Stem cell research holds great promise for the treatment of millions of Americans with debilitating and possibly fatal diseases, including diabetes and heart disease. Because of...
the thing where your friends click on him and post it to their wall, then you can get a free shell and try to collect all of them. Well I'm trying to collect the shells and I need 2 more, so I'm just curious how much time I have left :)
Religion has always been important throughout history however, more and more people now are not that religious. Many people say the world would be better without religion because it can cause conflict; others disagree.
What do you think of religion? Do you feel that it is needed? Feel free to...
The Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS) announced the appointment of Alex MacKinnon as Director for Scotland. Mr MacKinnon is currently Head of Corporate Affairs at Community Pharmacy Scotland, where he has worked in a variety of high profile roles since 2005. Prior to this he held roles within...
Catherine A. Blish, M.D., Ph.D., Acting Instructor in Medicine, University of Washington, and Associate, Human Biology Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, has been chosen by the American Society for Microbiology (ASM) to receive a 2010 ICAAC Young Investigator Award for...
Thomas J. Walsh, M.D., Director of the Transplantation-Oncology Infectious Diseases Program of Weill Cornell Medical College of Cornell University, New York, NY, has been selected as the 2010 laureate of the sanofi-aventis ICAAC Award for his translational research on antifungal pharmacology and...
Carol Iversen, Ph.D., Microbiological and Molecular Analytics, Nestle Research Centre, Lausanne, Switzerland, has been chosen by the American Society for Microbiology (ASM) to receive a 2010 ICAAC Young Investigator Award for her work re-classifying the taxonomy of Enterobacter sakazakii, which...