discipline

A New Product Offering protection against anthrax

...ic integrity committee will they decide whether to discipline or fire Heggers, a tenured professor....

Parents Should Beware of Violent Video Games

...hat could influence aggressive behavior, including discipline at home, poverty and how well a child is doing at school. Source:IANS...

Bad professional behavior dates back to medical school

...ehavior while in medical school than those with no discipline records, says a study in New England Journal of Medicine. The study is a first step towards identifying and incorporating subjective concepts such as personal behavior or professionalism into medical education, says Dr. Lynne Kirk, associate dean f...

Change In Lifestyle Recommended To Avoid Cardiac Disease

...ulnerable to heart problems. Bring a little bit of discipline to your life and have a healthy heart and mind,' said Dr. Brian, while advising youngsters to sleep well at night and stay away from high cholesterol-laced fast foods. He said if people don't realise the repercussions of bad lifestyle, India would be...

Equal Rights for HIV Infected Workers

...ng from HIV/AIDS. So far, the government could not discipline those discriminating against them in employment, promotion or job training, as there has been no disciplinary regulation on the cases.'' ...

Depression And Diabetes Are Mutually Exclusive.

...atients with diabetes and the extent to which they discipline their blood sugar levels. A study was conducted by the researchers at Suny Upstate University, Syracuse, New York, where about 1600 elderly diabetic, participated in a diabetes care management program. During the initial phase of the study, it was...

Inventor of DNA fingerprinting Wins Accolades

...was in fact the clone of another sheep. ‘The new discipline of forensic molecular biology is therefore a direct outcome of Jeffreys' research, but his discoveries have also opened up other doors, for example the ability to determine whether someone is a carrier of certain pathogenic genes. Most recently, Jeff...

Community Health Shake-up Spells Trouble for Nurses

...es will be assumed by a new core community nursing discipline called community health nursing."...

Think Twice Before Punishing Unruly Kids

...these children may require different approaches to discipline than those that work for most children. (Source: IANS)...

What a Boy Needs

Risk, affection, and discipline – these are just some of the things a growing boy needs to attain a sense of belonging, according to an article in the latest issue of the Medical Journal of Australia//. In his editorial, GP Dr William Phillips says studies suggest fostering a sens...

Problem-Based Learning Curriculum a Success for Medical School

...graduate courses. These lecture-based classes were discipline specific and usually tied to a certain department. It was as if students were empty vessels being filled." PBL-based curriculum is very different depending on the school. Eighty percent of the 125 U.S. medical schools report that they use PBL, but ...

Tackling obesity needs something more than mere laws; self-discipline, need of the hour!

...eet the desired result, if the basic sense of self discipline is absent. Mr. Howard said, "We appear to be struggling as a nation with the challenge of obesity. It is something that has come upon us with alarming speed and something that's affecting all age groups. The reasons for it I think are obvious - the...

Obstacles to Reducing Human Injury and Death Due to Medical Error

...apan, the weakness of peer review and professional discipline structures, the lack of mandatory hospital accreditation and the absence of objective, hospital-by-hospital statistics on outcomes of medical treatment -- not to mention the relative infrequency of civil malpractice litigation -- enhances the social ...

Researchers Develop Basis For Experimental Melanoma Treatment

...xcellent example of how scientific research in one discipline may have payoffs in a completely unpredictable way," says NIAID Director Anthony S. Fauci, M.D. "This important AIDS-related research has led to the development of a promising therapeutic strategy for a terrible cancer that affects thousands of peopl...

Rhythms of Life

... all creatures revolve. 'Chronobiology' is a discipline of science that studies the phenomenon of biological rhythms and their cyclic pattern in living beings. The earliest rhythm was known to have originated in primordial cells when DNA replication was assigned to the dark, to protect the 'blue print of...

Japanese Flower Art Helps Calm a Frantic Moscow

...also travels across Russia, where followers of the discipline are relatively young, often decorators keen to improve their skills. Her colleague from Japan -- Yamada Sensei as her students call her -- teaches the very traditional Ikenobo school. "One does not simply arrange a flower in Ikebana, it is absolutel...

New Research to Make Science and Technology Work for the Poor

... remain compartmentalised by geography, sector and discipline at a time when unparalleled interaction between people, the environment and technology demand interdisciplinary solutions. Recent examples of these failings include the UNs polio eradication programme in Nigeria which backfired because Muslims beli...