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Mothers in African Study Undereducated on Diarrhea

...000 displaced Ethiopians. With approval from the university committee that oversees research on human subjects, he carefully designed a survey that assessed risk factors known to contribute to diarrheal disease in children, including socio-economic level, child nutrition, maternal hand-washing hygiene and lat...

Indian American Records Brain Dialogue During Sleep

... for new memories. Brown University is a private university located in Providence, Rhode Island, and was founded in 1764 as Rhode Island College. It is the third-oldest institution of higher education in New England and the seventh oldest in the United States. 'We've known for a century that the hippocampus...

Stroke Patients With High BMI Less Likely to Be Discharged After Hospitalization

...in 451 patients with ischemic stroke admitted to a university hospital stroke service between 2003 and 2006. Patients were divided into four groups based on their BMI. "Patients with a BMI of 35 or greater represented class II obesity; those with a BMI of 30 to 34, class I obesity; those with a BMI of 25 to 29,...

Researchers Study Health of New Zealand's Indian Community

...said. Massey University is the country's largest university with approximately 40,000 students. It has campuses in Wellington and Auckland. It has the nation's largest business college. Research is undertaken on all three campuses. Source-IANS...

New School of Public Health in Chennai

...ree in Public Health with a focus on research. The university plans to take about 25 students in the first batch and even students from non-medical backgrounds could join the course, Mr. Sathyanarayanan said. Speaking on the occasion, Premila Webster, Director of Education and Training, Oxford University, UK,...

Saudi Arabia to Set Up Hospital in Jamia University Campus

India's leading university Jamia Milia Islamia will have an ultra-modern hosp...mpus with financial aid from Saudi Arabia//. The university and the Royal Embassy of Saudi Arabia Tuesday signed an agreement to set up the King Abdullah Bin Ab...

Program Helps Reduce Binge Drinking

...nd drink safely, responsibly.” An urban research university located at the heart of the U.S.-Mexico border, UTEP is one of 15 universities nationwide to receive a grant from the Department of Health and Human Services to implement the model program. Preliminary results show that a majority of participants i...

Breakthrough in MRI Scanning in the Near Future

...s of pounds. Professor David Lurie and a team of university and industrial collaborators - physicists, engineers, chemists, biologists and medical scientists - have been awarded 2.5 million pounds from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council to build the working scanner over the next four years...

Motivational Interviewing Could Reduce Excessive Drinking by Students

...llege students’ drinking behavior has long worried university officials nationwide. A recent study by the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse reports that almost half of the nation’s full-time college students binge drink at least once a month. “We had been talking about how we could do some kin...

Transformed Pizzas- for Those Who Mix Health and Pleasure

...is part of an ongoing effort by researchers at the university to discover and develop new technologies that enhance the levels of natural antioxidants in grain-based food ingredients such as whole-wheat flour. That effort is lead by Liangli Lucy Yu, Ph.D., an associate professor of food chemistry at the school ...

Hungarian Researchers Claim Cancer Breathalyzer Breakthrough

... indicate the potential presence of cancer. The university has applied for EU funding of 1.5 million euros to test the device on further types of cancer, the paper said. Source-IANS...

UF Launches Project to Bridge the Regeneration Gap

... Fueled by about $6 million in private donations, university support and state matching funds, "The Regeneration Project" will connect scientists who work with adult human stem cells - the building blocks of self-renewal that exist within our brain, bone marrow and blood - with scientists who study how tissues...

I Would Sob After Meeting Young Prostitutes: Judd

...experience with stability was her admission into a university in Kentucky, where she majored in Women's Studies, a course that she says spiritually awakened her. After much therapy and because of her work among women and children, Judd said she has been able to make peace with her past. "And so now I can tr...

Haryana Government Proposes to Set Up Medical University

The Haryana government Tuesday proposed a medical university in the state to provide better healthcare to its p...upinder Singh Hooda said that setting up a medical university would help in providing better healthcare facilities for people of the state. Hooda said that pau...

Pigeon Feathers to Judge Pollution Levels

...ged by pigeon feathers? Yes, if research done at a university here is to be believed//. According to researchers in the zoology department of the University of Rajasthan, the shed feathers of pigeons can indicate the pollution level of the area they inhabit. Research scholar Bhumesh Bhadoriya reached the co...

Canadian University Students Vote Against Coca-Cola

Students of a Canadian university have voted overwhelmingly to remove Coca-Cola prod...ning organization that worked with students at the university to support the campaign. "Students have voiced their opinions loudly and clearly. We want ethical...

Gene Screening Points Way to More Effective Chemotherapy

...brary of small RNA molecules – the first used by a university research center – to identify the genes. When the researchers blocked the action of some of the 87 genes inside isolated lung-cancer cells, they found that those cells were up to 10,000 times more sensitive to the chemotherapy drug paclitaxel (Tax...

Indians Add to Rich Diversity of Virginia Tech

...e US and a study-abroad site in Switzerland. The university has eight colleges and a graduate school, offering...ters' and doctoral degree programmes. Though the university has many departments, it is renowned especially for its agriculture, engineering, architecture, fore...

Students of Texas A&M University Going Trans-Fat Free

...g trans-fat the miss, is Texas A&M University. The university has made a campus-wide change to the company// line-Whole Harvest Culinary Oils. This change is expected to be felt or rather, consumed at the 30-odd eateries on campus. Students eat at campus facilities, which range from cafeteria-style dining hal...

Support for Trauma and Grief

... students in the wake of the tragedy have left the university to be with family and friends. This is a very positive step, as it would help heal the wound much faster and better in a safer environment. These kinds of a crisis often have a positive outcome too. Known as the ‘post traumatic growth’ many people ...

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