Survival instincts propel 'difficult patient' to insist on quality care

CHAPEL HILL Michelle Mayer had to become a "difficult patient" before she could get her physicians to accurately diagnose the disease that was destroying her health. And once the diagnosis was made, she had to continue to be what many physicians describe as "difficult" before she could get the...

Study shows emergency physicians have good first instincts in diagnosing heart attacks

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. A study out of Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center demonstrates emergency room doctors are correctly identifying patients who are having a heart attack, even when laboratory tests haven't yet confirmed it. The study used data from a registry called i*trACS, and an...

Be in Sync With Your Instincts

How often have you relied on your instincts or ‘gut-feel’ for decision making? If you have not, then it is about time you do, because a recent study has reinforced the power of// the subconscious mind, as a reliable beacon. A study conducted by the University College London , available onli...

Naked truths and Basic Instincts

Fantasies and thoughts of erotic pictures and sensuous pleasures beseechingly captures the focus of a man and holds him in rapt attention// and causes a man to file away the first impressions indelibly in the recesses of his mind says scientists who conducted a study on heterosexual men, heterose...

New Product Detects Early Bed Bug Infestations

...uito 'Cognito(R), Conceal(R) Candles and NightWatch(TM) Bedbug Monitor. Based on extensive laboratory and field studies of each pest's natural biting instincts and physiology, the company has developed a line of products to meet the needs of pest management professionals and consumers alike. When used as par...

Mock CPR drills in kids show many residents fail in key skills, Hopkins study reveals

...spital survive. Even though the absolute number of deaths is quite small, the few deaths that do occur can be averted by strengthening first-responder instincts in residents, as well as in other hospital staff. ...

Nurses are assessing mothers with mental health issues despite lack of guidance and formal training

...isions about a child's best interests. But there has been little research to show how mental health nurses are influenced by their own opinions and instincts or whether they take into account how ethnicity, culture, race, religion and socio-economic status can affect how mothers care for their children. ...

American Red Cross of Greater New York Launches New Effort to Recruit 10,000 Disaster Volunteers

...oped pro-bono by Ogilvy New York. Over $2.5MM in donated media will be spent beginning March 1st. "Our creative folks drew on their own powerful instincts following 9/11 in conceiving this idea," explained Bill Gray, Vice Chairman of Ogilvy North America and former Chairman of the Board of the American R...

Aflac Spokeswoman Inducted into PR News Hall of Fame

...n which she so richly deserves." Aflac Executive Vice President and Chief Administrative Officer Teresa White said, "We have come to rely on Laura's instincts and expertise in handling our crucial public and media relations challenges. This honor among her peers validates what we at Aflac already know; Laura...

Generation Huggies Celebrates 30 Years With 30 Moms

...e will be in New York City to welcome local moms to the Generations Huggies Program and share her thoughts on motherhood. "As a parent, I rely on my instincts to know what's best for my child and I trust my intuition to get through new experiences everyday," said Sweeney. "Being a mom is the best role I coul...

instincts in Medical Dictionary

Vector

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instincts in Biological News

Trusting your instincts leads you to the right answer

A UCL (University College London) study has found that you are more likely to perform well if you do not think too hard and instead trust your instincts. The research, published online today in the journal Current Biology, shows that, in some cases, instinctive snap decisions are more reliable than...

Darwin's seminal impact on biology, anthropology, philosophy and psychology

...he published The Descent of Man 12 years later. Darwin believed that natural selection didn't only shape human anatomy but also emotions and social instincts that we share with animals. Social scientists, however, have remained somewhat resistant to the idea that behavior and culture could have a biological...

New gene-silencing pathway found in plants

...getting transcribed, but pretty much all of the DNA is getting transcribed. And why? What's the purpose of all this transcription?" Wierzbicki's instincts paid off. Using high levels of PCR amplification, he determined that Pol V was indeed hard at work within the intergenic region. In this space betwe...

Group led by Stanford physicist says there's an urgent need for nuclear detectives

...was a United Nations inspector in Iraq. They say there is an urgent need for more nuclear detectives, armed with science PhDs and instilled with the instincts of an investigator. And those detectives will need training, advanced equipment and stronger ties to intelligence agencies, political leaders and law ...

Pheromone from mother's milk may rapidly promote learning in newborn mammals

...sociate new odors with milk availability. This would in turn facilitate an essential skill: the ability of newborn pups to rapidly hone their suckling instincts during the first days of life. ...

instincts in Biological Technology

IT wildfires

...us organizations, where there arent fires burning all the time, those folks that stink of smoke and char make the regular employees nervous. And those instincts and reflexes that make for good organizational firefighters also make for setting off sirens and scrambling around at the slightest rise in temperatur...

New Madison VC firm Badger Ventures looks for next big IT entrepreneurs

... having experienced that spirit and having been a successful CEO of a company with 50 engineers." Haney said she believes Redick has developed good instincts during his time in Silicon Valley and that the time is ripe for Wisconsin's budding IT scene. "There's great support for start-ups through the Univ...

Motorcycling entrepreneur to speak in Madison on success, failure, capital

... that might derail you or throw you down, Hanlon said. Hopefully, between you and the team around you, you pick yourself up and go on. His survival instincts led him to Union Hill Ventures, which provides a number of business services, including, ironically, business turnarounds. The business acumen Hanlon ...

Data centers: Buyers beware of over-hyped facilities

...hey are paying for. Here is a portion of a long letter from a local reader that really highlighted what I thought were some of the issues: Your instincts were right on - there is most definitely a wide variation in the caliber of the data center from one company to another, and often in between data cen...

instincts in Biological Definition

Charles Darwin

...ak members of civilised societies propagate their kind" and would be "highly injurious to the race of man." However, he also felt that the sympathetic instincts of humans, which would allow them to aid the helpless, had developed due to natural selection, and to deny them would damage the "noblest part of our ...

instincts in Biological Dictionary

Vector

...keting. Vector inc. Vector graphics. Vector car. Vector addition ... Vector Runner, a Arcade & Classic Game from AddictingGames: Your instincts are right - if it's red and pointy, you should avoid it. But you'll need VERY fast reflexes ... descriptions of several versions of Vector Cam fr...