Next generation of health care workers train through medical simulation
COLUMBIA, Mo. Soldiers and pilots use simulation training to learn accuracy, safety and confidence. Now, University of Missouri medical, nursing, health professions and University of Missouri- Kansas City pharmacy instructors are using medical simulation to train students to recognize safety ris...Career Step Approved to Train Military Spouses with Department of Defense CAA Funds
Career Step has been approved by the Department of Defense to train military spouses under the department's recently expanded CAA education funding program. Provo, UT (PRWEB) May 19, 2009 -- Career Step , a leading online healthcare education company, has been approved...Pitt receives $2.8 million to train HIV/AIDS researchers in Mozambique, Brazil and India
PITTSBURGH, April 17 The University of Pittsburgh has received a five-year, $2.8 million grant from the National Institutes of Health's Fogarty International Center to train researchers in regions of the world most hard-hit by the HIV/AIDS epidemic. The grant, part of the center's AIDS Internatio...National Center for Sports Safety Teams With Mississippi to Train State's High School Coaches
BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Jan. 27 /PRNewswire/ -- The National Center for Sports Safety (NCSS) and the Mississippi High School Activities Association have finalized a partnership to educate Mississippi's high school and middle school coaches in the area of sports safety. The MHSAA executive committee...UCSF-Tanzania get $7.5M from Gates Foundation for partnership to train African health workers
The University of California, San Francisco has received a $7.5 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to address the shortage of healthcare workers in Tanzania. The two-year grant will support a strategic collaboration between UCSF Global Health Sciences and the Muhimbili Universi...Want docs to treat the underserved? Make sure they train at community health centers
University of Washington researchers have found that community health center-trained family physicians were more likely to work in underserved settings than their non-community health center-trained counterparts (64 percent versus 37 percent), based on a study published in the April issue of Famil...VA to Train More Psychologists
Peake: Expansion Meets Current and Future Needs WASHINGTON, March 4 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- To meet increased needs for mental health services for veterans, especially those returning from the Global War on Terror, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is expanding its training progra...Researchers Train the Immune System to Deliver Virus That Destroys Cancer in Lab Models
Procedure also could prevent recurrence ROCHESTER, Minn., Dec. 18 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- An international team of researchers led by Mayo Clinic have designed a technique that uses the body's own cells and a virus to destroy cancer cells that spread from primary tumors to other parts o...New Research Shows: Neurofeedback is an 'Evidence-Based' Treatment for ADHD
... NIJMEGEN, The Netherlands, July 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Neurofeedback - also called EEG Biofeedback - is a method used to train brain activity in order to normalize Brain function and treat psychiatric disorders. This treatment method has gained interest over the last 10 years,...Study Confirms Effectiveness of Innovative Prism Glasses For Hemianopia Patients
...y make the perceptual adjustment. Based on these results, Dr. Peli and his team plan to conduct future research that will examine the best way to train patients to reprogram their brains to perceive direction automatically. The research team consisted of Mr. Robert Giorgi and Drs. Russell Woods ...NHS National Innovation Centre Cites VNUS Closure(R) Procedure as Select Innovative Technology
...VNUS Medical Technologies, Inc. "With the support of the NHS, Charing Cross NHS Hospital in London and Ian Franklin, we are continuing our programs to train more surgeons in the VNUS Closure procedure so that more UK patients can benefit from this proven technology." Additional information about the V...ACRO Comments on NEJM Article on Globalization of Clinical Research
...w them to engage more fully in multinational clinical research at a leadership level." ACRO members invest millions of dollars annually to recruit and train high-quality investigators in more than 60 countries. A well-trained, global investigator network is in the best interest of all participants in the d...ERIS™ Clarity™ Urodynamic System
Description:...em the way you do. Stop referring out. The Eris Clarity System is inexpensive and simple enough to be operated by your present office personnel. (Well train them.) Be assured that its ease-of-use does not come at the cost of accuracy. The Clarity System features advanced technology from Eris, the group tha...Tumbling E Pad(100 sheets) BCE
Description:... Printed with large 20/200 E on one side and a series of five 20/20 tumbling Es on the other- calibrated to a 20 ft. distance. May be used to test and train peripheral awareness....MICROSTIM PLUS Nerve Stimulator
Features:...Double Burst: 2 60-ms bursts of 50 Hz separately by .75 s Twitch: 1 s (1 pulse/s) Tetanus: 50 Hz (50 pulses/s) or 100 Hz (100 pulses/s) Built-in train of Four: Single (4 pulses/2 s) Output current: Adjustable 0-70 mA Stimulus Pulse: Square Wave Monophasic pulses (200-s duration) Indicators: Bat...Caltech researchers train computers to analyze fruit-fly behavior
PASADENA, Calif.--Scientists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have trained computers to automatically analyze aggression and courtship in fruit flies, opening the way for researchers to perform large-scale, high-throughput screens for genes that control these innate behaviors. T...Sweets make young horses harder to train in Montana State study
BOZEMAN, Mont. -- Young horses may be easier to train if they temporarily lay off the sweets, says a Montana State University study where two-year-olds wore pedometers, wrist watches and Ace bandages. A commercial mixture of corn, oats, barley and molasses -- sometimes called "sweet grain" or "...More than half of Texas physicians do not always recommend HPV vaccine to girls
...ntative of physicians across the country. Nationally, vaccine rates for 11- to 12-year-old girls are between 6 percent and 25 percent. "Physicians train all across the country using more or less the same curriculum, so as a group they tend to be fairly homogenous in their beliefs," said Kahn. Sally...DNA computation gets logical at the Weizmann Institute of Science
...ished online today in Nature Nanotechnology , have devised an advanced program for biomolecular computers that enables them to 'think' logically. The train of deduction used by this futuristic device is remarkably familiar. It was first proposed by Aristotle over 2000 years ago as a simple ifthen proposit...Jet-propelled imaging for an ultrafast light source
...mental physics at Cambridge University, discovered that a smooth, cylindrical jet of liquid emerging from an orifice spontaneously breaks up to form a train of spherical droplets. In the late 1990s, physicist Alfonso Gan-Calvo of the University of Seville found a way to surround the streaming liquid with p...Knee injuries may start with strain on the brain, not the muscles
...cenarios, thus teaching rapid decision making. It might also be possible to train "hard wired" spinal control mechanisms to combat fatigue fallout. In a ... in random sports settings. "If you expose them to more scenarios, and train the brain to respond more rapidly, you can decrease the likelihood of a dan...$20 million NIH grant to transform clinical research at UIC
...d translational technologies and resources. The center includes educational programs for pre- and postdoctoral trainees and faculty researchers to train the next generation of translational researchers. Some projects already funded by the center include developing a collaborative research program in...$29.4 million grant establishes CTSI at NYU in partnership with Health and Hospitals Corporation
...cal & Translational Science Institute (CTSI) in partnership with the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation (HHC). The funding is designed to train medical researchers, more rapidly advance science from the lab to the patient to the community and to allow researchers to explore mechanisms of healt...Clinical trial shows quadriplegics can operate powered wheelchair with tongue drive system
...e Tongue Drive system can potentially capture a large number of tongue movements, each of which can represent a different user command. The ability to train the system with as many commands as an individual can comfortably remember and having all of the commands available to the user at the same time are s...Computers aid in cracking deception in plants
...tudents, which may encourage them to consider careers in either the biological or computer sciences. "This project provides a great environment to train students to think across disciplines," Korkin said. "Students from the life sciences will be working closely with students from computer science, and ...ORBIS and Alcon Train China's Next Generation of Sight-Savers
Flying Eye Hospital Program to Train Ophthalmology Residents and Biomedical Engineers NEW YORK, Aug. 25 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- ORBIS International's flagship Flying Eye Hospital has arrived in Harbin, China with its global team of volunteer eye care specialists ...Wisconsin to train tech-savvy paper industry with share of $5 million grant
Mid-State Technical College , headquartered in Wisconsin Rapids, will lead an interstate effort to train workers in the paper and pulp industries, Wisconsin Governor Jim Doyle has announced. The college will share a $5 million grant from the National Science Foundation, some of which will f...Winslow Sargeant: Stepping onto the train called Wisconsin - Part 1
Winslow Sargeant In 1975, I was a sophomore at Nauset Regional High School in Eastham, Massachusetts, an all-white school one mile from a beautiful north Atlantic beach. Winslow Sargeant, the keynote speaker at last week's Early Stage Symposium at Madison's Monona Terrace, was twelve, living...Winslow Sargeant: Stepping onto the train called Wisconsin - Part 2
This is Part 2 of a two part interview. Read Part 1 . Winslow Sargeants combination of academic, commercial and government experience gives him rare insight into the world of entrepreneurship and risk. His memories of growing up in Dorchester remind him that to succeed at anything, tenacity is e...RadMD First to Offer CME-Certified Education and Training For Medical Imaging in Clinical Trials
...ourses on the use of medical imaging in trials, including specific evaluation methods. Customized modules for specific trials can also be developed to train pharmaceutical personnel, on-site investigators and blinded readers. For more information, visit www.rad-md.net/info or call 267-247-5544 ext. ...Platoon Fitness Announces Platoon University
...tudying every fitness concept there is. We have taken the best of everything out there and created the Platoon Fitness Training System. At Platoon, we train the body the way it was designed to perform and function in real life. http://platoonfitness.com ...Brain research shows past experience is invaluable for complex decision making
...hat we don't just get better at the task of picking out a familiar face amongst a crowd, for example. Our results tell us that previous experience can train circuits in our brains to recognise perceived categories rather than simply the physical similarity between visual patterns," said Dr Kourtzi. "Based ...