Sociologists to turn the sociological eye on San Francisco
San Francisco, the host city for the American Sociological Association's 104th annual meeting, will be the subject of several regional spotlight sessions in which leading sociologists present research and explore the politics, history, health and culture of the city and state of California. Mo...Curing Diabetes, Pigs Turn to Lions
MINNEAPOLIS, June 26 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Receiving more than $80,000 from Minnesota and Wisconsin Multiple District Lions Clubs over the past years, Spring Point Project, a non profit organization developing pig donors for pancreatic islet transplantation to cure diabetes, is attending the ...If Heads Turn When You Sneeze, Enter the 'Side-Splitting Sneeze Contest'
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Healthcommunities.com, Inc., announces the recent addition of a New Headache Treatments section to its consumer health information website, neurologychannel.com. This newly updated section features important information about pain medications and treatment methods that are being developed for p...How to turn conflict into collaboration when patients and physicians disagree
PHILADELPHIA, May 4, 2009 -- In an era when people are more informed about their care and more assertive with their physicians, an impasse can develop over issues as simple as a patient insisting on unnecessary tests or medications or as complicated as end-of-life care. To help better prepare p...Hospitals Turn to Vendors Like Elekta for Help in Squeezing Most From Existing Technologies
As Capital Expenditures Slow, Hospitals and Treatment Centers Seek Competitive Advantage by Leveraging Technology ATLANTA, April 2 /PRNewswire/ -- For oncology programs struggling to make ends meet, the ability to do more with less is appealing. The pressure to gain efficiencies comes from tw...Leading AIDS Groups Turn Up The Heat on '08 Presidential Candidates
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As the swine flu continues its global spread, researchers from the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, have discovered important clues about why influenza is more severe in some people than it is in others. In their research study published online in the Journal of Leukocyte Biolog...Stanford scientists turn adult skin cells into muscle and vice versa
In a study featured on the cover of the May issue of The FASEB Journal , researchers describe how they are able to reprogram human adult skin cells into other cell types in order to decipher the elusive mechanisms underlying reprogramming. To demonstrate their point, they transformed human skin c...The 'clean plate club' may turn children into overeaters
"Finish your broccoli!" Although parents may have good intentions about forcing their kids to eat cold, mushy vegetables, this approach may backfire the very next day, according to new research from Cornell University. "We found that the more controlling the parents were about telling their chi...Names turn preschoolers into vegetable lovers
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A Johns Hopkins engineer is trying to coax human stem cells to turn into networks of new blood vessels that could someday be used to replace damaged tissue in people with heart disease, diabetes and other illnesses. Sharon Gerecht, an assistant professor of chemical and molecular engineering in...Tree lizards quick release escape system makes jumpers turn somersaults
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