Vice President Joe Biden's rebuke of Israel over proposed settlement expansion is not only ineffective, it's hypocritical, said Professor Rafael Reuveny, a researcher on Middle East violence and political economy at Indiana University.
A new chair and vice chair have been elected to the NIST Visiting Committee on Advanced Technology (VCAT), the agency's primary private-sector policy advisory group.
The Neutron Scattering Society of America (NSSA) has honored scientists working at NIST with two of its three major annual prizes for 2010, and named another a society fellow.
Jeffrey Dragovich, a research structural engineer at NIST, has been deployed to Chile as a member of a large multidisciplinary team of experts documenting the effects of the Feb. 27, 2010, earthquake in that country.
Don't worry if you can't make it to Washington, D.C., for the Quest for Excellence XXII conference on April 12-14, 2010. You can participate from your home or office, learning all about the exceptional performance management practices and results of the 2009 recipients of the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award.
NIST's Baldrige National Quality Program has announced that four state quality programs will receive funding for the development of performance excellence curricula targeted at education or manufacturing organizations.
Experts on digital preservation are gathering at a workshop at NIST in Gaithersburg, Md., from March 29 to 31 to develop a standards roadmap for long-term preservation of the vast and growing amount of digital data.
NIST has released the first of four installments of a new health IT test method and related software, developed in collaboration with a broad array of public and private groups, to help develop modern information technology systems for the health care industry.
Stacked sheets of graphene may be a promising material for capturing and storing hydrogen for future fuel-cell systems according to recent research at NIST and the University of Pennsylvania.
The American Medical Group Association is convening approximately 1,700 participants, representing the leaders of the nation’s leading healthcare provider organizations, at its 2010 Annual Conference, March 17-20 at the New Orleans Marriott. The conference is setting attendance records for this dynamic, cutting-edge gathering, which has become the gold standard for leadership conferences in health care, primarily because of the caliber of presenting faculty and attending healthcare professionals.
Although many smokers try to quit by selecting a “quit day” and going cold turkey, a new review finds that quitting gradually might work just as well.
A recent review examined whether over-the-counter medications containing acetaminophen provided adequate relief for lingering pain after childbirth and concluded that they are effective.
Washing out your nose with a spray or spout of salt water is safe and might even get you back to work sooner after a cold or acute sinus infection. However, there is not enough evidence to show that it can reduce your symptoms significantly, according to a new research review.
Once care for people with heart disease has reached a certain level, making improvements -- and reaching those last few patients -- increasingly becomes difficult, suggests a new review.
According to a recent United Nations study, HIV infection rates among high-risk groups such as gays, drug users and sex workers are on the rise around the world.
The McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT announced today the launch of its new website at http://mcgovern.mit.edu.
Director of Geisinger’s Obesity Institute Christopher D. Still, D.O., will address the Federal-State Relations Meeting of the National Lieutenant Governors Association (NLGA) in Washington, D.C., on Thursday, March 18. Dr. Still’s talk will focus on the economic burden of obesity on every U.S. state and territory, and what we can do about it.
Patients with pancreatic cancer have higher-than-normal blood levels of the refined sugar fructose, according to a recent study in the journal Pancreas, official journal of the American Pancreatic Association and the Japan Pancreas Society.
As National Poison Prevention Week begins, the California Poison Control System announces ground-breaking new programs, including a free text messaging service, Facebook quizzes and e-cards to provide essential tips, news and information on poisoning, the second leading cause of childhood injury in the U.S.
In the first quantitative study to look at the benefits of utilizing the medical home concept in a resident-education outpatient clinic at a specialized children's hospital, UCLA researchers found that participation in the program at UCLA significantly reduced families' use of the emergency room.
Vice President Joe Biden's rebuke of Israel over proposed settlement expansion in Greater East Jerusalem is not only ineffective, it's hypocritical.
JRRD, the Department of Veterans Affairs’ (VA’s) rehabilitation research journal (http://www.rehab.research.va.gov), launched a brand new interactive and reader-focused Web site this month.
Researchers at the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California have identified a key cellular mechanism that guides embryonic heart tissue formation—a process which, if disrupted, can lead to a number of common congenital heart defects.
During the 2010: The Year of the Lung campaign, the ATS and other members of the Forum of International Respiratory Societies (FIRS) are honoring World Sleep Day, March 19, by raising awareness of sleep-disordered breathing, an underdiagnosed and potentially dangerous condition if left untreated. Treatment of sleep-disordered breathing can improve symptoms and may reduce health risks related to the condition.
Through New Grant, SLU Scientists Focus on Equalizing Organ Distribution
Black children are less likely than white or Asian children to develop shingles (herpes zoster) after receiving the varicella vaccine to prevent chickenpox, reports a study in the March issue of The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal.
The National Association For Continence (NAFC) awarded Leslie Saltzstein Wooldridge, MSN, RNCS, GNP-BC, and Francie Bernier, PhD, MSN, RNC with the Rodney Appell Continence Care Champion Award.
Stroke awareness feature story with an Irish / St. Patty's Day twist.
Their schoolmates’ weight determines whether teenage high school girls will try to lose pounds, new research finds, and the school environment plays a big role in the decision.
Primary care physicians agree they have a role in addressing obesity, but say they do not have the right weight management resources. Obese or heavier adults take responsibility for weight loss, but adults who need to lose weight may lack information about effective weight loss methods and strategies. These findings and others come from new research commissioned and released today by the Strategies to Overcome and Prevent (STOP) Obesity Alliance, a project operating out of the Department of Health Policy at The George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services.
New center examines U.S.-Latin American economic and diplomatic relations, healthcare, post-earthquake reconstruction in Haiti, religious practices, human rights violations, and Central American migration in the Washington, D.C. region.
A radiation therapy that uses multiple radiation beams to target tumors precisely has been shown to eliminate the primary tumor and ultimately may improve survival rates for lung-cancer patients unable to undergo surgery.
Case management appears to be associated with more appropriate follow-up and shorter time to diagnostic resolution among low-income women who receive an abnormal result on a mammogram, according to a report in the March 22 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.
New chemotherapy agents appear associated with improvements in survival time for patients with metastastic colorectal cancer, but at substantial cost, according to a report in the March 22 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.
Newspaper and magazine reports about cancer appear more likely to discuss aggressive treatment and survival than death, treatment failure or adverse events, and almost none mention end-of-life palliative or hospice care, according to a report in the March 22 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.
Although there have been achievements in the battle against cancer, including a decrease in the rate of death and new diagnoses, cancer remains one of the leading causes of death in the U.S., with a need for continued improvement in the areas of prevention, detection and treatment, according to a commentary in the March 17 issue of JAMA, a theme issue on cancer.
Palliative care services are available at most U.S. cancer centers, although the scope of services offered and the degree of integration between palliative care and oncology care varies widely among centers, according to a study in the March 17 issue of JAMA, a theme issue on cancer.
Early findings suggest a radiation therapy that involves numerous highly-focused and potent radiation beams provides targeted tumor control in nearly all patients, reduces treatment-related illness, and may ultimately improve survival for patients with inoperable non-small cell lung cancer, according to a study in the March 17 issue of JAMA, a theme issue on cancer.
Even though older patients with colon cancer are less likely to receive chemotherapy following surgery because of concerns of adverse events, new research indicates that when they do receive this treatment, it is less toxic and of shorter duration than therapy younger patients receive, and older patients experience fewer adverse events, according to a study in the March 17 issue of JAMA, a theme issue on cancer.
Researchers from Mount Sinai School of Medicine are presenting more than 20 ground-breaking studies at the American College of Cardiology (ACC) 59th annual scientific session (ACC.10) in Atlanta. Their research includes data showing that the World Trade Center (WTC) collapse has caused potentially dangerous heart problems in responders on-site.
A Kansas State University study aimed at alleviating intestinal damage in trauma patients digressed to an important finding that could affect medication given to the individuals.
UK has been chosen to host a Confucius Institute devoted to promoting exchange between China and other countries.
Health science researchers lay out the issues and actions administrators can take to provide a safe and functioning health care facility.
University of Arkansas marketing professor Molly Jensen says American consumers will continue to purchase more private label (non-brand) items as the recession weakens.
Dr. Shankar Mahalingam, chair of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of California Riverside, has been chosen to lead the College of Engineering at The University of Alabama in Huntsville.
A study published 16 March 2010 ahead of print in the peer-reviewed journal Environmental Health Perspectives (EHP) finds that many developing countries have high long-term levels of aerosol air pollution. The study is the first to use satellite data to estimate long-term fine particulate matter (PM2.5) concentrations across the entire globe.
Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health conducted an analysis of worldwide use of Haemophilus influenza Type b vaccine (Hib) to determine what factors influenced a nation’s adoption of the vaccine.
Editorial by the chair of neurological surgery at Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine.
Heart patients who took a stomach acid-suppressing proton-pump inhibitor along with clopidogrel – a drug that prevents blood clots – were only half as likely to be hospitalized for upper digestive tract bleeding than those who used clopidogrel alone.
A new study shows that the Gardasil vaccine reduces the likelihood of human papillomavirus (HPV)-related disease recurring after teen and adult women already have had surgery to remove cancer or certain pre-cancerous changes, said Warner Huh, M.D., an associate professor in the UAB Division of Gynecologic Oncology and lead presenter.
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