1) Social support proves to be a critical factor in women's health, 2) Women living with HIV find positive light through deadly disease, 3) Grandmothers raising grandchildren face more health risks than peers
1) Protecting plant biodiversity helps safeguard ecosystems, 2) At the "moving edge of discovery," pushing the frontier without a map, 3) Students' robots perform surgery on ... A grape?
For the first time in recent history, the University of California, San Diego will hold an all-campus commencement ceremony and graduation rites for its five undergraduate colleges on a single day-Sunday, June 17. Programs for two graduate divisions will be held the preceding day, June 16, while the UCSD School of Medicine will hold its commencement June 3.
U of I students use Spanish language skills to help the Indianapolis area's growing Hispanic community, resulting in better academic performance and job placement for Hispanic residents. Students work in schools, job centers, shelters and preschools.
Pomp plus circumstance, mixed with student success equals Temple's 114th commencement.
Helen Thomas, renowned journalist for the past 40 years, will deliver the keynote address at the College of Saint Benedict commencement ceremonies at 2 p.m. on Saturday, May 26, in the Clemens Field House.
Many Americans suffer heartburn, but for some it's more frequent and serious. A new study by a UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas physician, published in today's Journal of the American Medical Association, suggests that anti-reflux surgery is no better for treating severe heartburn than antacid medications.
As cheap gas grows scarce, an abundance of so-called solutions is misguiding many Americans. Between the "American Gas Out" and the Mobil-Exxon boycott, misinformation is rampant on the Internet.
Over the next few weeks Cornell University biology students and members of the campus Herpetology Society will gather along a road about six miles from campus to stop and slow down automobile traffic, giving frogs and salamanders right of way to cross from the forest to a mating pond.
People don't get married, make friends or try to maintain ties with sibling to have those relationships fail. Yet many fail because people don't pay enough attention to the emotional needs of others, says University of Washington psychologist John Gottman, author of the new book "The Relationship Cure."
Charlene Barshefsky, U.S. trade representative during the Clinton administration, will offer advice and encouragement to new graduates from the University of Wisconsin-Madison College of Letters and Science during commencement exercises this spring.
Rev. Abuna Elias Chacour spoke at the 2001 Commencement Ceremony to the largest graduating class in U of Indianpolis history. Chacour founded the Mar Elias Educational Institution in Israel, the only private interfaith educational facility in Galilee.
A pioneering evolutionary biologist, a noted TV news analyst and the former heads of the FDA and National Science Foundation are among the six individuals who will receive honorary degrees at North Carolina State University's Commencement on May 19.
CBS Evening News anchor Dan Rather to deliver commencement address and receive honorary degree at Colgate University. Nobel Prize-winning physicist Steven Chu; Harvard's Henry Louis Gates Jr., National Football League Commissioner Paul Tagliabue; and Rev. Barbara Brown Taylor also to receive honorary degrees from Colgate on May 20, 2001.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration cleared Campath(r) (alemtuzumab), a humanized monoclonal antibody, for treatment of patients with B-cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia previously treated with alkylating agents and who failed fludarabine therapy.
The Univ. of Ark. will host the fourth annual meeting of The Space Between Society, an interdisciplinary group dedicated to the study of the art, literature and culture that emerged between the two world wars. Conference dates: May 17-19.
After 11 years of research, Mississippi State University scientists now can speak with authority about the two black bear suspecies native to the state.
Research at the Stanford Graduate School of Business examines why Wall Street securities analysts are so reluctant to report negative information about the stocks they cover.
The 2001 graduates (1,170 students) are the first Spring graduating class to receive diplomas from first-year Creighton President Rev. John P. Schlegel, S.J. Creighton is inaugurating a new honor at commencement, the Presidential Medallion.
Creighton University is responding to the critical shortage of pharmacists by offering an on-line Doctor of Pharmacy (Pharm.D.) degree program that will be available via the Internet.
Researchers may have identified the area of the brain that controls our sense of self, according to a study presented during the American Academy of Neurology's 53rd Annual Meeting in Philadelphia, PA, May 5-11, 2001.
Research has revealed significant differences in the gray matter distribution between professional musicians trained at an early age and non-musicians, as presented at the American Academy of Neurology's 53rd Annual Meeting in Philadelphia, PA.
A review and meta-analysis of 29 studies involving more than 4,000 patients found that breast reduction surgery significantly improves the physical symptoms and quality of life in large-breasted women.
An unusual space traveler named Fred is orbiting Earth on board the International Space Station. His job? To keep astronauts safe from space radiation.
A list of individuals who will speak Saturday, May 12, at commencement ceremonies of University of Wyoming Colleges.
Couples need to develop intimacy "for the sake of the kids", staying married or divorced is secondary. This finding is outlined in the newly released white paper on intimacy prepared by the Glendon Association. The statement describes in depth what is called the "third way beyond marriage or divorce" which outlines effective methods couples and parents can learn in order to maintain and develop healthy relationships.
A new study by scientists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego, has dramatically elevated the importance and influence of oceanic whitecaps on global climates. Whitecaps, the bright, wind-driven result of breaking wave crests, have been mostly ignored by climate models.
A zoologist at North Carolina State University is using a 19th century device called a "fishwheel" to study the spawning migration of striped bass and other Atlantic Ocean species on North Carolina's Roanoke River.
Technology, in the form of computers, electronics, peripherals and communications equipment, is continuing to drive the U.S. economy, according to an analysis released today by The Conference Board.
Distinguished theologian James I. Packer, professor of Systematic and Historial Theology at Regent College, Vancouver, addressed graduates in separate ceremonies at Wheaton College (IL) May 5 and 6.
Within 24 hours of being diagnosed with a pilocytic astrocytoma, 6-year-old Isabella Gutierrez was undergoing pediatric neurosurgery during which the tumor was completely removed. Her recovery has been rapid: quickly regaining normal walking skills, her double vision has gone away, and she has no more headaches and no more vomiting.
With staffing shortages affecting hospitals nationwide, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, the largest not-for-profit hospital in the western United States, is launching a concerted, sustained marketing campaign designed to draw new talent and distinguish Cedars-Sinai from other hospitals in the region. The campaign focuses on the medical center's ongoing effort to increase diversity of ethnicity and gender, and also targets the underlying reason many people decide to pursue a healthcare career in the first place.
The American Society of Pediatric Otolaryngology (ASPO) is holding its 16th Annual Meeting at Marriott's Camelback Inn in Scottsdale, AZ, May 9-12. More than 250 specialists who treat disorders of the ears, nose, throat and related structures of the head and neck in the pediatric population are expected to attend. New advancements in the diagnosis and treatment of ENT disorders in children will be presented.
The drive by HMOs to "medicalize" psychotherapy - insisting that practitioners look for a medical disorder such as clinical depression and then dispense a prescribed treatment - will ultimately suffocate psychotherapy through ignorance of how it works, according to a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and author of a new, controversial book, "The Great Psychotherapy Debate."
Proteins and genes of the measles virus, never before suspected of being related to cancer, were discovered in tumor cells of patients suffering from Hodgkin's lymphoma (HL).
To climb the steps and open the doors to the memorial hall under the massive Gothic tower of the Vassar College library is to feel you're entering a cathedral of learning.
After growth companies are publicly recognized as "hot" performers you may want to steer clear of them as investments. That's what three finance professors found when they examined 732 companies tagged by Business Week as "hot growth companies."
Jeff Greenfield, a senior analyst for CNN's "Inside Politics," will speak May 20 at Bucknell University's commencement ceremony. Greenfield was host of CNN's seven-part series, "Democracy in America."
David Satcher, M.D., Ph.D., United States Surgeon General, is the commencement speaker for Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine May 24, 2001.
Everett Alvarez, Jr., the first American aviator shot down over North Vietnam, will serve as keynote speaker at commencement ceremonies for the University of North Texas Health Science Center May 19.
Chimpanzee expert Jane Goodall and U.S. Sen. Paul Wellstone are two of the speakers who will appear at this year's University of Minnesota-Twin Cities commencement ceremonies.
COLLEGEVILLE, Minn. ˆ Fred de Sam Lazaro, correspondent for The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer on PBS, will deliver the commencement address at Saint John's at 2 p.m. on Sunday, May 27, in the Saint John's Abbey Church.
A multicenter, phase-IV clinical trial headed by a Stanford University Medical Center professor has shown that an antidepressant known as mirtazapine works significantly faster, is more effective and causes fewer adverse side effects in elderly patients than does paroxetine, another commonly prescribed antidepressant. The research is the first direct comparison of the two drugs in treating elderly people suffering from a major depressive illness.
The mayor of Charlotte, Catawba College Alumnus Pat McCrory, will be the featured speaker during Catawba College"šs Graduation Exercise at 10:30 a.m. Saturday, May 12 on the lawn of the Abernethy Quadrangle.
Chancellor Gordon Gee will give his first Commencement speech to approximately 2,200 students at Vanderbilt University's graduation exercises Friday, May 11.
The American Medical Group Association announced its new board members to begin their tenure in July 2001. The Board of Directors represents the leadership of some of AMGA's most prominent member medical groups.
Rene Auberjonois, a 1962 graduate of the Carnegie Mellon University School of Drama and recipient of many accolades for his performances in television, in film and on Broadway, will be the speaker for Carnegie Mellon's commencement on Sunday, May 20, 2001, at 11 a.m.
For 68-year-old Rodney Blauer, Marina del Rey, CA, trigeminal neuralgia turned out to be a good thing. The debilitating facial pain in his left jaw, universally acknowledged as the most painful affliction known to adults, led to the accidental discovery of an unrelated tumor on the opposite side of his brain. That acoustic neuroma was completely removed in an endoscopic at the Cedars-Sinai Skull Base Institute in Los Angeles.
Johns Hopkins today announced the introduction of the Palm OS(tm) version of its digital Guide to Antibiotics and Infectious Disease -- the ABX Guide -- designed to give physicians free and up-to-the-minute information on antibiotics and their proper use. The ABX Guide offers information on more than 190 drugs and more than 140 diseases treated by both specialists and primary care physicians.
Aggressive treatment may be necessary to avoid long-term neurological injury in a small fraction of jaundiced infants, say researchers from The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.
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