| 02/06/2012
12:00 AM Do patients pay when they leave against medical advice?
(University of Chicago Medical Center) There are ways in which patients who leave the hospital against medical advice wind up paying for that decision. Being saddled with the full cost of their hospital stay, however, is not one of them. |
| 02/06/2012
12:00 AM Fogarty Institute for Innovation launches advanced endovascular training fellowship
(WCG) The Fogarty Institute for Innovation announced today that it has launched its Advanced Endovascular Training Fellowship. This unique, year-long clinical training program for postgraduate physicians, which begins July 1, 2012, will provide Fellows with broad exposure to all aspects of endovascular patient care, with an emphasis on interventional training. Fellows will also engage with the Fogarty Institute's early-stage medical device start-up companies and assist in the process of developing technologies to improve patient care. |
| 02/03/2012
12:00 AM SFU scientists seek teaching excitement at AAAS
(Simon Fraser University) Thousands of scientists, including many from SFU, will descend upon Vancouver, Feb. 16-20 to not only share research discoveries but also hone their skills as science educators. They will share their teaching trade secrets at the 2012 American Association for the Advancement of Science conference, known as the world's largest science fair. SFU's Faculty of Science is sponsoring 10 faculty members, two staff and two graduate students to attend the AAAS' symposium on education. |
| 02/03/2012
12:00 AM Fellowships to assist 9 UC Riverside students secure doctoral degrees
(University of California - Riverside) The University of California, Riverside has awarded nine first-year graduate students an annual stipend of $30,000 for two years to increase underrepresented minority students in the fields of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics at the doctoral level. In addition to the stipend that covers living expenses, each student's graduate tuition and fees are fully covered. Because of the fellowships, the nine students will be fully engaged in research from the outset. |
| 02/03/2012
12:00 AM AIBS names emerging public policy leaders
(American Institute of Biological Sciences) The American Institute of Biological Sciences has selected two graduate students to receive the 2012 AIBS Emerging Public Policy Leadership Award. Lida Beninson is a Ph.D. candidate in Integrative Physiology at the University of Colorado Boulder. Andrew Reinmann is a Ph.D. candidate in Biology at Boston University. |
| 02/03/2012
12:00 AM Making sense of addiction terminology
(SAGE Publications) A new editorial released this week offers clarity and structure on confusing drug and alcohol addiction terminology for prescribers, users and regulators. |
| 02/03/2012
12:00 AM Gamers on 3-D mission to save world, just don't tell them they are learning cell biology
(Iowa State University) Eve Syrkin Wurtele decided the best way to get the attention of the science-deprived, gamer generation is to take the information out of a text book and put it in a medium that kids crave - video games.So she and her team developed Meta!Blast, which won honorable mention in the 2011 International Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge sponsored by the American Association for the Advancement of Science and is featured in the Feb. 3 issue of the journal Science. |
| 02/02/2012
12:00 AM UAHuntsville business faculty investigate research ethics; Results are published in Science magazine
(University of Alabama in Huntsville) Two UAHuntsville faculty members from the College of Business were published today in the prestigious journal Science for their investigation of an important issue in research ethics. |
| 02/02/2012
12:00 AM Lecture or listen: When patients waver on meds
(Brown University) According to a new analysis of hundreds of recorded office visits, doctors and nurse practitioners typically issued orders and asked closed or leading questions when talking to their HIV-positive patients about adherence to antiretroviral therapy. Attempts at problem-solving with patients who had lapsed occurred in less than a quarter of visits. |
| 02/02/2012
12:00 AM EARTH: Dangerous dust
(American Geological Institute) What would you do if you found out that the roads you drive on could cause cancer? This is the reality that residents face in Dunn County, North Dakota. For roughly 30 years, gravel containing the potentially carcinogenic mineral erionite was spread on nearly 500 kilometers of roads, playgrounds, parking lots, and even flower beds throughout Dunn County. |
| 02/02/2012
12:00 AM Hand counts of votes may cause errors, says new Rice University study
(Rice University) Hand counting of votes in postelection audit or recount procedures can result in error rates of up to two percent, according to a new study from Rice University and Clemson University. |
| 02/02/2012
12:00 AM 2011 International Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge winners announced
(American Association for the Advancement of Science) A colorful computer illustration that depicts the emergence of structure in the universe, spanning 240 million light years, is among the entries being recognized by the 2011 International Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge, which is sponsored jointly by journal Science and the US National Science Foundation. |
| 02/01/2012
12:00 AM Shane Ross garners CAREER Award to advance understanding of fluid flows from blood inside the body to oil spills in bodies of water
(Virginia Tech) The researcher's work is an attempt to expand the applicability of dynamical systems methods to real world data, particularly in the context of fluid flows. |
| 02/01/2012
12:00 AM Nano-oils keep their cool
(Rice University) Rice University scientists have created a nano-infused oil that could greatly enhance the ability of devices as large as electrical transformers and as small as microelectronic components to shed excess heat. |
| 02/01/2012
12:00 AM Impoverished schools, parent education key factors in student weight
(Penn State) Attending a financially poor school may have more of an effect on unhealthy adolescent weight than family poverty, according to Penn State sociologists. |
| 02/01/2012
12:00 AM New web-based tool details greenhouse gas emissions for 6,700 facilities nationwide
(American Chemical Society) How many tons of greenhouse gases are coming out of that smokestack? For the first time, people around the US can get answers to that question instantly with a new online interactive tool -- the topic of an article in the current edition of Chemical & Engineering News, the weekly newsmagazine of the American Chemical Society, the world's largest scientific society. |
| 02/01/2012
12:00 AM NBC News, NBC Sports and National Science Foundation launch 'Science of NHL Hockey'
(National Science Foundation) NBC News' educational arm, NBC Learn, and the NBC Sports Group recently teamed up with the National Hockey League and National Science Foundation to release "Science of NHL Hockey"--an informative 10-part video series exploring the science behind the fastest game on ice. |
| 02/01/2012
12:00 AM In times of scandal, corporations are likely to use others' misconduct to justify their behavior
(Rice University) Among corporations involved in the 2006 stock-option backdating scandal, those implicated earlier were more likely to dismiss their top executives than those that surfaced later on, according to new research from Rice University and the University of California at Irvine. |
| 01/31/2012
12:00 AM Final agenda now available for CRF meeting on chronic total occlusions and left main interventions
(Cardiovascular Research Foundation) The Complex PCI: Left Main and CTO Summit is a three-day conference featuring state-of-the-art technologies, research findings and new developments in therapeutic procedures essential for interventional cardiologists to optimize success in chronic total coronary occlusions and left main coronary interventions. |
| 01/31/2012
12:00 AM UCSF School of Medicine leaders explore bioinformatics in research, patient care and education
(University of California - San Francisco) The amount of data that health care providers and scientists collect from patients and research participants is growing explosively. This information ranges from the genetic to laboratory tests and imaging exams, to medical histories and information about treatment and outcomes -- and in some cases to survey data on large populations. |
| 01/31/2012
12:00 AM Pairing masks and hand washing could drastically slow spread of pandemic flu
(University of Michigan) Masks and hand hygiene could cut the spread of flu-like symptoms up to 75 percent, a University of Michigan study found. |
| 01/31/2012
12:00 AM Analysis of generalized linear mixed models
(American Society of Agronomy) "Analysis of Generalized Linear Mixed Models in the Agricultural and Natural Resources Sciences" is a new worldwide release at an important time of change in the research community. It demonstrates, through examples, the design and analysis of mixed models for non-normally distributed data and challenges traditional statistical methodology. It is written by a team of authors who are part of a multi-state project to educate scientists in the agricultural and natural resources sciences about modern statistical methodology. |
| 01/31/2012
12:00 AM Women not following through with recommended breast screening MRI
(University of Colorado Denver) A study of 64,659 women, recently published in the journal Academic Radiology, found that while 1,246 of these women were at high enough breast cancer risk to recommend additional screening with MRI, only 173 of these women returned to the clinic within a year for the additional screening. |
| 01/31/2012
12:00 AM Quality medical journal news releases can help newspapers do a better job informing public
(Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center) Medical journal press releases are the most direct way that journals communicate with the news media about new research. According to a study in the British Medical Journal, press release quality appears to have an important effect on the quality of subsequent newspaper stories. |
| 01/31/2012
12:00 AM Perfect nanotubes shine brightest
(Rice University) A painstaking study by Rice University has brought a wealth of new information about single-walled carbon nanotubes through analysis of their fluorescence. The researchers found that the brightest nanotubes of the same length show consistent fluorescence intensity, and the longer the tube, the brighter. |
