ROCKVILLE, Md. (MedPage Today) — The Justice Department has launched an investigation of Peanut Corporation of America, the peanut processor whose Blakely, Ga., plant has been linked to a salmonella outbreak that has sickened 529 people in 43 states.
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(Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions) A survey study believed to be one of the first efforts to put hard numbers around long-held beliefs about diversity in medical school faculties has affirmed that awareness and sensitivity to racial and ethnic diversity are believed by most faculty to be poor and even poorer among faculty who are members [...]
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(University at Buffalo) To meet the needs of veterans with traumatic brain injury, the VA’s Health Services Research and Development Unit is funding a $1.4 million, four-year study of Iraq and Afghanistan-era veterans, headed by University at Buffalo researchers at the Buffalo VA Medical Center.
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(Medical College of Georgia) Combining the benefits of multiple drugs in a single pill may hold the key to treating neurodegenerative diseases, Medical College of Georgia researchers say.
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(Stevens Institute of Technology) Dr. S. Vincent Grasso, a member of the Stevens Healthcare Information Technology Management Advisory Board was selected to lead the technical team on a $5-million dollar grant application to develop a HIPAA compliant, web-based data entry and reporting platform.
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(University at Buffalo) A family sociologist at the University at Buffalo says this month’s murder-suicides involving a family of four in Ohio and a family of five in California may be “just the tip of the iceberg.”
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(University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston) Brief but personal intervention reduces drinking among risky college drinkers, according to a research study at the University of Texas School of Public Health. Results of the study will be published in the February issue of the Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology.
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(Association for Psychological Science) Does the mere availability of something tempting weaken the will to resist? The answer is of more than theoretical interest to public health experts, and the problem goes far beyond serious addictive disorders. As our national obesity crisis shows, difficulties with discipline and self-control are widespread and harmful. A new study [...]
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(The Gerontological Society of America) The Association for Gerontology in Higher Education (AGHE), the educational branch of The Gerontological Society of America, will hold its 35th Annual Meeting and Educational Leadership Conference Feb. 26-March 1, 2009, at the Crowne Plaza Hotel-Riverwalk in San Antonio, Texas. This conference provides a forum for professionals in the field [...]
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(University of California - Los Angeles) Researchers at the UCLA School of Public Health have found the first evidence that perfluorinated chemicals — chemicals that are widely used in everyday items such as food packaging, pesticides, clothing, upholstery, carpets and personal care products — may be associated with infertility in women.
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