The News Review:
- Uganda: Healing Ailments With Herbs
- … Announces Positive Results for its CaP Technology for Use…
- The Hastings Center Names Mary Crowley as Director of Public Affairs…
- Drinking And Driving: Immediate Removal Of A Driver’s License…
- New NIH-supported study characterizes social networks of family,…
Uganda: Healing Ailments With Herbs
AllAfrica.com - Jul 25, 2007
"I expressed my fears about facing the surgical knife to Dr. Ssali and he said I was not supposed to be operated upon," he says. Ssali instead recommended herbal medicine to clear Buyondo's colon (large intestine) then ordered him to sleep with a clove of garlic inserted into the anus everyday. "After about 40 days, the problem was gone. I never had to go for the operation," beams Buyondo. Despite his age, Buyondo rides a motorbike everyday from Nakulabye to Kampala where he works. He appears healthy, strong and happy.
… Announces Positive Results for its CaP Technology for Use…
Free with registration - Business Wire - AccessMyLibrary.com - Jul 25, 2007
– BioSante Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Amex: BPA) today announced positive results of the use of BioSante’s calcium phosphate nanotechnology (CaP) as a potential wrinkle filler in co.
The Hastings Center Names Mary Crowley as Director of Public Affairs…
Putnam County News and Recorder - Putnam County News and Recorder… - Jul 25, 2007
The appointment is integral to the world-renowned Center’s vigorous outreach to policy makers, journalists, and opinion leaders. It is part of “Bioethics and the Public Interest,” a Hastings Center initiative designed to promote thoughtful public conversations about ethical issues in health care and the life sciences. Through the initiative, The Hastings Center, a nonpartisan, interdisciplinary research institution, will broaden its mission from its traditional focus on scholarly research to include activities aimed at informing public policy and enhancing public understanding of bioethics… Crowley will develop and lead a communications department that will use the Center’s expertise to inform policy makers, journalists, and opinion leaders on crucial issues in bioethics. Among these are health care reform, especially the uninsured; health care quality and disparities; end-of-life care; and technological developments such as cloning, stem cell research, and genetic testing, which have the potential to transform birth, death, and the nature of human life. Crowley comes to The Hastings Center after spending four years as a consultant for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, where she was a key team member on its Cover the Uninsured campaign. She also reported on medical ethics and public policy for the NY Academy of Sciences and for the Policy Research Institute for the Region at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School for International Affairs. Before working as a consultant, Crowley was co-founder and editorial director of Praxis Press, an internet medical publisher. There, in addition to building an acclaimed national editorial board of physicians, she helped develop Best Practice of Medicine; launched Praxis Post, an award-winning webzine of medicine and culture; and created the Praxis Press News Bureau, which, in addition to daily news, featured practice-altering e-mail alerts delivered to physicians.
Drinking And Driving: Immediate Removal Of A Driver’s License…
Science Daily - Science Daily (press release) - Jul 25, 2007
, a professor of epidemiology at the College of Medicine at the University of Florida and the study’s lead author. "Our results show these laws can reduce fatalities from car crashes involving light, moderate and heavy drinkers. "
And none too soon, according to James C. Fell, senior program director at the Pacific Institute for Research & Evaluation. "While substantial progress has been made over the past 25 years, alcohol-impaired driving is still a significant public-safety problem in the United States," he said… Individual studies have shown that administrative license suspension (ALS) laws have been effective, but we were never sure about the criminal license-suspension laws. This study puts that issue to rest. The swift, sure nature of administrative laws can reduce drinking-driver fatal crashes and criminal-suspension laws have virtually no effect. "
Fell provided the example of toilet training an animal. "If you punish your dog two weeks after wetting the carpet, the behavior is not affected," he said. "If you punish a drunk driver six to 10 months after the crime, the behavior is not changed. If you suspend the license immediately, the connection is made and the behavior is affected (in most cases).
New NIH-supported study characterizes social networks of family,…
EurekAlert - EurekAlert (press release) - Jul 25, 2007
The study showed that obesity spreads within social networks and that the closer the social connection–even if people live in different households many miles apart–the greater the influence on developing obesity. The study, funded by the National Institute on Aging (NIA), a component of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), is the first to provide a detailed picture of the social networks involved in obesity and could prove useful in developing both clinical and public health interventions for obesity. The analysis was conducted by Nicholas Christakis, M…
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