The News Review:
- The San Francisco SPCA raises the bar on shelter management for cats
- New Study Pinpoints Difference in the Way Children with Autism …
- Far-Away Vacations Could Increase Risk of VTE
- MicroRNAs Hold Promise For Treating Diseases In Blood Vessels
- Longtime Yuma doctor wins state award
The San Francisco SPCA raises the bar on shelter management for cats
Examiner.com
The design model has been adopted at other shelters in the Bay Area and around the country. A shelter’s physical environment is however is only one half of the equation when it comes to the well being of the animals it serves. The other half lies in advancements in shelter or ‘population’ medicine a new field of study that address both the physical and emotional well being of animals which are closely interrelated. Jennifer Scarlett and working closely with the University of California-Davis.
New Study Pinpoints Difference in the Way Children with Autism …
Newswise (press release)
Their new study published in the journal Nature Neuroscience examined patterns of movement as children with autism and typically developing children learned to control a novel tool. The findings suggest that children with autism appear to learn new actions differently than do typically developing children. As compared to their typically developing peers children with autism relied much more on their own internal sense of body position (proprioception) rather than visual information coming from the external world to learn new patterns of movement. Furthermore researchers found that the greater the reliance on proprioception the greater the child?s impairment in social skills motor skills and imitation.
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Far-Away Vacations Could Increase Risk of VTE
MedPage Today
July 6 — Long stretches of travel are associated with a threefold increased risk of venous thromboembolism (VTE) researchers have found. 01) Divay Chandra MD of Harvard and colleagues reported online in the Annals of Internal Medicine.
MicroRNAs Hold Promise For Treating Diseases In Blood Vessels
Science Daily (press release)
The team in Rochester also did experiments to show that local delivery of miR-145 in mouse blood vessels leads to elevated expression of myocardin and its target genes. Along with senior author Srivastava the effort at Gladstone and within the departments of Pediatrics and Biochemisty & Biophysics at the University of California at San Francisco was led by first author Kimberly Cordes Neil Sheehy Mark White Emily Berry Sarah Morton Alecia Muth and Kathryn Ivey. Ting-Hein Lee a post-doctoral fellow in Miano’s lab also contributed within the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry. The study was funded in part by the National Institutes of Health. Adapted from materials provided by.
Longtime Yuma doctor wins state award
Yuma Sun
It’s that caring nature that helped Phillips earn the President’s Distinguished Service Award from the Arizona Medical Association. “I’m honored of course” Phillips said. Phillips practiced medicine in Yuma for more than 50 years. Retired he’s now 96 years old and told the Yuma Sun how he became a doctor. In school Phillips said he prepared himself to study medicine. He said he created his curriculum around it and took Latin to help him get in to medical school. “I had a schedule always.
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