The News Review:
- Autistic kids learn things differently
- Resolving Unreported Conflicts of Interest
- The San Francisco SPCA raises the bar on shelter management for cats
- CLUMN-Chinese medicine for Repsol YPF headache: Alexander Smith
- Young Athletes Resist Lure of Smoking in Movies
- What the New Mind-Body Science Tells Us About the Pathophysiology …
- Far-Away Vacations Could Increase Risk of VTE
Autistic kids learn things differently
Times of India
The study conducted byresearchers from Kennedy Krieger Institute and Johns Hopkins University Schoolof Medicine showed that greater the kids relied on their internal sense of bodyposition (proprioception) the greater was their impairment in social skillsmotor skills andimitation. For their study theresearchers recruited 14 children with autism and 13 typically developingchildren and examined the patterns of generalization as they learnt to use anovel tool. They furtherexamined how much the autistic kids relied on visual information to guidelearning and how much they relied on proprioceptive information to guidelearning. ?These findingscan lead to important advances in methods for treating autism. Applying theknowledge gained in the current study targeted interventions can be developedthat enhance visuo-motor associations in children with autism as they learn newskills? Nature magazine quoted Dr.
Resolving Unreported Conflicts of Interest
Journal of American Medical Association (subscription)
Fontanarosa MD MBAJAMA. 2009;302(2):198-199. Conflicts of interest have taken an increasingly prominent role in politics business and medicine. High-profile examples of undisclosed or incompletely reported financial conflicts of interest have been well publicized. There have been recent investigations by academic centers and lawmakers into unreported conflicts of interest by physicians1-2 and recommendations for more transparent reporting of potential conflicts of interest by faculty and researchers. 3-5 Despite this increased attention episodes of unreported financial conflicts of interest continue to occur. JAMA editors take issues of undisclosed conflicts of interest very seriously and investigate such allegations rigorously.
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.
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CLUMN-Chinese medicine for Repsol YPF headache: Alexander Smith
Reuters
For a start CNPC has been here before havingfailed twice in 2007 to buy all of YPF’s Latin American assets. But if only one Chinese bidder emerges — Beijing does notnormally want its oil companies bidding against each other –Repsol is right to play up the idea of a wider auction. Afterfailing to sell a stake in YPF and postponing plan to list itsArgentine unit last November it now says it has “receivedproposals of a different nature and from different companieswithout any of them being firm”. With a price tag of up to $22. 5 billion for the whole of YPFdoing the rounds a sale would be a coup for Repsol — relievingit of the long-standing headache it acquired in 1999 when itbought Argentina’s biggest company for around $15 billion. But so far Repsol has been reluctant to give up control ofYPF — despite the price controls imposed contract changes andasset seizures that it and other oil majors have faced in LatinAmerica. Understandably the Argentine government has wanted tokeep it largely in local hands so until now the talk has alwaysbeen of Repsol offloading a 25 percent stake rather than itsentire holding in the company.
Young Athletes Resist Lure of Smoking in Movies
MedPage Today
July 7 — Adolescents who participate in team sports are better able to resist the temptation to smoke than nonparticipants even when they watch movies that portray characters lighting up a study found. Young people who did not participate in team sports were twice as likely to become smokers than those who did join teams (95% CI 1. 74) according to the study published in the July 6 Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine. While team sports helped counter the influence of watching smoking in movies the likelihood of youths becoming smokers was proportional to the number of times they saw smoking depicted in movies. Adolescents exposed to the most movie smoking were 63% more likely to become smokers than those who watched the fewest smoking scenes (95% CI 1.
What the New Mind-Body Science Tells Us About the Pathophysiology …
Psychiatric Times
Raison MD Vladimir Maletic MD Rakesh Jain MD MPH and Jon W. Draud MD MSDr Raison is assistant professor and clinical director of the Mind-Body Program in the department of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta. Dr Maletic is clinical professor in the department of neuropsychiatry and behavioral sciences at the University of South Carolina School of Medicine in Columbia. Dr Draud is medical director of psychiatry and addiction medicine at Baptist Hospital in Nashville and at Middle Tennessee Medical Center in Murphreesboro.
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.
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