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Could summer holidays have an adverse impact on kids’ health?

As thousands of Aussie kids start summer holidays this week, there's no doubt parents will see an increase in kids' screen time, snack time and general relaxation.

12 Dec 2019

Resilience-building workshop helps student-athletes cope with challenges in college life

Imagine the impact on first-year college student-athletes in highly competitive programs if you could teach them resilience - if they learned skills to cope with high expectations, challenging academic courses, rigorous training and physical injuries, homesickness and even the stressors of life beyond college.

11 Dec 2019

Books, binders, bleed-control kits: How school shootings are changing classroom basics

When a student recently opened fire at a California high school, staff members did what they were trained to do. They shepherded students to safe spaces, barricaded doors, pulled shades — and, when gunfire struck, used techniques adapted from the battlefield to save lives.

11 Dec 2019

Jefferson hotspotting program uses team-based model to addresses hospital 'super utilizers'

The United States faces a crisis in providing complex care for high-need, high-cost individuals--people who often suffer economic, mental and physical challenges.

11 Dec 2019

Pittcon 2020 Short Course Registration Now Open

Pittcon is pleased to announce its 2020 Short Course continuing education program, which includes the addition of nearly 20 new courses. Registration for the Short Course program, offered at Pittcon 2020 in Chicago, IL, February 29 - March 5, is now open.

From Pittcon 11 Dec 2019

Shimadzu Scientific Instruments collaborates with NMU to support medicinal plant chemistry program

Shimadzu Scientific Instruments and Northern Michigan University have partnered to establish the Shimadzu Analytical Core Laboratory for Medicinal Plant Sciences.

From Shimadzu Scientific Instruments 11 Dec 2019

Eating ice cream may cause you a headache

As opposed to making you happy, eating ice cream may cause you a headache. Cephalalgia, the official journal of the International Headache Society, published the article entitled "Prevalence and characteristics of headache attributed to ingestion or inhalation of a cold stimulus (HICS): A cross-sectional study", by Torsten Kraya and colleagues from the Department of Neurology, at Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, and St. Georg Hospital, Leipzig, Germany.

10 Dec 2019

Study focuses on smoking cessation treatment for adolescents

Preventable deaths are those that can be stymied by public health intervention, and deaths related to tobacco use are at the top of that list in the United States as well as globally.

10 Dec 2019

Justified and unjustified violence in movies activate different parts of adolescent brain

The gun violence seen in popular PG-13 movies aimed at children and teenagers has more than doubled since the rating was introduced in 1984. The increasing on-screen gun violence has raised concerns that it will encourage imitation, especially when it is portrayed as "justified."

10 Dec 2019

ERC promotes CRISPR research to better treat infections

Chase Beisel heads the "Synthetic Biology of RNA" research group at the Helmholtz Institute for RNA-based Infection Research (HIRI) in Würzburg, a branch of the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research in Braunschweig and run in collaboration with the Julius-Maximilians-Universität in Würzburg.

10 Dec 2019

In campaign to stop teen vaping, states turn to tried-and-true remedy: taxes

Kathleen Hambleton once used to spend $100 a week on Marlboro Reds.

10 Dec 2019

Patient-induced trauma: Hospitals learn to defuse violence

When Mary Prehoden gets dressed for work every morning, her eyes lock on the bite-shaped scar on her chest.

6 Dec 2019

Black mothers get less treatment for postpartum depression than other moms

Portia Smith’s most vivid memories of her daughter’s first year are of tears. Not the baby’s. Her own.

6 Dec 2019

Regenstrief Institute and Indiana University researchers expand global relationships in public health

Researchers from Regenstrief Institute and Indiana University are building and expanding global relationships and collaborations in the fields of public health and health informatics.

5 Dec 2019

Georgia State professor selected as National Academy of Inventors Fellow

Jenny Yang, a Regents' Professor of chemistry at Georgia State University and the associate director of the Center for Diagnostics and Therapeutics, has been selected as a National Academy of Inventors (NAI) Fellow, the academy board announced on Tuesday.

5 Dec 2019

New article explores the emerging roles in environmental health

Hundreds of environmental health professionals across the nation report challenges and research needs in six areas - drinking water quality, wastewater management, healthy homes, food safety, public health pests and emerging issues such as disaster risk reduction and new facility types for body art and cannabis-infused products - in research from Baylor University and partners.

5 Dec 2019

CDC and ASA to design online event for the International Year of Sound 2020

As the harmful effects of noise are becoming more widely known, popular internet websites are increasingly being used as resources of information for those who are looking to protect their hearing.

5 Dec 2019

Training clinicians to help children with social and emotional difficulties

More than 50 mental health clinicians and 14 Head Start teachers are increasing their ability to help young children experiencing social and emotional difficulties, thanks to training provided through the South Dakota Early Childhood Mental Health Collaborative.

4 Dec 2019

One-third of lung cancer patients have depression symptoms, study finds

About one-third of patients newly diagnosed with the most common form of lung cancer have moderate to severe symptoms of depression, a new study suggests.

4 Dec 2019

More evidence of effectiveness required to sustain simulation education, say experts

Simulation education has evolved significantly over the years and has become essential to preparing nurses for clinical practice, but sustaining its evolution will require greater evidence of its effectiveness.

4 Dec 2019

Students News and Research

Could summer holidays have an adverse impact on kids’ health?

Resilience-building workshop helps student-athletes cope with challenges in college life

Books, binders, bleed-control kits: How school shootings are changing classroom basics

Jefferson hotspotting program uses team-based model to addresses hospital 'super utilizers'

Pittcon 2020 Short Course Registration Now Open

Shimadzu Scientific Instruments collaborates with NMU to support medicinal plant chemistry program

Eating ice cream may cause you a headache

Study focuses on smoking cessation treatment for adolescents

Justified and unjustified violence in movies activate different parts of adolescent brain

ERC promotes CRISPR research to better treat infections

In campaign to stop teen vaping, states turn to tried-and-true remedy: taxes

Patient-induced trauma: Hospitals learn to defuse violence

Black mothers get less treatment for postpartum depression than other moms

Regenstrief Institute and Indiana University researchers expand global relationships in public health

Georgia State professor selected as National Academy of Inventors Fellow

New article explores the emerging roles in environmental health

CDC and ASA to design online event for the International Year of Sound 2020

Training clinicians to help children with social and emotional difficulties

One-third of lung cancer patients have depression symptoms, study finds

More evidence of effectiveness required to sustain simulation education, say experts

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