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Sheffield Hallam University commemorates 30 years of training nurses

On International Nurses Day (12 May) Sheffield Hallam University celebrated 30 years of training nurses for the NHS and other healthcare providers.

14 May 2015

Kent researchers assess how smartphone uses interfere with treadmill exercise

Kent State University researchers Jacob Barkley, Ph.D., and Andrew Lepp, Ph.D., as well as Kent State alumni Michael Rebold, Ph.D., and Gabe Sanders, Ph.D., assessed how common smartphone uses - texting and talking - interfere with treadmill exercise.

14 May 2015

Transgender people at greater risk for eating disorders

Transgender and non-transgender lesbian, gay and bisexual students are at greater risk for eating disorders, finds a new study from the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis and Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.

13 May 2015

UAB opens third multidisciplinary clinic for transverse myelitis

Mike Jezdimir knows firsthand how hard it is to get appropriate medical treatment for his condition, a disease of the spinal cord called transverse myelitis. He has had it for 48 years, since he was 17. TM is fairly uncommon, and many physicians rarely encounter it. Treatment options are limited.

13 May 2015

Managing cancer at work: Johns Hopkins launches new service for all employees

Johns Hopkins Medicine has created and launched Managing Cancer at Work, a new and novel health benefit program offered free of charge for its more than 42,000 combined full-time equivalent employees.

12 May 2015

Two physicians examine heart disease through a literary lens

Heart disease has topped mortality charts as the No. 1 killer of men and women for many decades, but a novel analysis of American literary fiction by two physicians finds the disorder’s presence in great novels has remained relatively modest.

12 May 2015

A pioneering facial recognition cane for the blind

The ‘XploR’ mobility cane, being developed by ICT students Steve Adigbo, Waheed Rafiq and Richard Howlett, uses smartphone technology to recognise familiar faces from up to 10m away. The cane also features GPS functionality to aid navigation...

11 May 2015

Three UCR STEM students named winners of Strauss Scholarship

Undergraduates at the University of California, Riverside are on a success roll. First, two students won Goldwater Scholarships, announced last month. Now three undergraduate students have been named winners of prestigious scholarships from the Donald A. Strauss Foundation. Highly competitive, the Strauss Scholarship is a public service scholarship given to university students in California.

8 May 2015

Memorial Sloan Kettering introduces innovative and personalized online platform

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center introduced a new, consumer-friendly web presence for www.mskcc.org (Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center) and www.sloankettering.edu (Louis V. Gerstner, Jr. Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center), featuring an innovative platform and on-demand navigation for patients, caregivers, researchers, healthcare professionals, and graduate students, among other core audiences.

7 May 2015

Rasmussen College announces launch of three new Health Sciences degree programs

Rasmussen College, a regionally accredited private college and Public Benefit Corporation, today announced the launch of three new Health Sciences programs: a Health and Wellness Bachelor's degree-completion program, Medical Administrative Assistant Certificate and Pharmacy Technician Certificate.

6 May 2015

Winners of PDA's 2015 National Children's Dental Health Month statewide poster contest announced

Third-grader Davida Brannigan of Solomon Plains Elementary in Luzerne County will receive a $500 prize for winning first place in the Pennsylvania Dental Association's 2015 National Children's Dental Health Month (NCDHM) statewide poster contest.

6 May 2015

AFSP urges lawmakers to support legislation that addresses suicide prevention in New York schools

Each year in the United States, suicide claims over 40,000 lives – more than war, murder, and natural disasters combined. On average, one person dies by suicide every five hours in New York. On Wednesday, May 6, 2015, over 200 volunteers from the eight New York State Chapters of the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, the largest suicide prevention organization in the United States, will arrive at the state capitol to meet with lawmakers to encourage them to support legislation addressing suicide prevention in New York State schools: S3561/A6187, S4261/A3384, and S3912/A7180.

6 May 2015

New health-focused code school coming to Chicago

The newest code school in Chicago, CodeAbode, starts classes on June 1. CodeAbode offers "boot camp" and part-time options designed to turn students into web and mobile app developers.

6 May 2015

Holistic approach to preventing sexual assault among college students

One in five college students experiences sexual assault during their college career, and a New York-based health and wellness company is working to help change that. National Health Promotion Associates has been awarded a grant from the National Institutes of Health to develop and evaluate an effective approach to preventing sexual violence.

5 May 2015

Dr. Philipp Scherer to receive prestigious Banting Medal for Scientific Achievement from ADA

Dr. Philipp Scherer, Director of the Touchstone Center for Diabetes Research at UT Southwestern Medical Center, will receive the prestigious Banting Medal for Scientific Achievement, the highest honor bestowed by the American Diabetes Association.

30 Apr 2015

Online-based sexual health education program promotes positive attitudes about abstinence

It's Your Game (IYG)-Tech, an online-based sexual health education course, promotes more positive attitudes about abstinence, according to researchers at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) School of Public Health.

29 Apr 2015

Researchers say that lack of safety at school, poverty associated with childhood obesity

A lack of safety at school is one of the correlates of childhood obesity, say researchers at the University of Montreal and its affiliated Research Centre at CHU Sainte Justine children's hospital.

29 Apr 2015

Montefiore and Einstein researchers to present data on obesity, asthma and autism at PAS 2015

Researchers from the Children's Hospital at Montefiore and Albert Einstein College of Medicine will present data from more than 50 studies that explore topics including obesity, asthma and autism at the annual meeting of the Pediatric Academic Societies.

29 Apr 2015

New CU-Boulder study finds that hazardous drinking behaviors increase mortality rates

A new University of Colorado Boulder study involving some 40,000 people indicates that social and psychological problems caused by drinking generally trump physically hazardous drinking behaviors when it comes to overall mortality rates.

29 Apr 2015

Preventive intervention improves knowledge, attitudes about sexual risk among adolescent boys than girls

Boys aged between 12-14 years old showed improved knowledge and attitudes about sexual risk after a preventive intervention, compared to girls of the same age, according to a study presented yesterday at the Pediatric Academic Societies Annual Meeting.

28 Apr 2015

Students News and Research

Sheffield Hallam University commemorates 30 years of training nurses

Kent researchers assess how smartphone uses interfere with treadmill exercise

Transgender people at greater risk for eating disorders

UAB opens third multidisciplinary clinic for transverse myelitis

Managing cancer at work: Johns Hopkins launches new service for all employees

Two physicians examine heart disease through a literary lens

A pioneering facial recognition cane for the blind

Three UCR STEM students named winners of Strauss Scholarship

Memorial Sloan Kettering introduces innovative and personalized online platform

Rasmussen College announces launch of three new Health Sciences degree programs

Winners of PDA's 2015 National Children's Dental Health Month statewide poster contest announced

AFSP urges lawmakers to support legislation that addresses suicide prevention in New York schools

New health-focused code school coming to Chicago

Holistic approach to preventing sexual assault among college students

Dr. Philipp Scherer to receive prestigious Banting Medal for Scientific Achievement from ADA

Online-based sexual health education program promotes positive attitudes about abstinence

Researchers say that lack of safety at school, poverty associated with childhood obesity

Montefiore and Einstein researchers to present data on obesity, asthma and autism at PAS 2015

New CU-Boulder study finds that hazardous drinking behaviors increase mortality rates

Preventive intervention improves knowledge, attitudes about sexual risk among adolescent boys than girls

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