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Sports medicine may help the national fight against pediatric obesity

Physicians and coaches can evaluate the effectiveness of methods widely used to measure body composition and predict the minimum weight an athlete should maintain.

23 Jun 2004

Residency training is demanding, leading busy residents to forfeit sleep

Federal mandates last year capped the resident’s work week at 80 hours, reducing the amount of time spent in the operating room and in the hospital treating patients.

23 Jun 2004

Sir Richard Doll awarded prestigious Shaw Prize for his contribution to modern cancer epidemiology

Professor Sir Richard Doll has been awarded the prestigious Shaw Prize in Life Science and Medicine for his contribution to modern cancer epidemiology.

23 Jun 2004

New resources to better understand sleep

To help parents and their children understand and fully appreciate the importance of sleep, the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) Office of Science Education and National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) have developed a new supplemental curriculum for use in high school biology classes.

21 Jun 2004

New eye-tracking device

The newest research device at The William and Ida Friday Institute for Educational Innovation looks more like something out of a science fiction movie than a tool for discovering learning patterns.

21 Jun 2004

Class of molecules that could lead to treatments for a wide range of diseases, including cancer, arthritis, and heart disease

By making use of model compounds in drug design, chemists at the University of California, San Diego identified a class of molecules that could lead to treatments for a wide range of diseases, including cancer, arthritis, and heart disease.

21 Jun 2004

Social class and race have a major impact on people's chances of entering the medical profession

In a new report, 'The Demography of Medical Schools', the BMA reveals marked differences in medical school acceptance rates between ethnic groups and social classes, and calls for action to ensure that no discrimination is taking place.

21 Jun 2004

Fairfax student dies after a four-day hospitalization for meningitis/encephalitis

A 16-year old Chantilly high school student died last week after a four-day hospitalization for meningitis/encephalitis. The cause does not appear to be bacterial meningitis. However, an autopsy is pending and investigation is underway.

20 Jun 2004

Ethnic minority doctors disadvantaged throughout their careers

Why are ethnic minority doctors over-represented in lower grades of the profession? Why are more complaints made against ethnic minority doctors, and why are there more suspensions?

17 Jun 2004

Novel findings on treatments for childhood obesity and early polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) in young girls

New research findings presented this week in New Orleans during ENDO 2004, the 86th Annual Meeting of The Endocrine Society, could help keep kids healthier.

16 Jun 2004

Is drinking water a middle-class fashion?

The increasing number of school initiatives, to make water more accessible, are raising issues about whether drinking it is a middle-class fashion. Some of the findings are reported below.

16 Jun 2004

Physical education gives children higher self esteem

Children at specialist sports colleges may develop significantly higher physical self-esteem compared to those at traditional state schools, according to a new report.

15 Jun 2004

Canadian smoking survey finds kids still ignoring warnings

Between 1994 and 2002, the rate of smoking among Canadian youths in Grades 5 to 9 declined by more than half, according to new data from the Youth Smoking Survey.

15 Jun 2004

Second language that can be learned quickly and with amazing ease

The study, which is one of the first to look at how fast second-language words are learned and how the brain responds to words with increasing experience with the new language, was published June 13 in the on-line edition of the journal Nature Neuroscience.

15 Jun 2004

Among youth aged 10-14 years, hangings have replaced firearms as the most common method of suicide

Analysis of data on suicide methods by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) found that among youth aged 10-14 years, suffocation (mostly hangings) has replaced firearms as the most common method of suicide.

12 Jun 2004

Chairman's speech at consultants conference 2004

Put patients first. That's what Mr Reid says. That's fine. Consultants do this every day. We don't need a politician to say it, like it's something we never thought of. When a consultant is working 50 hours a week despite only being paid for 35, that is putting the patient first. When a consultant is operating on an emergency patient in the middle of the night, that is putting the patient first.

12 Jun 2004

Kids as young as 6 who get frequent headaches may be using over-the-counter pain relievers too much

Kids as young as 6 who get frequent headaches may be using over-the-counter pain relievers far more than they should, and often without their parents' knowledge, suggests a study being presented at the 46th Annual Scientific Meeting of the American Headache Society (AHS).

11 Jun 2004

The Population Health Complex to improve the health of all New Zealanders

Research teams dedicated to improving the health of all New Zealanders now have a new home at The University of Auckland’s Population Health Complex. The new purpose-built complex is located at the University’s Tamaki Campus, which is distinguished by its collaborative, inter-disciplinary, and research-intensive profile.

11 Jun 2004

U.S. team to battle malaria in Peru

In the middle of the Peruvian Amazon, a battle against malaria – the second largest killer of people worldwide – will be undertaken by an international team of researchers led by tropical disease specialist Joseph Vinetz, M.D., from the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) School of Medicine.

11 Jun 2004

Postnatal exposure to a mercury preservative commonly used in a number of childhood vaccines can lead to the development of autism-like damage

A new study published online June 8 in the Nature publication, Molecular Psychiatry, indicates that postnatal exposure to thimerosal, a mercury preservative commonly used in a number of childhood vaccines, can lead to the development of autism-like damage in autoimmune disease susceptible mice

11 Jun 2004

Students News and Research

Sports medicine may help the national fight against pediatric obesity

Residency training is demanding, leading busy residents to forfeit sleep

Sir Richard Doll awarded prestigious Shaw Prize for his contribution to modern cancer epidemiology

New resources to better understand sleep

New eye-tracking device

Class of molecules that could lead to treatments for a wide range of diseases, including cancer, arthritis, and heart disease

Social class and race have a major impact on people's chances of entering the medical profession

Fairfax student dies after a four-day hospitalization for meningitis/encephalitis

Ethnic minority doctors disadvantaged throughout their careers

Novel findings on treatments for childhood obesity and early polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) in young girls

Is drinking water a middle-class fashion?

Physical education gives children higher self esteem

Canadian smoking survey finds kids still ignoring warnings

Second language that can be learned quickly and with amazing ease

Among youth aged 10-14 years, hangings have replaced firearms as the most common method of suicide

Chairman's speech at consultants conference 2004

Kids as young as 6 who get frequent headaches may be using over-the-counter pain relievers too much

The Population Health Complex to improve the health of all New Zealanders

U.S. team to battle malaria in Peru

Postnatal exposure to a mercury preservative commonly used in a number of childhood vaccines can lead to the development of autism-like damage

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