Continuing his efforts to address California’s medical professional shortage, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger today awarded $3 million in grants to 16 different California nursing schools.
Activating patients and developing a monitoring and evaluation system was highly effective in ending or reducing post-stroke depression in patients enrolled in the largest randomized clinical trial to date for this prevalent and disabling consequence of stroke.
Ensuring the health of pregnant women and their children would form an important part of a new review of the national guidelines on alcohol consumption, the Assistant Minister for Health and Ageing, Christopher Pyne, said today.
Researchers at the University of Southern California are moving into their next phase of an artificial retinal implant project.
A new study shows that young transplant patients in the US who lose their insurance coverage are more likely to stop taking necessary anti-rejection drugs, which can increase the risk of losing the transplanted organs. The study appears in the latest issue of Pediatric Transplantation.
In a first-of-its-kind trans-Atlantic effort to address cancer disparities among Nigerian and Nigerian-American populations, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, the Health Disparities Education, Awareness, Research & Training Consortium (HDEART) and the Ministry of Health of the Federal Republic of Nigeria today signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), forming a partnership to collaborate on cancer research, education and training programs in Nigeria.
Charles P. O?Brien, M.D., Ph.D., vice chair, Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania Health System, and research director, MIRECC, Philadelphia VA Medical Center, will present “Promising Approaches in the Treatment of Drug Addiction” at the 2007 American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Annual Meeting in San Francisco.
The Kaiser Permanente Northern California Division of Research is launching one of the largest research projects in the United States to examine the genetic and environmental factors that influence common diseases such as heart disease, cancer, diabetes, high blood pressure, Alzheimer’s disease, asthma and many others.
New York City dwellers who reside in densely populated, pedestrian-friendly areas have significantly lower body mass index levels compared to other New Yorkers, a new study finds.
Planned caesarean section births in Canada carry a three-fold greater risk of severe complications than planned vaginal births, researchers reported.