Sentences with phrase «heart of research universities»

Will law schools — as a result of the answer to the last question — be nudged out from the heart of research universities» academic missions?

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In fact, employees can take results to heart and begin acting to type or defining themselves by a self - limiting label, warns Brian Little, a professor emeritus of psychology at Carleton University and current research fellow at Cambridge University.

This group is part of the new Ted Rogers Centre for Heart Research — a partnership that includes the University Health Network (UHN) and the Hospital for Sick Children.

The Rotman School of Management is located in the heart of Canada's commercial and cultural capital and is part of the University of Toronto, one of the world's top 20 research universities.

I am Co-Founder of The Heart's Kitchen, a company I started two years ago after working closely with Oregon Health & Science University and their research on maternal nutrition and fetal development (the strong link between what mom eats throughout pregnancy and her child's lifelong health).

According to the University of Maryland Medical Center polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs)-- also known as omega - 3 fatty acids — play a crucial role in human brain function, as well as normal growth and development, with research showing that they can also reduce inflammation in addition to helping lower the risk of chronic diseases such as heart disease, cancer, and arthritis.

Offering her support for its health and holistic benefits, Dorit Adler, the chief clinical dietician of Hadassah University Medical Center, said: «The evidence - based research proves again and again that the [low - meat] Mediterranean diet lowers the risks of most of the modern diseases from obesity through diabetes, heart disease and even cognitive impairment.

«Our research has proven that coconut oil in fact does contain, like many others such as olive oil, phenolic anti-oxidants which are known to reduce the risk of coronary heart disease,» says Prof. Kapila Seneviratne attached to the Department of Chemistry of the University of Kelaniya.

Marion Nestle, a professor of nutrition, food studies and public health at New York University, wrote an editorial accompanying the new paper in which she said the documents provided «compelling evidence» that the sugar industry had initiated research «expressly to exonerate sugar as a major risk factor for coronary heart disease.»

We need a paradigm shift of doctors willing to look at research by Dr Lustig, Harvard University's Dr Willet and emory university's sugar = heart disease study http://tinyurl.coUniversity's Dr Willet and emory university's sugar = heart disease study http://tinyurl.couniversity's sugar = heart disease study http://tinyurl.com/4ryvdv9.

The summit will conclude with a discussion of plans for 2015 - 2016 school year and the proposed IRB research study with Dr. Theresa Miyashita, Ph.D., ATC, PES, CES, Program Director, Athletic Training Education Program at Sacred Heart University.

«Decreased adiponectin, if it happens in vivo, appears to be a bad thing and could result in increased heart disease,» says environmental health scientist Richard Stahlhut of the University of Rochester Medical Center, who was not involved in the research.

Do not forget universities and research units, and take heart in the fact that almost half of the qualified health and safety staff at your university, for example, has Ph.D. s. However, if it doesn't look like many such institutions are going to be on the prowl for a safety officer, then you should definitely look into gaining some training now.

Rare mutations that shut down a single gene are linked to lower cholesterol levels and a 50 percent reduction in the risk of heart attack, according to new research from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, the Broad Institute at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard, and other institutions.

The rationale for using spironolactone - an inexpensive, generic, medication - stems from the pioneering research of Bertram Pitt, MD, University of Michigan School of Medicine, who showed the benefit of this class of drugs in patients with heart failure and reduced ejection fraction, and who also served as chair of the TOPCAT Steering Committee.

«If these improvements continue over time, they may result in a lower risk of heart disease,» said the study's principal investigator, Carel Le Roux, MD, PhD, Diabetes Complications Research Centre, University College Dublin.

Washington State University research professor Chuck Benbrook led a team that found organic milk contains significantly higher concentrations of heart - healthy fatty acids compared to milk from cows on conventionally managed dairy farms.

However, new research out of York University has now shown that these drugs also reverse a number of potentially detrimental genetic changes associated with heart disease.

The study was conducted with researchers at Linköping University in Sweden and the Technical University of Munich, Germany and financed by the Swedish Research Council, Stockholm County Council, the Novo Nordisk Foundation, the Heart and Lung Foundation, the Ragnar Söderberg Foundation, Karolinska Institutet and the European Research Council (ERC).

The risk of having a heart attack is 17 times higher in the seven days following a respiratory infection, University of Sydney research has found.

This means many heart patients could end up getting less - precise stress tests, or more invasive, riskier and more costly heart imaging instead, according to University of Michigan Medical School research recently published in JAMA Cardiology.

A transplant biopsy system that uses gene chips to read molecules is far safer and more effective than existing approaches used for heart transplant biopsies and is showing promising results for lung transplant biopsies, new University of Alberta - led research shows.

Yancy, chief of cardiology at Northwestern University's medical school and a former president of the American Heart Association, is leading a new NIH - sponsored study into how the agency might improve the pool of talent going into biomedical research.

New research conducted at the Center for Tuberculosis Research at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine shows that lower doses of the toxic drug bedaquiline — given together with verapamil, a medication that's used to treat various heart conditions — can lead to the same antibacterial effects as higher toxic doses of bedaresearch conducted at the Center for Tuberculosis Research at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine shows that lower doses of the toxic drug bedaquiline — given together with verapamil, a medication that's used to treat various heart conditions — can lead to the same antibacterial effects as higher toxic doses of bedaResearch at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine shows that lower doses of the toxic drug bedaquiline — given together with verapamil, a medication that's used to treat various heart conditions — can lead to the same antibacterial effects as higher toxic doses of bedaquiline.

The multidisciplinary team behind the current study includes world - renowned researchers in the field of regenerative medicine and tissue engineering; Paolo Macchiarini, MD, PhD, Director of the Advanced Center for Regenerative Medicine and senior scientist at Karolinska Institutet; Doris Taylor, PhD, Regenerative Medicine Research Director at the Texas Heart Institute; and Mark Holterman, MD, PhD, Professor of Surgery and Pediatrics at the University of Illinois College of Medicine in Peoria, working in collaboration with a research team at the Kuban State Medical University inResearch Director at the Texas Heart Institute; and Mark Holterman, MD, PhD, Professor of Surgery and Pediatrics at the University of Illinois College of Medicine in Peoria, working in collaboration with a research team at the Kuban State Medical University inresearch team at the Kuban State Medical University in Russia.

«Heart calcification has been understudied and underreported,» says senior author Arjun Deb, of the Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research based at the University of California, Los Angeles.

The joint research project of the University of Turku and the Heart Centre of the Turku University Hospital studied three hundred patients with heart problems, half of whom had atrial fibrillaHeart Centre of the Turku University Hospital studied three hundred patients with heart problems, half of whom had atrial fibrillaheart problems, half of whom had atrial fibrillation.

The collection is at the heart of all the research going on here, and it is primarily what differentiates research at a botanic garden from that at a university.

«I was somewhat surprised by the magnitude of the influence of being married has (on heart patients),» said Arshed Quyyumi, M.D., lead researcher and co-director of Emory Clinical Cardiovascular Research Institute and professor of medicine at Emory University in Atlanta.

The research was funded by grants from the National Institutes of Health - National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute and the National Science Foundation in the United States, and the Science Faculty, Aarhus University, in Denmark.

Doctors» efforts to battle the dangerous atherosclerotic plaques that build up in our arteries and cause heart attacks and strokes are built on several false beliefs about the fundamental composition and formation of the plaques, new research from the University of Virginia School of Medicine shows.

Then take heart — research from the University of British Columbia suggests that easing up on email checking can help reduce psychological stress.

However, the researchers, led by Dr Melanie Nichols, a Research Associate from the British Heart Foundation Centre on Population Approaches for Non-Communicable Disease Prevention at the University of Oxford (UK) and senior research fellow at Deakin University, Australia, found there were some countries where cancer was now causing more deaths than heart disease in men (Belgium, Denmark, France, Israel, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain and San Research Associate from the British Heart Foundation Centre on Population Approaches for Non-Communicable Disease Prevention at the University of Oxford (UK) and senior research fellow at Deakin University, Australia, found there were some countries where cancer was now causing more deaths than heart disease in men (Belgium, Denmark, France, Israel, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain and San MarHeart Foundation Centre on Population Approaches for Non-Communicable Disease Prevention at the University of Oxford (UK) and senior research fellow at Deakin University, Australia, found there were some countries where cancer was now causing more deaths than heart disease in men (Belgium, Denmark, France, Israel, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain and San research fellow at Deakin University, Australia, found there were some countries where cancer was now causing more deaths than heart disease in men (Belgium, Denmark, France, Israel, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain and San Marheart disease in men (Belgium, Denmark, France, Israel, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain and San Marino).

Richmond, a U.S. science envoy as well as presidential chair and professor of chemistry at the University of Oregon, gave some examples of research and commercialization that led to products such as heart valve replacements, medications, voice recognition systems, and automobile airbags that «fell short for women» because they were designed mostly with men in mind.

While controlling blood pressure, blood sugar and LDL - cholesterol levels reduces the risk of cardiovascular disease in people with diabetes, only 7 percent of diabetic participants in three major heart studies had recommended levels of these three factors, according to research from the Heart Disease Prevention Program at the University of California, Irvine School of Mediheart studies had recommended levels of these three factors, according to research from the Heart Disease Prevention Program at the University of California, Irvine School of MediHeart Disease Prevention Program at the University of California, Irvine School of Medicine.

First the strengths of the German university system have to be communicated in a more professional and successful manner (for example, the unity of research and teaching, the impressive diversity of disciplines, the high academic level, the availability of financial aid); then, new attractive products have to be offered in order to attract foreigners to Germany, the «heart of Europe.»

The heart holds its own pool of immune cells capable of helping it heal after injury, according to new research in mice at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.

Professor Asif Ahmed, Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Health and Professor of Vascular Biology at Aston University, said: «Our latest research highlights that compounds that deliver low levels of carbon monoxide can block specific ion channels in the heart muscle to allow the muscle time to contract properly and forcefully in a coordinated fashion.

To investigate, Csaba Kovesdy, MD (Memphis VA Medical Center and the University of Tennessee Health Science Center) and his colleagues examined information from the national VA research database and looked for associations between blood pressure and various clinical outcomes — coronary heart disease, stroke, kidney failure, and death — in more than 300,000 patients with CKD.

Together with scientists at the universities of Cologne and Heidelberg, the Research Group led by Stefan Offermanns, Director of the Department of Pharmacology at the Max Planck Institute for Heart and Lung Research and professor at Goethe University Frankfurt, has now succeeded in clarifying the underlying mechanism.

University of Sydney research reveals that the risk of a heart attack is 8.5 times higher in the two hours following a burst of intense anger.

Dr Sam Parnia, Assistant Professor of Critical Care Medicine and Director of Resuscitation Research at The State University of New York at Stony Brook, USA, and the study's lead author, explained: «Contrary to perception, death is not a specific moment but a potentially reversible process that occurs after any severe illness or accident causes the heart, lungs and brain to cease functioning.

GenProfile is based at the Biomedical Research Campus Berlin - Buch, in close vicinity to the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC), a national research center, and several university hospitals — one of the fastest growing research areas in the heart ofResearch Campus Berlin - Buch, in close vicinity to the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC), a national research center, and several university hospitals — one of the fastest growing research areas in the heart ofresearch center, and several university hospitals — one of the fastest growing research areas in the heart ofresearch areas in the heart of Europe.

The research, Barriers and facilitators to public access defibrillation in out - of - hospital cardiac arrest: a systematic review, was conducted by Warwick Medical School, the University of Warwick; the Institute of Digital Healthcare, WMG, the University of Warwick; Heart of England NHS Trust, Birmingham; London Ambulance Service NHS Trust and Imperial College Neurotrauma Centre, St Mary's Hospital, London.

«We're trying to get at the heart of the mechanism behind neurodegenerative diseases and with this research believe we've found one that seems to be commonly disrupted in many of them, suggesting that similar drugs may work for some or all of these disorders,» says Jeffrey Rothstein, M.D., Ph.D., a professor of neurology and neuroscience, and director of the Brain Science Institute and the Robert Packard Center for ALS Research at the Johns Hopkins University School of Mresearch believe we've found one that seems to be commonly disrupted in many of them, suggesting that similar drugs may work for some or all of these disorders,» says Jeffrey Rothstein, M.D., Ph.D., a professor of neurology and neuroscience, and director of the Brain Science Institute and the Robert Packard Center for ALS Research at the Johns Hopkins University School of MResearch at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

In an accompanying editorial, Naveed Sattar and Paul Welsh from the British Heart Foundation Research Centre at Glasgow University, say the apparent degree of benefit from D3 «seems remarkable,» but warn that «several limitations must be considered» before these results are taken as a green light for widespread D3 supplementation.

That's what makes it an important discovery,» said Jain, also the scientific director of the Harrington Discovery Institute, chief research officer of the Harrington Heart & Vascular Institute, and chief scientific officer of University Hospitals Health System.

Women who have gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) during pregnancy have a higher than usual risk of developing type 2 diabetes, hypertension, and ischemic heart disease in the future, according to new research led by the University of Birmingham.

«This research is important because previous studies have shown that a reduction in blood supply to the heart (ischemia) during mental stress doubles the risk of heart attack or death from heart disease,» said Viola Vaccarino, M.D., Ph.D., senior author of the study and professor of epidemiology and medicine at Emory University's Rollins School of Public Health in Atlanta, Georgia.

«Our unique combination of great universities and first - class research hospitals, dovetailed with access to a critical mass of entrepreneurial talent and a diverse population, puts the capital at the heart of medical discovery and its application,» said Dermot Kelleher, vice president of health at Imperial College, in a press release.