Sentences with phrase «understanding health and medicine»

Her curiosity and interest in understanding health and medicine grew from this experience.

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The drug is called Acthar, and for the past year it has been the focus of a study by the Oregon Health and Science University School of Medicine and Oregon State that has been trying to understand why doctors keep prescribing it for ailments it has never been proved to treat effectively.

* Food Is Your Best Medicine by Henry Bieler * The Whole Soy Story: The Dark Side of America's Favorite Health Food by Kaala Daniel * Know Your Fats: The Complete Primer for Understanding the Nutrition of Fats, Oils and Cholesterol by Mary Enig, PhD * Nourishing Traditions: The Cookbook that Challenges Politically Correct Nutrition and the Diet Dictocrats by Sally Fallon and Mary Enig, PhD * Eat Fat, Lose Fat: The Healthy Alternative to Trans Fats by Sally Fallon and Mary Enig, PhD * The Body Ecology Diet: Recovering Your Health and Rebuilding Your Immunity by Donna Gates * Nutrition and Physical Degeneration by Weston Price * Real Food: What to Eat and Why by Nina Planck * Full Moon Feast: Food and the Hunger for Connection by Jessica Prentice * The Diet Cure by Julia Ross * The Cholesterol Myths: Exposing the Fallacy That Saturated Fat and Cholesterol Cause Heart Disease by Uffe Ravnskov * Traditional Foods Are Your Best Medicine: Improving Health and Longevity with Native Nutrition by Ron Schmid, ND * The Untold Story of Milk, Revised and Updated: The History, Politics and Science of Nature's Perfect Food: Raw Milk from Pasture - Fed Cows by Ron Schmid, ND * The Schwarzbein Principle: The Truth About Losing Weight, Being Healthy, and Feeling Younger by Diana Schwarzbein, MD

This retreat is designed for those interested in exploring teaching MBCP and mindfulness in other settings and for medical and mental health professionals seeking an introduction to mindfulness meditation and understanding its complementary relationship to obstetrics, midwifery, nursing, pediatrics, medicine, particularly family medicine and clinical psychology.

Everyone who cares about animals understands the importance of responsible medicine use, high standards of biosecurity, use of vaccines and farm health planning.

Dr David Livermore however, from the Health Protection Agency is reported as saying that it is critical to understand how modern medicine relies on antibiotics, and the ability to treat infections.

«Our future in medicine and in health depends on understanding the information contained in the human genome, so it's a great topic for Science Week,» said Dr. Norma J. Nowak, Director of Science and Technology at UB's New York State Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics and Life Sciences.

Despite the legal hubbub, the scientists see the real excitement in the opportunity to explore and exploit the health benefits of a poorly understood plant that already has several proven medical uses, including relieving pain and nausea associated with cancer treatment, according to a 2017 report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.

«Attachment Orientations, Respiratory Sinus Arrhythmia and Stress Are Important for Understanding the Link Between Childhood Socio - Economic Status and Adult Self - Reported Health» appears in the current edition of Annals of Behavioral Medicine.

Seniors, of whom 44 percent have low health literacy, may have difficulty understanding how medicine is prescribed and take too much or too little.

«The most common problem we see in everyday medicine is one of understanding and care due to language barriers,» says Anita Rieder, Head of the Centre for Public Health at the MedUni Vienna.

«I have a lot of confidence that [Price] understands and supports the research mission and I hope that he will continue to do so,» says Michael M.E. Johns, an ear, nose, and throat surgeon who was the dean of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland, and the chancellor of Emory University in Atlanta, and who is now a professor in Emory's schools of medicine and publicMedicine in Baltimore, Maryland, and the chancellor of Emory University in Atlanta, and who is now a professor in Emory's schools of medicine and publicmedicine and public health.

«For many years, the rheumatology and dermatology communities have been trying to understand which patients with psoriasis go on to develop psoriatic arthritis and how we might detect it earlier in the disease course,» explained senior investigator Cheryl Barnabe, MD, MSc, of the McCaig Institute for Bone and Joint Health and the O'Brien Institute for Public Health, Cumming School of Medicine, at the University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

A team of researchers at the University of Colorado School of Medicine and the VA Eastern Colorado Health Care System recently surveyed patients to understand barriers to reducing the use of opioids to manage chronic pain.

The American Association of Occupational Health Nurses (AAOHN) and the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (ACOEM) have published guidance for employers aimed at helping them better understand the implications of marijuana use on the workforce as attitudes toward marijuana and laws restricting it continue to change.

Regenerative medicine represents a new frontier in science, which seeks to understand the mechanistic basis of tissue aging, repair, and regeneration and to leverage this knowledge to improve human health.

R&D spending includes everything from the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency's initiatives in the Defense Department relating to biosecurity and technological tracking devices, to the National Institutes of Health's projects relating to research into precision medicine and advances in the understanding of the brain.

«Prior to this study, we had no understanding of the origins of HAV, an ancient and common threat to health in many regions of the world,» says Stanley M. Lemon, M.D., one of the study's authors and a professor of medicine at UNC's School of Medicine and UNC's Institute for Global Health & Infectious Diseases (Ihealth in many regions of the world,» says Stanley M. Lemon, M.D., one of the study's authors and a professor of medicine at UNC's School of Medicine and UNC's Institute for Global Health & Infectious Diseases medicine at UNC's School of Medicine and UNC's Institute for Global Health & Infectious Diseases Medicine and UNC's Institute for Global Health & Infectious Diseases (IHealth & Infectious Diseases (IGHID).

It comes not only with great promise for improving health through personalized medicine and understanding our individuality but also with risks for discrimination and loss of privacy (see sidebar, p. 1843).

«Understanding how the herpes virus switches from being dormant to causing cancer is important because of the health problems the herpes virus causes worldwide,» said Gao, a professor of molecular microbiology and immunology at the Keck School of Medicine.

«The study of ancient microbiomes helps us understand the evolutionary history of human health and disease,» says Professor Frank Rühli, a senior author of the study and Head of the Centre for Evolutionary Medicine at the University of Zürich.

«There remains a strong demand among health care leaders to better understand this issue, and how to address it, given the link between disparities, quality, safety, cost and value,» says Betancourt, who is an associate professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School.

Understanding the long - term impact of modifiable lifestyle factors such as exercise in adolescence is of critical importance and can have substantial public health implications for disease prevention over the course of life, explained author Sarah J. Nechuta, MPH, PhD, assistant professor of medicine at Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center and Vanderbilt - Ingram Cancer Center in Nashville, Tennessee.

In order to better understand how to screen pilots and their supporting units for mental health concerns, Wayne Chappelle, chief of aerospace psychology at the Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine at Wright - Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio, has conducted research on the potential psychological issues faced by drone operators.

Dr. Czeisler's laboratory research is focused on understanding the neurobiology of the human circadian pacemaker and its interaction with the sleep homeostat, and on applying that knowledge to clinical medicine and occupational health.

Because the liver receives 70 % of its blood supply from the intestine, it is important to understand how the gut contributes to liver disease development,» explained lead investigator Yu - Jui Yvonne Wan, PhD, Professor and Vice Chair of the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at UC Davis Health.

Meanwhile, health care providers should ask patients more about what medicines and supplements they take, and counsel patients at risk of side effects using language they can understand.

In a study published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases, researchers at McGill University's Faculty of Medicine, the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, The World Bank's Development Research Group, and other partners, used standardized patients (also called «simulated or mystery patients») to understand how pharmacies in three Indian cities treated patients presenting with TB symptoms or diagnoses and to determine whether these pharmacies were contributing to the inappropriate use of antibiotics.

Dr. Sonjia Kenya, Ed.D. and her colleagues at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine examined the extent to which Hispanic patients with diabetes understood how to use their glucometers by querying community health workers.

For the study, conducted as part of the doctoral thesis of Mahesh Raundhal, a graduate student in the laboratory of Prabir Ray, Ph.D., Pitt professor of medicine and co-senior author, the research team examined lung cell samples obtained from patients also participating in the Severe Asthma Research Program (SARP), a National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health - sponsored program to improve the understanding of severe asthma.

«We wanted to study this phenomenon to better understand the kinds of problems that guideline - makers encountered in making reliable guidelines and how processes might be improved in the future,» says lead author, Mark Neuman, MD, MSCE, assistant professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care and Senior Fellow in the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.

The Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI) is an international scientific and medical organization dedicated to raising public awareness about nuclear medicine and molecular imaging, a vital element of today's medical practice that adds an additional dimension to diagnosis, changing the way common and devastating diseases are understood and treated and helping provide patients with the best health care pMedicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI) is an international scientific and medical organization dedicated to raising public awareness about nuclear medicine and molecular imaging, a vital element of today's medical practice that adds an additional dimension to diagnosis, changing the way common and devastating diseases are understood and treated and helping provide patients with the best health care pmedicine and molecular imaging, a vital element of today's medical practice that adds an additional dimension to diagnosis, changing the way common and devastating diseases are understood and treated and helping provide patients with the best health care possible.

With the potential for Organ - Chips personalized with your own living cells, we could transform the way each of us understands our own health and the way medicine is practiced.

Emulate Inc. is a private company that creates living products for understanding how diseases, medicines, chemicals, and foods affect human health.

The website is a perfect complement to the «Stem Cells in Focus» blog, housing informational pages on basic stem cell biology, the process by which science becomes medicine, clinical trials and the use of stem cells in understanding and potentially treating specific health conditions.

Her work has led to advances in understanding the ethical aspects of physical and mental illness research, societal implications for genetic innovation, the role of stigma in health disparities, the impact of medical student and physician health issues and optimal approaches to fostering professionalism in medicine.

«By creating a personalized Patient - on - a-Chip, we can really begin to understand how diseases, medicines, chemicals, and foods affect an individual's health,» said Geraldine A. Hamilton, PhD, president and chief scientific officer of Emulate, Inc. «The goal of Emulate working with Cedars - Sinai is to advance and qualify the system for new clinical applications and ultimately democratize the technology so that it can have a broad impact on patient healthcare.»

The focus of Dr. Smoller's research interests has been 1) understanding the genetic and environmental determinants of psychiatric disorders across the lifespan; 2) integrating genomics and neuroscience to unravel how genes affect brain structure and function; and 3) using «big data», including electronic health records and genomics, to advance precision medicine.

Emulate, Inc. is a privately held company that creates living products for understanding how diseases, medicines, chemicals, and foods affect human health.

Animal research plays an essential role in our understanding of health and disease and in the development of modern medicines and surgical techniques.

«The CTSI provides an opportunity for us to strengthen how we integrate basic and clinical research, and to use research informatics and innovative community engagement strategies to better understand how we can manage the health of diverse populations,» said Dr. A. Craig Hillemeier, dean of Penn State College of Medicine, chief executive officer of the Milton S. Hershey Medical Center and senior vice president of health affairs for Penn State.

Based on our Organs - on - Chips technology, we're creating a new living system that emulates human biology — for understanding how different diseases, medicines, chemicals and foods affect human health.

The CPM research and discovery programs bring together a dynamic and interactive team of faculty in the Schools of Medicine, Public Health, and Arts & Sciences, who enjoy cross-translational approaches to address critical research questions to better understand rare, neglected and / or emerging pathogens.

Before the pharmaceutical industry discovered just how profitable disease could be, ancient traditions like Ayurvedic medicine understood the value of herbs and spices in helping to maintain optimal health.

«Dr. Amy Shah is a rockstar doctor who truly understands that the future of health care is a blend of eastern and western medicine.»

Functional Medicine focuses on understanding the fundamental physiological processes, the environmental inputs, and the genetic predispositions that influence health and disease so that interventions are focused on treating the cause of the problem, not just masking the symptoms.

With a degree in Biology from Antioch College and a Doctorate of Naturopathic Medicine from the National College of Naturopathic Medicine in Portland Oregon, Dr. Rothenberg strives first to understand her patient's ailments before utilizing therapeutic nutrition, botanical medicine, and homeopathic remedies to arrive at a place of restoredMedicine from the National College of Naturopathic Medicine in Portland Oregon, Dr. Rothenberg strives first to understand her patient's ailments before utilizing therapeutic nutrition, botanical medicine, and homeopathic remedies to arrive at a place of restoredMedicine in Portland Oregon, Dr. Rothenberg strives first to understand her patient's ailments before utilizing therapeutic nutrition, botanical medicine, and homeopathic remedies to arrive at a place of restoredmedicine, and homeopathic remedies to arrive at a place of restored health.

We believe that taking natural products or undergoing natural medicine treatment should be informed consent and a decision based on personal research and on the understanding of the important and obvious role that food, lifestyle and food - derived supplements play in positively supporting your health and well being.

Western medicine, for the most part, remains astonishingly ignorant about the importance of intestinal flora to overall health and healing, but those who study more holistic medicine understand the important role that these «inner bacteria» play in your health: The bacteria in your gut actually digest and transform nutrients you eat into other nutrients.

«LivingMatrix exemplifies how creative innovators, who understand both Functional Medicine and the needs of today's practitioners, can build something exciting to engage patients in telling a complete and clear story of their health history.»