Sentences with phrase «when studying medicine»
Sally Davies said she had experimented with cannabis when studying medicine at Edinburgh University, but decided against further use after it made her hallucinate.
http://www.politics.co.uk/ Not exact matches
When Spreng read a Journal of General Internal Medicine study on elder abuse in New York that found more than half of financial exploitation is carried out by a person the victim knew, he wondered: Just how well are older adults navigating the complexities of their social environment?
That study, led by William Bozeman, M.D., of Wake Forest University School of Medicine, found that Tasers «appear to be very safe, especially when compared to other options police have for subduing violent or combative suspects... [though] that is not to say that injuries and deaths are impossible.»
According to Living Goods, clients may also be reluctant to buy drugs from other private providers because of the risk of getting a counterfeit medicine.63 Living Goods sent us a study conducted at the midline of its RCT that claims that both availability of counterfeit drugs and drug prices decreased at private retailers in areas where CHPs worked.64 According to the study, about 37 % of private drug shops in the areas it studied sold fake ACT drugs, 65 and availabilty of fake ACTs was about 50 % lower among non-Living Goods sellers in the areas where Living Goods worked.66 Additional results on these potential effects will be made available when the full RCT is published.
Studies have indicated that when women hold assets or gain income, the money is more likely to be spent on nutrition, medicine and housing, and consequently their children are healthier.
Mary Somerville, overcoming, as her daughter says, «obstacles apparently insurmountable, at a time when women were well - nigh totally debarred from education»; Charlotte Bronte, writing in secret and publishing under a pseudonym because only so could she hope for just criticism; Harriet Hunt, admitted to the Harvard Medical School in 1850 but forced out by the enraged students; Elizabeth Blackwell, applying to twelve medical schools before she could secure admission, and meeting with insult and contumely in her endeavor to study and practice medicine; Mary Lyon, treated as a wild fanatic because she wanted American girls to be educated — such figures are typical in woman's struggle for intellectual opportunity.
When he entered the University of Vienna, he chose to study medicine, mainly because he was moved by a deep curiosity about human beings, a curiosity that had been stimulated by reading Darwin and Goethe.
A study by the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis supports the idea that babies sleep better when swaddled.
His tremendous contribution to medicine, both for those who practice it and those who turn to the medical profession for help and advice, is shown in this quotation from Dr. Robert Minkus who studied under Dr. Mendelsohn when he was teaching at the University of Illinois:
«Our study shows that young knees are more prone to re-injury than the adult population when compared to other research in this area - and is the first study to examine the incidence and risk factors for further ACL injury in a solely juvenile population over the long term,» said lead author Justin Roe of North Sydney Orthopaedic & Sports Medicine Centre.
A study published in the International Journal of Psychiatry in Medicine reported that there is less of a chance of her being diagnosed with postpartum depression due to the release of oxytocin when a mother breastfeeds.
Dr. Robert Cantu, one of the world's leading experts on head trauma in sport and a clinical professor of neurosurgery at Boston University School of Medicine, has pointed to studies showing at least 30 percent of concussions in soccer come from the act of heading the ball, sometimes through direct contact with the ball but more significantly when the head smashes into another player or the ground.
Craig Anderson, director of newborn medicine at Grant Medical Center in Columbus, Ohio, says studies have shown the risk of this intestinal infection is reduced when premature babies receive breast milk.
Dr Paul Ramchandani — a researcher and clinical psychiatrist now based at the Academic Unit of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Department of Medicine, Imperial College London — led the study, which assessed father - infant interactions in the family home when the child was aged three months and compared them against the child's behaviour at the age of twelve months.
The March 1997 Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine described one young person's horror on learning that «she» had been born a normal male, but that a circumciser had burned his penis off when he was a baby.60 Many other similar cases have been documented.61, 62 Infant circumcision has a reported death rate of one in 500,000.63, 64 · Circumcision harms mothers: Scientific studies have consistently shown that circumcision disrupts a child's behavioral development.
According to Keith Ayoob, an associate professor of pediatrics at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, pediatricians should focus more on proven studies when it comes to obesity.
When the American Academy of Sleep Medicine reviewed the literature on infant and child sleep training, it reported that in 17 out of 19 published studies, unmodified extinction — the clinical term for crying - it - out — effectively reduced bedtime resistance and the frequency of nighttime wakings, concluding that it «has a strong record of accomplishment.»
When residents move into the Eltona, they will participate in a research study performed by the Mount Sinai School of Medicine tracking the health of asthma patients.
But the new study saw the opposite: brain activity in regions responsible for movement, senses, memory and emotions all gradually increased during the lead - up to orgasm, when activity peaked (Journal of Sexual Medicine, doi.org/cd6v).
A study by researchers at the University of Chicago Medicine shows that when mice that are genetically susceptible to developing inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) were given antibiotics during late pregnancy and the early nursing period, their offspring were more likely to develop an inflammatory condition of the colon that resembles human IBD.
A new study published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine has determined that poorer childhood cognition occurred, particularly in memory and learning, when pregnant women or their offspring consumed greater quantities of sugar.
«Birth defects were seen when both males and females were exposed, as well as when only one parent was exposed,» said Hrubec, who is first author on the study and holds both a doctor of veterinary medicine degree and Ph.D. from the Virginia - Maryland College of Veterinary Mmedicine degree and Ph.D. from the Virginia - Maryland College of Veterinary MedicineMedicine.
The study predicts when the gender gap will close in science, technology, engineering, math and medicine, or STEMM, fields.
Combing the genetic data from a transmission study in ferrets, a team led by Thomas Friedrich, a professor of pathobiological sciences at the University of Wisconsin - Madison School of Veterinary Medicine, found that during transmission, when one animal is infected by another through sneezing or coughing, the process of natural selection acts strongly on hemagglutinin, the structure the virus uses to attach to and infect host cells.
«In our study, we found that the best indicator of success is how in sync the left atrium chamber of the heart is when it relaxes,» says Luisa Ciuffo, M.D., a postdoctoral fellow in the Division of Cardiology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
He studied medicine at the University of Rochester in the 1950s but found his niche in epidemiology when he took a job at the Communicable Disease Center in Atlanta, Georgia, now the Centers for Disease Control, to fulfil his mandatory military service.
«Our corrected calculations show that women just past 65, when current guidelines state that screenings can stop for many women, have the highest rate of cervical cancer,» says the study's lead author, Anne F. Rositch, Ph.D., M.S.P.H., an assistant professor of epidemiology and public health at the University of Maryland School of Medicine and a researcher at the University of Maryland Marlene and Stewart Greenebaum Cancer Center.
«We wanted to investigate whether human adults had the ability to transform some white fat deposits into beige fat when they were exposed to cold,» said one of the study's authors, Philip A. Kern, MD, of the University of Kentucky School of Medicine in Lexington, KY. «Browning fat tissue would be an excellent defense against obesity.
«Chronic wounds occur when healing fails to progress normally and persists for more than 30 days,» said Jeffrey Litt, D.O., assistant professor of surgery at the MU School of Medicine and lead author of the study.
11 Teens who begin drinking before the age of 15 are more likely to develop a dependence on alcohol later in life than those who start when they are older, according to a 2009 study by researchers at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.
In the study, researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania programmed electronic health records (EHR) to alert care providers when a patient was eligible, and prompt them to choose to «accept» or «decline» a flu vaccination order.
«As a cancer immunotherapist, what gets me really excited is when you take an established tumor and you make it disappear,» said Crystal Mackall, MD, professor of pediatrics and of medicine and the study's other senior author.
When Sean Carroll was a graduate student at Tufts School of Medicine in Boston, he found himself seduced by spectacular new studies of the humble fruit fly.
E. Albert Reece, MD, PhD, MBA, vice president for medical affairs at the University of Maryland and the John Z. and Akiko K. Bowers Distinguished Professor and dean of the University of Maryland School of Medicine, says, «This study demonstrates that the MRI / ultrasound fusion biopsy technique offers benefits when compared to the current standard of care to diagnose clinically significant prostate cancer.
When Fernando Polack of Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, and colleagues studied 75 adults with swine flu they found severe cases had more antibodies that bound to the virus but didn't kill it (Nature Medicine, DOI: 10.1038 / nm.2262).
Walter F. Horton, associate director of the School of Biomedical Sciences at Kent State University and director of graduate studies at Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine, lost a finished application when the software failed.
When astronauts are outside of Earth's magnetic field, spaceships provide only limited shielding from radiation exposure, explains study leader Robert D. Hienz, Ph.D., an associate professor of behavioral biology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
When he was still in his early twenties, studying medicine in Puerto Rico and moonlighting at a San Juan hospital, his hands coaxed newborns into the world, 60 or more before he ever graduated from medical school.
About 40 percent of parents made mistakes when giving their children prescription medicine in a recent study.
In the early 1990s, when Nir Barzilai, now the director of the Institute for Aging Research at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City, decided to study aging, he did so in part because the competition was so sparse.
Akiko Iwasaki, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator and immunologist at Yale School of Medicine, and her colleagues were interested in studying what happens to fetuses when moms are sexually infected with Zika virus.
In a study in Nature Medicine, the team reported that vaccinated mice and ferrets appeared to be protected from dying of the H5N1 bird flu after receiving the vaccine, even when they developed symptoms.
A recent study led by Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) shows that «practice may make perfect» when it comes to caring for patients with severe sepsis.
«In situations when smokers are drinking alcohol, it tends to trigger cravings for a cigarette,» explained Melissa J. Krauss, senior statistical data analyst at Washington University School of Medicine as well as corresponding author for the study.
Marion Nestle, chair of the nutrition and food studies department at New York University and a member of the Food and Drug Administration's science advisory board, was surprised when the Institute of Medicine recently suggested that teenagers and adults over 50 increase their calcium intake to 1,300 and 1,200 milligrams, respectively, a day.
«While many people think of the ED as simply a place to go when you have a car accident or some type of major trauma, it is increasingly the case that the emergency department is caring for complex medical patients,» said lead author Renee Y. Hsia, MD, professor of emergency medicine at UCSF and director of health policy studies in the UCSF Department of Emergency Mmedicine at UCSF and director of health policy studies in the UCSF Department of Emergency MedicineMedicine.
In October 2005, The New England Journal of Medicine sparked a huge reaction when it published studies which showed that adding Herceptin to standard cancer therapy reduced the recurrence rate of certain breast cancers.
«When exposed to elevated levels of particulate pollution, older adults are more likely to get pneumonia, be hospitalized with severe pneumonia and also die from pneumonia in the hospital,» says the study's lead author Cheryl Pirozzi, M.D., a pulmonologist and assistant professor of Internal Medicine at University of Utah Health.
This new voice rose to a ridiculous mother screech a few mornings ago when I came across a study in Science Translational Medicine.
«We became interested in studying the effects of economic downturns on public spending during the Great Recession of the late 2000s, when media outlets were filled with stories about states cutting optional Medicaid benefits, increasing school class sizes and reducing course offerings,» said Ho, who is also a professor of economics at Rice and a professor of medicine at Baylor College of Mmedicine at Baylor College of MedicineMedicine.