Grant will help Ohio public health officials study reach, effectiveness, efficiency, equity of practices (MedCity News)
Publish Date: Nov 21, 2009
CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine has received a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation grant to create the Ohio Research Association for Public Health Improvement, a research network for public health professionals in Ohio. The grant, $90,000 over two years, was one of seven practice-based research networks awarded this year, making the school of medicine one of only ...
Case Western School of Medicine receives RWJF grant to establish a public health research network (EurekAlert!)
Publish Date: Nov 19, 2009
( Case Western Reserve University ) Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine has received a Robert Wood Johnson grant to fund a Public Health Practice Based Research Network called the Ohio Research Association for Public Health Improvement. The grant, $90,000 over two years, was one of seven practice-based research networks awarded this year, making the School of Medicine one of only ...
New lethal injection policies put Ohio at center of legal and ethical debate over executions (The Cleveland Plain Dealer)
Publish Date: Nov 23, 2009
The recent decision by Ohio to change its method of executing inmates has put the state in the center of the national debate over the death penalty.
Deciphering The Metabolism Of Sexual Assault Drug (Medical News Today)
Publish Date: Nov 23, 2009
It's a naturally occurring brain chemical with an unwieldy name: 4-hydroxybutyrate (4-HB). Taken by mouth, it can be abused or used as a date-rape drug. Now, a team of Ohio and Michigan scientists have determined new routes by which 4-HB is metabolized by the body. "This is new and important information," said K.
Researchers Begin To Decipher Metabolism Of Sexual Assault Drug (redOrbit)
Publish Date: Nov 20, 2009
Findings could lead to new antidotes, treatmentsIt's a naturally occurring brain chemical with an unwieldy name: 4-hydroxybutyrate (4-HB).
Local doctor who delivered thousands of babies dies at age 93 (The Canton Repository)
Publish Date: Nov 20, 2009
Dr. Norman Lewis delivered a lot of babies — nearly 28,000 — in a career that spanned the baby boom and decades that followed.
Researchers Begin to Decipher Metabolism of Sexual Assault Drug (Newswise)
Publish Date: Nov 20, 2009
4-HB is a naturally occurring brain chemical that can be abused or used as a date-rape drug if taken by mouth.
Scientists find how 4-HB is metabolized by the body (News-Medical-Net)
Publish Date: Nov 20, 2009
It's a naturally occurring brain chemical with an unwieldy name: 4-hydroxybutyrate (4-HB). Taken by mouth, it can be abused or used as a date-rape drug.
Guest commentary: Mammogram recommendations would cost lives (Naples Daily News)
Publish Date: Nov 19, 2009
In the past year at Radiology Regional Center, for all women in whom a malignancy was identified by needle-guided biopsy, 21 percent were between the ages of 40 and 49. These data do not include those patients referred to surgeons, so this is a low-end number.Scientific data, notably from Sweden, have demonstrated screening mammography decreased breast-cancer deaths among women in their 40s by ...
Racial Disparities in Diabetes Prevalence Linked to Living Conditions (Black Press USA)
Publish Date: Nov 18, 2009
(NNPA) - The higher incidence of diabetes among African-Americans when compared to Whites may have more to do with living conditions than genetics, according to a study led by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.