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Q&A: Dr. John Mazziotta on the future of UCLA’s medical school and health system
Earlier in his life, Dr. John C. Mazziotta thought about becoming an architect. With a keen eye for form and function, he would apply his skills to the construction of great buildings. Instead, he chose medicine. Now, after more than 30 years at UCLA — where he has been chair of the department of neurology, an associate vice chancellor and executive vice dean, and founding director of the Ahmanson-Lovelace Brain Mapping Center — that style of visual thinking will serve him well in his new roles as vice chancellor for UCLA Health Sciences, dean of the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and CEO of UCLA Health. “Th...
Source: UCLA Newsroom: Health Sciences - May 27, 2015 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news

News at a glance: U.S. tallies old-growth forests, Canadian scientists march for higher pay, and condor poop reveals the birds ’ ancient history
FOREST ECOLOGY U.S. boosts tally of old forests Last year, President Joe Biden surprised forest scientists when he ordered an inventory of the government’s holdings of mature and old-growth forests by this Earth Day. It triggered a scramble by the U.S. Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management to create a formal definition of what constitutes “mature” and “old-growth” forests and to apply those definitions across millions of hectares. Meeting the 22 April deadline last month, the agencies released their findings in a report , noting that of the nearly 72 million hectares of forest they ma...
Source: ScienceNOW - May 4, 2023 Category: Science Source Type: news

Anticipation and navigation: Do your legs know what your tongue is doing?
To survive, animals must explore their world to find the necessities of life. It's a complex task, requiring them to form them a mental map of their environment to navigate the safest and fastest routes to food and water. They also learn to anticipate when and where certain important events, such as finding a meal, will occur.    Understanding the connection between these two fundamental behaviors, navigation and the anticipation of a reward, had long eluded scientists because it was not possible to simultaneously study both while an animal was moving.    In an effort to overcome this difficulty and t...
Source: UCLA Newsroom: Health Sciences - November 5, 2013 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news

Quiz: Is Your Work Stress Burnout?
Christina Maslach is professor emerita of psychology at the University of California, Berkeley, and Michael P. Leiter is professor emeritus of psychology at Acadia University. Maslach and Leiter co-authored The Burnout Challenge: Managing People’s Relationships with Their Jobs. If you’re like roughly 40% of office workers, you might describe yourself as feeling burned out by your job. But is it burnout, run-of-the-mill work stress, or something else entirely? Although just about everyone can have a bad or tiring day at work occasionally, people who are experiencing burnout have them all or most of the time. Bur...
Source: TIME: Health - May 5, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Maslach and Michael P. Leiter Tags: Uncategorized healthscienceclimate interactive Mental Health Source Type: news

The Wall Street Journal, Climate Change Denial, and the Galileo Gambit
Fossil fuel companies have been misleading the public and policymakers about the risks of their products for decades. These corporations should obviously be held accountable. It's odd that we aren't able to discuss this straightforwardly. After all, accountability is common for other industries. When companies mislead the public about the health effects of the drugs they market, for instance, we hold them accountable. Similarly, when asbestos manufacturers misled the public about the cancers their product caused, they were held accountable. When Enron misled its customers and shareholders, it was held accountable. And whe...
Source: Science - The Huffington Post - March 28, 2016 Category: Science Source Type: news

Does the UK need to spend more on basic research? | Kieron Flanagan
Recent interventions by high-profile scientists have reignited the debate about whether we spend enough on fundamental research in the UK. Such debates frequently generate more heat than light and may be obscuring the bigger pictureMy University of Manchester colleague (and Nobel laureate) Andre Geim argues (most recently in this piece) that our societies are on the brink of a crisis in the delivery system for new knowledge which, if not averted, will lead to a major technological slowdown. In his view "the chain from basic discoveries to consumer products is long, obscure and slow – but destroy the basics and the whole ...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - February 27, 2013 Category: Science Authors: Kieron Flanagan Tags: Blogposts Science policy Science funding crisis guardian.co.uk Research Higher education Technology Research and development Source Type: news

Smoothies and fruit juices are a new risk to health, US scientists warn
Scientists say potential damage from naturally occurring fructose in apparently healthy drinks is being overlookedFruit juices and smoothies represent a new risk to our health because of the amount of sugar the apparently healthy drinks contain, warn the US scientists who blew the whistle on corn syrup in soft drinks a decade ago.Barry Popkin and George Bray pointed the finger at high fructose corn syrup in soft drinks in 2004, causing a huge headache for the big manufacturers, including Coca-Cola and Pepsi."Smoothies and fruit juice are the new danger," said Popkin, a distinguished professor at the department of nutrition...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - September 7, 2013 Category: Science Authors: Sarah Boseley Tags: Nutrition The Guardian Food & drink industry United States Obesity Diets and dieting Children Coca-Cola Fitness Soft drinks World news Health Consumer affairs wellbeing Society China Money UK news Life and style D Source Type: news

Teaching evidence-based medicine in the former Soviet Union: lessons learned.
Authors: Telen MJ Abstract Between 2009 and 2012, I taught principles of evidence-based medicine and clinical research in Russia, Tatarstan, Moldova, and Kazakhstan. The Soviet Union left a medical legacy characterized by balkanization of top tier medicine in highly specialized centers, so there was little capability for multidiscipinary care. In addition, the authoritarian government led to a persistently top-down tradition of medical education and practice, which one of my Russian colleagues aptly named "eminence-based medicine." After the fall of the Soviet Union, funding for science and medical research was dra...
Source: Transactions of the American Clinical and Climatological Association - June 4, 2015 Category: Journals (General) Tags: Trans Am Clin Climatol Assoc Source Type: research

Abstract B13: Knowledge, attitude and practice of cervical cancer preventive strategies among market women in Ibadan, Nigeria
Cervical cancer is the fourth most common cancer worldwide for females and the seventh most common cancer overall. Nigeria, a developing country, ranked tenth globally and fifth in Africa, has a mortality rate of 22.9 deaths per 100,000 with 14,000 new cases being diagnosed annually. In an effort to reduce this mortality rate, this research was undertaken to assess the level of awareness, attitude and practice of common cancer preventive strategies such as screening and the treatment of precancerous lesions using LEEP as a case study among women. A descriptive design using simple random sampling methods with self-administe...
Source: Cancer Prevention Research - October 2, 2015 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Ezomo, O. T. Tags: Screening and Early Detection: Poster Presentations - Proffered Abstracts Source Type: research

Confluence and Contours: Reflexive Management of Environmental Risk
Government institutions have responsibilities to distribute risk management funds meaningfully and to be accountable for their choices. We took a macro‐level sociological approach to understanding the role of government in managing environmental risks, and insights from micro‐level psychology to examine individual‐level risk‐related perceptions and beliefs. Survey data from 2,068 U.K. citizens showed that lay people's funding preferences were associated positively with beliefs about responsibility and trust, yet associations with perception varied depending on risk type. Moreover, there were risk‐specific differe...
Source: Risk Analysis - December 31, 2015 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Emma Soane, Iljana Schubert, Simon Pollard, Sophie Rocks, Edgar Black Tags: Original Research Article Source Type: research

Want To Be Young and Healthy Forever?
This article first appeared on the blog of Intentional Insights, a nonprofit organization that empowers people to refine and reach their goals by providing research-based content to help improve thinking, feeling, and behavior patterns. Can you imagine what it would be like to be young and healthy forever? What a wonderful dream! Envision a body that stays strong and fit and beautiful, a mind dynamic, flexible, and sharp - for decades, centuries, even millennia. That would be so great! Yet it seems like a pointless dream. We all know that death is inevitable. Our wishes about a different world are just wishes. Well, ...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - September 29, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Lord Martin Rees: We Are Living Through A Political And Scientific Transformation
Lord Martin Rees is an astrophysicist and the former master of Trinity College, Cambridge. He sat down with The WorldPost for a wide-ranging interview, which has been edited for clarity and brevity. Alexander Görlach: Out of all great transformations we are going through, from climate change to artificial intelligence to gene editing, what are the most consequential we are about to witness?  Martin Rees: It depends on what time scale we are thinking about. In the next 10 or 20 years, I would say it’s the rapid development in biotechnology. We are already seeing that it’s becoming easier to modify the ...
Source: Science - The Huffington Post - February 21, 2017 Category: Science Source Type: news

Martin Rees: We Are Living Through A Political And Scientific Transformation
Lord Martin Rees is an astrophysicist and the former master of Trinity College, Cambridge. He sat down with The WorldPost for a wide-ranging interview, which has been edited for clarity and brevity. Alexander Görlach: Out of all great transformations we are going through, from climate change to artificial intelligence to gene editing, what are the most consequential we are about to witness?  Martin Rees: It depends on what time scale we are thinking about. In the next 10 or 20 years, I would say it’s the rapid development in biotechnology. We are already seeing that it’s becoming easier to modify the ...
Source: Science - The Huffington Post - February 21, 2017 Category: Science Source Type: news

The effect of prenatal maternal nutrition and eating habits on low birthweight in the Gaza Strip: a case-control study
Publication date: August 2017 Source:The Lancet, Volume 390, Supplement 2 Author(s): Akram Abusalah, Khalil Shuaib, Imad El Awour Background Poor prenatal nutrition is recognised as an important cause of low birthweight, defined as a weight of less than 2·5 kg at birth. We aimed to assess the association between prenatal maternal nutrition and delivery of infants with low birthweight in the Gaza Strip. Methods 446 women were selected in a ratio of 1:1 during May–June and July–August, 2007, from attendants of Al-Tahrier Hospital and Shifa Medical Centre, respectively. Cases were all women who delivered live singleton ...
Source: The Lancet - August 2, 2017 Category: General Medicine Source Type: research

An Attacker –defender Resource Allocation Game with Substitution and Complementary Effects
This article provides some new insights to the homeland security resource allocation.
Source: Risk Analysis - May 18, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Ridwan Al Aziz, Meilin He, Jun Zhuang Tags: Original Research Article Source Type: research