Moringa's Health Benefits In Lowering Inflammation
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Moringa is known throughout the world as a miracle tree. But, what exactly is moringa and why is research buzzing about the possible health benefits of this hearty plant?
Moringa is a tree that is an important crop native to India and currently grown throughout the world in Latin America, Southeast Asia and Africa. The entire tree is edible, from its roots, flowers, leaves, seeds, gum, fruits and bark. Generally, moringa is consumed by cooking the leaves or immature fruits and more recently as a dried leaf powder used as tea or sprinkled into food.
Although 13 species exist in the morin...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - July 13, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Online database simplifies residency, fellowship search
The go-to online resource for finding residencies and fellowships is turning 20. Learn what users have to say about FREIDA Online®, the AMA Residency & Fellowship Database™, and how students can use it to make informed decisions about the next big step in their careers.
Customizing the search
FREIDA—Fellowship and Residency Electronic Interactive Database Access—provides custom searches of more than 10,000 residency and fellowship programs to help students and residents find a match. Users can search by geographic areas, specialties and keywords. They can review basic program data and training statistics, find m...
Source: AMA Wire - July 13, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Amy Farouk Source Type: news
O’Laughlin Awarded Mentored Career Development Grant
Kelli O’Laughlin, MD, MPH, of the Division of International Emergency Medicine and Humanitarian Programs, recently received a five-year Mentored Career Development Award from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) for her research project, “L (Source: BWH News)
Source: BWH News - July 11, 2016 Category: Hospital Management Source Type: news
Outcomes Analysis of the NIGMS Institutional Research and Academic Career Development Awards (IRACDA) Program on Feedback Loop
(Source: NIGMS New on the Site)
Source: NIGMS New on the Site - June 30, 2016 Category: Research Source Type: news
Institutional Research and Academic Career Development Awards (IRACDA) (K12) Outcomes Assessment [PDF, 352KB]
(Source: NIGMS New on the Site)
Source: NIGMS New on the Site - June 23, 2016 Category: Research Source Type: news
Education dominates local government conference on final afternoon
A busy afternoon’s debates on education opened included a commitment that UNISON would oppose government policies on academies.
But Pam Howard for the executive also stated that there had to be a two-strand approach, where the union also organised within academies when and where they exist.
She added that this also “gives us recruitment and organising opportunities – opportunities that we need to take,” and that this would include working alongside other school unions where possible.
Lee Spate from Portsmouth stressed that an organised and strong response after the announcement earlier this year that all schoo...
Source: UNISON Health care news - June 20, 2016 Category: UK Health Authors: Amanda Kendal Tags: Article News academies Adult Education education services further education lg16 local government local government conference 2016 local government cuts school workers schools stars in our schools Source Type: news
Nursing associate: a new role to enhance care
If the nursing profession chooses to adopt the nursing associate role, we must value them as key members of the team and invest in their education and career development
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Source: Nursing in Practice - June 13, 2016 Category: Nursing Authors: Kerrie Schofield Tags: Professional Source Type: news
GW Plastics Wins Plastics News’ 2015 “Sustained Excellence” Award
GW Plastics is pleased to announce that it has been selected as Plastics News’ “Sustained Excellence” award winner for 2015. This prestigious award honoring continued excellence in well- rounded plastic processing companies was announced at the Plastics News’ Executive Forum in Naples, FL.
The award is given only to past Processor of the Year winners — which Plastics News awarded to GW Plastics in 2009 – and is given to the company that has best sustained their level of excellence year after year. GW Plastics was judged on a number of continuous improvement categories, including financial excellence and p...
Source: Mass Device - June 6, 2016 Category: Medical Equipment Authors: MassDevice Tags: Blog News Well GW Plastics Source Type: news
NASA, Jesus & Templeton?
MARY VOYTEK
"It's never too soon to engage a community. NASA has mostly had experience with engineers and scientists. We've chosen to reach out to places like [the Center of Theological Inquiry] CTI where your philosophy is to bring interdisciplinary groups together to talk about these very important questions. We tend to try to go to the best." -- Mary Voytek, NASA Astrobiology Program Director (Click Here to Listen: Voytek podcast with CTI Director)
"Astrobiology doesn't exist, what are its laws?" -- Jerry Fodor
At a meeting last May in New York with Andrew Pohorille, NASA's senior-most scientist on origins of ...
Source: Science - The Huffington Post - June 4, 2016 Category: Science Source Type: news
Concept Clearance » NIMH Biobehavioral Research Awards for Innovative New Scientists (BRAINS)
The goal of the NIMH Biobehavioral Research Awards for Innovative New Scientists (BRAINS) program is to support the research and research career development of outstanding, exceptionally productive scientists who are in the early, formative stages of their careers and who plan to make a long term career commitment to research in specific mission areas of the NIMH. (Source: National Institute of Mental Health)
Source: National Institute of Mental Health - June 2, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Authors: National Institute of Mental Health Source Type: news
Memories of My Uncle, the Physician
Mentoring is an important aspect of your career development as a physician. Dr. Hoffman shares how his uncle shaped the way he saw medicine from an early age. (Source: Physicians Practice)
Source: Physicians Practice - May 23, 2016 Category: Practice Management Authors: Daniel Hoffman, MD Tags: Managers Administrators Career Mentoring Source Type: news
International Clinical Trials' Day 2016
International Clinical Trials' Day is celebrated around the world each year on or close to 20 May, commemorating the day in 1747 on which James Lind began the first known controlled trial, comparing different treatments for scurvy then in common use among sailors in the British Royal Navy. (Watch a video explaining the trial to see history in the making.) International Clinical Trials' Day seeks to raise awareness of the importance of research to health care, and draw attention to ways in which the research can become more relevant to practice.The European Clinical Research Infrastructures Network (ECRIN) helps to co-ordin...
Source: Cochrane News and Events - May 19, 2016 Category: Information Technology Authors: mumoquit at cochrane.org Source Type: news
A Shocking Number Of Women Doctors Are Sexually Harassed
Medicine is a notoriously grueling career, with punishing hours, rampant burnout and the threat of crippling student loan debt. And for women, the landscape can be even bleaker. New findings suggest that 30 percent of top women clinician-researchers have experienced blatant sexual harassment on the job.
The study, published in JAMA on Tuesday, included more than 1,700 men and women who've received K-awards, prestigious career development awards handed out by the National Institutes of Health.
Sixty-six percent of the women who responded to the survey said they'd personally experienced some form of gender bias in...
Source: Science - The Huffington Post - May 17, 2016 Category: Science Source Type: news
A Shocking Number Of Women Doctors Are Sexually Harassed
Medicine is a notoriously grueling career, with punishing hours, rampant burnout and the threat of crippling student loan debt. And for women, the landscape can be even bleaker. New findings suggest that 30 percent of top women clinician-researchers have experienced blatant sexual harassment on the job.
The study, published in JAMA on Tuesday, included more than 1,700 men and women who've received K-awards, prestigious career development awards handed out by the National Institutes of Health.
Sixty-six percent of the women who responded to the survey said they'd personally experienced some form of gender bias in...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - May 17, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Pioneering an Enhanced Geriatric Curriculum (Russell Blackwelder MD)
This presentation was presented as a seminar at the 2016 Annual Conference. Our abstract for this presentation is below. If you would like any more information please contact us.
STFM Seminar
Pioneering an Enhanced Geriatric Curriculum
Purpose: An interactive session about an innovative educational, administrative, research, career development, or clinical topic. Active audience participation beyond question and answer is required.
Time: 60 minutes
Submission Abstract (1250 character limit)
In your answer to the question below please briefly describe the content of the presentation so that the reviewer can understand ...
Source: Family Medicine Digital Resources Library (FMDRL) Recently Uploaded - May 5, 2016 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
