Medical program additions at ASU, UArizona and NAU aim to curb Arizona ’s health care worker shortage
With a shortage of health care professionals across the state, Arizona ’s public universities are expanding their program offerings to boost health education and the number of certified professionals.
In the past year, Arizona State University, Northern Arizona University and the University of Arizona have all announced major health care program additions.
The Ariz ona Board of Regents’ AZ Healthy Tomorrow initiative laid out a plan to rapidly grow the state’s health care workforce. The state’s… (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines - December 7, 2023 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Alyssa Bickle Source Type: news
NIH ’s new chief, Monica Bertagnolli, wants greater ‘equity’ in biomedical research
The new director of the National Institutes of Health said today her highest priority is making NIH-funded clinical research more inclusive and more accessible to the public.
“Equity will guide my approach to leading NIH,” Monica Bertagnolli told reporters in her first news conference, a 40-minute Zoom call. But Bertagnolli, a cancer surgeon who became head of NIH last month, did not unveil any specific programs for achieving her goals and tiptoed around hot-button issues such as whether NIH should exert so-called march-in rights on patents to control drug prices and its role in cracking down on the undisclosed f...
Source: ScienceNOW - December 6, 2023 Category: Science Source Type: news
Doctorate Recipients from U.S. Universities : 2022
This report summarizes trends in U.S. doctoral education by using data from the 2022 Survey of Earned Doctorates, an annual census of research doctorate recipients from U.S. universities. Important trends in this population are highlighted in this report, including the representation of women, minorities, and temporary visa holders ; fields that are attracting graduate students ; time to complete doctoral degree ; employment opportunities after graduation ; and educational pathways to the doctorate. A special section focuses on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on doctorate recipients ’ graduate experiences and postgra...
Source: NSF - Statistics on U.S. Science and Engineering Resources - December 5, 2023 Category: Statistics Source Type: news
Intertwined crises: California's public universities' responses to COVID-19 and anti-Asian animus, January 2020 to June 2021 - Castro Samayoa A, Nguyen BMD, Lally M, Pemberton B.
COVID-19 ravaged everyday life for individuals across the globe, but its impact was especially harmful to Asian Americans who suffered both a notably high risk of infection and hospitalization, as well as a sharp rise in anti-Asian racism. In this article,... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - December 5, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news
The current status of sex education in U.S. colleges and universities: a school website content review - Shigeto A, Scheier LM.
This study used a website content analysis to examine the prevalence of sex education in higher education institutions throughout the US. A total of 413 postsecondary institutions varying in type (public, private) and size (small, medium, large) were chose... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - December 5, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news
Bristol ranked as world's 17th most sustainable university
The University of Bristol has been named as one of the most sustainable universities in the world, according to a new global league table. (Source: University of Bristol news)
Source: University of Bristol news - December 5, 2023 Category: Universities & Medical Training Tags: Sustainability, International; Press Release Source Type: news
Can stem cell injections treat knee osteoarthritis?
In this study, the group hypothesized that injecting these cells into knee joints could serve as an intervention to treat patients.
In a preliminary trial, the group treated 30 patients (27 women and three men, mean age 61 years old) with moderate to severe knee osteoarthritis. In each patient, clinicians injected a solution of stem cells (70 million allogeneic cells) into the genicular arteries, a network that supplies blood to structures around the knee.
All of the patients were admitted for one day following the procedure. MRIs of patients’ knees were acquired prior to the procedure and at one, six, and nine months ...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - December 5, 2023 Category: Radiology Authors: Will Morton Tags: Subspecialties MRI Interventional Radiology Source Type: news
Research Funding for U.S. Doctorate Recipients at Research-Intensive Institutions
New research data suggest that 51 % of science and engineering ( S&E ) doctorate recipients who graduated from U.S. research-intensive institutions between academic years 2014 and 2017 received research funding during their graduate studies. Among those S&E doctorate recipients that linked to the administrative records of research funding, 42 % received research funding solely from federal funders. Data are from a new resource, SED-UMETRICS linked data. The Survey of Earned Doctorates ( SED ) is an annual census of research doctorate recipients conducted by the National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics within ...
Source: NSF - Statistics on U.S. Science and Engineering Resources - December 4, 2023 Category: Statistics Source Type: news
Prevalence of depression and its associated factors among undergraduate admission candidates in Bangladesh: a nation-wide cross-sectional study - Siddik MAB, Hasan MN, Mahmud A, Munmun MS, Milad MH, Ali A, Ahmed Z, Uddin MJ.
BACKGROUND: The undergraduate admission test is one of the most stressful assessments in a student's life, as it is required for admission to any of Bangladesh's public universities or medical colleges. Those taking the admissions test are under a lot of p... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - December 4, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news
Three Reasons College Grads Win in the Job Market
Regarding Allison Schrager ’s review of “The Accidental Equalizer” by Jessi Streib (Bookshelf, Nov. 29): In over three decades of recruiting at universities, I found three significant reasons that college graduates, as a group, outearn noncollege graduates. Graduates had the ambition or initiative…#allisonschrager #accidentalequalizer #jessistreib #bookshelf (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - December 3, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Cochrane Mexico's'citizen scientist' event contributes to global research efforts
Cochrane Crowd is a global community of volunteers who are helping to classify the research needed to support informed decision-making about health care.Cochrane Mexico recently hosted its third screening challenge that helped introduce students to randomized control trials and evidence assessment. This event not only fostered the value of evidence synthesis among students but also made a significant contribution to ongoing global research efforts. The job of the Cochrane Crowd community is to review descriptions of research studies to identify and classify randomized controlled trials (RCTs), a type of study that is co...
Source: Cochrane News and Events - December 1, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Muriah Umoquit Source Type: news
Pacific Heart, Lung & Blood Institute Is Dissolving
The Pacific Heart, Lung & Blood Institute in Los Angeles, California, will be permanently closing after more than two decades of work to develop treatments for rare cancers such as mesothelioma as well as diseases of the heart, lungs, and blood.
Since 2002, the mission of the nonprofit organization has focused on creating hope through research and education. The Pacific Mesothelioma Center, which has been a division of the PHLBI since 2012, has been working to improve the lives of mesothelioma patients by sharing information about malignant pleural mesothelioma and conducting research in hopes of finding a cure.
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Source: Asbestos and Mesothelioma News - December 1, 2023 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Dan Palombo Source Type: news
News at a glance: Lower pay for disabled Ph.D.s, more U.K. genomes, and quitting antismoking rules
LEADERSHIP
Argentina’s president targets science
The election last week of libertarian Javier Milei as Argentina’s next president has many of the nation’s scientists fearing the future. Milei, who won 55.7% of the vote, has
vowed to close or dramatically restructure the National Scientific and Technical Research Council
(CONICET), Argentina’s main science funding agency, and its health and environment ministries. He views climate change as a “socialist hoax.” Milei has called CONICET, which employs nearly 12,000 researchers and ranks as one of South America’s top government s...
Source: ScienceNOW - November 30, 2023 Category: Science Source Type: news
R & D Expenditures at U.S. Universities Increased by $ 8 Billion in FY 2022
Academic institutions spent $ 97.8 billion on R&D in FY 2022, an increase of $ 8.0 billion in current dollars from FY 2021. Federal sources funded almost $ 54 billion ( 55 % ) of the total and accounted for $ 4.9 billion of the year-over-year increase. Academic R&D expenditures in all science fields combined increased by $ 5.9 billion ( 8.4 % ) in FY 2022. The data in this report are from the Higher Education Research and Development ( HERD ) Survey, sponsored by the National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics ( NCSES ) within the National Science Foundation. (Source: NSF - Statistics on U.S. Science and Engineering Resources)
Source: NSF - Statistics on U.S. Science and Engineering Resources - November 30, 2023 Category: Statistics Source Type: news
Spain wants to change how it evaluates scientists —and end the ‘dictatorship of papers’
Spain’s much-maligned system for evaluating scientists, in which the sole criterion for career advancement is the publication of papers, is set to be overhauled under new proposals from the country’s National Evaluation and Accreditation Agency (ANECA).
The reforms, announced earlier this month, would for the first time see researchers at Spain’s public universities evaluated on a range of outputs besides papers, and would also encourage the distribution of findings via open-access platforms. Many scientists are welcoming the move, saying it will help academia move on from a system that has been described as es...
Source: ScienceNOW - November 29, 2023 Category: Science Source Type: news
