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SNM’s Mid-Winter Educational Symposium Offers In-Depth Learning For Nuclear Medicine And Molecular Imaging Professionals
SNM will hold its annual Mid-Winter Educational Symposium February 5-8, 2009 at the Hilton Clearwater in Clearwater, FL. This year SNM, the American College of Nuclear Physicians (ACNP) and the American College of Nuclear Medicine (ACNM) unite to create a fused meeting, offering attendees the opportunity to earn
SNM’s Mid-Winter Educational Symposium Offers In-Depth Learning For Nuclear Medicine And Molecular Imaging Professionals...

New Study Finds Perception Of Health And Balance Has Direct Impact On Walking Activity
New research out of the University of Pittsburgh indicates that patients’ perceptions of their own health and balance have an impact on how much they walk. The study was originally published in Physical Therapy (December 2008), the scientific journal of the American Physical Therapy Association (APTA). More: continued
New Study Finds Perception Of Health And Balance Has Direct Impact On Walking Activity...

Be Realistic About Your Health Resolutions For 2009
New Year’s Eve is always filled with fleeting good intentions for the year ahead, but the secret to successful health resolutions this New Year is to be realistic and honest about your goals. The AMA is urging people to be honest with themselves when
Be Realistic About Your Health Resolutions For 2009...

Plan To Improve Pathology Services Across Wales
Health Minister Edwina Hart today has approved plans to improve pathology services across Wales for the benefit of patients and staff. Under the £7.9million plans, the 13 computer systems operating in the 18 main pathology laboratories will be replaced with one system to help improve care. It will
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Staying Resolved In The New Year
New Year resolutions: they are easy to make, but often doomed to failure, which comes as no surprise to Queensland University of Technology psychologist Professor David Kavanagh. Professor Kavanagh, from the School of Psychology and Counselling, said if you were serious about changing your behaviour, there
Staying Resolved In The New Year...

Most Will Administer Shocks When Prodded By ‘Authority Figure’ According To Researcher Replicating Milgram
Nearly 50 years after one of the most controversial behavioral experiments in history, a social psychologist has found that people are still just as willing to administer what they believe are painful electric shocks to others when urged on by an authority figure. Jerry
Most Will Administer Shocks When Prodded By ‘Authority Figure’ According To Researcher Replicating Milgram...

NHS Unprepared For Drop In Doctors’ Hours In 2009, British Medical Association Warns
Many hospitals in England are insufficiently prepared for a major drop in doctors’ hours in 2009, and government funding to help them is not reaching the front line, the BMA said on Tuesday 30 December, 2008. On 1 August 2009, the European Working Time
NHS Unprepared For Drop In Doctors’ Hours In 2009, British Medical Association Warns...

Patients Who Perceive Their Balance And Overall Health As Poor Will Walk Less
New research out of the University of Pittsburgh indicates that patients’ perceptions of their own health and balance have an impact on how much they walk. The study was originally published in Physical Therapy (December 2008), the scientific journal of the American Physical Therapy Association (APTA). More:
Patients Who Perceive Their Balance And Overall Health As Poor Will Walk Less...

Molecular Testing Will Be Routine Part Of Patient Treatment By 2010, Says New Report
Molecular medicine will soon transform the entire spectrum of disease management, from assuring the early detection of disease, to defining the prognosis of disease evolution and predicting a patient’s response to specific therapies. More: continued here
Molecular Testing Will Be Routine Part Of Patient Treatment By 2010, Says New Report...

Number Of Americans With A Disability Reaches 54.4 Million, Or 19% Of The Population
About one in five U.S. residents - 19 percent - reported some level of disability in 2005, according to a U.S. Census Bureau report released today. These 54.4 million Americans are roughly equal to the combined total populations of California and Florida. Both the number and
Number Of Americans With A Disability Reaches 54.4 Million, Or 19% Of The Population...