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| American Medical Association | | | On battles and bridges
I have spoken publicly about the need for physicians to build bridges with others who may not be our natural bedfellows if we are to craft a solution to many of our health care problems.
| Help "heal" the claims process
That's why earlier this month, during the Annual Meeting of the AMA House of Delegates, the AMA launched a campaign to help "heal" the ailing...
| Designing a bridge to a better health care system
I believe there's an important analogy between bridges that withstand high winds and stormy weather to provide safe passage across a chasm, and our opportunity to change our nation's health care system.
| Farewell and thank you
It's hard for me to believe that a year has already come and gone since I was inaugurated as president of the AMA.
| From the mailbox
As my term as the AMA's president nears an end, so, too, does my time writing this column (my final one is next week).
| The team approach to health care
I'd like to devote this column, in part, to Oncology Nursing Month, which is being observed this month.
| Remembering our physicians in uniform
With Memorial Day being observed on Monday, May 26, I'd like to acknowledge all who have put themselves in harm's way to protect our freedom, this country, and a way of life that embraces peace and friendship among all people.
| E-prescribing and health information technology
The AMA had quite a presence in Washington, D.C., late last week.
| Helping smokers quit
We've made great progress in tobacco control in the more than four decades since the U.S. Surgeon General's confirmed the causal link between smoking and lung cancer.
| Medicare payment reform and balance billing
To be precise, the Medicare conversion factor is half a percentage point less than what it was seven years ago.
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| EurekAlert! | | | UCLA researchers clarify function of glucose transport molecule
UCLA scientists have solved the structure of a class of proteins known as sodium glucose co-transporters, which pump glucose into cells. The solution of the SGLT structure will accelerate development of new drugs designed to treat patients with diabetes and cancer. The journal Science publishes the findings.
3-Jul-2008
Science
| AGU Journal Highlights -- July 3, 2008
In this issue: "Carbon enters deep Arctic Ocean mainly from continent edges"; "Magnetic patterns around Venus revealed"; "How porous, organism-rich layers form in Antarctic sea ice"; "Cold plasma plumes help generate aurora"; "Sea current near Norway gets cooled in Arctic"; "Rock type may influence hill steepness and landslide frequency"; and "Permafrost risk from rapid melt of Arctic sea ice."
3-Jul-2008
Geophysical Research Letters
| New study points to agriculture in frog sexual abnormalities
A farm irrigation canal would seem a healthier place for toads than a ditch by a supermarket parking lot. But University of Florida scientists have found the opposite is true. In a study with wide implications for a longstanding debate over whether agricultural chemicals pose a threat to amphibians, UF zoologists have found that toads in suburban areas are less likely to suffer from reproductive system abnormalities than toads near farms -- where some had both testes and ovaries
3-Jul-2008
Environmental Health Perspectives
| Visualizing atomic-scale acoustic wavesin nanostructures
Acoustic waves play many everyday roles -- from communication between people to ultrasound imaging. Now the highest frequency acoustic waves in materials, with nearly atomic-scale wavelengths, promise to be useful probes of nanostructures such as LED lights.
3-Jul-2008
Physical Review Letters
| Species have come and gone at different rates than previously believed
Diversity among the ancestors of such marine creatures as clams, sand dollars and lobsters showed only a modest rise beginning 144 million years ago with no clear trend afterwards, according to an international team of researchers. This contradicts previous work showing dramatic increases beginning 248 million years ago and may shed light on future diversity.
3-Jul-2008
| Accord on core competency, standards and quality assurance in health promotion and education
In response to the global health crisis, 26 leading authorities in competency-based and accreditation movements in global health promotion, health education, and public health reached an accord last week on what should comprise the domains of core competency in health promotion and health education.
3-Jul-2008
Health Education & Behavior
| In unique stellar laboratory, Einstein's theory passes strict, new test
Taking advantage of a unique cosmic configuration, astronomers have measured an effect predicted by Albert Einstein's theory of General Relativity in the extremely strong gravity of a pair of superdense neutron stars. Essentially, the famed physicist's 93-year-old theory passed yet another test.
3-Jul-2008
| Radicals shake up molecules in a tug o' war
Until now, it was commonly thought that colliding molecules get the shakes as the result of energy transfer solely from the smashing of the molecules, but some new research adds a second means by which colliding molecules become vibrationally excited -- it is being called the "Tug o' War Mechanism."
3-Jul-2008
| 'Mind's eye' influences visual perception
Letting your imagination run away with you may actually influence how you see the world. New research from Vanderbilt University has found that mental imagery -- what we see with the "mind's eye" -- directly impacts our visual perception.
3-Jul-2008
Current Biology
| Prevalence of religious congregations affects mortality rates
LSU associate professor of sociology Troy C. Blanchard recently found that a community's religious environment -- that is, the type of religious congregations within a locale -- affects mortality rates, often in a positive manner. These results were published in the June issue of Social Forces, a leading journal in the field of sociology.
3-Jul-2008
Social Forces
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