Practice Arm of the School’s Department of Forensic Psychology Dedicates New Facility in the Merchandise Mart The Chicago School of Professional Psychology is poised to further connect its psychology services to the legal sector and community agencies that interface with the court system thanks to its new Forensic Center, which was formally dedicated at a [ Read More ]
Archive for January, 2009
VAP(R) Cholesterol Test helps physicians identify emerging risk factors better than standard cholesterol test and traditional risk factors, study shows Traditional risk factors such as age, standard cholesterol levels and blood pressure do a poor job of predicting heart disease risk in younger, healthy adults with a family history of early heart disease. That’s according [ Read More ]
The commonwealth’s latest statewide survey on uninsured rates shows that more than one million Pennsylvanians lack health insurance coverage — an increase from a similar study in 2004, Insurance Commissioner Joel Ario said. “Overall, the study showed that increases in uninsured numbers were seen in almost every category; including adults, children, certain ethnic groups and [ Read More ]
Despite Risks, Wide Range of Volumes and Doses Used in Small Injection Areas At the American Academy of Pain Medicine’s 25th Annual Meeting, researchers from University of California at San Diego report that no standardized practices exist for administering an epidural steroid injection for back pain. Researchers looked at many factors including: which steroids were [ Read More ]
Wednesday’s winter storm has impacted the blood supply in the Philadelphia area. Several area blood drives were cancelled or postponed on Wednesday and many blood donors could not honor their appointments, resulting in a 32.5% reduction of Penn-Jersey Regional blood donations. In all, 6 blood drives that were scheduled to collect over 410 units of [ Read More ]
The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) continues to provide assistance to the people of Zimbabwe in the aftermath of a widespread cholera outbreak that began in August 2008. USAID is consigning nearly 440,000 bars of soap — valued at nearly $365,000 — to the U.N. Children’s Fund, which will provide it to humanitarian organizations [ Read More ]