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New Indicators Will Help Drive Quality Improvement In The NHS, UK
A list of more than 200 indicators of high quality care in the NHS is being published for the first time to help clinicians drive up the quality of care they deliver to patients, the Department of Health and The NHS Information Centre announced today.
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A Young Brain For An Old Bee
We are all familiar with the fact that cognitive function declines as we get older. Moreover, recent studies have shown that the specific kind of daily activities we engage in during the course of our lives appears to influence the extent of this decline. A team of researchers from Technische Universitç¤t Berlin are studying how division of labour among honey bees affects their learning performance as they age. Surprisingly, they have found that, by switching their social role, aging honey bees can keep their learning ability intact or even improve it. The scientists are planning to use them as a model to study general aging processes in the brain, and they even hope that they may provide some clues on how to prevent them. Dr. Ricarda Scheiner, leader of the research team, presented these findings at the Society of Experimental Biology Annual Meeting in Glasgow.
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HSPH Assistant Professor To Serve As Co-Principal Investigator Of Center In Guatemala To Combat Cardiovascular Disease

Eduardo Villamor , Assistant Professor of International Nutrition at Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH), will serve as co-principal investigator of a research and training center in Guatemala to reduce the burden of cardiovascular disease (CVD) in the Mesoamerican region, which includes Central America, the Caribbean, and Southern Mexico. "Chronic non-communicable diseases, particularly cardiovascular disease, are among the main killers in the Mesoamerican region," said Villamor. "Among our goals is to understand current risk factors for CVD in school-age children and their parents, identify ways to intervene, and train graduate students and junior investigators to carry on research." Villamor is co-principal investigator with Manuel Ramirez-Zea of the Institute of Nutrition of Central America and Panama-INCAP, Homero Martinez of RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, CA, and Benjamin Caballer of Johns Hopkins University, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD. The center is part of a worldwide network of research and training centers supported by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) to build institutional and community capacity to prevent and control chronic diseases. In a press release, the NHLBI said that is awarding 10 contracts totaling more than $34 million. The NHLBI joins with Minneapolis-based UnitedHealth Group"s existing Chronic Disease Initiative (UnitedHealth CDI) in establishing the "UnitedHealth and NHLBI Collaborating Centers of Excellence" (COEs) network. Each COE is led by a research institution in a low- or middle-income developing country paired with at least one partner academic institution in a developed country to enhance research and training opportunities. A comment on the program, "Combating Chronic Disease in Developing Countries -- Partners in Progress," by NHLBI Director Elizabeth G. Nabel, M.D., Simon Stevens, president, Global Health, at UnitedHealth Group, and Richard Smith, M.D., director of UnitedHealth CDI, has published online today in The Lancet and will publish in the June 13 print edition (free registration is required to view the online article). The NHLBI will fund six centers in Bangladesh, China, Guatemala, India (Bangalore and New Delhi), and South Africa. These centers are also receiving funding from United Health Group"s CDI. The NHLBI is funding three additional centers in Argentina, Kenya and Peru; and United Health CDI funds two centers located at the U.S.-Mexico border and in Tunisia. Each NHLBI-funded center is also a Fogarty International Clinical Research Fellow or Scholar site. More information can be found on the NHLBI global health website. Harvard School of Public Health


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