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Members of small monkey groups more likely to fight

December 28, 2011
Small monkey groups may win territorial disputes against larger groups because some members of the larger, invading groups avoid aggressive encounters. In a new report published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Margaret Crofoot and Ian Gilby of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute and the Max Planck Institute ...

Members of small monkey groups more likely to fight

December 27, 2011
Small monkey groups may win territorial disputes against larger groups because some members of the larger, invading groups avoid aggressive encounters. In a new report published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , Margaret Crofoot and Ian Gilby of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute and the Max ...

Six UNC faculty members named AAAC fellow

December 16, 2011
Six University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill faculty members have been named fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Nation’s largest federation of biological and biomedical organizations welcomes 2 new members

December 8, 2011
The Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB) is pleased to announce the addition of two new member societies, the Society for Glycobiology and the Society for Pediatric Research, which will bring the Federation membership to 26 societies in 2012. "These are very dynamic groups representing extremely important areas ...

Nation’s largest federation of biological and biomedical organizations welcomes 2 new members

December 8, 2011
(Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology) The Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology is pleased to announce the addition of two new member societies, the Society for Glycobiology and the Society for Pediatric Research, which will bring the Federation membership to 26 societies in 2012.

UCLA School of Nursing faculty members to present at AHA 2011

November 14, 2011
A failing heart's effect on the short-term memory. The impact of telephone interventions on behaviors in Latinos. Depression and heart disease. Risk factors contributing to premature coronary atherosclerosis in premenopausal women. These are just a few of the research findings that will be presented by faculty members of the UCLA ...

Members of the public lack skills, confidence necessary to save lives with CPR, research shows

November 12, 2011
Even members of the lay public who have received CPR training are confused about how to perform the lifesaving skill and say they don't have confidence in their ability to do it properly, according to a study from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania which will ...

Members of the public lack skills, confidence necessary to save lives with CPR, Penn research shows

November 12, 2011
ORLANDO Even members of the lay public who have received CPR training are confused about how to perform the lifesaving skill and say they don't have confidence in their ability to do it properly, according to a study from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania ...

Members of the public lack skills, confidence necessary to save lives with CPR, Penn research shows

November 12, 2011
(University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine) Even members of the lay public who have received CPR training are confused about how to perform the lifesaving skill and say they don't have confidence in their ability to do it properly, according to a study from the Perelman School of Medicine at ...

New social network, developed solely for members of medical school community, goes live this week

October 25, 2011
The School of Medicine’s Office of Information Resources & Technology is launching this week a private, internal social-networking service, called CAP Network, that could dramatically alter communication among faculty, students, postdoctoral scholars and staff like the changes wrought on a much larger scale by Facebook and LinkedIn.

Halo Effect: Family Members Of Gastric-Bypass Patients Also Lose Weight, Stanford Study Finds

October 19, 2011
Family members of patients who have undergone surgery for weight loss may also shed several pounds themselves, as well as eat healthier and exercise more, according to a new study by researchers at Stanford University School of Medicine. A year after the 35 patients in the study had Roux-en-Y gastric ...

Bariatric Surgery Benefits Not Just Patients, But Their Family Members Too

October 18, 2011
Obese family members of an obese patient who underwent bariatric surgery lose an average of 22 pounds (10 kgs) within a year of the operation, researchers from Stanford University School of Medicine reported in Archives of Surgery this week. The authors explained that bariatric surgery encouraged family members, and not ...