News articles tagged with 'community'
Nursing students map their way to understanding HIV
— 30 Mar 2011 16:46 | HealthIn the Faculty of Nursing, students are taught the importance of connecting with the community, and nursing professor Vera Caine has come up with a way for students to not only learn…
Am I safe here?: How people with HIV/AIDS perceive hidden prejudices in their communities
— 4 Mar 2011 13:35 | HealthPeople in marginalised groups, such as the disabled or racial minorities, feel stigmatised - condemned, feared, or excluded - when other people stigmatise them. That's obvious. But…
Emergency mental health lessons learned from Continental Flight 3407 disaster
— 2 Mar 2011 13:07 | HealthWhen a disaster's physical evidence is gone - debris removed, shooter arrested, ashes cold - the psychological effects of the disaster on emergency responders and civilians involved…
Choosing your neighbours: MBL scientists see how microbes relate in space
— 15 Feb 2011 16:03 | BiologyLike people in cities, microbes often live in complex communities that contain many different microbial types. Also like us, microbes tend to gravitate to and 'hang out' with certain…
Invasive plants can create positive ecological change
— 11 Feb 2011 17:09 | EnvironmentA team of scientists has discovered that human-introduced, invasive species of plants can have positive ecological effects. Tomas Carlo, an assistant professor of biology at Penn State…
Cornell researchers find a strong community protects adolescents from risky health behaviour
— 4 Feb 2011 15:31 | HealthGrowing up poor increases a person's likelihood of health problems as an adult, but a new study led by a Cornell University environmental psychologist shows that being raised in a tight-knit…
Head injury can blight survival up to 13 years later
— 1 Feb 2011 20:09 | HealthA head injury can blight the chances of survival up to 13 years after the event, especially among younger adults, finds research published online in the Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery…
Preventing tooth decay in the youngest American Indians
— 22 Jan 2011 10:17 | HealthA study conducted in four American Indian communities in the Pacific Northwest presents an effective strategy to convince mothers to switch young children from drinking sweetened soda…
Scientists sequence gut microbes of premature infant
— 14 Jan 2011 16:29 | HealthScientists have for the first time sequenced and reconstructed the genomes of most of the microbes in the gut of a premature newborn and documented how the microbe populations changed…
Youth report favourable impressions of community street outreach workers
— 9 Dec 2010 16:54 | HealthA new study by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Centre for Injury Research and Policy finds that youth generally perceive community street outreach workers positively, regardless of…