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Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine student Theresa Hubbell ’17 – Video

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Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine student Theresa Hubbell #39;17 explains how winning an Army scholarship will shape her future career in veterinary medicine.

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Lily Kershaw – Wagon Wheel (Old Crow Medicine Show cover) Nettwerk 30th – Video

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Lily Kershaw covers Old Crow Medicine Show #39;s "Wagon Wheel" From the album Cover to Cover: 30 Years At Nettwerk http://smarturl.it/nettwerk30 Nettwerk Music Group is celebrating 30 year ...

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Penn Medicine Study Shows Menopause Does Not Increase or Create Difficulty Sleeping

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Newswise PHILADELPHIA Women in their late thirties and forties who have trouble sleeping are more than three times more likely to suffer sleep problems during menopause than women who have an easier time getting shut-eye, according to a new study by researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. Only 25 percent of women who had reported no earlier sleep problems developed moderate or severe insomnia or other sleep disturbances during a 16-year period around menopause. Whats more, the researchers say that these sleep woes did not appear to be caused by menopause itself, which may quell common fears about symptoms associated with this phase of life. The study, published in the journal Menopause, is among the first to document long-term sleep patterns in women in the years before, during and after menopause.

Sleep problems are a major issue for women approaching mid-life, particularly for women who have moderate or severe sleeping problems before reaching menopause as they are likely to experience increased issues throughout the transition, says lead author, Ellen W. Freeman, PhD, research professor in the department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. A small subgroup of women with only mild sleep disturbance prior to menopause also experienced worsening sleep disturbance during the transition, but our results show that for the majority of women, menopause does not further exacerbate existing sleep problems or cause new ones.

The study assessed annually the sleep patterns of 255 women participating in the Penn Ovarian Aging Study who reached natural menopause during a 16-year period (1996-2012). At enrollment, all women were aged 35 to 48 years and premenopausal, with 28 percent reporting moderate-to-severe sleep disturbances, which is similar to the prevalence of insomnia symptoms among adults, and 56 percent reporting no sleep disturbances at all. Over the 16 year period, 82 percent of the sample experienced moderate-to-severe issues with sleep, while only 7 percent had no poor sleep.

The study also found that hot flashes are strongly associated with poor sleep as expected, but a large proportion of poor sleep in menopausal women occurred without hot flashes. The finding, Freeman says, indicates that sleep difficulties in the transition to menopause in generally healthy women should not automatically be imputed to ovarian decline.

Our study raises the question of why a significant increase in poor sleep should surface for a group of women who experienced only mild sleep problems earlier, but not among women who had moderate or severe sleep problems, said Freeman. This is an area for future study and many potential factors should be considered, such as hormone fluctuations or changes, stress, anxiety, relationships, life events and health problems.

Freeman added that clinicians should be alert to the strong possibility that poor sleep in women approaching menopause is not simply caused by menopause or hot flashes. Possible reasons for poor sleep instead may include health problems, anxiety, and stress, she said, advising that clinicians should ask patients whether they had problems sleeping before midlife as well as obtain information on the level and duration of earlier poor sleep patterns to devise the most effective treatments.

In addition to Freeman, other Penn co-authors are Mary D. Sammel, ScD, and Stephanie A. Gross, MS. Grace W. Pien, MD, from Johns Hopkins University was an additional co-author.

This study was supported by the National Institutes of Health (RO1-AG-12745, RR024134).

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Prof. Darshan Shankar, Vice-Chairman, Institute of Ayurveda and Integrative Medicine, Banglore – Video

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Panel Discussion on The Role of AYUSH Local Health Traditions Venue: India International Center (IIC), New Delhi Date: 20.08.2012 Organized by: South Asian Dialogues on Ecological Democracy.

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American Board of Addiction Medicine Certifies 651 New Diplomates, and The ABAM Foundation Accredits Four More …

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Newswise The American Board of Addiction Medicine (ABAM) today announced that 651 physicians passed its most recent addiction medicine certification examination, while The ABAM Foundation accredited four additional fellowship programs to train new addiction medicine physicians. The number of newly certified addiction medicine specialists represents the largest group of physicians to be certified in a single year, bringing the total number of ABAM diplomates (physicians certified by ABAM) to 3,363. With the addition of the four new fellowship programs, the total number of ABAM Foundation accredited addiction medicine training programs has reached 27.

The addiction medicine field is growing by leaps and bounds, and we are gratified to see that so many physicians have chosen to become ABAM certified in order to better prevent and treat the nations number one public health problem, said Patrick G. OConnor, MD, MPH, FACP, President of ABAM and The ABAM Foundation, and Professor of Medicine and Chief of the Section of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine. At the same time, we are happy to welcome the new fellowship programs, which will train North Americas future addiction medicine leaders. With so many physicians passing our rigorous examination, and so many completing this comprehensive clinical training, we are helping make evidence-based addiction prevention and treatment more readily available to those who need it.

The fellowship programs, which are modeled on the Foundations national guidelines, Program Requirements for Graduate Medical Education in Addiction Medicine, are based at leading medical institutions across the U.S. and Canada. Accreditation of these new programs means that there are now 56 addiction medicine fellowship slots available each year. The ABAM Foundation hopes to accredit 65 addiction medicine fellowship programs by 2020.

The new fellowship programs are the: University of Kentucky Addiction Medicine Fellowship Program (Lexington, KY); Caron-Reading Addiction Medicine Fellowship Program (Wernersville, PA); Oregon Health & Science University Addiction Medicine Fellowship (Portland, OR); and Rhode Island Hospital Addiction Medicine Fellowship (Providence, RI). (See table at end of this release for information on these programs, and detailed summaries of all ABAM Foundation fellowship programs at http://www.abam.net/2015_2016_admfellowships/.

The ABAM Foundation-accredited fellowship programs provide one and two year subspecialty training, which is offered to physicians already trained in primary care specialties (internal medicine, family medicine, pediatrics, obstetrics and gynecology) and other specialties. Accrediting these and future training programs will help to assure the American public that addiction physician specialists have the knowledge and skills to prevent, recognize and treat addiction. It will also help ensure that trained physicians are available to address common medical or psychiatric conditions related to the use of addictive substances.

The American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology offers fellowships in the psychiatry subspecialty of addiction psychiatry. There are 46 addiction psychiatry fellowship programs in the U.S. Prior to the establishment of ABAM and The ABAM Foundation, psychiatrists were the only medical specialty that had board certification and sub-specialty fellowship training in addictions available to them.

The new class of ABAM diplomates represents the widest array of specialties yet nearly 40 specialties and subspecialties in all. The new diplomates hail from 48 states, the District of Columbia and four Canadian provinces. They work in a broad array of health care settings, including government agencies, corrections, universities, private practices and hospitals, among others. Of note, the average age of new diplomates has dropped with each exam cycle since 2010. ABAM certification is valid for 10 years, and all successful examinees are automatically enrolled in the ABAM Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program.

ABAM will offer its next certification examination October 16, 2015. The regular application deadline will be April 30, while the final examination deadline is July 1. For more information, go to http://www.abam.net/take-the-exam/. The ABAM Foundation is accepting applications on an ongoing basis from addiction medicine training programs seeking accreditation. For more information, please contact The ABAM Foundation accreditation office at AddictionMedicine@buffalo.edu.

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Spring 2015 SGU School of Veterinary Medicine White Coat Ceremony – Video

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St. George #39;s University embraced the White Coat Ceremony in 1996 as an important ritual symbolizing a student #39;s induction into the medical and veterinary medical professions. It is significant...

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