University of Florida College of Nursing Assistant Professor Jeanne-Marie Stacciarini, Ph.D., R.N., was selected to receive the Southern Nursing Research Society Research in Minority Health Award. Stacciarini was honored for her research on the mental health of rural Latinos and her mentorship of minority students. The SNRS governing board gives the Research in Minority Health [...]
Does this scene fill you with terror? The case-control study, now entering its fifth year, aims to help improve dental management for patients with dental fear, dental anxiety and dental phobia. It has found women in this age group are most likely to have perceived a traumatic dental experience, abuse, trauma and oro-facial trauma. They [...]
HOUSTON A new semi-automated tool called pathwalking makes it possible to generate a “first draft” model of a protein fold taken from near-atomic resolution images of between three and six angstroms (Å), said researchers at the National Center for Macromolecular Imaging in the department of biochemistry at Baylor College of Medicine. In a report that [...]
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Stuttering may seem simple enough. People who stutter cannot get words out properly. They repeat or prolong sounds or syllables, sometimes appearing to physically struggle to speak. But the problem is much more complex than that, involving factors as disparate as genetics, emotion, brain activity, motor control and language, said Jane Fraser, president of the [...]
The study, which is the first of its kind for dentistry, consulted people with a wide range of learning difficulties with the aim of representing their previously unheard voices within dental research. The research, which was funded by NHS Sheffield, highlighted a number of issues including the need for appropriate oral health information to be [...]