News tagged with behavior modification program

Web-based nutrition program reduces health care costs for employees with cardiac risk factors

Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) and Boston University School of Public Health (BUSPH) have shown that an employer-sponsored, internet-based diet and exercise program shows promise as a low-cost ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Oct 27, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 1




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SAFEPED helps cities fix dangerous intersections

Traffic planners and engineers worry about "black spots" — intersections that experience a high incidence of traffic accidents. But when it comes to designing safer roads, they lack effective tools to ...

Technology / Software

created Sep 12, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Study aims to improve fuel economy by 30 percent

Researchers at the University of California, Riverside along with their research partners have received a $1.2 million grant from the Department of Energy to study and evaluate technologies that provide feedback to drivers ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Aug 17, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Thrips show altered feeding behavior

(PhysOrg.com) -- Thrips — tiny insects that pierce and suck fluids from tomatoes, grapes, strawberries and hundreds of other plant species — show altered feeding behavior when they're infected with ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created May 26, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Revisiting ADHD and Ritalin

Fifteen years ago, Dr. Lawrence H. Diller, a pediatrician from Walnut Creek, Calif., ignited a national debate over the steep rise in children being diagnosed with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder and treated with ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created May 17, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

New study solidifies role of DISC1 in risk for schizophrenia and other mental illness

Johns Hopkins researchers report the discovery of a molecular switch that regulates the behavior of a protein that, when altered, is already known to increase human susceptibility to schizophrenia and mood disorders.

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Apr 06, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Benefits of bariatric surgery may outweigh risks for severely obese

Bariatric surgery can result in long-term weight loss and significant reductions in cardiac and other risk factors for some severely obese adults, according to a scientific statement from the American Heart Association.

Medicine & Health / Other

created Mar 14, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A notch above: Automakers manipulate fuel economy

(PhysOrg.com) -- With the recent announcement that the U.S. government will propose new fuel economy standards this fall, a University of Michigan study shows that automakers fine-tune vehicle fuel economy to qualify for ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Feb 16, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

How the hat fits: Structural biology study reveals shape of epigenetic enzyme complex

a field that describes how genes may be regulated without altering the underlying DNA itself—scientists are deciphering the many ways in which enzymes act on the proteins surrounding DNA within cells.

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Jan 20, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (7) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Exercise and vitamin D help to prevent falls in seniors

(PhysOrg.com) -- A systematic review of over 50 clinical trials finds that exercise and Vitamin D supplements are the best ways to reduce the risk of falling in people aged 65 and over. The review is published in the December ...

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created Dec 21, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Developers of machines receive help from PC game technology

Siemens has used computer games technology in a development software that makes it quicker and easier to design new machines and to simulate their complex functions at an early stage.

Technology / Engineering

created Nov 11, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 4


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