News tagged with national survey
9 in 10 high schoolers short on fruits, veggies
Sep 29, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Health officials say only 13 percent of U.S. high school students get at least three servings of vegetables a day and just 32 percent get two servings of fruit.
Survey: Ask permission to use newborn data, parents say
Jul 15, 2009 |
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More than three-quarters of parents would be willing to permit the use of their children's newborn screening samples for research purposes if their permission were obtained beforehand, a University of Michigan survey shows.
Survey confirms parents' fears, confusion over autism
Oct 03, 2008 |
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The first national survey of attitudes toward autism reveals that a small but significant percentage of people still believe the disease is caused by childhood vaccines. The survey of 1000 randomly selected adults was conducted ...
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Mayo Clinic researchers study health care reform
Sep 24, 2009 |
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Results of a Mayo Clinic survey published in the New England Journal of Medicine shows that while physicians are open to being involved in health care reform discussions, some opposition may exist.
Albatross camera reveals fascinating feeding interaction with killer whale
Oct 07, 2009 |
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Scientists from British Antarctic Survey, National Institute of Polar Research, Tokyo, and Hokkaido University, Japan, have recorded the first observations of how albatrosses feed alongside marine mammals ...
National survey tracks rates of common mental disorders among American youth
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Dec 14, 2009 |
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Only about half of American children and teenagers who have certain mental disorders receive professional services, according to a nationally representative survey funded in part by the National Institute of Mental Health ...
Vast majority of physicians satisfied with hospital chaplain services
Oct 26, 2009 |
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A national survey of physicians' experience with hospital chaplains found that the vast majority of doctors were satisfied with the spiritual services provided. Physicians in the Northeast and those with a dim view of religion's ...
Survey: Awareness of COPD is rising, but understanding is still low
Nov 02, 2009 |
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Awareness of COPD—chronic obstructive pulmonary disease—continues to grow in the United States, according to national survey results released today by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) of the National ...
Americans concerned about heart health, but not proactive enough to prevent it
Oct 05, 2009 |
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To help draw attention to National Child Health Day (today), the Preventive Cardiovascular Nurses Association (PCNA) has released findings from a new national consumer survey and launched a campaign to educate families about ...
UNL research aims to understand homelessness among women
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Dec 23, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Women make up nearly one-third of the homeless population in the United States. Yet little is known about how they become homeless or how they live. University of Nebraska-Lincoln sociologist Les Whitbeck ...
Self-sacrifice among strangers has more to do with nurture than nature
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Oct 12, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Socially learned behavior and belief are much better candidates than genetics to explain the self-sacrificing behavior we see among strangers in societies, from soldiers to blood donors to ...
UWM study explores why women leave engineering careers
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Nov 06, 2009 |
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While only one in 10 male engineers leave their field by the time they reach their 30s, about one in four women are not working in engineering despite having completed the necessary education.
Getting enough sleep? They aren't in West Virginia
Oct 29, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Sleepless in Seattle? Hardly. West Virginia is where people are really staying awake, according to the first government study to monitor state-by-state differences in sleeplessness.
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