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November 26, 2008 | Journal Article
The strong association between depression and cardiovascular events has long been identified but not understood. The Heart & Soul Study reveals the link is largely explained by behavioral factors, and in particular physical inactivity.
October 1, 2002 | Program Result Report
Between 1998 and 2000, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) in Washington, worked to improve end-of-life and palliative care training in internal medicine residency training programs affiliated with the VA.
April 1, 2001 | Program Result Report
Between 1996 and 1998, the New York Academy of Medicine, New York, oversaw the development of two books on the changing roles and responsibilities of public health and medicine in the 21st century.
May 1, 2001 | Program Result Report
The Medical Society of New Jersey created the New Jersey Commission on the Physician Workforce to study physician supply in the state.
June 1, 2001 | Program Result Report
Spectrum Unlimited of New Orleans, La., published an expanded distribution of a 1996-97 special edition of the Journal for Minority Medical Students called "Keepsake: A Guide for Minority Premed Students," to 3,000 premedical minority students.
July 1, 2001 | Program Result Report
The US Schweitzer Fellows Programs, which enable medical, nursing, public health and social work students to volunteer their services in impoverished communities, increased the number of student participants and added three volunteer sites.
August 1, 2001 | Program Result Report
The American Medical Student Association Foundation conducted an evaluation of the 1999 National Primary Care Week. The Association is an independent national organization that represents nearly 30,000 physicians-in-training.
September 1, 2001 | Program Result Report
Health of the Public: An Academic Challenge co-funded in 1992 by RWJF and The Pew Charitable Trusts, challenged academic health centers to broaden their mission to address the health needs of their surrounding communities.
September 1, 2001 | Program Result Report
Columbia University, New York, established a partnership between Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center and the Washington Heights-Inwood section of northern Manhattan, including an information office, a grand rounds program, and a visiting scholars program.
September 1, 2001 | Program Result Report
From 1993 to 1997, Meharry Medical College in Nashville, Tenn., established a new curriculum in adolescent health, building on a pre-existing initiative to reduce teen pregnancy.