Deadline March 29 to submit abstracts for Summer Institute on Evidence-Based Practice
February 19, 2010
New Improvement Science Summit to help establish best practices
Schenken elected as treasurer of national ob-gyn certifying board
February 18, 2010
Robert S. Schenken, M.D., professor and chairman of obstetrics and gynecology at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, recently was elected treasurer of the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology.
For Girl Scouts, photos are a first step to boosting physical activity
February 17, 2010
In coming weeks, dozens of Girl Scouts will fan out across the city’s West Side to take photographs that answer the question, “What makes it easy and what makes it hard to be physically active in your neighborhood?”
Through photos, Girl Scouts shed light on what promotes – and discourages – physical activit
February 12, 2010
Armed with cameras, Girl Scouts go on a hunt in their West Side neighborhood to identify the things that help them to be physically active or discourage physical activity.
Muscle loss finding may one day save physiques
February 12, 2010
Why does sarcopenia happen and can it be stopped? A study conducted in mice with accelerated muscle loss at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio provides this insight: Less protection from antioxidants and more damage from oxidative stress results in impairment to cells’ energy centers, which slowly leads to death of muscle cells.
fMRIs reveal brain’s handling of low-priority ideas
February 9, 2010
When we put an idea on the back burner, it goes into a processing area of the brain called the default-mode network.