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Health Professionals Quality Assurance (HPQA) [Washington State] HPQA "is an office within the [Washington state] Department of Health responsible for protecting public health and safety by regulating the competency and quality of more than 270,000 health care providers."The site provides reports, information about filing complaints, and links to laws and additional information for specific types of professionals. Also includes a database of applicants and credentialholders such as doctors, dentists, optometrists, nurses, chiropractors, acupuncturists, and veterinarians. Spirituality, Religious Practice May Slow Progression Of Alzheimer's D Spirituality and the practice of religion may help slow the progression of Alzheimer's disease, according to research that will be presented at the American Academy of Neurology 57th Annual Meeting in Miami Beach. Looking Through The Eyes Of A Mouse, Scientists Monitor Circulating Ce Scientists have developed an optical device that allows them to peer through the eyes of a mouse and monitor the cells passing through its bloodstream. The new optical device may help scientists test cancer therapies. United Nations History: 60th Anniversary of the San Francisco Conferen "In celebration of the United Nations sixtieth anniversary [in 2005], the United Nations Department of Public Information has organized a commemoration of the signing of the United Nations Charter, which took place in San Francisco on 26 June 1945."The site includes the message of the Secretary-General, a video clip, and a list of exhibits and activities commemorating the event. Also includes links to information about the 50th anniversary and to related documents. Early lessons from the H1N1 pandemic: Critical illness in children unp Lessons learned from the first 13 children at Johns Hopkins Children's Center to become critically ill from the H1N1 virus show that although all patients survived, serious complications developed quickly, unpredictably, with great variations from patient to patient and with serious need for vigilant monitoring and quick treatment adjustments. Turn ITunes Into WiiTunes A shareware program combines with Apple's music software, the Opera browser and Nintendo's lovable Wii to enable iTunes listening in your living room. In Listening Post. Suffering Under a Great Injustice: Ansel Adams's Photographs of Japane In 1943, Ansel Adams documented the Manzanar War Relocation Center in California and the Japanese Americans interned there. This site provides side-by-side digital scans of both Adams' 242 original negatives and his 209 photographic prints, collection highlights, Adams' book "Born Free and Equal,"a selected bibliography, and a chronology of Adams' life. From the American Memory Project of the Library of Congress. Hydroxycitric Acid Slows Glucose Uptake, Cuts Insulin Peaks/Valleys A A dietetic aid, hydroxycitric acid (HCA) looks great in animal studies, but human trials show neither food nor weight reduction. Dutch researchers studied how HCA works and found HCA slowed glucose absorption over two hours, compared with 20 minutes in nontreated rats. Urging caution, they note that with further study, there even could be implications for diabetes treatment. With sugar/insulin peaks and valleys likely leveled, the South Beach Diet parallel comes to mind. Do Life Events Trigger Mental Disorders? A new epidemiological study addresses an old question regarding the triggers of mental disorders. Although life events have been consistently reported as precipitating factors for most psychiatric disorders, there is no comprehensive investigation of the relationship between severe life events and psychiatric disorders in the general population. Data from outer space open new frontiers for researchers The latest data delivered back to Earth by the Herschel Space Observatory -- launched in May by the European Space Agency -- have opened a new window on galaxies.
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