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Department Of Pathology History, Jean Holland, Eileen Nelson, Mary Coleman, Cathy Perry, Mary Beth Mcgurran, Ruth Paur, Mary Ann Sens

UND Departmental Histories

This departmental history was written on the occasion of the UND Quasquicentennial in 2008.

Und Nursing: A Legacy Of Caring, 1982-2008, Diane Helgeson, Rennae Millette

UND Departmental Histories

This departmental history was written on the occasion of the UND Quasquicentennial in 2008.

Center For Health Promotion And Prevention Research, Louise E. Diers, Nancy Vogeltanz-Holm

UND Departmental Histories

This departmental history was written on the occasion of the UND Quasquicentennial in 2008.

Department Of Anatomy And Cell Biology: 1983-2007, Garl K. Rieke

UND Departmental Histories

This departmental history was written on the occasion of the UND Quasquicentennial in 2008.

The Best Way To Assure The Future Is To Invent It: The Und Wellness Center, Nikki Seabloom

UND Departmental Histories

This departmental history was written on the occasion of the UND Quasquicentennial in 2008.

Center For Rural Health, Brad Gibbens

UND Departmental Histories

This departmental history was written on the occasion of the UND Quasquicentennial in 2008.

Student Health Services, John A. Swenson, Pat Campbell

UND Departmental Histories

This departmental history was written on the occasion of the UND Quasquicentennial in 2008.

History Of The Department Of Physical Therapy, University Of North Dakota

UND Departmental Histories

This departmental history was written on the occasion of the UND Quasquicentennial in 2008.

History Of The Department Of Internal Medicine, Barb Schuetz, Reed T. Keller, William P. Newman

UND Departmental Histories

This departmental history was written on the occasion of the UND Quasquicentennial in 2008.

The Effect Of Question Order On Reporting Physical Activity And Walking Behavior, Brent E. Hutto, Patricia A. Sharpe, Michelle L. Granner, Cheryl L. Addy, Steven P. Hooker

Faculty Publications

Background: Question order might affect self-reported regular physical activity (PA) measured with items from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) PA module. Methods: A telephone survey was conducted using 2 forms (N = 1004, N = 212) with varying PA question order. The standard form presented moderate-PA, vigorous-PA, and walking questions, in that order, whereas the alternate form presented walking questions, followed by moderate-PA, and then vigorous-PA questions. Weighted, adjusted rates of vigorous PA, walking, meeting the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommendation for moderate or vigorous PA, and moderate PA from each form were compared. Results: …

An Uncertain Privilege: Implied Waiver And The Eviseration Of The Psychotherapist Patient Privilege In The Federal Courts, Deirdre M. Smith

Faculty Publications

Twelve years ago in Jaffee v. Redmond, 518 U.S. 1 (1996), the United States Supreme Court first recognized a federal common law psychotherapist-patient privilege and held that federal courts must protect confidential communications arising in psychotherapy despite the "likely evidentiary benefit" of such communications. This article examines the sharply conflicting authority in the federal courts that has developed since that landmark decision on the question of whether a plaintiff to a civil lawsuit waives the psychotherapist-patient privilege merely by seeking emotional distress damages. The federal courts' inconsistent and unprincipled approaches to this question renders the privilege itself nearly illusory and …

Cultural Diversity: Pain Beliefs And Treatment Among Mexican-Americans, African-Americans, Chinese-Americans And Japanese-Americans, Anthony J. Alvarado

Senior Honors Theses and Projects

The purpose of this project was to examine culture and the impact it has on the pain experience. Pain, albeit acute or chronic, is an important subject to understand because it can have detrimental effects on the body if not properly managed. Culture has been found to be a factor that influences one’s pain experience and thus the need for healthcare professionals to acknowledge this is imperative. The cultures examined in this paper include: Mexican- Americans, African-Americans, Chinese-Americans and Japanese-Americans. Within these four cultural groups their beliefs about the origin of pain, physical responses to pain, health and illness beliefs …

Pdgf-Driven Proliferation, Migration, And Il8 Chemokine Secretion In Human Corneal Fibroblasts Involve Jak2-Stat3 Signaling Pathway, Neeraj Vij, Ajay Sharma, Mahesh Thakkar, Sunilima Sinha, Rajiv R. Mohan

Pharmacy Faculty Articles and Research

Purpose: Platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF) is associated with corneal fibroblast migration and proliferation and plays an important role in corneal wound healing. However, the intracellular mechanisms of PDGF-mediated functions in corneal fibroblasts are poorly understood. We tested the hypothesis that PDGF functional activities in the cornea involve the Janus kinase-2/signal transducers and activators of transcription-3 (JAK2-STAT3) signaling pathway and whether PDGF induces the expression of suppressors of cytokine signaling 3 (SOCS3), belonging to the novel family of feedback regulators of cytokine and growth factor activities.

Methods: Human corneal fibroblast (HSF) cultures were used as an in vitro model for functional …

Forging New Directions: Launching A Scholarly Communications Initiative, Cathy C. Sarli

Becker Library Publications and Presentations

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Innovative Integration Of Web 2.0 Applications To Enhance Library-Based Bioinformatics Support, Kristi L. Holmes, Ellen Dubinsky, Lili Wang

Becker Library Publications and Presentations

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The Desk Set 50 Years Later, Susan Fowler, Misty Carney

Becker Library Publications and Presentations

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Bibliographic Instruction In A Pediatric Teaching Hospital, Susan Fowler

Becker Library Publications and Presentations

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Moving Forward: Tackling Stigma In A Tanzanian Community, Laura Nyblade, Kerry Macquarrie, Gideon Kwesigabo, Aparna Jain, Lusajo Kajula, Fausta Philip, William Henerico Tibesigwa, Jessie K. Mbwambo

HIV and AIDS

The International Center for Research on Women, the Muhimbili University College of the Health Sciences, the Population Council, and Family Health International conducted an evaluation of a community-based effort to reduce stigma surrounding HIV infections in a peri-urban community in Tanzania. Results presented a mixed, but hopeful, picture for a way forward in tackling stigma at the community level. Tackling stigma requires that the individuals tasked with doing this undergo personal change. Programs can start by focusing stigma-reduction efforts on a smaller, more manageable geographical area and adding specific anti-stigma components to their portfolio of activities. Engaging community opinion leaders …

Feasibility, Acceptability, Effect, And Cost Of Integrating Counseling And Testing For Hiv Within Family Planning Services In Kenya, Wilson Liambila, Charlotte E. Warren, Saiqa Mullick, Ian Askew, Rick Homan, Ibrahim Mohammed, Robert Ayisi, Margaret Gitau, Josephine Kibaru, Mary W. Gathitu, Judith Maua, Helton Jilo, Juma Mwangi, John Njoroge, Anthony K. Wanyoro, Peter Mohammed Njuguna, Andrew Mboche

Reproductive Health

FRONTIERS supported the Division of Reproductive Health and the National AIDS and STI Control Program of the Kenya Ministry of Health to design, implement, and compare two models of integrating counseling and testing (CT) for HIV within family planning (FP) services in terms of their feasibility, acceptability, cost, and effect on the voluntary use of CT, as well as the quality of FP services. The study demonstrated that both models were feasible and acceptable to providers and to clients as means of integrating and linking HIV prevention counseling, condom promotion, and counseling and testing with FP services, and are effective …

Palliative Sedation: An Ethical Option Of Last Resort, Rebecca A. Mcateer

Quill & Scope

In the wake of extensive discussion regarding the ethics of euthanasia and physician assisted suicide, a more subtle debate is evolving around the topic of palliative sedation. Specifically, this is the administration of sedatives to terminally ill patients to relieve severe, treatment-refractory suffering due to the underlying illness. Palliative sedation has not been made obsolete by recent advances in pain management and symptom control; instead, it retains a vital role in managing select patients at the end of life. Rather than merely a disguised form of euthanasia, it is a morally distinct, ethically permissible option when exercised within appropriate limits.

Caged, Edward Yap

Quill & Scope

Caged was written during test week to represent the author’s feelings towards his expectations of medical school and the reality of medical school. The poem represents a struggle of the author’s own psyche to come to terms with what he has gotten himself into, the possibilities that could have existed otherwise, and his struggle in deciding to stay. The style in which the author presents the poem is in effort to impart the feeling of being constrained, and for the reader to feel the author’s helplessness.

Ignorant, Vedika Nehra

Quill & Scope

'One week of rest...Perhaps the television is wrong...A forced apathy guards every hello...A thirty-dollar prescription...Peaches cost more than pasta.'

Infant Mortality, April Tantillo

Quill & Scope

Despite an overall downward trend in neonatal and post neonatal deaths in recent years, the United States continues to rank poorly among developed nations for infant mortality. According to the Central Intelligence Agency's World Factbook, the United States ranked 180 out of 221 countries in 2007 (with the lowest infant mortality rate belonging to the country ranked 221). This paper seeks to explore continuing racial and socioeconomic disparities among U.S. women and their contribution to this disheartening truth.

Childhood Obesity, Richard Anderson

Quill & Scope

Childhood overweight and obesity are at an all-time high this country. This is discouraging because overweight and obese children are at a significantly increased risk of becoming obese adults. Treating the obese is expensive, resulting in a sizable contribution to total healthcare expenditures. Thus, it seems logical that we need to treat the problem in children to avoid having another generation of overweight and obese adults. School-based programs which push nutrition education and increased physical activity during the school day can help decrease childhood overweight and obesity. These programs produce excellent results and could be very cost-effective.

On The Books: Reading Overtreated, Jeffrey Eliason

Quill & Scope

Book review of Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine is Making Us Sicker and Poorer by Shannon Brownlee.

Reflection On Medical Disunity, Poonam Kaushal

Quill & Scope

How does a physician endure the administrative and political pressure that often times, conflict and antagonize proper medical decisions? Having witnessed the problem for the first time in a doctor’s office, the author recognized that the health care problems do not innately begin with the insurance companies, hospital administrators or even an HMO, but with physicians failing to unite behind the common goal of caring for the health their patients. When physicians fail to overcome the aspects of a system that do not serve patients needs, they succumb to a flawed system that inevitably and fatally reigns over medical outcomes.

Warranties For Your Flat-Screen – Why Not For Your Bypass Surgery?, Anil Joseph Kulangara

Quill & Scope

If Health Care Delivery is a business, and patients are consumers, what is the product they’re buying? Who is liable for that product’s quality? If someone purchases a television set, they get a warranty. That warranty is the manufacturer’s guarantee to the customer that their company will be responsible for repairing or replacing that product should it prove to be defective within a few days of purchase. Could medicine ever be treated the same way? The following article describes Geisinger Health System’s ProvenCareSM program, which establishes flat package pricing and a 90-day “warranty” for Coronary Artery Bypass Grafts (CABGs).

Racial Disparities In The Us Healthcare System, J. Paul Nielsen

Quill & Scope

Provider mentality regarding minorities, both overt and subconscious, likely affects the quality of healthcare delivered. Survey research suggests that most (between 50-75%) Caucasian people believe minorities are less intelligent, more prone to violence, and less likely to be employed. More physicians identify themselves as Caucasian than all other races combined. One in five Spanish-speaking Latinos reports not seeking healthcare due to language barriers. Even when they have overcome barriers to getting healthcare, minority populations are still less likely than Caucasians to receive certain common medical procedures.

What?? There’S A Genocide? Where?, Amaka Ozah, Farzana Nuruzzaman

Quill & Scope

Genocide is not a subject that people like to talk about, but the fact of the matter is that it does exist today. The genocide that is being referred to is that which is occurring in Darfur, Sudan. This genocide has claimed over 400,000 lives and displaced more than 2.5 million people since 2003. As the genocide continues, out of the sorrow arises the stories of healthcare professionals who have devoted their lives to providing medical care in the conflict-ridden countries such as Darfur. Leading the way in providing medical services in Darfur is the International Medical Corps.

Psychological Stress And Immune Function, Allison Rubin

Quill & Scope

Dr. Henry Maudsley said, "The sorrow which has no vent in tears may make other organs weep." The medical community has always acknowledged that psychological stress can affect physical wellbeing, even though the mechanism was not always known. Now we know that this phenomenon is mediated by the body’s response to external stress and a person who does not cope with stress appropriately can experience immunosuppression. This phenomenon is especially important for the already immunosuppressed HIV+ population because life stresses specific to HIV+ people may contribute to disease progression. Furthermore, improving life stress in this population is linked with increased …