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Nurse at Rush Named AHA’s Volunteer of the Year
The American Heart Association (AHA) has chosen Lynne T. Braun, PhD, CNP, FAHA, FAAN, to receive its Healthcare Volunteer of the Year Award.
Braun is a nurse practitioner in the Preventive Cardiology Center and the Heart Center for Women at Rush University Medical Center. She is also a professor in the Department of Adult Health and Gerontological Nursing in the Rush University College of Nursing.
Braun will receive the award today during the AHA Awards Luncheon in Irving, Texas. The award recognizes a health care volunteer who has made outstanding contributions to the care of cardiovascular disease and stroke patients or to improvements in health care delivery.
For the past 25 years, Dr. Braun has been front and center in the planning and execution of practically every professional and public education activity developed by the American Heart Association in Chicago,” observes Kevin Harker, executive vice president of the AHA’s Midwest affiliate.
Ghrelin implicated in why we choose comfort foods
We are one step closer to deciphering why some stressed people indulge in chocolate, mashed potatoes, ice cream and other high-calorie, high-fat comfort foods.
UT Southwestern Medical Center-led findings, in a mouse study, suggest that ghrelin the so-called hunger hormone is involved in triggering this reaction to high stress situations.
This helps explain certain complex eating behaviors and may be one of the mechanisms by which obesity develops in people exposed to psychosocial stress, said Dr. Jeffrey Zigman, assistant professor of internal medicine and psychiatry and senior author of a study appearing online today and in a future print edition of the Journal of Clinical Investigation. We think these findings are not just abstract and relevant only to mice, but likely are also relevant to humans.
Scientists know that fasting causes ghrelin to be released from the gastrointestinal tract, and that the hormone then plays a role in sending hunger signals to the brain. Dr.
Finding the Latest College Hairstyles
College hairstyles are all about looking fantastic with minor work. From short hair to lengthy hair, you will find types that can be carried out with a handful of bobby pins plus a hair tie, leaving you with just enough time for you to look above your notes and run to class.
Beachy Waves It is possible to accomplish beachy waves by taking one-inch sections of ones hair and wrapping them about a curling iron. Usually do not clamp down the curling iron, as an alternative maintain the ends of your hair to maintain the hair wrapped round the barrel for thirty to 45 seconds. Carry on right up until youve finished curling all of your hair. Spray your entire head with has a light hairspray and let the type set for 3 to five minutes. Run your fingers by means of your hair to upset the curls and also have then commence to take it easy into waves.
Slip on the Headband For an elegant design that is so Blair on Gossip Girl, smooth out your hair using a brush, then pull on the broad headband to cover up messier strands and glimpse instantly polished.
Baylor Study Finds Church Congregations Blind to Mental Illness
Mental illness of a family member destroys the family’s connection with the religious community, a new study by Baylor University psychologists has found, leading many affected families to leave the church and their faith behind.
The study shows that while families with a member who has mental illness have less involvement in faith practices, they would like their congregation to provide assistance with those issues. However, the rest of the church community seemed to overlook their need entirely. In fact, the study found that while help from the church with depression and mental illness was the second priority of families with mental illness, it ranked 42nd on the list of requests from families that did not have a family member with mental illness.
“The difference in response is staggering, especially given the picture of distress painted by the data: families with mental illness reported twice as many problems and tended to ask for assistance with more immediate or crisis needs compared to other families,” said study co-author Dr.