Our biological propensity for keeping awake during the day and sleeping at night makes night work a challenge. Now, researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) have found that attention is especially affected during the first night shift. This research appears in the November 28, 2007 edition of PLOS ONE. [click link for full article]

The Association of Women’s Health, Obstetric, and Neonatal Nurses (AWHONN) is proud to announce the receipt of two major contract awards from the Department of Defense (DOD) Patient Safety Program, managed by TRICARE Management Activity (TMA). AWHONN will provide a web-based introductory Fetal Heart Monitoring course, as well as Neonatal and Perinatal Education programs to military health care personnel. [click link for full article]

Martine Extermann, M.D., Ph.D., of the Senior Adult Oncology program at Moffitt Cancer Center, has been elected president of the International Society of Geriatric Oncology (SIOG) for the fall 2008 to 2010 term. The news was announced at SIOG’s eighth meeting Nov. 8 in Madrid, Spain. “We are very proud. Moffitt is definitely one of the leading programs in geriatric oncology around the world. [click link for full article]

Yesterday marked the first day of National Influenza Vaccination Week - November 26 to December 2. This seven-day awareness event is designed to bring attention to the importance of influenza (flu) vaccinations. Tomorrow is Children’s Flu Vaccination Day, and is designed to encourage vaccinations for high-risk children - any child under the age of five. [click link for full article]

An NIH-funded program that combined exercise, nutrition education, field trips and other activities was more successful than a self-esteem program in helping black girls lose weight and keep it off for two years, according to a study presented at an American Heart Association meeting in Orlando, the [click link for full article]

“Election 2008: Presidential Politics and the Resurgence of Health Care Reform,” New England Journal of Medicine: In the NEJM perspective, Jonathan Oberlander, an associate professor of social medicine and of health policy and administration at the [click link for full article]

A new study by UK researchers suggests that women who live in cities and urban areas are at greater risk from breast cancer because they tend to have denser breasts.The study is the work of Dr Nicholas M. Perry, director of The London Breast Institute at The Princess Grace Hospital in London, and colleagues, and was presented yesterday, Monday 26th November, at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA), which is being held in Chicago this week. [click link for full article]

Women who live in urban areas have denser breasts, making them more likely to develop breast cancer, according to a study presented at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA).”Women living in cities need to pay more attention to having regular breast screening,” said Nicholas M. Perry, M.B.B.S., F.R.C.S., F.R.C.R., director of The London Breast Institute at The Princess Grace Hospital in London, U.K. [click link for full article]

Some states say that without “a stable source” of funding for SCHIP this year, they must start planning to freeze enrollment and possibly drop coverage for thousands of children, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. [click link for full article]

Peer pressure, targeted marketing campaigns and bad parenting have all been blamed for increasing materialism in children. Until now, there has been little evidence showing when this drive for material goods emerges in kids and what really causes it. [click link for full article]