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Massage Therapy Versus Simple Touch to Improve Pain and Mood in Patients with Advanced Cancer

September 16, 2008 | Journal Article

This study compares the use of massage therapy to relieve pain and other symptoms to simple touch therapy for terminally ill individuals.

Are Physicians Discussing Prostate Cancer Screening with Their Patients and Why or Why Not?

July 1, 2007 | Journal Article

This article assessed whether primary care physicians routinely discuss prostate cancer screening with their patients, and explored the barriers to and facilitators of these discussions.

Human Capital News Roundup: Genetic mutations that cause melanoma, depression in adolescents, and more.

July 26, 2012 | Human Capital Blog Post

Around the country, print, broadcast and online media outlets are covering the groundbreaking work of Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) leaders, scholars, fellows and grantees. Some recent examples: The Las Vegas Sun interviewed RWJF Executive N ...

Quotable Quotes about Nursing, June 2009

June 24, 2009 | Story

New and notable quotes on becoming a nurse in your 50s, nurses' role in promoting the public health, and one nurse who is sharing her experience as a cancer survivor with patients.

Human Capital News Roundup: Electronic medical records, reducing gang-related violence, cancer-causing DNA mutations, and more.

May 24, 2012 | Human Capital Blog Post

Around the country, print, broadcast and online media outlets are covering the groundbreaking work of Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) scholars, fellows and grantees. Some recent examples: RWJF Physician Faculty Scholar David G. Bundy, MD, MPH, ...

Human Capital News Roundup: Genome sequencing of tumors, Medicare physician fees, cervical cancer among Latinas, and more.

May 17, 2012 | Human Capital Blog Post

Around the country, print, broadcast and online media outlets are covering the groundbreaking work of Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) scholars, fellows and grantees. Some recent examples: Alejandra Casillas, MD, MPH, an RWJF Clinical Scholar, ...

Human Capital News Roundup: Rising Medicare expenses, community-based health care, breast cancer prevention and more.

February 23, 2012 | Human Capital Blog Post

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) Health & Society Scholars program site director Ana Diez Roux, MD, PhD, MPH, and RWJF Interdisciplinary Nursing Quality Research Initiative (INQRI) co-investigator Christopher Ruhm, PhD, were cited in a Bloomber ...

Three Reports Identify Weaknesses in the Public Health System

March 1, 2005 | Program Result Report

In 2003, the nonprofit advocacy group Trust for America's Health, Washington, developed three reports to highlight the gaps in the nation's public health infrastructure and to build support to strengthen the public health system.

Massachusetts Targets Health Education Program to Native American Women

January 1, 2003 | Program Result Report

Starting in August 1999, the Central Massachusetts Area Health Education Center in Worcester distributed culturally sensitive health information to Native American women of the Nipmuc Nation in central Massachusetts.

Movie "Wit" is a Hit with Medical Students Learning about Care of Dying Patients

February 1, 2007 | Program Result Report

The Wit Film Project is a medical training program using the Emmy Award-winning HBO film adaptation of the stage play Wit to advance education on end-of-life care.

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