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Human Capital News Roundup: Lead exposure from soil, breast cancer mortality, climate change, and more.

April 11, 2013 | Human Capital Blog Post

Around the country, print, broadcast and online media outlets are covering the groundbreaking work of RWJF leaders, scholars, fellows and grantees.

Human Capital News Roundup: Care transitions, "chemobrain," medical research funding, and more.

October 4, 2012 | Human Capital Blog Post

Around the country, print, broadcast and online media outlets are covering the groundbreaking work of RWJF leaders, scholars, fellows and grantees.

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 ...

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 ...

Human Capital News Roundup: Nurse faculty shortage, cervical cancer among Latinas, fitness benefits for Medicare beneficiaries, and more.

January 19, 2012 | Human Capital Blog Post

Here’s a sampling of recent news coverage of the work of Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Scholars and Fellows: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) Executive Nurse Fellows alumna Juliann Sebastian, PhD, RN, FAAN, dean of the College of Nursing at th ...

Colorectal Cancer Test Use Among Californians of Mexican Origin

July 1, 2009 | Journal Article

Mexican-Americans' limited English proficiency results in their having fewer recommendations from their doctors for colorectal cancer screening tests.

The Use of Screening Colonoscopy for Patients Cared for by the Department of Veterans Affairs

November 1, 2006 | Journal Article

Colonoscopy has been proposed as the best available screening strategy for colorectal cancer (CRC), one of the most common causes of cancer deaths in men and women. Although it is the most costly and invasive among the choice of five recommended scr ...

Patients' Resistance to Risk Information in Genetic Counseling for BRCA1/2

March 14, 2005 | Journal Article

This study examines how patient risk perception is affected by communication with a health care provider. Researchers examined patients' risk perception about their breast cancer and BRAC1/2 mutation risks before and after a genetic counseling sessi ...

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