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During July and August, the Communications Department
distributed three press releases that highlighted studies from our
journals: “For Women With PCOS, Acupuncture And Exercise May Bring Relief, Reduce Risks” Study finds acupuncture and exercise decrease a key marker for disease; http://www.the-aps.org/press/releases/09/29.htm; (American Journal of Physiology – Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology); “Army Study Improves Ability to Predict Drinking Water Needs” Aim to keep troops healthy, cut cost of operations; may also benefit civilians: http://www.the-aps.org/press/releases/09/31.htm; (Journal of Applied Physiology); “Holding Breath for Several Minutes Elevates Marker for Brain Damage” Study Adds to Questions about Whether Free-Diving Is Safe: http://www.the-aps.org/press/releases/09/33.htm; (Journal of Applied Physiology) Among the media outlets that ran online coverage of these releases were About.com, Atlanta Journal Constitution, Austin American Statesman, Forbes, Irish Health, MSN Health & Fitness, National Health Service (UK) Choices, New Scientist, Reuters Health, Science, U.S. News & World Report and The Washington Post. Links to these studies can be found in the press releases. The department also issued two other releases, one that noted that Physiological Reviews has the highest impact factor of any physiology journal. The journal is now number five on the annual Journal Citation Reports (JCR) issued by the Health and Science Business Section of the Thomson Reuters: American Physiological Society’s “Physiological Reviews Ranked Number One Physiology Journal;” Thomson Reuters’ 2008 metrics rank journal first in physiology; http://www.the-aps.org/press/releases/09/30.htm.
The other highlighted the APS conference Sex Steroids and
Gender in Cardiovascular-Renal Physiology and Pathophysiology in
Colorado in July. The release highlighted recent research into the
influence testosterone may play in having a stroke. The department issued two new Life Lines podcast
episodes. Episode 23 “Cool Water” featured Mark Knepper, Heinz Valtin
and Samuel Cheuvront, who discussed the ever-important question: ‘How
much water should you drink?’ The episode also has brief summaries of a
Journal of Applied Physiology study on whether the Cheetah Flex Foot
prosthetic device gives a runner who is a bilateral amputee an unfair
advantage and an American Journal of Physiology – Heart and Circulatory
Physiology study in which adult bone marrow stem cells were used as a
non-invasive therapy to repair cardiac tissue. |