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Creatine’s Impact Goes Far Beyond The Weight Room
-It is one of the most popular nutritional performance enhancing supplements for athletes. Studies show creatine can increase muscle mass, strength and exercise performance. But, is it safe?
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Creating Confident Readers With Shelter Dogs
-When it comes to helping young students become confident readers, our four-legged friends may be the key. That is the theory behind PAWS (Physical Activity With Shelters) for Reading.
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The Distinguished Lecture Series 2017 Wraps Up
-The Distinguished Lecture Series (DLS) concluded Thursday afternoon at Rudder Theatre with hundreds of students, staff, and faculty in attendance. Twelve guest speakers within the health education, physical activity, and sport management fields presented and showcased their research throughout the two-day event.
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Open For Research: State Of The Art HCRF
-A new facility on the Texas A&M campus will be a university-wide resource for collaboration on research in nutrition, aging, performance, health and well-being. The College of Education and Human Development held a grand opening celebration for the Human Clinical Research Facility (HCRF) on April 11.
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A Second Wind With COPD
-In 2015, following a number of years of unhealthy habits, Roper was diagnosed with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD). COPD is an irreversible progressive lung disease that causes increased breathlessness. Over 16 million people have the disease in the U.S.
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Transforming Health And Fitness With ESNL
-Women, men, athletes, healthy and unhealthy individuals around the world have seen the impacts of research happening in the Exercise and Sport Nutrition Laboratory (ESNL).
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Partnership Focuses On Protecting Health Of Area First Responders
-Once a week, students in the HSC Sports Medicine Fellowship visit the Applied Exercise Physiology Lab and work with participants in the FITLIFE Program. The Fellows serve as on-site physicians to assess the first responders.
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Human Clinical Research Facility Grand Opening Slated For April 11
-The College of Education and Human Development is marking the completion of its latest facility with a grand opening celebration Tuesday, April 11, at 1 p.m. The state-of-the-art Human Clinical Research Facility, located on John Kimbrough Boulevard, will be a university-wide resource for collaboration on health and wellness research.
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Huffines Discussion 6 Wraps Up
-The Huffines Discussion 6 (HD6) concluded Friday at the Annenberg Presidential Library. Eight leaders in human performance and health education field took the stage and led a set of interactive discussions on research and professional experience.
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Dr. Bloomfield Discusses Astronaut Health For Future Mars Missions
-Following the passing of a recent bipartisan bill allocating billions of dollars toward sending American astronauts to Mars, researchers have turned their focus toward preparation for the large undertaking. Professor & Associate Dean for Research Dr. Sue Bloomfield is looking into different health factors that will affect astronauts.
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Fish Oil May Help Improve Mood In Veterans
-New research has revealed that low concentration of fish oil in the blood and lack of physical activity may contribute to the high levels of depressed mood among soldiers returning from combat.
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Huffines Discussion 6
-The Department of Health and Kinesiology will host the Huffines Discussion 6 on November 11 at 1 p.m. in the Annenberg Presidential Conference Center. National leaders throughout the human performance and sport medicine fields will meet to discuss the future of health and wellness practices across the nation.
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An Army ROTC Summer: A Professor’s Experience
-Despite her time serving in the military, Theresa Wenzel never expected what she experienced during a recent visit to Fort Knox, Kentucky.
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Professor Discusses Dangers Of Pokémon Go
-It’s taking over the headlines around the world – people being injured playing Pokémon Go, a location-based augmented reality game.
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Faculty Discuss Impact Of Technology On Children’s Development
-For children in today’s society, technologies like smartphones and tablets are commonplace. In fact, children rely on technology for the majority of their play, spending up to eight hours each day with some sort of entertainment technology. The problem is, there is very little research on what impact those technologies have on children’s development.
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Telehealth Clinic Serves Increasing Mental Health Needs
-The Department of Educational Psychology is currently partnering with health resource facilities in surrounding counties to meet the increasing mental health needs of patients through services provided by its Telehealth Counseling Clinic (TCC).
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Professor Uses Spice Painting To Slow Progress Of Dementia
-More than five million Americans are living with some form of dementia and one in nine people age 65 and older has Alzheimer’s disease. While researchers have not found a cure for dementia, one professor in the Department of Health and Kinesiology at Texas A&M University is using her service learning project to help slow down the progress for a group of dementia patients in College Station.
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CEHD Student Uses Internship To Serve Refugees
-Widespread outreach is something that senior Laura Nguyen takes very seriously. The community health major is currently doing an internship in Washington D.C. to help advocate for fleeing refugees, notably in the Syrian crisis, through the GenUN initiative of the United Nations Association (UNA).
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Research Gives Clinicians Comparative Benchmarks For Collegiate Athletes
-Sudden death in young athletes is rare but most are due to undiagnosed cardiac conditions. Ensuring the health and safety of student athletes is a top priority for the Department of Athletics at Texas A&M, in collaboration with the Department of Health and Kinesiology and the Health Science Center College of Medicine.
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The Impact Of Health, Kinesiology And Sport Management On Society: DLS 2016
-This year’s focus was on the “Impact of Health, Kinesiology and Sport Management on Society.”
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Clinical Study Research Found To Lower Death Rates In Patients
-The study was conducted by the Center for Translational Research in Aging & Longevity director Dr. Nicolaas Deutz and proved the necessity of proper nutrition during the recovery process.
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Human Clinical Research Facility Groundbreaking Thursday
-Envisioned by the Department of Health & Kinesiology, it will house both the Center for Translational Research in Aging and Longevity (CTRAL), headed by Dr. Nicolaas Deutz, and the Exercise & Sport Nutrition Lab (ESNL), headed by Dr. Richard Kreider.
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Advocating For Healthy Communities
-Every seven minutes a child is bullied at school, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.
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