Dr. Elizabeth Dowdell, a professor of pediatric nursing at Villanova University's College of Nursing, heard the same thing as she was researching Internet risk behaviors and the victimization of children and adolescents.

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Ruth Northway, professor of learning disability nursing at the University of Glamorgan, said the impetus for the research came from the people with learning disabilities.

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"I feel there's a lot of education that still needs to take place" in the medical community, says Michele Shaw, a professor at Washington State University College of Nursing who studies exercise in children, with a focus on those with asthma.

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Women with metastatic cancer, which has spread beyond the breast and is more likely to be fatal, sometimes feel left out when the focus of awareness is on curable, small tumors, says Christopher Friese, an oncology nurse and assistant professor at the University of Michigan School of Nursing.

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"What we're talking about is making it more possible to help families to continue the care at home if that's what they want to do--and if they do go to a nursing home, to be better nursed, " says Sandra Black, a professor of medicine at the University of Toronto.

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