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Medical News Access to Asthma Meds, Plus Flu Vaccines, Keep Kids with Asthma Healthy Kids need flu shots to prevent asthma flares, and medications available in school to keep 86 percent in class, according to two studies being presented at the American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology (ACAAI) Annual Scientific Meeting. – American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology (ACAAI) American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology (ACAAI) Annual Scientific Meeting Embargo expired on 11-Nov-2016 at 00:05 ET Many Doctors Still Don’t Know Facts About Penicillin Allergy If you think you’re allergic to penicillin, but have never been tested, ask for a referral to an allergist to confirm the allergy. Many physicians whose patients have “penicillin allergy” in their charts don’t know that frequently, a penicill... – American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology (ACAAI) American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology (ACAAI) Annual Scientific Meeting Embargo expired on 11-Nov-2016 at 00:05 ET Odds of Having Asthma 53 Percent Higher in Food Deserts Living in a food desert – an urban area where it is difficult to buy affordable or good-quality fresh food – means you’re at increased risk to have asthma. Children who were studied who did not have access to fresh fruits and vegetables had hi... – American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology (ACAAI) American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology (ACAAI) Annual Scientific Meeting Embargo expired on 11-Nov-2016 at 00:05 ET School Staff Know More Than They Think They Do About Treating Anaphylaxis A study being presented at the American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology (ACAAI) Annual Scientific Meeting found only 18 percent of non-nursing school staff surveyed felt very confident in their ability to recognize anaphylaxis symptoms. On... – American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology (ACAAI) American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology (ACAAI) Annual Scientific Meeting Embargo expired on 11-Nov-2016 at 00:05 ET Teens with Asthma Almost Twice as Likely to Smoke as Their Healthy Counterparts Curiosity is a driving factor in why most kids start smoking, and the same is true for kids with asthma. A study presented at the American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology (ACAAI) Annual Scientific Meeting found adolescents with asthma were... – American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology (ACAAI) American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology (ACAAI) Annual Scientific Meeting Embargo expired on 11-Nov-2016 at 00:05 ET When and How to Introduce Peanut-Containing Foods to Reduce Allergy Risk Parents may be confused with how and when to introduce peanut-containing foods to their infants. Presentations at the American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology (ACAAI) Annual Scientific Meeting will offer guidance, based on soon to be releas... – American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology (ACAAI) American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology (ACAAI) Annual Scientific Meeting Embargo expired on 11-Nov-2016 at 00:05 ET Study Uncovers Link Between Constipation and Kidney Disease • Individuals with constipation had a 13% higher likelihood of developing chronic kidney disease and a 9% higher likelihood of developing kidney failure compared with individuals without constipation. • More severe constipation was linked with a... – American Society of Nephrology (ASN) doi: 10.1681/ASN.2016060656 Embargo expired on 10-Nov-2016 at 17:00 ET DNA-Based Zika Vaccine Showed Protection From Infection, Brain Damage and Death In this preclinical study, 100 percent of the animal models were protected from Zika after vaccination followed by a challenge with the Zika virus. In addition, they were protected from degeneration in the cerebral cortex and hippocampal areas of the... – Wistar Institute npj Vaccines, Nov-2016 Embargo expired on 10-Nov-2016 at 10:00 ET Nova Southeastern University Scientists Study Disease That Impacts Hundreds of Thousands of Gulf War Veterans At least a quarter of the 700,000 soldiers who fought in the 1991 Gulf War suffer from a debilitating disease called Gulf War illness (GWI). – Nova Southeastern University Embargo expired on 11-Nov-2016 at 00:00 ET Moffitt Researchers Predict Melanoma Patient Responses to Treatment Through Mathematical Modeling, Virtual Clinical Trial Researchers from Moffitt Cancer Center’s Integrated Mathematical Oncology (IMO) Department are overcoming the limitations of common preclinical experiments and clinical trials by studying cancer through mathematical modeling. – Moffitt Cancer Center Study: UChicago’s CommunityRx Intervention Helps Patients Find Community Resources New research from the University of Chicago Medicine shows a program that uses electronic medical records to connect Chicagoans with health resources in their community could be a model for other efforts nationally. – University of Chicago Medical Center 1C1CMS330997-02-00 Brain Scans Could Help Predict Response to Psychotherapy for Anxiety and Depression Brain imaging scans may one day provide useful information on the response to psychotherapy in patients with depression or anxiety, according to a review of current research in the November/December issue of the Harvard Review of Psychiatry, publishe... – Wolters Kluwer Health: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins Harvard Review of Psychiatry New Therapeutic Vaccine Approach Holds Promise for HIV Remission A study led by researchers at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC), in collaboration with scientists at Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (WRAIR), Janssen Vaccines & Prevention B.V., one of the Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson... – Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Nature ; W81XWH-11-2-0174; AI096040; AI124377; AI1266030 Hazardous Chemicals Discovered in Flavored E-Cigarette Vapor Scientists stress need for thorough research into flavored e-liquids. – Desert Research Institute (DRI) Environmental Science & Technology Researchers Restore Leg Movement in Primates Using Wireless Neural Interface An international team of scientists has used a wireless "brain-spinal interface" to bypass spinal cord injuries in a pair of rhesus macaques, restoring intentional walking movement to a temporarily paralyzed leg. The researchers, who describe their ... – Brown University Nature Arthritis Drug Boosts Effectiveness of Antidepressant Medication Giving severely depressed patients the arthritis drug celecoxib (Celebrex®) dramatically boosted the effectiveness of their antidepressant medication, a Loyola study has found. – Loyola University Health System Fifth International Congress on Psychiatry and the Neurosciences Chronic Dry Mouth Cured With One Simple Surgery at Loyola For almost a decade, Gary Hackney suffered from painfully debilitating dry mouth caused by treatment for stage IV thyroid cancer. He was taking more than 20 medications per day to treat dry mouth until he met with Carol Bier-Laning, MD, a head and ne... – Loyola University Health System Monday Helps Quitters Stay Smoke Free for the Holidays The Quit & Stay Quit Monday goal is to use this year’s Great American Smokeout as the kickoff to kick the habit. In the weeks that follow, QSQM stands ready to provide proven tobacco cessation tips and tools to help quitters stay smoke free through... – Monday Campaigns Hospitalists Transform Patient Care at NYU Lutheran At NYU Lutheran Medical Center and hospitals nationwide, a new team of doctors called “hospitalists” have become a regular presence, specially trained to deliver comprehensive care to inpatients. – NYU Lutheran Medical Center UF/IFAS Expert: Five Tips for Avoiding Common Holiday Health Pitfalls Have you ever reached the end of a holiday buffet with a plate filled with more food than you intended? The holiday season is primetime for overeating, said Nan Jensen, family and consumer sciences agent with University of Florida Institute of Food a... – University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences The Medical Minute: Why Some Adapt to Time Changes Easier Than Others Whether you barely noticed the time change or are still feeling the effects of the end of Daylight Saving Time, you probably have your genes to blame. – Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center Mount Sinai Heart Presents Late-Breaking Clinical Trials and Research at AHA 2016 Physicians, fellows, and researchers from Mount Sinai Health System are presenting late-breaking clinical trials and research updates at the American Heart Association’s Scientific Sessions in New Orleans, LA, November 12-15, 2016. – Mount Sinai Health System 10 Tips to Avoid Weight Gain During the Holidays The holiday season is officially in full gear and with it comes the tempting Thanksgiving-to-New-Year’s food fest. During the holiday season, good eating habits spiral out of control and exercise plans are thrown out the window resulting in undesir... – Houston Methodist Children’s Hospital Los Angeles Expert Available to Speak on Sudden Acute Flaccid Myelitis Spike A rare neurological disease has recently taken center stage in the United States. Acute flaccid myelitis (AFM) has been identified by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) as the cause of eight hospitalizations in the Seattle-area alon... Expert Available – Childrens Hospital Los Angeles Johns Hopkins School of Nursing Faculty Sarah Szanton Named Top Influencer of Aging Johns Hopkins School of Nursing Associate Professor Sarah L. Szanton, PhD, ANP, FAAN, was named one of the top 50 "2016 Influencers in Aging" by Next Avenue, a digital publication covering issues for older Americans. – Johns Hopkins School of Nursing Temple Attains $20 Million Award for Materials, Brain Injury Research U.S. Army Research Lab funding is one of the largest awards in university history – Temple University Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Receives Award From United States Department of Defense for Innovative Treatment of Veterans with Gulf War Illness Researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have been awarded a U.S. Army Medical Research grant to conduct a study on the use of non-invasive vagus nerve stimulation (nVNS) therapy to treat veterans of the 1990-1991 Gulf War who have ... – Mount Sinai Health System International Consortium Receives $36.9 Million Grant to Fight Typhoid Typhoid fever remains a serious global problem: it kills almost a quarter of a million people annually. To help promote typhoid vaccines, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has given a $36.9 million grant to the University of Maryland School of Medi... – University of Maryland School of Medicine Thermo Fisher Scientific Collaborates with Rutgers Engineering Research Center Rutgers and Thermo Fisher Scientific have collaborated to foster Rutgers’ research on continuous manufacturing techniques for pharmaceutical discovery. With support from Thermo Fisher, C-SOPS has obtained a twin screw extruder/granulator, which wil... – Rutgers' Office of Research and Economic Development Researchers at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles Receive Grant to Study New Way of Battling Resistant Cancer Cells Yong-Mi Kim, MD, PhD, of Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, has been awarded a 3 year translational research program grant from the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society to study a novel approach to eradicating minimal residual disease in patients with acute l... – Children's Hospital Los Angeles Saban Research Institute Study to Explore Detection of Learning Disabilities Through Physical Movement An Indiana University physicist and neuroscientist who studies how physical movement can be used to detect autism in children and adults has received support from the National Science Foundation. The $750,000 NSF grant to IU scientist Jorge V. José ... – Indiana University 1640909 Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Appoints New Nursing Leader New nursing leader named at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Anne Gross to start in new role on December 1, 2016. – Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Science News When Fish Come to School, Kids Get Hooked on Science A program that brings live fish into K-12 classrooms to teach the fundamentals of biology not only helps students learn, but improves their attitudes about science, a study finds. – Johns Hopkins University PLOS Biology, Nov-2016 Embargo expired on 10-Nov-2016 at 14:00 ET Smartphones Offer Promise in Better Gauging Rural Life, Researchers Find The use of smartphones enhances self-reporting of weather incidents, school attendance, illness, and other aspects of daily life in rural areas, a team of researchers has found. Its pilot study indicates that such technologies have the potential to t... – New York University PLOS ONE Embargo expired on 10-Nov-2016 at 14:00 ET Using Pectin to Advance Neuron-Like Electronic Systems A team of Italian scientists have built on previous work in this field using pectin with a high degree of methylation as the medium to create a new architecture of hybrid device with a double-layered polyelectrolyte that alone drives memristive behav... – American Institute of Physics (AIP) Polysaccarides-based gels and solid-state electronic devices with memresistive properties: synergy between polyaniline ...; AIP Advances Simulations Show Swirling Rings, Whirlpool-Like Structure in Subatomic 'Soup' Powerful supercomputer simulations of high-energy collisions between atomic cores provide new insights about the complex structure of a superhot fluid called the quark-gluon plasma. – Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Physical Review Letters, Nov. 1, 2016 Study: Climate Change Already Dramatically Disrupting All Elements of Nature Global changes in temperature due to human-induced climate change have already impacted every aspect of life on Earth from genes to entire ecosystems, with increasingly unpredictable consequences for humans – according to a new study published in t... – Wildlife Conservation Society Science Completing First Worldwide Scan for Satellite Calibration Sites A research team at the South Dakota State University Image Processing Laboratory has completed the first worldwide search for new satellite calibration sites through a partnership with Google Earth. The discovery of more sites may make daily satellit... – South Dakota State University Nature Already Dramatically Impacted by Climate Change, Study Reveals A study led by UF/IFAS researcher Brett Scheffers shows that every aspect of nature has been affected by climate change. – University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences DOI: 10.1126/science.aaf7671 Nature Already Dramatically Impacted by Climate Change, Study Reveals Global climate change has already impacted every aspect of life on Earth, from genes to entire ecosystems, according to a new University of Florida study. – University of Florida Science Climate Change Already Dramatically Disrupting All Elements of Nature, Three New Bird Species Discovered in Africa, The Fastest Flyer in the Animal Kingdom, and More in the Wildlife News Source The latest research and features on Animals in the Wildlife News Source – Newswise How Lightning Strikes Can Improve Storm Forecasts Research shows that real-time lightning observations could significantly improve forecasts of large storm events. – University of Washington Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology Supermoon? Meh. It May Be Closer, but It Won’t Be Super Duper NASA, Space.com, Sky & Telescope magazine, observatories everywhere — just about any entity with a stake in the night sky — have been busy telling us how great the full moon will be Nov. 14 because the satellite will be closer to Earth than it’... – University of Wisconsin-Madison American Indian Engineers Present Inaugural Award to Sandia Diversity Specialist Marie Capitan, a diversity workforce specialist at Sandia National Laboratories, is one of five professionals honored this weekend at the 2016 AISES National Conference in Minneapolis. She will accept the Blazing Flame Award, which honors an outstand... – Sandia National Laboratories The Exascale Computing Project Awards $34 Million for Software Development The Department of Energy’s Exascale Computing Project (ECP) today announced the selection of 35 software development proposals representing 25 research and academic organizations. – Department of Energy, Office of Science Two ORNL Researchers Elected Fellows of American Nuclear Society Two researchers from the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have been elected fellows of the American Nuclear Society. Alan S. Icenhour and Jess C. Gehin were recognized for their outstanding scientific and technical leadership in... – Oak Ridge National Laboratory Environmental policy center to convene Great Lakes mayors The Freshwater Lab, a University of Illinois at Chicago-based environmental research and policy center, will host a Great Lakes mayoral summit in 2017 to address the region's basin issues, water, energy and natural resources. – University of Illinois at Chicago DHS Accepting Applications for 2017 Homeland Security STEM Summer Internships DHS S&T is now accepting applications for summer internships in homeland security related science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) for 2017. Interested applicants may apply until December 7. – Homeland Security's Science & Technology Directorate World-Leading HPC Centers Partner to Form Accelerated Computing Institute Leaders in hybrid accelerated high-performance computing in the United States, Japan, and Switzerland have signed a memorandum of understanding establishing an international institute dedicated to common goals, the sharing of HPC expertise, and forwa... – Oak Ridge National Laboratory Lifestyle & Social Sciences The Kids Are Alright: Youth Are Civically Engaged, Despite Income Inequality Income inequality is linked with greater civic engagement among youth, particularly among youth of color and those of lower socioeconomic status, finds a study by NYU Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development. – New York University Journal of Youth and Adolescence, Nov. 2016 Zebrafish Spark Imagination for Science Careers in Cash-Strapped Public Schools A five-year evaluation involving nearly 20,000 kindergarten through 12th grade under-resourced public school students shows that taking part in Project BioEYES, with one center based in Philadelphia at the Perelman School of Medicine at the Universit... – Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania Arkansas Doctoral Student Researches Privacy Awareness on Social Media A University of Arkansas at Little Rock doctoral student is out to discover how knowledgeable people are about their privacy on social media. Terry Williams, a doctoral student in the integrated computing program, is using a series of surveys and pri... – University of Arkansas at Little Rock Joshua Tucker, Director of NYU’s Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia, Available for Comment on Post-Election Relations with U.S. NYU’s Joshua Tucker, director of the Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia, is available for comment on matters pertaining to U.S.-Russia relations under the Trump administration. Expert Available – New York University NY Community Health Leaders Rally Nov. 14 to Urge State to Declare Diabetes a Public Health Emergency At a groundbreaking rally on World Diabetes Day, Nov. 14, NY community health leaders demand the state declare a public health emergency as the first step in effective response to uncontrolled epidemic devastating millions – Health People GW to Establish New Mayberg Center for Jewish Education and Leadership The George Washington University has launched a new center focused on Jewish education and professional leadership. – George Washington University Statoil Partnership Bolsters UT Austin Graduate Research and Supports Longhorn Athletics Statoil, an international energy company based in Norway, has signed a $2.5 million partnership renewal agreement with The University of Texas at Austin to support graduate student research. – University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin) Northwestern’s Medill Names Social Justice Fellowship Winners A diverse group of Chicago journalists have received Social Justice News Nexus fellowships from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications. The fellows will report on environmental and energy j... – Northwestern University Joel Benenson, Stephanie Cutter, Brian Baker, and More on Election 2016—Live Streamed Conference at NYU Florence, Nov. 14-15 Joel Benenson and Stephanie Cutter, senior strategists for Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, and Brian Baker, who led a super PAC in support of Donald Trump, will be among the speakers at “Inside American Politics,” a Nov. 14-15 conferen... – New York University Marketplace Bak USA’s Link with UB Is Vital and Growing Stronger The fast-growing 63-person firm has emerged as a successful social enterprise whose mission is twofold: to build and sell computers, and to hire locals – including new immigrants and people from the surrounding East Side neighborhood. Reviving manu... – University at Buffalo