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Medical News Racial Disparities Exist in Children’s Access to Kidney Transplantation • In a study of children with kidney failure who were followed for a median of 7.1 years, black children had a 36% higher risk of dying than white children. The increase risk was mostly attributed to differences in access to transplantation. • H... – American Society of Nephrology (ASN) doi: 10.1681/ASN.2016060706 Embargo expired on 29-Dec-2016 at 17:00 ET Breast and Cervical Cancer Screening Rates Are Low in Women with Advanced Kidney Disease • In a recent study, most women with advanced chronic kidney disease had not received breast or cervical cancer screening in recent years. • Older age, greater comorbidities, and lower income were associated with a lower rate of screening. – American Society of Nephrology (ASN) Embargo expired on 29-Dec-2016 at 17:00 ET Penn Experts Call for Expansion of Molecular Imaging in Precision Cancer Care New molecular imaging technologies can make it easier to diagnose, monitor, and treat cancers while potentially saving patients from undergoing therapies that are likely to be ineffective and playing a role in minimizing side effects. – Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania Embargo expired on 29-Dec-2016 at 11:00 ET Scripps Florida Scientists Develop Drug Discovery Approach to Predict Health Impact of Endocrine-Disrupting Chemicals Breast cancer researchers from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have developed a novel approach for identifying how chemicals in the environment—called environmental estrogens—can produce infertility, abnormal reproduct... – Scripps Research Institute PHS 5R37DK015556; 5R01DK077085; 2R01GM070862-10A1; 1359369 Embargo expired on 29-Dec-2016 at 12:00 ET Possible Treatment Targets Found for Pre-Malignant Bone Marrow Disorders Cincinnati Children’s researchers report in Nature Immunology a new mechanism that controls blood cell function and several possible molecular targets for treating myelodysplasia syndromes (MDS) – a group of pre-malignant disorders in which bone ... – Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center Nature Immunology Dec. 26, 2016 American Journal of Nursing Announces 2016 Book of the Year Awards The American Journal of Nursing (AJN) is pleased to announce the 2016 winners of its annual Book of the Year Awards. Winners in 19 categories appear in the journal’s January issue. AJN, the “leading voice of nursing since 1900,” is published by... – Wolters Kluwer Health: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins American Journal of Nursing Psychiatric Conditions Linked to Increased Risk of Long-Term Opioid Use A wide range of pre-existing psychiatric and behavioral conditions and the use of psychoactive drugs could be important risk factors leading to long-term use of opioid pain medications, reports a study in PAIN®, the official publication of the Inter... – Wolters Kluwer Health: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins Pain Scripps Florida Scientists Uncover New Way to Defeat Therapy-Resistant Prostate Cancer A new study led by scientists from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) sheds light on a signaling circuit in cells that drives therapy resistance in prostate cancer. The researchers found that targeting the components of this ... – Scripps Research Institute 1R01CA140956; 1R01CA197944; 1R21NS073098; W81XWH-09-1-0533; W81XWH-14-1-0051; W81XWH-15-1-0235; 09BB-13 Round or 'Shaped' Breast Implants? Even Plastic Surgeons Can't Tell the Difference Looking at before-and-after photos, plastic surgeons and nurses can't tell whether breast augmentation surgery was done using conventional round implants or newer anatomically shaped implants, reports a study in the January issue of Plastic and Recon... – Wolters Kluwer Health: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Is Patient Satisfaction Relevant? Plastic Surgeons Call for Better Rating Tools Patient satisfaction has become an important quality measure in the US healthcare system. But some plastic surgeons question the value of subjective patient satisfaction ratings—suggesting that they might even lead to lower-quality care in some sit... – Wolters Kluwer Health: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Many Smokers with Serious Mental Illness Want to Kick Habit Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have found that although many smokers with serious mental illnesses would like to quit smoking, many psychiatrists and caseworkers aren't aware of their patients' wishes and, conseq... – Washington University in St. Louis Community Mental Health Journal Scientists Engineer Gene Pathway to Grow Brain Organoids with Surface Folding Whitehead Institute researchers provide insight into a specific gene pathway that appears to regulate the growth, structure, and organization of the human cortex. They also demonstrate that 3D human cerebral organoids can be effective in modeling the... – Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research New Study Highlights Role for Immune Cells in Cancer’s Ability to Evade Immunotherapy One of the main reasons cancer remains difficult to treat is that cancer cells have developed a multitude of mechanisms that allow them to evade destruction by the immune system. One of these escape mechanisms involves a type of immune cell called my... – Roswell Park Cancer Institute eLife Endometrial Cancer Mutations Are Detectable in Uterine Lavage Fluid Before a Cancer Is Diagnosed Mutations that have been linked to endometrial cancer can be found in the uterine lavage fluid of pre- and post-menopausal women both with and without detectable cancer, according to a study published in PLOS Medicine by John Martignetti, MD, PhD of ... – Mount Sinai Health System PLOS Medicine 300… and Counting! Children's Hospital Los Angeles Performs Milestone Liver Transplant Children's Hospital Los Angeles performs milestone 300th pediatric liver transplant when father donates tissue to son; family also gets a visit from CHLA's first-ever living donor liver patient. Expert Available – Childrens Hospital Los Angeles AARDA’s Board of Directors Salutes AARDA Founder and Longtime Staff as December’s #Autoimmune Heroes DETROIT, December 29, 2016 – American Autoimmune Related Diseases Association (AARDA) announced today its latest Autoimmune Heroes – Founder and Executive Director Virginia Ladd, Director of Operations Jerry Ladd, Assistant Director Patricia Barb... – American Autoimmune Related Diseases Association (AARDA) Science News Biologist's Ant Research Provides Long-Term Look at Effects of Climate Change Many scientists have attempted to tackle how climate change will affect the natural world by determining the thermal tolerance of various species, then predicting what will happen to them as our world warms. However, this approach as a way to underst... – Bowling Green State University Science Advances 26 Oct 2016: Vol. 2, no. 10 Russian Researchers Offer Novel Hardware-Based Modeling Approach for Multi-Robot Tasks A hardware-based modeling approach for real world collaborative multi-robot tasks – De Gruyter Open Paladyn, Journal of Behavioral Robotics Flood Threats Changing Across US A University of Iowa study finds the threat of flooding is growing in the northern half of the United States and declining in the South. The findings are based on water-height measurements at 2,042 stream and rivers, compared to NASA data showing the... – University of Iowa Geophysical Research Letters