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Medical News Local Learning Health System Model Demonstrates High-Quality Patient Care While Reducing Costs A pilot study demonstrated that with the implementation of a “local” learning health system, clinical quality can be improved while reducing health care costs. A group of 131 children treated through our Cerebral Palsy Program during the 12-month... – Nationwide Children's Hospital JAMA Embargo expired on 20-Dec-2016 at 11:00 ET Dual Strategy Teaches Mouse Immune Cells to Overcome Cancer’s Evasive Techniques By combining two treatment strategies, both aimed at boosting the immune system’s killer T cells, Johns Hopkins researchers report they lengthened the lives of mice with skin cancer more than by using either strategy on its own. And, they say, beca... – Johns Hopkins Medicine Biomaterials; AI072677, AI44129, CA108835, R25CA153952, 2T32CA153952-06, F31CA206344, R01-EB016721, P30-EY001865, DGE-1232825 For Geriatric Falls, ‘Brain Speed’ May Matter More Than Lower Limb Strength University of Michigan researchers find it’s not only risk factors like lower limb strength and precise perception of the limb’s position that determine if a geriatric patient will recover from a perturbation, but also complex and simple reaction... – University of Michigan Health System American Journal of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation One More Piece in the Puzzle of Liver Cancer Identified Manuela Baccarini and her team at the Max F. Perutz Laboratories (MFPL) of the University of Vienna and Medical University of Vienna are one step closer to unravelling the mechanisms behind liver cancer. The researchers discovered that RAF1, a protei... – University of Vienna Nature Communications Low-Carb Diet Alleviates Inherited Form of Intellectual Disability in Mice, Does Good-Tasting Food Cause Weight Gain, A Diet of Fruits, Vegetables May Help Kidney Disease Patients, and More in the Food Science News Source Click here to go to the Food Science News Source – Newswise Ovarian Cancer Survival Rates Improve in Sanford Study Sanford Research lab exploring role of protein in disease progression. – Sanford Health Oncogenesis Genetic Mutations Could Increase Risk of Cytomegalovirus Infection Experimenting with human cells and mice, Johns Hopkins researchers have found that a genetic mutation that alters a protein called NOD1 may increase susceptibility to human cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection. CMV is a common pathogen that infects almost... – Johns Hopkins Medicine Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences; NO1-HV-48195 Trends in Extracorporeal Life Support – ASAIO Journal Presents Latest Worldwide Registry Data For critically ill patients with heart or lung failure that does not respond to conventional treatments, extracorporeal life support (ECLS) can provide a bridge to survival. Updated analysis of a worldwide database finds that ECLS technologies are be... – Wolters Kluwer Health: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins ASAIO Journal As Children with Autism Age, Services to Help with Transition Needed According to the latest data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, one in 45 children is diagnosed with autism. As these children age, experiences such as leaving school, finding jobs and living alone can be stressful for adolescents w... – University of Missouri Health Regular Aspirin Use May Reduce Risk for Pancreatic Cancer Regular use of aspirin by people living in Shanghai, China, was associated with decreased risk for developing pancreatic cancer, according to data published in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, a journal of the American Association for Ca... – Yale Cancer Center Algorithm Provides an Extra Level of Assurance During Spine Surgery Researchers funded by the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) have developed a way to automatically label images of individual vertebrae during spine surgery, preventing mistakes and saving surgeons both time and stres... – National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering Spine; EB017226 Penn Study Confirms That “Sniff Test” May Be Useful in Diagnosing Early Alzheimer’s Disease Tests that measure the sense of smell may soon become common in neurologists’ offices. Scientists have been finding increasing evidence that the sense of smell declines sharply in the early stages of Alzheimer’s, and now a new study from the Pere... – Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania Learning by Listening: Penn Physicians Say Online Reviews Can Improve Health Care Online platforms that allow users to read and write reviews of businesses and services afford health care providers an opportunity to learn by listening, Penn Medicine physicians say in a new Viewpoint published today in JAMA. The authors point to a ... – Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania JAMA Latest Analysis From Clarity Science Opera Pain Study Confirms 45% Reduction of Opioid Usage by Using Transdermal Medication /PRNewswire/ -- Clarity, a global international scientific research company, based in Austin, Texas, announces the latest results of its IRB-approved OPERA study. OPERA (Optimizing Patient Experience and Response to Topical Analgesics) evaluates pati... – Clarity Science Brain Generates Replacement Cells After Stroke UCLA researchers initiate brain repair following white matter stroke in animals, identifying a possible therapeutic target to combat this common cause of dementia – University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Health Sciences Scripps Florida Scientists Discover New Natural Source of Potent Anti-Cancer Drugs Scientists from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have developed an efficient process to rapidly discover new “enediyne natural products” from soil microbes that could be further developed into extremely potent anticance... – Scripps Research Institute mBio, Dec-2016; 111 Project B08034; 2011ZX09401-001; 2012AA02A705; CA78747; GM115575 Dynamic Changes, Regulatory Rewiring Occur as T Cells Respond to Infection Scientists have used systems biology tools to map out molecular pathways and signaling circuits that come into play when the immune system acts against infections and cancer. Important immune cells, called CD8+ T cells, play a pivotal role in immune ... – Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Immunity, published online Dec. 13, 2016, in print Dec. 20.; AI115149 Illuminating Cancer: Researchers Invent a pH Threshold Sensor to Improve Cancer Surgery UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers have invented a transistor-like threshold sensor that can illuminate cancer tissue, helping surgeons more accurately distinguish cancerous from normal tissue. – UT Southwestern Medical Center Nature Biomedical Engineering, Dec-2016 Study Details Molecular Roots of Alzheimer’s Scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have detailed the structure of a molecule that has been implicated in Alzheimer’s disease. Knowing the shape of the molecule — and how that shape may be disrupted by certain gene... – Washington University in St. Louis eLife UT Southwestern Study Identifies a Way to Prevent Burn Injury Infection – Without Antibiotics A new way to fight multidrug-resistant bacteria by blinding them rather than killing them proved highly effective in a model of burn injuries, UT Southwestern Medical Center research shows. – UT Southwestern Medical Center Scientific Reports, Dec-2016 Seattle Cancer Care Alliance - Fred Hutch Transplant Survival Rates among Best in U.S. The Fred Hutch Bone Marrow Transplant Program at Seattle Cancer Care Alliance has earned recognition by the Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research for outperforming its expected one-year survival rates for allogeneic transplant... – Seattle Cancer Care Alliance Center for International Blood & Marrow Transplant Research, December 2016 Research Experience Gives NDSU Student Confidence, Career Options A team of North Dakota State University students and faculty are researching ways to use spider silk for medical treatments. – North Dakota State University Vanderbilt Dietitian Offers Guidelines to Avoid Holiday Weight Gain How can I enjoy holiday parties and meals with family and not gain weight? – Vanderbilt University Medical Center Staying Trim Around All the Trimmings: Tips for Holiday Health Sam Emerson, doctoral student in food, nutrition, dietetics and health, offers tips for battling overindulgence of holiday treats. – Kansas State University ‘Miracle Patient’ Finds New Hope with Breast Cancer Vaccine City of Hope patient Susan Young has had a remarkable response to a potentially revolutionary new treatment, a combination of the p53 cancer vaccine and a drug that blocks a specific cancer-aiding protein. – City of Hope First U.S. Babies Treated in Unique Study of Adult Stem Cell Therapy for Congenital Heart Disease Researchers at the University of Maryland School of Medicine (UM SOM) and the Interdisciplinary Stem Cell Institute (ISCI) at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine have begun testing to see whether adult stem cells derived from bone marro... – University of Maryland Medical Center/School of Medicine In New Video Available for Streaming and Broadcasting, Neurosurgeon Keith Black, MD, Demonstrates New 3-D Device That Maps Brain During Surgery In a new video available for streaming and broadcasting, Cedars-Sinai neurosurgeon Keith Black, MD, demonstrates how he is using a high-definition imaging device to see inside a patient’s brain during surgery. The device, called Brightmatter Guide... – Cedars-Sinai NYU Lutheran Expands Kidney Disease Services Under New Dialysis Director Elizabeth Hammer, MD, has been appointed director of the Sunset Park, Brooklyn, medical center's dialysis unit. Dr. Hammer, a highly trained nephrologist, will lead the unit's expansion and emphasize patient safety and quality. – NYU Lutheran Medical Center Tennessee Poison Center at Vanderbilt Warns About Danger of Button Batteries Toxicologists at the Tennessee Poison Center (TPC), housed at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, say that adults need to be aware that all too often these little batteries find their way into little people. In 2014 approximately 3,500 people, ... – Vanderbilt University Medical Center SUNY Downstate Medical Center Honors Dr. Garry S. Sklar and Sarah Sklar Philanthropists Garry S. Sklar, MD, and his wife, Sarah Sklar, were recently honored by SUNY Downstate in recognition of gifts that support clinical care and research efforts in Anesthesiology and Cardiothoracic Surgery, as well as healthcare educati... – SUNY Downstate Medical Center New NDSU Research Initiative Aims to Solve Large-Scale Public Health Problems A Population Health Research Initiative is expected to help solve global public health problems by establishing a Public Health doctoral degree program and launching other collaborative programs that combine different fields from six academic college... – North Dakota State University New Understanding of Autoimmune Function in MS Is Described as a Breakthrough A new, highly effective multiple sclerosis therapy will be presented at the America’s Committee for Treatment and Research in Multiple Sclerosis (ACTRIMS) Forum 2017, Thursday, Feb. 23, in Orlando. – Americas Committee for Treatment and Research in Multiple Scleroses (ACTRIMS) From Transplant Lab Worker to Donor, Alabama Man Becomes Part of UAB’s World-Record Kidney Chain Divyank Saini is one of 17 UAB employees who interpret lab samples to determine whether living - and deceased -donor transplants are possible. But Saini wanted to do more, and he did, becoming a donor in the world’s longest kidney transplant chain.... Expert Available – University of Alabama at Birmingham IFT Calls Upon Federal Government to Increase Funding for Sodium Reduction Research In written comments submitted to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) is calling upon the federal government to increase public funding of research for developing reduced-sodium foods. These comments, base... – Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) Lawmakers Support Increasing Access to Anesthesia Care for Veterans; Rally Behind Nurse Anesthetists Legislators Merkley, DeFazio and Durbin stand behind CRNAs and against anesthesiologists in support of Veterans receiving more timely healthcare. – American Association of Nurse Anesthetists (AANA) Chi Van Dang Appointed Scientific Director of the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research It is with great pleasure that the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research announces the appointment of Chi Van Dang as its Scientific Director. – Ludwig Cancer Research Tracking the Circadian Clock Biology dictates that DNA creates proteins which create – among other things – metabolites, the outputs of metabolism. In organisms from fungi to humans, the relationship between these players is heavily influenced by our internal circadian clock... – Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) Dr. Richard Liebowitz Named President of NewYork-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital Dr. Richard Liebowitz has been appointed president of NewYork-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital, effective February 6. – New York-Presbyterian Hospital Scripps Florida Scientist Awarded $5 Million Outstanding Investigator Grant Ron Davis, chair of the Department of Neuroscience on the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) has been awarded a $5 million Outstanding Investigator Grant, one of the first of its kind, by the National Institute of Neurological Di... – Scripps Research Institute 1R35NS097224-01 Albert Einstein College of Medicine Receives Major Federal Grant for Research Into Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded Albert Einstein College of Medicine a five-year, $6 million grant to fund the Rose F. Kennedy Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research Center (IDDRC). The grant will also support a new ... – Albert Einstein College of Medicine U54 HD090260 Science News EMBARGOED AJPH Research: Adolescent Violence, Transgender Population, Inmate Mistreatment, Child Abuse In this month’s release, find new embargoed research about: effect of social networks on adolescent violence; percentage of U.S. population identifying as transgender; treatment of sexual minority inmates; and prevalence of child maltreatment inves... – American Public Health Association (APHA) Embargo expired on 20-Dec-2016 at 16:00 ET Salamanders Brave Miles of Threatening Terrain for the Right Sex Partner Most salamanders are homebodies when it comes to mating. But some of the beasts hit the road, traversing miles of rugged terrain unfit for an amphibian in pursuit of a partner from a far-away wetland. (With video of a salamander on a treadmill.) – Ohio State University Functional Ecology Embargo expired on 20-Dec-2016 at 19:05 ET Festive Nebulas Light Up Milky Way Galaxy Satellite Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have captured two festive-looking nebulas, situated so as to appear as one. Known as NGC 248, the nebula resides in the Small Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy that is a satellite of our Milky Way galaxy... – Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) Scientists Zero in on Biological Diversity in ‘Poor Man’s Rainforest’ Leftover DNA from dead organisms -- known as "relic DNA" -- has historically thrown a wrench into estimates, causing scientists to overestimate microbial diversity by as much as 55 percent. – Virginia Tech Amazonia's Best and Worst Areas for Carbon Recovery Revealed he first mapping of carbon recovery in Amazonian forests following emissions released by commercial logging activities has been published in the journal eLife. – eLife eLife Study Finds Ideal Method to Minimize Waffle Loss in Industrial Production A study published in the December issue of Journal of Food Science found that waffles baked on steel plates at a high temperature for a short amount of time minimizes the likelihood egg waffle batter will stick to the plate. – Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) New Antimatter Breakthrough to Help Illuminate Mysteries of the Big Bang Collaborative team report on first precision study of antihydrogen – Swansea University Nature Chemicals of 'Emerging Concern' Mapped in 3 Great Lakes For the first time, researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago have mapped the location of thousands of tons of polyhalogenated carbazoles in the sediment of the Great Lakes and estimated their amount. – University of Illinois at Chicago Ames Laboratory Develops Solvent-, Catalyst-Free Way to Produce Alkali Metal Hydrides Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory have found a way to create alkali metal hydrides without the use of solvents or catalysts. The process, using room temperature mechanical ball milling, provides a lower cost method to ... – Ames Laboratory Journal of Materials Chemistry A, July 6, 2016 Cleaning Chromium From Drinking Water A team led by an engineer at Washington University in St. Louis found a novel approach to neutralize a cancer-causing chemical in drinking water. – Washington University in St. Louis Environmental Science & Technology Leaky Plumbing Impedes Greenland Ice Sheet Flow Surface meltwater that drains to the bed of the Greenland Ice Sheet each summer causes changes in ice flow that cannot be fully explained by prevailing theories. – Los Alamos National Laboratory Top 9 Results From The Largest Study of Technical Support Scams ​Computer Science researchers from Stony Brook University in New York have concluded the largest study of technical support scams to date, spanning 8 months, and following are the top 9 findings: – Stony Brook University Bright Future for Energy Devices A new material invented by Michigan Technological University researchers embeds sodium metal in carbon and could improve electrode performance in energy devices. The team ran tests on the sodium-embedded carbon and it performed better than graphene i... – Michigan Technological University NanoLetters, Nov-2016 ; DMR-0420785; CBET-0931587; DMR-0723032 ARM/ASR Veteran Researchers Win American Geophysical Union Ascent Awards Susan van den Heever and Christian Jakob, two veteran Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Climate Research Facility and Atmospheric System Research (ASR)-affiliated atmospheric scientists, have had their achievements recognized with Ascent Awards... – Department of Energy, Office of Science Food Technology Magazine Editors Share Top 10 Food Trend Predictions for 2017 The editors at Food Technology magazine, which is published by the Institute of Food Technologists (IFT), announced their food trend predictions for 2017. Here’s what they’re forecasting for next year. – Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) Study to Assess Climate Resiliency of More Than 250 US Cities The University of Notre Dame’s Global Adaptation Initiative has announced it will assess the climate vulnerability and readiness of every U.S. city with a population over 100,000. – University of Notre Dame 2016 a Record Season for Broward County Sea Turtle Conservation Program More sea turtles laid eggs on Broward's beaches than ever before - thanks to increased awareness and education – Nova Southeastern University Neutron Diffraction Probes Forms of Carbon Dioxide in Extreme Environments Through a Deep Carbon Observatory collaboration, Adam Makhluf of the University of California, Los Angeles’s Earth, Space and Planetary Science Department and Chris Tulk of Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Chemical and Engineering Materials Divisi... – Oak Ridge National Laboratory Biology and Neutrons Collide to Unlock Secrets of Fish Ear Bones Scientific discovery can come from anywhere, but few researchers can say the answers to their questions would come from the pea-sized bones in the head of a six-foot-long, 200-pound prehistoric freshwater fish. – Oak Ridge National Laboratory 2016’s Top 10 UF/IFAS Extension Publications Cover Snakes, Avocados, Vegetable Gardening, More Faculty at the University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences write Extension documents that bring top-notch, science-based information to the public for free. Topics cover myriad issues from reptiles to rivers and from crops to fo... – University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences Reilly Center Releases 2017 List of Emerging Ethical Dilemmas and Policy Issues in Science and Technology University of Notre Dame’s John J. Reilly Center for Science, Technology and Values has released a list of emerging ethical dilemmas and policy issues in science and technology. The 2017 list includes freezing brains and swarms of drones and highli... – University of Notre Dame Berkeley Lab Awarded $4.6 Million for Transformational Agriculture Technologies ARPA-E has awarded Berkeley Lab $4.6 million for two projects to “see” into the soil and ultimately develop crops that take carbon out of the atmosphere. One technology aims to use electrical current to image the root system. The other will use n... – Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory DHS S&T Calls for Anti-Jamming Technology Submissions DHS S&T today released a Request for Information for participation in the 2017 First Responder Electronic Jamming Exercise at Idaho National Laboratory in Idaho Falls, Idaho, July 17-22, 2017. Applications deadline is January 20, 2017. – Homeland Security's Science & Technology Directorate S&T Releases New Incident Management Planning Tool for First Responders DHS S&T funded research to continue development of the Incident Management Preparedness and Coordination Toolkit, a geospatial tool designed to enhance situational awareness, communication, and collaboration during events. – Homeland Security's Science & Technology Directorate KC Claffy Among “10 Women to Know in Networking/Communications” KC Claffy, principal investigator and founding director of the Center for Applied Internet Data Analysis (CAIDA) at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC), has been named to the second annual “10 Women in Networking/Communications That You Shoul... – University of California San Diego Lifestyle & Social Sciences Violence Spreads Like a Disease Among Adolescents, Study Finds A new study of U.S. adolescents provides some of the best evidence to date of how violence spreads like a contagious disease. Researchers found that adolescents were up to 183 percent more likely to carry out some acts of violence if one of their fr... – Ohio State University American Journal of Public Health Embargo expired on 20-Dec-2016 at 16:00 ET International Relations Under the Microscope In matters of international relations, size matters, according to Drs. Neal Jesse, professor of political science at Bowling Green State University, and John Dreyer, an associate professor of political science at the South Dakota School of Mines and ... – Bowling Green State University Jesse, Neal G., and John R. Dreyer. Small States in the International System: At Peace and at War. Lexington Books, 2016. New Database to Track Millions of Public Policies Policymakers, researchers and journalists alike will soon have access to roughly 4.2 million state government decisions in a single database. Political science researcher William Franko is part of a research team collecting every legislative bill, ex... – West Virginia University - Eberly College of Arts and Sciences The Three P's of Teaching Holiday Manners: Preparation, Practice and Pointing Out Examples Rebekah Meitler, instructor in Kansas State University's School of Family Studies and Human Services, said teaching manners to young children is all about preparation, practice and pointing out examples. – Kansas State University Archivist of World's Largest Sewing Pattern Collection Gains National Award Commercial Pattern Archive dates back to 1847 and represents patterns from nearly 100 different companies. – University of Rhode Island National Communication Association Selects Paaige K. Turner as Executive Director The National Communication Association (NCA) is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Paaige K. Turner, Associate Dean and Professor in the School of Communications at Webster University, as its next Executive Director. – National Communication Association APA Issues Health Care Reform Priorities for Working with Congress and New Administration The American Psychological Association and its affiliated APA Practice Organization have called on congressional leaders not to repeal the Affordable Care Act without simultaneously replacing it with legislation to ensure that all Americans have insu... – American Psychological Association (APA)