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Medical News Infant’s Prolonged Infection Reveals Mutation That Helps Bacteria Tolerate Antibiotics A life-threatening infection in an infant with leukemia led to a St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital discovery of how prolonged infection sets the stage for bacterial persistence despite antibiotic susceptibility. – St. Jude Children's Research Hospital MBio, January 2017 Embargo expired on 03-Jan-2017 at 09:00 ET For the First Time, Researchers Identify Key Proteins That May Make Zika So Deadly A new study has for the first time identified seven key proteins in the virus that may be the culprits behind this damage. The study is the first comprehensive description of the Zika virus genome. – University of Maryland School of Medicine Embargo expired on 02-Jan-2017 at 15:00 ET Review of Primary Care Provider Models in Care of Cancer Survivors Shows Opportunity for Enhancement For more than a decade, there has been a focus on involving primary care providers in the follow-up care of cancer survivors. A new study by Rutgers University and Harvard Medical School finds that despite a number of proposed care models, there is l... – Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey The Lancet Oncology, Jan-2017 Embargo expired on 30-Dec-2016 at 18:30 ET College-Student Status Does Not Automatically Mean Excessive Drinking College matriculation is often associated with increases in the frequency and intensity of drinking. This study used a national sample to examine the association between being a college student and changes in excessive drinking from late adolescence... – Research Society on Alcoholism Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research Embargo expired on 30-Dec-2016 at 17:00 ET Promoting Teen Health Is as Easy as Wearing Lime Green Health care blogger Laura Offutt MD writes about Teen Health Week and what health care professionals can do to promote the week that starts January 9. – Pennsylvania Medical Society Embargo expired on 03-Jan-2017 at 06:00 ET Zinc Eaten at Levels Found in Biofortified Crops Reduces ‘Wear and Tear’ on DNA A new study by researchers from the UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Research Institute (CHORI) shows that a modest 4 milligrams of extra zinc a day in the diet can have a profound, positive impact on cellular health that helps fight infections and... – UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital Oakland American Journal of Clinical Nutrition Enzyme Could Protect Against Type of Colorectal Cancer By Suppressing Tumors, Study Finds An enzyme that plays an active role in inflammation could be a natural way to suppress tumors and ulcers in the colon that are found in colitis associated cancer (CAC), a type of colorectal cancer that is driven by chronic inflammation, according to ... – Georgia State University Oncotarget Moffitt Cancer Center Researchers Report Promising Clinical Activity and Minimal Toxicities for HER2-Targeted Dendritic Cell Vaccines in Early-Stage Breast Cancer Patients Immunotherapy is a fast growing area of cancer research. It involves developing therapies that use a patient’s own immune system to fight and kill cancer. Moffitt Cancer Center is working on a new vaccine that would help early-stage breast cancer p... – Moffitt Cancer Center Clinical Cancer Research Researchers Urge Caution Around Psilocybin Use In a survey of almost 2,000 people who said they had had a past negative experience when taking psilocybin-containing "magic mushrooms," Johns Hopkins researchers say that more than 10 percent believed their worst "bad trip" had put themselves or oth... – Johns Hopkins Medicine Journal of Psychopharmacology; R01 DA03889, 5T32 DA007209 January is Glaucoma Awareness Month - Free Glaucoma Information from Glaucoma Research Foundation January is National Glaucoma Awareness Month -- Learn about this sight-stealing eye disease and how to spread the word and help speed the cure. – Glaucoma Research Foundation How Can I Help My Child to Fall Asleep and Stay Asleep? Overall, studies indicate that 15 to 20 percent of one to three year olds continue to have nightwakings. According to Stephanie Zandieh, M.D., Director, Pediatric Sleep Disorders and Apnea Center, The Valley Hospital, “Inappropriate sleep associati... – Valley Health System Science News How Long Did It Take to Hatch a Dinosaur Egg? FSU Research Says 3-6 Months How long did it take for dinosaur eggs to incubate? Groundbreaking research led by Florida State University establishes a timeline of three to six months. – Florida State University Embargo expired on 02-Jan-2017 at 15:00 ET Putting Sidewalks on Low-Sodium Diet Wintry weather can pack a slippery punch. While use of salt on roads and sidewalks can return surfaces to a safer status, too much salt can have long-term effects on soil. The Soil Science Society of America (SSSA) January 1 Soils Matter blog post ex... – Soil Science Society of America (SSSA) Embargo expired on 02-Jan-2017 at 10:10 ET Streamlining the Internet of Things and Other Cyber-Physical Systems In an Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) keynote paper, computer engineers lay out a framework to improve research on cyber-physical systems. They encourage combining model-based design with data-based learning: in other words, ... – Michigan Technological University IEEE Transactions in CAD Fossil Fuel Formation: Key to Atmosphere’s Oxygen? For the development of animals, nothing — with the exception of DNA — may be more important than oxygen in the atmosphere. A study now online in the February issue of Earth and Planetary Science Letters links the rise in oxygen to a rapid increas... – University of Wisconsin-Madison Earth and Planetary Science Letters February 2017 Learn More About Florida’s Water Resources with New UF/IFAS Website Are you concerned about how your water tastes? Do you want to know how much you use, or whether we’ll have enough water for the next generation? A new UF/IFAS website links users with UF/IFAS programs on how to preserve and, perhaps improve the qua... – University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences Bats Avoid Collisions by Calling Less in a Crowd Do bats adjust their echolocation calls in response to other bat calls – Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB) China Announces It Will Shut Down Its Domestic Commercial Elephant Ivory Trade in 2017 The following statement wa