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Medical News What Do Health Plan Deductibles Really Mean for People with Chronic Illness? New Study Takes a Look For tens of millions of Americans, the start of a new year means the counter has gone back to zero on their health insurance deductible. If they need health care, they’ll pay for some of it out of their own pockets before their insurance takes over... – University of Michigan Health System JAMA Internal Medicine, 10.1001/jamainternmed.2016.8419 Embargo expired on 09-Jan-2017 at 11:00 ET ACR, SBI: Jørgensen Et Al. Mammography Data Does Not Support Study Conclusions Mammography overdiagnosis conclusions stated in Jørgensen et al., to be published Jan. 10, 2017 in Annals of Internal Medicine, are not supported by patient-specific data or the data in the Jorgensen study as written. – American College of Radiology (ACR) Embargo expired on 09-Jan-2017 at 17:00 ET Prostate Cancer Researchers Discover Genetic Fingerprint to Identify How and When Disease Initially Spreads Canadian prostate cancer researchers have discovered the genetic fingerprint that explains why up to 30 per cent of men with potentially curable localized prostate cancer develop aggressive disease that spreads following radiotherapy or surgery. – University Health Network (UHN) Nature, Jan-2017 Embargo expired on 09-Jan-2017 at 11:00 ET Prostate Cancer Team Cracks Genetic Code to Show Why Inherited Disease Can Turn Lethal Canadian and Australian prostate cancer researchers have discovered a key piece in the genetic puzzle of why men born with a BRCA2 mutation may develop aggressive localized cancers that resist treatment and become lethal for up to 50 per cent of pati... – University Health Network (UHN) Nature Communications, Jan-2017 Embargo expired on 09-Jan-2017 at 11:00 ET Where Hospitals Send Surgery Patients to Heal Matters a Lot for Health Care Costs, Study Finds Thousands of times a day, doctors sign the hospital discharge papers for patients who have just had surgery. About half will get some sort of post-surgery care. But a new study finds huge variation in where they end up, depending on where they had th... – University of Michigan Health System Health Affairs, January 2017, DOI 10.1377/hlthaff.2016.0668; AG019783; HS020671 Embargo expired on 09-Jan-2017 at 16:00 ET Specialized Pharmacies Satisfy Unmet Security Need for Preventing Pain Medication Misuse In Colorado and other states, establishing specialized controlled substances pharmacies is proving to be a workable and practical solution to help prevent medication abuse and assure that legitimate pain patients will continue to receive the medicati... – Cordant Pharma Embargo expired on 10-Jan-2017 at 09:00 ET Georgetown Global Health Law Experts Examine “A Pivotal Moment of Opportunity and Peril” in Global Health As the world’s leading global health organizations – the World Health Organization, World Bank and United Nations – face significant political changes and challenges internally and externally, two global health law experts point out that galvan... – O'Neill Institute for National & Global Health Law Embargo expired on 09-Jan-2017 at 16:00 ET Alcohol Prevents Ability to Extinguish Fearful Memories in Mice Experiments in mice by researchers at Johns Hopkins suggest that if the goal is to ease or extinguish fearful emotional memories like those associated with post-traumatic stress disorder, alcohol may make things worse, not better. Results of their st... – Johns Hopkins Medicine Translational Psychiatry; AG023471, MH077542, AA017408 Rehabilitation Nursing Now Published by Wolters Kluwer The latest research and clinical information for nurses specializing in rehabilitation has a new publisher and a new online home, as Rehabilitation Nursing, official journal of the Association of Rehabilitation Nurses (ARN), begins a new publishing p... – Wolters Kluwer Health: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins Rehabilitation Nursing As Neighborhood Status Falls, Cardiovascular Disease Risk Among Black Residents Spikes The lower a neighborhood’s socioeconomic status is, the more likely its black residents are to develop heart disease and stroke, according to a new Drexel University-led public health study. – Drexel University American Journal of Public Health Catheter Safeguards at Hospitals Reduce Infections and Save Money, Study Shows U.S. hospitals are reducing bloodstream infections related to catheters by implementing rigorous safeguards that also save millions of healthcare dollars each year, according to research led by Cedars-Sinai. – Cedars-Sinai JAMA Internal Medicine Study Identifies Barriers to Sexual Health Among Male Teens and Young Men Johns Hopkins researchers who conducted a dozen focus groups with 70 straight and gay/bisexual Hispanic and African-American males ages 15 to 24 report that gaining a better understanding of the context in which young men grow up will allow health ca... – Johns Hopkins Medicine Journal of Adolescent Health, ; CDC 1H25PS003796 Findings Showing Roundup Causes Disease Puts Glyphosate Back Under the Spotlight Cutting edge techniques show low-dose, long-term exposure to Roundup causes liver disease in rats – Health and Environment Alliance (HEAL) Providence Medical Technology Appoints Gregory Curhan Chief Financial Officer /PRNewswire/ -- Providence Medical Technology, Inc., an innovator in tissue-sparing, cervical-fusion technology, today announced the hiring of Gregory S. Curhan as Chief Financial Officer and SVP of Corporate Development. Mr. Curhan is an experience... – Providence Medical Technology UF/IFAS Researchers Find 2 Virus-Carrying Mosquito Species; 9 New Ones in a Decade UF/IFAS researchers find two more non-native mosquito species in Florida that transmit viruses that cause disease in humans and wildlife. That makes nine new mosquito species found in Florida in the past decade. – University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences Animal Study Shows Harmful Effects of Secondhand Smoke Even Before Pregnancy Exposure to second-hand tobacco smoke -- even before conception -- appears to have a lingering impact that can later impair the brain development of a fetus, researchers at Duke Health report. – Duke Health Toxicological Sciences; ES022831; 83543701 The Science of Baby’s First Sight UNC scientists found more clues about the evolving brains of baby mammals as eyesight comes online. Using an imaging system to get neuron-level resolution, they showed how one specific brain circuit in mice came online immediately after birth, but an... – University of North Carolina Health Care System Nature Neuroscience The Role of Common Risk Factors in ER-Positive, ER-Negative Breast Cancer Karla Kerlikowske, MD, and team recently published a paper in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute that examined the role of common risk factors in the development of ER-positive and ER-negative breast cancers. The study sheds new light on ho... – UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center P01 CA154292 High Rates of PTSD and Other Mental Health Problems After Great East Japan Earthquake The devastating 2011 earthquake, tsunami, and resulting nuclear disaster in Japan had a high mental health impact—with some effects persisting several years later, according to a comprehensive research review in the January/February issue of the Ha... – Wolters Kluwer Health: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins Harvard Review of Psychiatry New Clinical Trial Combines Two Methods to Defeat Ovarian Cancer Sarah Adams, MD, recently opened a clinical trial to test a new approach to defeat ovarian cancer. The clinical trial treats women whose ovarian cancer results from mutated BRCA genes. It uses one drug that kills the ovarian cancer cells and another ... – University of New Mexico Comprehensive Cancer Center Advancing the Science of Health Disparities Through Research on the Social Determinants of Health UAB-led Research to appear in American Journal of Preventive Medicine. – University of Alabama at Birmingham While Not Necessarily Reality, Perception Can Cause Reality to Evolve In an invited perspective published January 6, 2017, in Science, Hamilton Farris, PhD, Associate Professor-Research at LSU Health New Orleans Neuroscience Center of Excellence, finds that the key insight of an important study by Nachev, et al. is th... – Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center - New Orleans Science Transfusions of “Old” Blood May Harm Some Patients Blood transfusions with the oldest blood available could be harmful for some patients, finds Columbia University researchers. The investigators recommend reducing the maximum blood storage limit from 6 to 5 weeks. – Columbia University Medical Center Journal of Clinical Investigation, December 12, 2016 Two Years and Multiple Doctors Often Needed to Diagnose Polycystic Ovary Syndrome, Penn Study Shows Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is the most common endocrine disorder – and most common cause of infertility – affecting 9 to 18 percent of women around the world. Despite the prevalence of the complex and chronic condition, one-third of women d... – Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism Prostate Cancer Treatment Rates Drop, Reflecting Change in Screening Recommendations As some national guidelines now recommend against routine prostate cancer screening, the overall rate of men receiving treatment for the disease declined 42 percent, a new study finds. – University of Michigan Health System Health Affairs; CA168691; CA174768; CA180984 Pre-Pregnancy Progesterone Helps Women with Recurrent Pregnancy Loss Women who have had two or more unexplained miscarriages can benefit from natural progesterone treatment before pregnancy, a new a study from the University of Illinois at Chicago shows. The researchers found that natural progesterone, administered va... – University of Illinois at Chicago Fertility and Sterility CDC guidelines for HIV prevention regimen may not go far enough, study suggests Study suggests that CDC guidelines for who should be on Preexposure prophylaxis (PrEP) don’t go far enough because current standards could miss some people who should be on it. Working with the Los Angeles LGBT Center, UCLA-led researchers develope... – University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Health Sciences Sexually Transmitted Diseases Translating Basic Biological Research to Cancer Drug Discovery New information on the details of a key protein, obtained using DOE user facilities, could help scientists design ways to inhibit tumor growth without activating other tumor-producing pathways. – Department of Energy, Office of Science Nature 526, 583–586 (2015). [DOI: 10.1038/nature14982] Think Beyond the Scale for a Plethora of Exercise Health Benefits, SLU Expert Says SLU professor of physical therapy Ethel Frese, DPT, shares many ways daily exercise contributes to good health and quality of life. – Saint Louis University Medical Center 10 Things You Should Know About Glaucoma January is Glaucoma Awareness Month. The National Eye Institute, part of NIH, is highlighting key facts about this blinding disease, important tips for prevention and treatment, and research updates you may not know about. – NIH, National Eye Institute (NEI) World Renowned Surgeon and Researcher to Lead New Pancreatic Cancer Center at NYU Langone NYU Langone Medical Center has announced that internationally recognized surgeon and scientist Diane M. Simeone, MD, will join its Perlmutter Cancer Center on March 1 to serve as associate director for translational research and to lead its newly est... Expert Available – NYU Langone Medical Center New Year, New Idea: High-Value Health Plan Concept Aims for Bipartisan Appeal As Washington grapples with the fate of the Affordable Care Act, a pair of health care researchers has proposed a new way to design health insurance plans that could win bipartisan support – and has already started to do so. – University of Michigan Health System Media Advisory: Register for STS Annual Meeting and Press Conference Credentialed press representatives are invited to attend The Society of Thoracic Surgeons 53rd Annual Meeting, Exhibition, and Press Conference, which will include late-breaking scientific research, thought-provoking lectures, cutting-edge technologi... – The Society of Thoracic Surgeons NCCN Publishes Patient Education Resources for Gliomas—Its First in a Series on Brain Cancer NCCN has published NCCN Guidelines for Patients®: Brain Cancer – Gliomas, available today on NCCN.org/patients and NCCN Patient Guides for Cancer mobile app – National Comprehensive Cancer Network® (NCCN®) Radiology Residents and Fellows: Shape the Future, Apply for RLI Summit Scholarships Radiology residents and fellows who want to ensure quality, elevate service, deliver extraordinary patient care and develop thriving practices may apply for scholarships to attend this year’s Radiology Leadership Institute® (RLI) Summit. – American College of Radiology (ACR) Mount Sinai Health System Launches Same-Day Appointments Mount Sinai Health System today announced it will offer same-day appointments with primary and specialty care physicians. The Same-Day Program was created to provide fast and efficient access for patients with immediate health concerns or those requi... – Mount Sinai Health System Orphan Disease Center Announces Program of Excellence for Motor Neuron Disease The Orphan Disease Center in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania has established a new Program of Excellence for Motor Neuron Disease. The new initiative will focus on ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis—also known as L... – Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania Mount Sinai Establishes Eye and Vision Research Institute Institute Will Pursue Cutting-Edge Research to Find Treatments and Cures – Mount Sinai Health System UIC Welcomes Cuban Health Officials to Chicago Officials from the Cuban Ministry of Health will spend the week meeting with Chicago community and University of Illinois Hospital & Health Sciences System leaders and touring UI Health’s federally qualified Mile Square Health Centers, beginning to... – University of Illinois at Chicago Case Western Receives $2.5 Million Helmsley Grant for “Smart” Insulin Development The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust awarded a $2.5 million grant to the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine to continue research on a new form of insulin for those living with type 1 diabetes (T1D). – Case Western Reserve University Mass. Eye and Ear Launches Health Blog Related to Ear, Nose, Throat and Eye Care Massachusetts Eye and Ear has launched a health blog to provide stories and insight from experts in otolaryngology (ear, nose, throat, head and neck care) and ophthalmology (eye care) to those interested in the hospital’s mission and areas of exper... – Massachusetts Eye and Ear Sports Medicine Licensure Clarity Act Reintroduced, Passes House The U.S. House of Representatives passed the Sports Medicine Licensure Clarity Act (H.R. 302) by voice vote January 9, 2017. The next step for the bill, which was reintroduced by the U.S. House last week, will be its introduction to the 2017-18 U.S. ... – American Medical Society for Sports Medicine (AMSSM) Undergrads Interested in Medicine and Science Take Part in Three-Week Enrichment Program Twenty-eight students from UMass Boston begin a three-week program at Tufts University School of Medicine to gain an intensive introduction to life as a physician or scientist. The TUSM/UMass Boston Enrichment Program is one of several TUSM and Sackl... – Tufts University Science News Caribbean Bats Need 8 Million Years to Recover From Recent Extinction Waves Can nature restore the numbers of species on islands to levels that existed before human arrival? How long would it take for nature to regain this diversity? To answer these questions, a research team compiled data on Caribbean bats and their close ... – Stony Brook University Embargo expired on 09-Jan-2017 at 11:00 ET New Limits in the Search for Sterile Neutrinos Sterile neutrinos could be part of the mysterious “dark world,” including the dark matter that makes up about a quarter of the universe. True evidence that sterile neutrinos exist would change our understanding of the universe. This study narrows... – Department of Energy, Office of Science Physical Review Letters 117, 151802 (2016). ; Physical Review Letters 117, 151703 (2016).; Physical Review Letters 117, 151801 (2016). Changing Rainfall Patterns Linked to Water Security in India Changes in precipitation, which are linked to the warming of the Indian Ocean, are the main reason for recent changes in groundwater storage in India. – International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis Couch Potatoes Face Same Chance of Dementia as Those with Genetic Risk Factors: Research Sedentary older adults with no genetic risk factors for dementia may be just as likely to develop the disease as those who are genetically predisposed, according to a major study which followed more than 1,600 Canadians over five years. – McMaster University Journal of Alzheimer's Disease A Possible Solution to a Long-Standing Riddle in Materials Science An international team of scientists led by Penn State may have solved the 30-year-old riddle of why certain ferroelectric crystals exhibit extremely strong piezoelectric responses. – Penn State Materials Research Institute Nature Communications Dec-2016 Magnetic Discovery Could Be Tip of the “Ice”Berg A new material, called "rewritable magnetic charge ice," has an unprecedented degree of control over local magnetic fields. This material has write-read-erase capabilities at room temperature, which may have implications for new computing technologie... – Department of Energy, Office of Science Science 352, 962 (2016). [DOI: 10.1126/science.aad8037] Crystallization Method Offers New Option for Carbon Capture From Ambient Air Scientists at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have found a simple, reliable process to capture carbon dioxide directly from ambient air, offering a new option for carbon capture and storage strategies to combat global warmi... – Oak Ridge National Laboratory How Earth's Previous Moons Collided to Form the Moon A new theory suggests the Moon we see every night is not Earth’s first moon, but rather the last in a series of moons that orbited our planet. Moons formed through the process could cross orbits, collide and merge, slowly building the bigger moon w... – American Technion Society Nature Geoscience, Jan 09-2017 A Multiple-Impact Origin for the Moon Nearly a thousand computer simulations by the Weizmann Institute’s Prof. Oded Aharonson and his team produced results challenging the theory that the Moon was formed by a single massive collision; rather, the investigation shows, the more likely ex... – Weizmann Institute of Science Nature Geoscience, Jan-2017 Massive Genetic Study of Humpback Whales to Inform Conservation Assessments of Ocean Giants Scientists have published one of the largest genetic studies ever conducted on the humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) for the purpose of clarifying management decisions in the Southern Hemisphere and supporting calls to protect unique and threat... – Wildlife Conservation Society Molecular Ecology Neuroscientist Probes Tiny World of the Fruit Fly to Discover Sleep/Eating/Activity Connection The humble fruit fly has proved to be a fruitful research subject for Bowling Green State University neuroscientist Dr. Robert Huber and colleagues from Scripps Research Institute in Florida and elsewhere. The collaborators’ research into their beh... – Bowling Green State University Spinning the (X-ray) Light Fantastic For the first time, X-ray scientists have access to wavelength-tunable circularly polarized free-electron laser pulses in the range between 280 and 1200 eV. Several types of experiments can benefit from the short and intense pulses. – Department of Energy, Office of Science Nature Photonics 10, 468 (2016). [DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2016.79]; Review of Scientific Instruments 87, 033110 (2016). [DOI: 10.1063/1.4944410] Science DMZ Is Focus of Latest Library of Network Training Videos Aimed at Global Audience For the second time in a year, ESnet and the Network Startup Resource Center (NSRC) have produced and released a library of short explanatory videos to help network engineers around the world gain basic knowledge, set up basic systems and drill down ... – Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Make No Assumptions in Building a Better Battery Large-scale energy storage for wind and other intermittent sources could make renewable energy easier to use. Researchers showed that rechargeable zinc-manganese oxide could be a more viable solution than today’s lithium-ion and lead-acid batteries... – Department of Energy, Office of Science Nature Energy 1, 16039 (2016). [DOI: 10.1038/NENERGY.2016.39] DNA + Nanoparticles = Self-Assembled “Diamond” A novel method of using DNA as linkers of and cages redefines the rules for connecting nanoparticles and opens exciting prospects for creating complex materials with yet undiscovered properties for use in energy storage, among others. – Department of Energy, Office of Science Science 351, 582-586 (2016). [DOI: 10.1126/science.aad2080] Anything to Declare? Scientists at Fermilab and CERN considered many options for delivering fragile components of the CMS detector to Geneva. Their answer? Buy a seat for the component on a commercial airline. – Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) Lining Up for New High-Density Memory Devices Thin layers of a new material could lead to smaller hard drives and other high-density memory devices with greater stability when exposed to heat. – Department of Energy, Office of Science Nanoscale 7, 13808 (2015). [DOI: 10.1039/c5nr0323h] How to 3D Print on the Nanoscale A new approach offers a path to synthesize materials with superior mechanical and optical properties. This design approach replaces trial-and-error in nanomanufacturing for materials and structures. – Department of Energy, Office of Science ACS Nano 10, 6163-6172 (2016). [DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.6b02108] Giving Friction the Slip with New Carbon Films New catalytically active coatings eliminate the need for environmentally hazardous anti-wear additives used commonly in lubricating oils for engines – Department of Energy, Office of Science Nature 536, 67 (2016). [DOI: 10.1038/nature18948] What Teeth Reveal About the Lives of Modern Humans When anthropologists of the future find our fossilized teeth, what will they be able to conclude about our lives?Debbie Guatelli-Steinberg has an idea. – Ohio State University Shattering Protons in High-Energy Collisions Confirms Higgs Boson Production At the world’s most powerful particle physics accelerator, physicists confirmed the Higgs boson production rate. The results match our understanding of how the universe works and will help build the data sets to explore the particles’ properties.... – Department of Energy, Office of Science ATLAS CONF-2016-079, European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland (2016).; “Combined measurements of the Higgs boson production and decay rates in final states using pp collision data at √s=13 TeV in the... Lars Bildsten Wins 2017 Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics The American Institute of Physics (AIP) and the American Astronomical Society (AAS) announced today, on behalf of the Heineman Foundation for Research, Educational, Charitable, and Scientific Purposes, that California astrophysicist Lars Bildsten is ... – American Institute of Physics (AIP) CERN Ramps Up Neutrino Program CERN is accelerating its neutrino program, contributing for the first time to an experiment (the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment, based at Fermilab) outside of CERN itself. – Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab)