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Medical News Cost, Technology Issues Are Barriers to Real-Time Cancer Patient Symptom Reporting In a perspective published in the New England Journal of Medicine, a UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center researcher addresses the need for – and the barriers preventing – electronic reporting of patients’ symptoms between visits. – University of North Carolina Health Care System New England Journal of Medicine, Jan-2016 Embargo expired on 11-Jan-2017 at 17:00 ET New Guideline on How to Map Brain Prior to Epilepsy Surgery Before epilepsy surgery, doctors may consider using brain imaging to locate language and memory functions in the brain instead of the more invasive procedure that is commonly used, according to a guideline published by the American Academy of Neurolo... – American Academy of Neurology (AAN) American Academy of Neurology Embargo expired on 11-Jan-2017 at 16:00 ET The Promise and Peril of Emerging Reproductive Technologies In-vitro gametogenesis is an experimental technique that allows scientists to grow embryos in a lab by reprograming adult cells to become sperm and egg cells. – Harvard Medical School Science Translational Medicine Embargo expired on 11-Jan-2017 at 14:00 ET New Research Concludes That Pasta Eaters Have Better Diet Quality New research analyzing the diets of people who eat pasta has concluded that pasta consumption in adults is associated with overall better diet quality when compared to adults who don’t eat pasta. – National Pasta Association The Obesity Society’s annual meeting New Drug in Development Shows Improved Progression-Free Survival for Patients with Advanced Metastatic Midgut Neuroendocrine Tumors A new therapy in development for the treatment of midgut neuroendocrine tumors, a rare type of cancer that occurs in the small intestine and colon, shows improved progression-free survival and response rates for patients with advanced disease. Result... – Moffitt Cancer Center New England Journal of Medicine, Jan 12-2017 Growing More Nutritional Strawberries in Kansas, Help for Eating Disorder Patients, Hot Weather Not to Blame for Salmonella on Egg Farms, and More in the Food Science News Source Click here to go to the Food Science News Source – Newswise Study: For Men with Prostate Cancer, Emotional Distress May Lead to More Aggressive Treatment The anxiety many men experience after being diagnosed with prostate cancer may lead them to choose potentially unnecessary treatment options, researchers from the University at Buffalo and Roswell Park Cancer Institute report in a new study. – University at Buffalo Journal of Urology, Feb-2017 Customers Who Receive Genetic Health Data Not Alarmed by Results, Find Information Useful As consumers have been able to learn more about their genetic makeup in recent years through personal genomic testing, one big criticism has been that without someone to interpret it, the health information could be harmful to the receivers. – University of Michigan Simmons Cancer Center Joins National Cancer Institute, CDC Calling for Increased HPV Vaccinations to Prevent Cancer More than a decade after the HPV vaccine was deemed both safe and effective by the FDA for preventing several types of cancer, the vaccine is still underused by those who could benefit. – UT Southwestern Medical Center DNA Duplicator Small Enough to Hold in Your Hand Left-handed DNA is the mirror image of the DNA found in all living things. It has the same physical properties as regular, right-handed DNA but it does not participate in most biological reactions. As a result, when fluorescently tagged L-DNA is adde... – Vanderbilt University Analytical Chemistry (Dec2016) Researchers Find a Potential Target for Anti-Alzheimer's Treatments Scientists at the Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine (LCSB) of the University of Luxembourg have identified a gene that may provide a new starting point for developing treatments for Alzheimer's disease (AD). The USP9 gene has an indirect infl... – University of Luxembourg Molecular Neurobiology Gun Violence in PG-13 Movies Continues to Climb Past R-Rated Films The amount of gun violence in top-grossing PG-13 movies, which can be seen by children of all ages, has continued to exceed the gun violence in the biggest box-office R-rated films, a new analysis published in the journal Pediatrics shows. – Annenberg Public Policy Center Pediatrics Changes to Hospital Electronic Health Records Could Improve Care of Patients on Popular Blood Thinner Warfarin is a commonly prescribed blood thinner used to prevent harmful blood clots. However, the drug requires frequent monitoring, daily dosing and can result in serious negative effects when mixed with vitamin K, a vitamin commonly found in vegeta... – University of Missouri Health The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety Raising Quality Alternative payment model boosts quality of care for low-income patients – Harvard Medical School Manipulating Signals in Bacteria Could Reduce Illnesses The University of Illinois at Chicago College of Pharmacy has received a five-year, $1.25 million federal grant to continue its research into how bacteria that cause streptococcal infections can be manipulated. – University of Illinois at Chicago Diet Helps Shed Pounds, Release Toxins and Reduce Oxidative Stress Research by Skidmore College exercise scientist Paul Arciero has found that a balanced, protein-pacing, low-calorie diet that includes intermittent fasting not only achieves long-term weight loss, but also helps release toxins in the form of PCBs fro... – Skidmore College Moffitt Cancer Center Researchers Develop Novel Treatment to Prevent Graft-Versus-Host-Disease TAMPA, Fla. – Graft-versus-host-disease (GVHD) is the leading cause of non-relapse associated death in patients who receive stem cell transplants.  In a new study published as the cover story in Science Translational Medicine, Moffitt Cancer Cent... – Moffitt Cancer Center K08 HL11654701A1 Study Finds Vaccination Is the Most Cost-Effective Way to Reduce Rabies Deaths in India Every year in India, about 20,000 people die from rabies. Most of the victims are children. Nearly all of the deaths occur after victims are bitten by rabid dogs. For years, experts have debated the best strategy to reduce this burden. Now, a new stu... – University of Maryland School of Medicine UAB Leads Effort to Set Guidelines for fMRI Use in Epilepsy Surgery The first set of guidelines for the use of fMRI in pre-surgical evaluation of patients with epilepsy have been published in Neurology. The seven-year effort was conducted by a committee commissioned by AAN and led by UAB's Jerzy Szaflarski, M.D., Ph... – University of Alabama at Birmingham Neurology Sanford Neurosurgeon’s Pediatric Stroke Case Published in National Journal Dr. Alexander Drofa removed clot in 9-day-old baby using unique method – Sanford Health Pediatric Neurosurgery, Oct-2016 UT Southwestern Scientists Identify Protein Central to Immune Response Against Tuberculosis Bacteria UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers have identified a protein that is central to the immune system’s ability to recognize and destroy the bacterium responsible for the global tuberculosis (TB) epidemic. – UT Southwestern Medical Center Cell Host & Microbe Walking the Tightrope Antibiotic use represents a special challenge, in which too much of a good thing can be dangerous to public health as a whole. The fight against a common, costly, hospital-acquired infection known as Clostridium difficile, or C. diff offers an illumi... – Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania CTO Summit 2017 Will Feature Latest Research and Techniques for Chronic Total Occlusions The Chronic Total Occlusion (CTO) Summit 2017 will feature the latest research and techniques available for interventional cardiologists in this emerging subspecialty of complex coronary artery disease. Now in its 14th year, the two-day course will t... – Cardiovascular Research Foundation (CRF) Mayo Clinic Cancer Center Joins 69 National Cancer Institute-Designated Cancer Centers to Endorse Updated HPV Vaccine Recommendations Mayo Clinic Cancer Center today joined with 69 National Cancer Institute-designated cancer centers in issuing a joint statement supporting updated HPV vaccination guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). – Mayo Clinic Glaucoma Risk Increases in Families: Spread the Word One way to reduce vision loss from glaucoma is to make sure your family members understand that they are at increased risk - if you have glaucoma. – Glaucoma Research Foundation Organ Transplants, Deceased Donors Set Record in 2016 UAB surgeons performed 385 transplants in 2016, and more than 33,600 transplants were performed nationwide. – University of Alabama at Birmingham New Vanderbilt Center Focuses on Marfan Syndrome, Aortic Disease With the recent opening of the Vanderbilt Marfan Syndrome and Aortic Disorders Center, the state’s only comprehensive clinic serving entire families, hundreds of patients with connective tissue disorders now have a one-stop shop for health care. – Vanderbilt University Medical Center Pappas Capital and Wake Forest Innovations Announce First Investments by the Catalyst Fund /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Pappas Capital and Wake Forest Innovations today announced the first technologies to receive initial investment from the Catalyst Fund, the $15 million technology development program established by Wake Forest Baptist Medic... – Wake Forest Innovations Jennifer Pinto-Martin, PhD, & Leah Moran, MSN, Named Inaugural Penn Nurse Innovation Fellows The Fellowship supports nursing faculty and staff to develop an intellectual foundation in innovation methodology and gain expertise in rapidly testing new approaches to enhance health care delivery and patient outcomes. – University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing Columbia University College of Dental Medicine and University of Puerto Rico Partner to Strengthen Oral Health Care Partnership aims to advance oral health through community-based research, education, and patient care. – Columbia University Medical Center Micro-Leads Inc. And Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine Announce Two Exciting Milestones Amidst GSK Innovation Challenge Micro-Leads Inc. is among three recipients around the world awarded $1 million to develop an advanced bioelectronics medicine device for GlaxoSmithKline’s (GSK) Bioelectronics Innovation Challenge. – Case Western Reserve University Medical Imaging Innovator Christine Hendon Wins Presidential Honor Christine Hendon, assistant professor of electrical engineering at Columbia Engineering, has won the Presidential Early Career Award (PECASE), the highest honor the U.S. government gives to young scientists and engineers. Hendon, who develops innovat... – Columbia University School of Engineering and Applied Science Science News Release of Water Shakes Pacific Plate at Depth A team of seismologists analyzing the data from 671 earthquakes that occurred between 30 and 280 miles beneath the Earth's surface in the Pacific Plate as it descended into the Tonga Trench were surprised to find a zone of intense earthquake activit... – Washington University in St. Louis Science Advances, Jan 11, 2017 Embargo expired on 11-Jan-2017 at 14:00 ET Chemistry on the Edge: Study Pinpoints Most Active Areas of Reactions on Nanoscale Particles Defects and jagged surfaces at the edges of nanosized platinum and gold particles are key hot spots for chemical reactivity, researchers confirmed using a unique infrared probe at Berkeley Lab. – Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Nature, Jan. 11, 2017 Embargo expired on 11-Jan-2017 at 13:00 ET Health Equity Study Compares Segregation, Low Birth Weight in Chicago and Toronto A new study reveals that low birth weight is strongly associated with racial and ethnic segregation in Chicago neighborhoods. In Toronto, however, communities with high proportions of racial and ethnic minorities did not have greater rates of low bir... – DePaul University Critical Public Health New Properties Discovered in Atom-Wide Troughs, Magnetic Discovery Could Be Tip of the "Ice"Berg, Spinning the (X-ray) Light Fantastic, and More in the DOE Science News Source Click here to go directly to the DOE Science News Source – Newswise Changing Climate Changes Soils In a new study, researchers used digital techniques to predict how one vital soil characteristic, soil organic carbon, may be altered by climate change. – American Society of Agronomy (ASA), Crop Science Society of America (CSSA), Soil Science Society of America (SSSA) Soil Science Society of America Journal, September 29, 2016 Sketching Out Magnetism With Electricity In a proof-of-concept study published in Nature Physics, researchers drew magnetic squares in a nonmagnetic material with an electrified pen and then “read” this magnetic doodle with X-rays. – SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory 10.1038/nphys3902 Ants Need Work-Life Balance, Research Suggests The work habits of ants could provide valuable insight into making our societies more productive and sustainable, says a team of Missouri S&T researchers. – Missouri University of Science and Technology Insect Science, Dec-2016 Affordable Water in the US: A Burgeoning Crisis If water rates continue rising at projected amounts, the number of U.S. households unable to afford water could triple in five years, to nearly 36 percent, finds new research by a Michigan State University scholar. – Michigan State University Plos One Tallying the Social Cost of Climate-Changing Carbon Dioxide A National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine committee today released a report aimed at ensuring that estimates of the social cost of carbon dioxide used by the U.S. government keep reflecting state-of-the-art science and evidence. Rutg... Expert Available – Rutgers University ; Report Birmingham Scientists Launch Project to Tackle Global 'Clean Cold' Challenge Scientists from the University of Birmingham have launched a major research project to investigate how ‘clean cold’ could help to achieve almost all of the United Nations’ (UN) global Sustainable Development Goals. – University of Birmingham Lifestyle & Social Sciences ‘Just About Managing’ Families Need More Help to Save Researchers Say ... – University of Birmingham Why Better Choices Depend on ‘Libertarian Paternalism’ Nudging people toward better behavior through policy can be effective, but can face resistance if people feel their autonomy is threatened. – University of Florida Journal of Marketing Research Should Biomedical Graduate Schools Ignore the GRE? A research team at the UNC School of Medicine found that the Graduate Record Exam (GRE), which is required for admission to graduate and doctorate programs across the country, is not the best indicator for predicting a student’s success while pursu... – University of North Carolina Health Care System PLOS One Misinformation May Improve Event Recall, Study Finds Decades of psychological research cast doubt Research on eyewitness testimony has shown that false details put forth during an interrogation can lead some people to develop vivid memories of events that never happened. While this “false memory” p... – Washington University in St. Louis The Nomadic Who? -- Broomball Documentary Features Clarkson University Alumnus David Zarneke plays broomball for the Nomadic Horde, a Washington, D.C., team that, improbably, took the Men's Class D Broomball Championship in 2012. The team's unlikely rise to the top is the subject of a documentary film, “The Nomadic Who?. – Clarkson University Financial Globalization and the 'Locust' Myth Professor Pedro Matos discusses his research that shows that foreign capital is generally good for public firms, spurring long-term investment, employment and innovation – University of Virginia Darden School Foundation Business News Most Valuable Colleagues: What the NBA Can Teach US About Worker Productivity Some employees could have a halo effect on their peers, according to new research. – University of Georgia Southern Research Hires Michael Catalano as VP and General Counsel Southern Research has hired Michael Catalano as vice president and general counsel. – Southern Research