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Medical News Cellular Quality Control Process Could Be Huntington’s Disease Drug Target The loss of motor function and mental acuity associated with Huntington’s disease might be treatable by restoring a cellular quality control process, which Duke Health researchers have identified as a key factor in the degenerative illness. – Duke Health Nature Communications; R01 NS065890; R01DA031833; R01963NS096352; R01GM070977; U24NS069422; U24NS078378; 964R21NS083365 Embargo expired on 13-Feb-2017 at 05:00 ET Low Birth Weight Babies at Higher Risk for Mental Health Problems Later in Life Babies born with extremely low birth weight are not only at risk for physical problems but are also more likely to experience mental health problems later in life, according to an analysis of research conducted over nearly 30 years. – American Psychological Association (APA) Embargo expired on 13-Feb-2017 at 09:00 ET Laser-Based Camera Improves View of the Carotid Artery Michigan Medicine researchers employ novel technology to monitor vulnerabilities for cardiovascular events, aid in diagnosis and treatment – Michigan Medicine - University of Michigan Nature Biomedical Engineering, Feb-2017; U54 CA163059; R01 706 EB016457; R01CA200007; R01 HL129778; R01 HL117491 Embargo expired on 10-Feb-2017 at 10:00 ET ISPOR Releases New Task Force Recommendations for the Development of Clinician-Reported Outcome Assessments ISPOR published a new Task Force Report, “Clinician-Reported Outcome Assessments of Treatment Benefit: Report of the ISPOR Clinical Outcome Assessment Emerging Good Practices Task Force,” in the January 2017 issue of Value in Health. – International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research (ISPOR) Value in Health, Jan-2017 Wikipedia Readers Get Shortchanged by Copyrighted Material When Google Books digitized 40 years worth of copyrighted and out-of-copyright issues of Baseball Digest magazine, Wikipedia editors realized they had scored. Suddenly they had access to pages and pages of player information from a new source. Yet no... – University of California, Berkeley Haas School of Business Organo-Metal Compound Seen Killing Cancer Cells From Inside Researchers have witnessed - for the first time - cancer cells being targeted and destroyed from the inside, by an organo-metal compound discovered by the University of Warwick. – University of Warwick Chemistry - A European Journal Heart-Shaped Cells, The Power of Aspirin, Stem Cells Transplants and More in the Cancer News Source Click here to go directly to the Cancer News Source – Newswise Ohio State Study: Baby's Sex Plays a Role in Pregnant Woman's Immunity Women have claimed for years that their bodies react differently whether they’re pregnant with a boy or girl. Now evidence, published by Ohio State University researchers shows the sex of a baby is associated with pregnant women’s immune response... – Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center Caregivers Should Be Screened Early, Often to Prevent Depression, Anxiety Currently, more than 34 million people in the U.S. care for terminally ill love ones, but few resources are available to help them navigate the challenges they encounter. A study at the University of Missouri School of Medicine found that nearly one... – University of Missouri Health Palliative Medicine New Imaging Technique Automates Analysis of Brain Tumor Tissue During Surgery Brain surgery for removing cancerous tissue is a delicate and high-stakes task. Now researchers funded by NIBIB have created a way to improve tumor removal surgery by distinguishing cancerous tissue from healthy tissue faster. The method developed by... – National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering EB0172254; EB010244; NS087118; CA046592; Nature Biomedical Engineering, Feb 6, 2017 Stressed Out Interferons Reveal Potential Key to Alternative Lupus Treatment New research has identified a previously unknown mechanism involved in the immune response of lupus patients that could provide an alternative therapy target for the estimated 1.5 million Americans and five million-plus people worldwide suffering fro... – University of Vermont P20GM103496 Corn, Milk Proteins Make Medicine Easier to Swallow It’s all about the layers! Encapsulating a drug in corn protein nanoparticles and then covering with them milk protein can make children’s medications better tasting and safer. – South Dakota State University Cedars-Sinai, UCLA Scientists Use New ‘Blood Biopsies’ With Experimental Device to Speed Cancer Diagnosis and Predict Disease Spread A team of investigators from Cedars-Sinai and UCLA is using a new blood-analysis technique and tiny experimental device to help physicians predict which cancers are likely to spread by identifying and characterizing tumor cells circulating through th... – Cedars-Sinai A New Hope for Bladder Cancer Patients A bladder cancer drug discovered and developed at The University of Kansas Cancer Center is set to become its first cancer drug to go from bench to bedside. – University of Kansas Cancer Center Notes and Tails of Patient Therapy at HUP At 2:30 on a Wednesday afternoon, I headed down to 3001 Market Street to meet Katie Deschaine, a Senior Applications Manager. She plays an important role in operations of the Health System’s electronic health records, EPIC, but I was there to see t... – Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania Chiropractors Offer Alternative to NSAIDs for Back Pain People suffering from back pain should consider first trying chiropractic services and other non-drug therapies in light of a new research review that found common over-the-counter and prescription pain medications have limited effectiveness for back... – American Chiropractic Association Leon Thal’s Enduring Leadership in Ad Research A remembrance of Leon Thal, MD, an early giant of Alzheimer’s disease research and treatment by Howard Feldman, MDCM, current director of the Alzheimer’s Disease Cooperative Study at UC San Diego School of Medicine. – University of California San Diego Health Sciences New Cavity Treatment Offers No Drilling, No Filling UAB School of Dentistry is offering patients with cavities between teeth a new, less painful option for treatment in a new clinical trial. – University of Alabama at Birmingham Five Tips for Staying Healthy and Living Longer Benjamin Franklin is credited with saying that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. What can you do to gain the benefits of prevention? – University of Tennessee Too Much Sun, Mosquito Bites Can Wreck Tropical Travel If the last blast of winter has you longing for sun-soaked beaches in tropical locales, be sure to stop at the drug store for sunscreen and insect repellant before leaving for spring vacation. Expert Available – Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center Teledentistry Featured at ADHA’s 94th Annual Conference Every year, more than 1,500 dental hygienists come together from all parts of the U.S. to learn from and network with the top experts in their field at the American Dental Hygienists’ Association’s (ADHA) 94th Annual Conference. This year, ADHA i... Expert Available – American Dental Hygienists' Association COA Applauds Confirmation of Dr. Tom Price as HHS Secretary The Community Oncology Alliance (COA) believes that Dr. Tom Price’s perspective as the first physician to be Secretary of HHS in over two decades, will bring an important firsthand understanding of the challenges that America’s physicians face an... – Community Oncology Alliance Henry Ford Health System Names New Chair of Neurology Department World renowned neuro-intensivist and researcher Stephan Mayer, M.D., F.C.C.M., has joined Henry Ford Health System as the new chair of neurology. – Henry Ford Health System Rheumatic Disease Awareness PSA Announced as Finalist for Top Public Relations Award The ACR’s Simple Tasks Campaign Recognized Alongside Top National Organizations for Best PSA – American College of Rheumatology (ACR) Science News Researchers Identify “Achilles’ Heel” of Key Anti-Cancer Protein Researchers at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York have discovered that a protein called Importin-11 protects the anti-cancer protein PTEN from destruction by transporting it into the cell nucleus. The study, “The nuclear transport receptor I... – The Rockefeller University Press The Journal of Cell Biology, March 6th 2017; National Institute of General Medical Sciences (1R01GM092900-03); U.S. Department of Defense (W81XWH-13-PCRP-IDA); American Cancer Society (RSG-14-069-01-TBE)... Embargo expired on 13-Feb-2017 at 09:00 ET Passengers Take Mobile Measure of Comfort for Railway Companies Passengers could soon be using their mobile phones to help rail companies around the globe improve the ride quality on their trains, thanks to new research. – University of Birmingham Frontiers in Built Environment, February 2017 Embargo expired on 12-Feb-2017 at 19:15 ET Next-Gen Dark Matter Detector in a Race to Finish Line The race is on to build the most sensitive U.S.-based experiment designed to directly detect dark matter particles. Department of Energy officials have formally approved a key construction milestone that will propel the project toward its April 2020 ... – Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Embargo expired on 13-Feb-2017 at 09:00 ET Andrea Davidson Joins SBP as Vice President of Philanthropy Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute (SBP) has named Andrea Davidson as the new vice president of philanthropy. Davidson joins SBP from UC San Diego, where she most recently led the development team in raising $119 million in the 2015-2... – Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute Embargo expired on 13-Feb-2017 at 05:00 ET How Evolution Alters Biological Invasions Biological invasions pose major threats to biodiversity, but little is known about how evolution might alter their impacts over time. Now, Rutgers University scientists have performed the first study of how evolution unfolds after invasions change na... – Rutgers University Nature Ecology & Evolution Kepler, Don’t Give Up on the Hunt for Exomoons LLNL researchers have demonstrated for the first time that it is possible for a planetary collision to form a moon large enough for Kepler to detect. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory physicist Megan Bruk Syal and Amy Barr of the Planetary Scien... – Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory The Royal Astronomical Society Rutgers Develops Eco-Friendly Concrete In the future, wide-ranging composite materials are expected to be stronger, lighter, cheaper and greener for our planet, thanks to an invention by Rutgers’ Richard E. Riman. Nine years ago, Riman, a distinguished professor in the Department of Mat... – Rutgers University Journal of the American Ceramic Society How About Another Sweet, Juicy Strawberry, Courtesy of UF/IFAS? When you bite into a Florida strawberry for Valentine’s Day or National Strawberry Day on Feb. 27, you savor sweetness and juice. That’s what you’ll find in all varieties bred by University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences... – University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences Scientists Estimate Solar Nebula's Lifetime A collaborative study involving Brookhaven, MIT, the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, and the National Museum in Rio de Janeiro suggests the gas cloud from which our solar system formed lasted about 4 million years. – Brookhaven National Laboratory Science, 10 Feb 2017: Vol. 355, Issue 6325, pp. 623-627 New Study of Ferroelectrics Offers Roadmap to Multivalued Logic for Neuromorphic Computing Research published Wednesday in Nature Scientific Reports lays out a theoretical map to use ferroelectric material to process information using multivalued logic – a leap beyond the simple ones and zeroes that make up our current computing systems ... – Argonne National Laboratory Nature Scientific Reports, Feb-2017 Breaking Research Published in AACC’s Clinical Chemistry Journal Could Help to Combat Rise in Drivers Impaired by Edible Marijuana Consumption Though marijuana edibles are becoming increasingly common, scant information exists on how to test drivers for impairment following their consumption. For the first time, research published today in AACC’s Clinical Chemistry journal evaluates the p... – American Association for Clinical Chemistry (AACC) Clinical Chemistry, Feb-2017 Protecting Bulk Power Systems From Hackers Most of us take turning the lights on for granted. In reality, the energy we draw from the electrical grid to brighten homes, freeze food and watch TV is part of a complicated and widespread system. Understanding that system's vulnerabilities and rel... – Michigan Technological University IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid; NSF CNS&CSE1541000 ; NSF ECCS1128512 Dwarf Star 200 Light Years Away Contains Life's Building Blocks Team discovers object in the constellation Boötes with carbon, nitrogen, oxygen and hydrogen. – University of California Los Angeles UCLA Astrophysical Journal Letters Ancient Signals From the Early Universe For the first time, theoretical physicists from the University of Basel have calculated the signal of specific gravitational wave sources that emerged fractions of a second after the Big Bang. – University of Basel Physical Review Letters Upstate Medical University Study Highlights Key Principles of a Successful Malaria Elimination Program The program's approach can also serve as a guide to ongoing and future control efforts of other emerging mosquito-borne illnesses globally. – SUNY Upstate Medical University 50+ Year-Old Protein Volume Paradox Resolved Research published this week in Nature Communications makes it possible to predict how volume for a given protein will change between the folded and unfolded state. Computations accurately predict how a protein will react to increased pressure, shed ... – Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) Exploring Mysteries on the Surface Ames Laboratory scientists Pat Thiel and Michael Tringides are explorers, discovering the unique properties of two-dimensional (2D) materials and metals grown on graphene, graphite, and other carbon coated surfaces. Expert Available – Ames Laboratory The Truth is Way, Way Out There Jason Steffen, an assistant professor of physics and astronomy at UNLV, discusses the ways in which exoplanet research have shaken up the theoretical models. Expert Available – University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) Consortium for Dark Sky Studies The University of Utah announced the Consortium for Dark Sky Studies, the first academic center in the world dedicated to discovering, developing, communicating and applying knowledge of the quality of the night skies. The consortium will research li... – University of Utah Lifestyle & Social Sciences Game Theorists Devise “Catch-Up Rule” to Make Sports Contests More Competitive—and Exciting to Watch A team of game theorists has devised a “Catch-Up Rule” that is designed to make sports such as volleyball, badminton, and squash more competitive—and more thrilling for spectators. – New York University Catch-Up: A Rule that Makes Service Sports More Competitive Doctoral Students’ Study Alters the Way Those Who Take and Share Selfies Are Viewed The research reveals three categories of selfie takers and dispels the notion that they are inherently narcissistic. – Texas Tech University How Polarization Snowballs Through Legislatures How did politics get so polarized? Too many safe seats, partisan voters and 'wave' elections. – Vanderbilt University Quarterly Journal of Economics Four Decades of Evidence Finds No Link Between Immigration and Increased Crime Political discussions about immigrants often include the claim that there is a relationship between immigration patterns and increased crime. However, results of a University at Buffalo-led study find no links between the two. In fact, immigration ac... – University at Buffalo Journal of Ethnicity in Criminal Justice School Vouchers Bring More Money to Catholic Schools — but at a Cost, Study Finds The University of Notre Dame study found that voucher expansion caused significant declines in church donations and church spending on non-educational religious activities. – University of Notre Dame National Bureau of Economic Research Love and War: Digitized Letters Preserve the Tale of a Texas Girl, Her Confederate Sweetheart and Their Secret Engagement Feb. 14 was coming up quickly, and the two young lovers’ emotions were heating up the hundreds of miles between them. Their Civil War letters tell of their secret engagement during a tumultuous time in history. – Baylor University How Much Will We Spend on Valentine’s Day This Year? Despite the explosion of red and pink merchandise currently promoted in stores, the National Retail Federation reports U.S. consumer spending will be down 10 percent this year compared to Valentine’s Day 2016. – Texas A&M University Business News David Foster – Producer, Composer, Humanitarian – Announced as 2017 IDEA Recipient Mr. David Foster will be formally recognized by Manitoba’s business community, academics, and students in Winnipeg on June 13 at the 2017 International Distinguished Entrepreneur Award Gala. – University of Manitoba Babson College Names Carolina Pina Director of Women Innovating Now (WIN) Lab® Miami Carolina Pina—entrepreneur, advisor, and philanthropist, has been named Director of Babson College’s Women Innovating Now (WIN) Lab® Miami. – Babson College