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Medical News What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Stronger Biologists have known for decades that enduring a short period of mild stress makes simple organisms and human cells better able to survive additional stress later in life. Now, scientists at Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute (SBP) h... – Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute Nature Communications; NIH R01 AG038664 ; NIH R01 AG039756; AFAR EPD1360 Embargo expired on 15-Feb-2017 at 05:00 ET Analyzing Copies of Genes Offers New Treatment Possibilities for Ovarian Cancer A team of 18 University of California San Diego School of Medicine and Moores Cancer Center researchers has developed a new tool to analyze an often overlooked aspect of cancer genetics — an alteration that results in the loss or gain in a copy of ... – University of California San Diego Health Sciences Nature Communications Embargo expired on 15-Feb-2017 at 05:00 ET Sugar, Salt, and Fat Taxes Could Save Billions in Health Care Costs Australia could save AUD $3.4 billion (USD $2.3 billion) in healthcare costs over the remaining lifetimes of all Australians alive in 2010 by instituting a combination of taxes on unhealthy foods and subsidies on fruits and vegetables, according to a... – PLOS PLOS Medicine Embargo expired on 14-Feb-2017 at 14:00 ET Imbalance of Calcium in a Cell's Energy Factory May Drive Alzheimer's Disease Calcium in the mitochondria -- the energy factory of cells -- may be one of the keys to understanding and treating Alzheimer's disease and dementia. Researchers at Temple University have now identified how an imbalance of calcium ions in the mitochon... – Biophysical Society Embargo expired on 14-Feb-2017 at 14:45 ET Smoking Cessation Counseling Successful When Paired with Lung Cancer Screening The first successful randomized trial of its kind provides preliminary evidence that telephone-based smoking cessation counseling given to smokers shortly after undergoing lung cancer screening can be effective at helping people stop smoking. – Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center P30 CA051008 Embargo expired on 14-Feb-2017 at 16:00 ET New Understandings of Cell Death Show Promise for Preventing Alzheimer’s Currently, the predominant theory behind Alzheimer’s disease is the “amyloid hypothesis,” which states that abnormally increased levels of amyloid beta (Aβ) peptides outside of brain cells produce a variety of low molecular weight Aβ aggregat... – Biophysical Society Embargo expired on 14-Feb-2017 at 14:45 ET Potential New Causes for the Odor-Producing Disorder TMAU A study from the Monell Center and collaborators provides new insight into the causes of trimethylaminura (TMAU), a genetically-transmitted metabolic disorder that leads to accumulation of a chemical that smells like rotting fish. Previously attribut... – Monell Chemical Senses Center Embargo expired on 14-Feb-2017 at 20:00 ET Payers Weigh the Implications of Multigene Testing Coverage in New UCSF Study A recent study from the UCSF Center for Translational and Policy Research on Personalized Medicine and the UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center identified opportunities to address the barriers to coverage of hereditary cancer panels, ... – National Comprehensive Cancer Network® (NCCN®) Technology Helps Older Adults Living with Congestive Heart Failure Congestive heart failure is one of the most common reasons for hospital admissions among those 65 years old and older, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. To help reduce these admissions and the strain they put on the healthc... – University of Missouri Health Researchers Identify New Process to Raise Natural Armies of Cancer-Targeting T Lymphocytes Outside the Body Mayo Clinic and University of Washington researchers have discovered a new culture method that unlocks the natural fighter function of immune T cells when they are passing through the bloodstream. This allows T cell armies to be raised directly from ... – Mayo Clinic Scripps Florida Collaboration Awarded $3.3 Million to Develop Next-Generation Breast Cancer Therapies A pair of scientists from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have been awarded up to $3.3 million from the National Cancer Institute of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to create the next generation of breast cancer tr... – Scripps Research Institute 1R01CA204484-01A1 Moral Distress in Health Care—Special Report Outlines Strategies to Increase Moral Resilience Nurses in all roles and specialties face complex ethical situations that challenge their values, giving rise to moral distress. New approaches to overcoming the challenges of moral distress by increasing moral resilience are presented in a supplement... – Wolters Kluwer Health: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins American Journal of Nursing Ice Fishing as Extreme Sport: Burns, Broken Bones, Concussions Among Injuries Chronicled Ice fishing might seem like a benign sport – for everyone except the fish. Sitting in a cozy shanty waiting for a bite, what could go wrong? A lot, Mayo Clinic surgeons have found. The ice fishing injuries they have chronicled seem more like a casu... – Mayo Clinic 1 in 4 ER Visits for Eye Problems Aren’t Actually Emergencies, Study Finds Pinkeye isn’t a medical emergency. Neither is a puffy eyelid. But a new study finds that nearly one in four people who seek emergency care for eye problems have those mild conditions, and recommends ways to help those patients get the right level o... – Michigan Medicine - University of Michigan Ophthalmology, online first, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ophtha.2016.12.039; EY023596 American Chiropractic Association Applauds New Low Back Pain Guidelines Advocating Non-Drug Treatments First The American Chiropractic Association (ACA) applauds new low back pain treatment guidelines by the American College of Physicians (ACP) that recommend first using non-invasive, non-drug treatments before resorting to drug therapies. – American Chiropractic Association Annals of Internal Medicine Only a Limited HIV Subset Moves From Mother to Child, Study Shows FINDINGS In the transmission of HIV-1 from mother to child only a subset of a mother’s viruses infects their infants either in utero or via breastfeeding, and the viruses that are transmitted depend on whether transmission occurs during pregnancy o... – University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Health Sciences Retrovirology; T32 067587 Unbound Medicine and APSA Launch Pediatric Surgery Library Unbound Medicine, a leader in knowledge management solutions for health care, and the American Pediatric Surgical Association (APSA), the nation’s largest professional organization serving the pediatric surgical specialty, today launched the Pediat... – American Pediatric Surgical Association New Rutgers–Princeton Center Uses Computational Models to Understand Psychiatric Conditions New Rutgers–Princeton Center Uses Computational Models to Understand Psychiatric Conditions – Rutgers University Don’t Let Hand Rashes Ruin Your Winter Hand rashes can be frustrating, especially when the cause of your rash is unknown. Was it a new brand of hand soap? Eczema? Or just really dry skin? According to dermatologists from the American Academy of Dermatology, it could be any of these thin... – American Academy of Dermatology Two From UW-Madison Contribute to Human Gene Editing Report The National Academy of Sciences and National Academy of Medicine issued a report Tuesday focused on human genome editing. It lays out principles and recommendations for governments grappling with how to handle rapid advances in human genome-editing... – University of Wisconsin-Madison AAAS Annual Meeting Feb. 17, 2017 Penn Gene Therapy Pioneer Teams Up with FAST in Race to Cure Angelman Syndrome A pioneer on the frontier of genetic medicine and his team at one of the nation’s top-five medical research schools have joined forces with FAST (Foundation for Angelman Syndrome Therapeutics) to develop a treatment for the rare disorder Angelman s... – Foundation for Angelman Syndrome Therapeutics (FAST) ‘Hair of the Dog’ Won’t Cure That Hangover The notion that having a drink can cure a hangover has been around since the 16th century. That doesn't mean it's true. Expert Available – Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center UF/IFAS Entomologist Gets $200,000 to Help Develop Rapid Zika Detection Barry Alto, a UF/IFAS assistant professor of medical entomology, said scientists need better diagnostic tools to detect Zika virus to meet challenges to public health. He is working with collaborator Steven Benner at Firebird Biomolecular Sciences LL... – University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences George Wanna, MD, FACS, Appointed Site Chair of the Department of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery at New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai and Mount Sinai Beth Israel George Wanna, MD, an internationally renowned hearing and balance surgeon and researcher, has been named the Site Chair of the Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery at the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai and Mount Sinai Bet... – Mount Sinai Health System Cancer Survivor and Noted Physician-Scientist Sandra Horning to Receive Roth Award Sandra Horning, MD, Chief Medical Officer and executive vice president of global development for Roche and Genentech, a member of the Roche Group, has been named the 2017 recipient of the Duane Roth Memorial Award, which will be presented February 16... – University of California San Diego Health Sciences Penn Orphan Disease Center Partners with Foundation for Angelman Syndrome Therapeutics on Gene Therapy Research Penn Medicine’s Orphan Disease Center (ODC) announces a new partnership with FAST (Foundation for Angelman Syndrome Therapeutics) to study gene therapy approaches to treat Angelman syndrome (AS). FAST will provide funding to establish a gene therap... – Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania Wake Forest Baptist Names Julie Ann Freischlag, M.D., Chief Executive Officer Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center today announced Julie Ann Freischlag, (pronounced FRY-shlog), M.D., as its new chief executive officer (CEO). Freischlag joins the medical center on May 1 and succeeds CEO John D. McConnell, M.D., who last year anno... – Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center Joslin Diabetes Center Participating in Two NIH-Funded Artificial Pancreas Clinical Trials Joslin Diabetes Center will take part in two clinical trials this year to test artificial pancreas systems designed to automatically monitor and regulate blood glucose levels in people with type 1 diabetes, which would replace traditional methods of ... – Joslin Diabetes Center DK108483; DK108611 Science News Flat-Footed Fighters Walking on our heels, a feature that separates great apes, including humans, from other primates, confers advantages in fighting, according to a new University of Utah study published today in Biology Open. Although moving from the balls of the feet ... – University of Utah Biology Open Embargo expired on 15-Feb-2017 at 04:00 ET How a Plant Resists Drought Climate change will bring worsening droughts that threaten crops. One potential way to protect crops is by spraying them with a compound that induces the plants to become more drought resistant. Now, by identifying the key molecular mechanism that en... – Biophysical Society Embargo expired on 14-Feb-2017 at 14:45 ET Life Under Pressure Life can thrive in some of the most extreme environments on the planet. Microbes flourish inside hot geothermal vents, beneath the frigid ice covering Antarctica and under immense pressures at the bottom of the ocean. For these organisms to survive a... – Biophysical Society Embargo expired on 14-Feb-2017 at 14:45 ET New Protein Development May Hold the Key to New Disease Therapeutics The 2016 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine was awarded the for discoveries of mechanisms of autophagy, a cellular process much like recycling, where new cellular components are generated from old and damaged ones. Though a relatively simple proce... – Biophysical Society Embargo expired on 14-Feb-2017 at 14:45 ET Canadian Glaciers Now Major Contributor to Sea Level Change, UCI Study Shows Ice loss from Canada’s Arctic glaciers has transformed them into a major contributor to sea level change, new research by University of California, Irvine glaciologists has found. From 2005 to 2015, surface melt off ice caps and glaciers of the Que... – University of California, Irvine Environmental Research Letters Embargo expired on 14-Feb-2017 at 19:00 ET Researchers Catch Extreme Waves with Higher-Resolution Modeling A new Berkeley Lab study shows that high-resolution models captured hurricanes and big waves that low-resolution ones missed. Better extreme wave forecasts are important for coastal cities, the military, the shipping industry, and surfers. – Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Geophysical Research Letters, Feb 2017 Is a Stretchable Smart Tablet in Our Future? Engineering researchers at Michigan State University have developed the first stretchable integrated circuit that is made entirely using an inkjet printer, raising the possibility of inexpensive mass production of smart fabric. – Michigan State University Illuminating the Contacts Using super-resolution microscopy, an international research team led by Assistant Professor Pakorn (Tony) Kanchanawong from the Mechanobiology Institute, Singapore (MBI) at the National University of Singapore (NUS) and the Department of Biomedical ... – National University of Singapore Nature Cell Biology, Dec-2016 Black-Hole-Powered Jets Forge Fuel for Star Formation Astronomers using ALMA have discovered a surprising connection between a supermassive black hole and the galaxy where it resides. – National Radio Astronomy Observatory Astrophysical Journal, Feb-2017 Researchers Develop ‘Living Diode’ Using Cardiac Muscle Cells Research from the University of Notre Dame brings scientists one step closer to developing new forms of biorobotics and novel treatment approaches for several muscle-related health problems such as muscular degenerative disorders, arrhythmia and limb... – University of Notre Dame Turning Up the Heat for Perfect (Nano)Diamonds For use in quantum sensing, the bulk nanodiamond crystal surrounding the point defect must be highly perfect. Any deviation from perfection will adversely affect the quantum behavior of the material. Highly perfect nanodiamonds are also quite expensi... – American Institute of Physics (AIP) Extending VCSEL Wavelength Coverage to the Mid-Infrared There are several important gases that are detectable with mid-infrared light, having wavelengths between 3-4 micrometers. Application-grade Vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs), however, aren’t yet available for this wavelength range, ... – American Institute of Physics (AIP) Spread of Lionfish in Gulf of Mexico Is Threat toReef Fisheries Continuing his research, NSU scientist Matthew Johnston, Ph.D., looks at the potential threat the invasive lionfish poses to reef fish in the Caribbean, Gulf of Mexico and Atlantic Ocean. – Nova Southeastern University Research at Sandia Looking at How Brittle Materials Fail Sandia National Laboratories' Brittle Materials Assurance Performance Program is working to understand how brittle materials inside devices behave and fail. – Sandia National Laboratories NBAF Program Observes Kansas Emergency Response Exercise to Inform Future Planning The exercise was an early opportunity for the NBAF program to observe a simulated full-scale emergency response to allow its planners to envision how the facility might serve a crucial role in response and recovery. – Homeland Security's Science & Technology Directorate Kalinin, Paranthaman Elected Materials Research Society Fellows Two researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Sergei Kalinin and Mariappan Parans Paranthaman, have been elected fellows of the Materials Research Society. – Oak Ridge National Laboratory Lifestyle & Social Sciences Population Density Pushes the “Slow Life” But a new study by Arizona State University shows the opposite may be true – that one psychological effect of population density is for those people to adopt a “slow life strategy.” This strategy focuses more on planning for the long-term futur... – Arizona State University (ASU) Journal of Personality and Social Psychology Embargo expired on 14-Feb-2017 at 15:05 ET UCI Researchers Forecast Lower 2017 Violent and Property Crime Rates in Much of SoCal Irvine, Calif., Feb. 14, 2017 – Researchers at the University of California, Irvine project double-digit reductions in both violent and property crimes across much of Southern California for 2017. Violent crime is estimated to drop by 21 percent in... – University of California, Irvine Researchers Examine Working Memory as Key to Preventing Misdiagnoses, Overrepresentation of Minorities in Special Education Researchers have found a link to growth in working memory and growth in English-language reading among young English-language learning students. The findings suggest better assessment and education that considers second language acquirement, and not ... – University of Kansas USDE R324A090092 GameSpace Offers a Playable Visualization of 16,000 Videogames Finding information about videogames can now be a game in itself, thanks to researchers at UC Santa Cruz. They created GameSpace, a playable visualization of 16,000 videogames grouped according to common features and displayed in 3-dimensional space ... – University of California, Santa Cruz Canine Cupids Bring Valentine Cheer to Hospitalized Patients A team of pettable cupids made a special delivery to hospitalized patients at Mattel Children's Hospital UCLA and UCLA Medical Center, Santa Monica, on Valentine’s Day, bearing a love-and-kisses message that's sure to stay with the children and adu... – University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Health Sciences Babson College to Honor Coach Judy Blinstrub for Her 600th Career Win Babson College women’s basketball coach Judy Blinstrub will be honored Wednesday, February 15, 2017, for her legacy of campus leadership that culminated in her 600th career victory last week. – Babson College Skidmore College Announces Stewart’s Signature Series, Featuring Performances by Internationally Known Musicians and Artists Skidmore College is pleased to announce the Stewart’s Signature Series, a lineup of premier music and arts events to be held during the summer of 2017. – Skidmore College Ensemble Connect Program Celebrates 10 Years at Skidmore College Formerly known as Ensemble ACJW, the Ensemble Connect program was established in 2007 as a graduate fellowship program linking Carnegie Hall with the Juilliard School and the Weill Music Institute. The program is designed to prepare young musicians ... – Skidmore College Business News Birmingham’s Early Warning System Flags Global Financial Crises Researchers at the University of Birmingham have developed a new ‘early warning system’ that could help policymakers around the world take action to avert or lessen the impact of financial crisis. – University of Birmingham Journal of Financial Stabilit, Feb 2017 ‘Predicting sovereign debt crises’ Babson College Announces New Master of Science in Business Analytics Program Babson College has introduced a new part-time Master of Science in Business Analytics (MSBA) program, and will begin enrolling students for the fall of 2017. – Babson College Marketplace VisionIT and Henry Ford Health System Announce Unique Mobile Healthcare Communication Tool Henry Ford and VisionIT will debut CareTrail at Microsoft Innovation Theater in Orlando at HIMSS 2017, the largest annual healthcare and IT conference in the U.S. – Henry Ford Health System