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Medical News First Use of Surgical Robot Inside the Human Eye Surgeons have successfully used a remote controlled robotic system to operate inside the human eye, paving the way for future robotic assistance in clinical treatments that require extreme precision and stability, such as the controlled delivery of g... – Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) Embargo expired on 08-May-2017 at 08:45 ET New Canadian Clinical Guideline for Physicians Tapers Down Use of Opioids There are important risks associated with opioids. The guideline aspires to promote evidence-based prescribing of opioids for chronic non-cancer pain. – McMaster University Embargo expired on 08-May-2017 at 00:05 ET Prenatal Exposure to Marijuana May Have Lasting Effects on Vision Scientists have shown for the first time that gestational exposure to marijuana smoke in animals affects the development of the eye and these alterations seem to progress with age. The research is being presented during a press conference at the 2017... – Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) Embargo expired on 07-May-2017 at 10:15 ET Artificial Intelligence Predicts Severe AMD Development Scientists have demonstrated that a machine learning algorithm, using images of patients’ retinas obtained over time, can predict the critical moment when early or intermediate age-related macular degeneration (AMD) will progress into severe AMD. T... – Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) Embargo expired on 07-May-2017 at 10:15 ET New Ambulatory Monitoring Device Offers Window Into Stomach’s Bioelectrical Activity A first-of-its-kind portable wireless device developed by an NYIT-led research team can monitor stomach motility to enable physicians to measure and ultimately better understand slow wave activity in gastric contractions. – New York Institute of Technology Embargo expired on 07-May-2017 at 18:00 ET Medical Groups Join Forces to Improve Cardiac Imaging Use in Children The Image Gently Alliance, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and a coalition of pediatric medicine and cardiology organizations* have launched the “Have-A-Heart” campaign. This multi-society effort would help providers appropriately use an... – American College of Radiology (ACR) Embargo expired on 07-May-2017 at 02:30 ET Study Demonstrates Ability to Preserve Long-Term Vision for Severe Patients with Uveitis Research Examines Effectiveness of Leading Treatment Approaches – Mount Sinai Health System U10EY014655 ; U10EY014660; U10EY014656 Embargo expired on 06-May-2017 at 12:30 ET Obese Women Less Likely to Suffer from Dangerous Preeclampsia Complications Despite having higher rates of preeclampsia, a dangerous high-blood pressure disorder of late pregnancy, obese women may be less than half as likely to suffer strokes, seizures, and other serious complications of the disorder. The findings are among ... – Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania ACOG Annual Meeting Embargo expired on 05-May-2017 at 17:00 ET Pregnancy Linked to Higher Risk of Death From Traumatic Injury, Penn Study Finds Studies have found that one in six pregnant women have been abused by a partner – beaten, stabbed, shot, or even murdered. New research shows the risks to these women may be especially profound: Pregnant women are twice as likely to be a victim of ... – Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania Embargo expired on 05-May-2017 at 17:00 ET Obese Women Less Likely to Suffer From Dangerous Preeclampsia Complications Two new studies of preeclampsia by researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine at University of Pennsylvania show how obesity may help clinicians identify risk for the condition or other complications. – Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania Embargo expired on 05-May-2017 at 17:00 ET Pediatric Academic Societies 2017 Meeting, World-Renowned Pediatric Experts From Weill Cornell Medicine and Newyork-Presbyterian Available for Comment Leading pediatric experts from Weill Cornell Medicine and NewYork-Presbyterian will be presenting at the Pediatric Academic Societies 2017 Meeting in San Francisco, CA from May 6 – 9. Expert Available – New York-Presbyterian Hospital Pediatric Academic Societies 2017 Meeting, May 6, 2017, 8:30 AM – 11:30AM Embargo expired on 06-May-2017 at 08:00 ET 2017 Julius Friedenwald Medal Presented to Penn Medicine Gastroenterology Chief Anil K. Rustgi, MD, has received the 2017 Julius Friedenwald Medal from the American Gastroenterological Association (AGA), the leading national and international society of the field with 17,000 members. – Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania Embargo expired on 08-May-2017 at 09:00 ET Andrew Sabin Family Fellows to Receive $100,000 in Research Funding The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center named eight innovative researchers to the second annual class of Andrew Sabin Family Fellows at a luncheon today attended by Andrew Sabin, of East Hampton, New York, and representatives of the Andrew ... – University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center Embargo expired on 08-May-2017 at 09:00 ET NewYork-Presbyterian’s Dr. Laura Forese Named to Modern Healthcare’s List of Top Healthcare COOs Dr. Laura Forese, executive vice president and chief operating officer of NewYork-Presbyterian, has been named among the top 25 COOs in the country by Modern Healthcare. – New York-Presbyterian Hospital Embargo expired on 08-May-2017 at 06:00 ET Cotton Tip Applicators Are Sending 34 Kids to the Emergency Department Each Day A study conducted by Nationwide Children’s Hospital researchers found that over a 21-year period from 1990 through 2010, an estimated 263,000 children younger than 18 years of age were treated in U.S. hospital emergency departments for cotton tip a... – Nationwide Children's Hospital includes video World Hand Hygiene Day, Young Adult Smokers, Synthetic Marijuana, and More in the Public Health News Source The latest research, experts and features in Public Health in the Public Health News Source – Newswise Backed by Dana-Farber Research, FDA Approves New AML Drug A targeted drug whose clinical testing was led by Richard Stone, MD, of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, has become the first new treatment for newly diagnosed acute myeloid leukemia (AML) in more than 25 years. – Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Coding, Machines May Decrease False Positives in Breast Cancer Screenings Machine learning (or coding) could help reduce false positives from mammography screening, according to an article study published online in the May 4, 2017 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) Oncology. The national coding... – Seattle Cancer Care Alliance JAMA Oncology Researchers Identify Gene That Controls Birth Defect Common in Diabetes Researchers have identified a gene that plays a key role in the formation of neural tube defects, a problem commonly found in infants of pregnant women with diabetes. This is the first time the gene has been shown to play this role; it opens up a new... – University of Maryland School of Medicine How One Drug Could Affect Pain, Memory and Nicotine Addiction Texas A&M researchers are working to develop drugs to enhance the function of these receptors in the brain, which could have three very different applications: easing pain, slowing the cognitive decline associated with Alzheimer’s and making it eas... – Texas AArrayM University Journal of Biological Chemistry, April -2017; NS-093590 Researchers Discover How Flu Viruses — From the Least Pathogenic to the Deadliest Strains— Hijack Human Cell Machinery to Reproduce Much is known about flu viruses, but little is understood about how they reproduce inside human host cells, spreading infection. Now, a research team headed by investigators from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai is the first to identify a... – Mount Sinai Health System 2RO1AI099195 Research Supports Use of Enhanced Recovery Approaches in More Abdominal Surgeries A new meta-analysis by a team from Roswell Park Cancer Institute demonstrates that Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) programs are effective in patients requiring many abdominal and pelvic operations, not just those undergoing colorectal surgerie... – Roswell Park Cancer Institute Annals of Surgery Secondhand Smoke Ups Heart Disease in Unique Group of Female Nonsmokers – Amish Women Research at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, conducted in a Pennsylvania Amish community where virtually no women smoke, finds effects of secondhand smoke differ between men and women. – University of Maryland Medical Center/School of Medicine Study Shows Association Between Gut Microbes and Brain Structure in People with IBS Research shows for the first time an association between the gut microbiota and the brain regions involved in the processing of sensory information from their bodies. Also, the researchers gained insight into the connections among childhood trauma, b... – University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Health Sciences Microbiome Eye Research Meeting Brings Giant Globe to Baltimore Showing “Heat” Map of Worldwide Blindness  For the first time, information about worldwide blindness and vision impairment is being projected onto NASA’s room-sized, global display system during the Annual Meeting of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (May 7 – 11 at ... – Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) Fixing Broken Hearts Through Tissue Engineering The third annual Cardiovascular Tissue Engineering Symposium met at the University of Alabama at Birmingham last month, a gathering of noted physicians and scientists who share the goal of creating new tissues and new knowledge that can prevent or re... – University of Alabama at Birmingham Circulation Research Parkinson’s Disease Study Featured in Top Research Article for 2016 Researchers at Banner Sun Health Research Institute and Mayo Clinic are continuing to study how to diagnose early Parkinson’s disease. The research team’s most recent article, “Peripheral Synucleinopathy in Early Parkinson’s Disease: Submandi... – Mayo Clinic X-Ray Imaging and Computer Modeling Help Map Electric Properties of Nanomaterials Argonne researchers have developed a new approach for studying piezoelectric materials using ultrafast 3-D X-ray imaging and computer modeling. Their integrated approach, reported in Nano Letters, can help us better understand material behavior and e... – Argonne National Laboratory Nano Letters, Dec-2016 includes video New Lung Cancer Center at NYU Langone Welcomes Renowned Thoracic Surgeon as Its Director Robert J. Cerfolio, MD – whose innovations in robotics have led to practice-changing advances in lung cancer surgery – will join NYU Langone as chief of clinical thoracic surgery. He also will become the first director of the Lung Cancer Center a... – NYU Langone Medical Center Sports Medicine Physicians of AMSSM to Renovate Branch Location of Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater San Diego Nearly 100 sports medicine physicians of the American Medical Society for Sports Medicine (AMSSM) will volunteer to renovate and restore portions of the Ron Roberts Family Branch of the Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater San Diego this Monday, May 8, 2017... – American Medical Society for Sports Medicine (AMSSM) Vasculitis Foundation Kicks Off 2017 Vasculitis Awareness Month The Vasculitis Foundation announces the launch of its month-long campaign to raise awareness about autoimmune vasculitis. – Vasculitis Foundation Massachusetts Eye and Ear to Offer 3D Surgical Visualization Technology to Retina Patients Mass. Eye and Ear is enhancing the care it brings to adult and pediatric retina patients with a new and innovative vitreoretinal surgical platform, known as the NGENUITY 3D Visualization System. – Massachusetts Eye and Ear New Report Showing How Failures in Diabetes Prevention Are Fueling New York’s Alzheimer’s Epidemic to Be Unveiled With diabetes raising the risk for Alzheimer’s Disease by 40%, New Yorkers are facing an escalating Alzheimer's epidemic fueled by failures of New York City and State to undertake effective diabetes prevention. – Health People Potential Remedies for Vision Loss Emerge at ARVO Conference Over 11,000 top eye and vision researchers and clinicians from around the world will attend the Annual Meeting of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO), May 7-11, in Baltimore, Md., to explore cutting-edge findings in basic ... – Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) “Polly’s Run” Raises Awareness, Money and Hope to Fight Pancreatic Cancer The eighth annual “Polly’s Run” raises awareness for pancreatic cancer, honors pancreatic cancer survivors and all those who face the disease, and raises money for pancreatic cancer research. Albuquerque Pet Memorial Services sponsors the event... – University of New Mexico Comprehensive Cancer Center Science News Installing Solar to Combat National Security Risks in the Power Grid Power grid vulnerabilities are one of the most prevalent national security threats. The technical community calls for building up grid resiliency using distributed energy and microgrids for stabilization as multiple sources increases the difficulty o... – Michigan Technological University Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews Chemically Tailored Graphene Graphene is considered as one of the most promising new materials. However, the systematic insertion of chemically bound atoms and molecules to control its properties is still a major challenge. Now, for the first time, scientists of the Friedrich-Al... – University of Vienna Nature Communications Treasure Trash, Falkland Islands Basin, Hurricane Experts, Climate Change Basics, and More in the Environmental Science News Source The latest research on the environment in the Environmental Science News Source – Newswise Scientists Reveal New and Improved Genome Sequence of Daphnia Pulex By understanding how they respond to toxic elements, scientists can look at how environmental changes caused by agriculture and road runoff or warming temperatures and climate change could impact populations in lakes, rivers and standing bodies of wa... – University of Notre Dame Discovery of New Transparent Thin Film Material Could Improve Electronics and Solar Cells A team of researchers, led by the University of Minnesota, have discovered a new nano-scale thin film material with the highest-ever conductivity in its class. The new material could lead to smaller, faster, and more powerful electronics, as well as ... – University of Minnesota College of Science and Engineering Bacterial Boost for Bio-Based Fuels “Electrical” bacteria are the key ingredient in a new process developed by the Oak Ridge National Laboratory that recycles wastewater from biofuel production to generate hydrogen. The hydrogen can then be used to convert bio-oil into higher grade... – Oak Ridge National Laboratory Scientists Find Skin Cells at the Root of Balding, Gray Hair UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers have identified the cells that directly give rise to hair as well as the mechanism that causes hair to turn gray – findings that could one day help identify possible treatments for balding and hair graying... – UT Southwestern Medical Center Genes & Development, May-2017 You Cannot Control the Weather, but UF-Developed Tools Help You Cope “There is interest in this topic as we try to improve our decision-making tools,” said Kati Migliaccio, a UF/IFAS professor of agricultural and biological engineering and co-author of a new Extension document. “Rainfall is one of the most varia... – University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences Speedy X-Ray Detector Arrives at NSLS-II The National Synchrotron Light Source II (NSLS-II), a DOE Office of Science User Facility at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory, is a truly international resource. – Brookhaven National Laboratory Brookhaven's John Shanklin Named a Battelle 'Inventor of the Year' John Shanklin, a biochemist investigating the fundamental processes that underlie the production of plant oils at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory, is being honored as an "Inventor of the Year" by Battelle—the gl... – Brookhaven National Laboratory Brookhaven Lab Chemist Etsuko Fujita to Be Honored at Asian American and Pacific Islander Celebration Etsuko Fujita, a senior chemist at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory, will be recognized as a “highly accomplished Asian American professional” at the ninth annual Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage ... – Brookhaven National Laboratory Hagan, Rosenzweig Elected to National Academy of Sciences John L. Hagan and Amy C. Rosenzweig, faculty members in Northwestern University’s Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, have been elected to the prestigious National Academy of Sciences. Membership in the academy is one of the highest honors given... – Northwestern University Three Penn Medicine Scientists Elected to the National Academy of Sciences Three scientists from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Yale Goldman, MD, PhD, Mitchell A. Lazar, MD, PhD, and Sarah Tishkoff, PhD, have been elected to the National Academy of Sciences, one of the highest honors acco... – Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania Lifestyle & Social Sciences Taxpayers Benefit Most When Government Employee Job Satisfaction Is High, Study Finds Taxpayers benefit most when job satisfaction among federal employees is high, according to a recent study conducted by a team of 14 researchers. The team identified specific strategies policymakers can implement in order to improve agency efficiency ... – University of California, Irvine, The Paul Merage School of Business Behavioral Science and Policy You Need More Than Just a White Hat to Tell the Hero From the Villain The Sopranos’ Tony Soprano and Walter White from Breaking Bad rank among recent television drama’s most notorious protagonists, each of questionable morality. So, here’s the question: Do you like them? – University at Buffalo Communication Research 'Athletes of the Small Muscles': Graduating OT Student Follows Passion Through Treating Musicians Over the 15-minute course of Maurice Ravel’s Bolero, the snare drummer raps out 5,144 individual beats. – Creighton University Arkansas Professor Addresses NATO Meeting on Dangers of Information Disseminated by Botnets A University of Arkansas at Little Rock professor advised members of NATO about the danger of false information distributed online through botnets, a network of computer programs that act autonomously on social media platforms such as Twitter and Fac... – University of Arkansas at Little Rock U-Delaware's Iain Crawford Elected as 2018-2019 CUR Executive Board President Iain Crawford, associate professor of English and faculty director of undergraduate research and experiential learning at the University of Delaware, has been elected to serve as president-elect of the Council on Undergraduate Research's executive bo... – Council on Undergraduate Research (CUR) Learn From the Best and the Brightest in the Field of Couple and Family Therapy Upcoming International Conference "Crossroads of Couple and Family Psychology: A Foundation for Real World Practice on June 22-24, 2107 in Evanston, IL – Family Institute at Northwestern University Business News Children’s Hospital Los Angeles Second Annual Make March Matter Campaign Raises $1.7 Million Children’s Hospital Los Angeles announced today that its annual Make March Matter ™ campaign raised $1.7 million. – Childrens Hospital Los Angeles EPA Honors the American Cleaning Institute as Safer Choice Partner of the Year The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has named the American Cleaning Institute (ACI), the trade association of the U.S. cleaning product supply chain, as a Safer Choice Partner of the Year. ACI (www.cleaninginstitute.org) was recognized in the S... – American Cleaning Institute