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Study Finds Alzheimer’s Disease Likely Not Caused by Low Body Mass Index
NIH-Funded Clinical Trial Shows Avastin Is as Effective as Eylea for Treatment of Central Retinal Vein Occlusion
Tip Sheet: Johns Hopkins Researchers Present at the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology Annual Meeting
Dr. Peter M. Fleischut Appointed Senior Vice President and Chief Transformation Officer at NewYork-Presbyterian
Children’s Hospital Los Angeles Announces CHLA Health Network — the Largest Pediatrician Network in Los Angeles
Sugar or Protein? How Fruit Fly Brains Control What They Choose to Eat
Helping Clinicians Through Traumatic Events Also Helps the Bottom Line, Cost-Benefit Analysis Shows
Astronauts Experience Decrease in Blood Vessel Function During Spaceflight, Study Finds
Stereotactic Partial Breast Radiation Lowers Number of Treatments to Five
Newly Published Research Will Help to Refine Treatments for Global Parasitic Disease
Research Elucidates Ghrelin’s Role in Blood Glucose Regulation, a Finding with Implications for Treating Diabetes
Seniors Who Live with Their Abusers Often Suffer Recurrent Abuse
When Malaria Infects the Placenta During Pregnancy, Baby’s Future Immunity Can Be Affected
Taming the Trouble with Inhalers: A New Way to Treat Asthma
Twenty-Year Cancer Survivor Gives Back by Donating 20 Handmade Quilts
Happy Mother’s Day: Five Facts About Anesthesia for Labor and Delivery
CRF to Hold Free Seminar on Living with Heart Failure for Patients and Caregivers
The CAP Strongly Supports Legislation to Improve Patient's Access to Care
Dr. Francis O’Connor Receives AMSSM’s Top Honor
Milken Institute School of Public Health Receives $1 Million to Support Signature Community Health Center Research and Training Program
Raymond B. Wynn, MD, FACR, Joins Loyola MedicineAs Vice Chair of Radiation Oncology
Three San Diego Researchers Honored by Royal Society of Chemistry
BIDMC Scientist Barbara B. Kahn, MD, Elected to the National Academy of Sciences
Rising Temperatures Threaten Stability of Tibetan Alpine Grasslands
Scientists Print Nanoscale Imaging Probe onto Tip of Optical Fiber
Scientists Help Thin-Film Ferroelectrics Go Extreme
Looking at Light to Explore Superconductivity in Boron-Diamond Films
‘Inverse Designing’ Spontaneously Self-Assembling Materials
CBT Could Help Stress in Sport, Leeds Beckett Study Finds
Lyme Disease Researchers Seek Consensus as Number of Cases Grows
UCLA Researchers Design Process to Better Understand How Advanced Melanoma Adapts to Immunotherapy
Ames Laboratory and Iowa State University Scientists Develop More Efficient Catalytic Material for Fuel Cell Applications
Right-or Left-Handedness Affects Sign Language Comprehension
Aging Gracefully in the Rainforest
Grape Seed Extract Could Extend Life of Resin Fillings
Shrubs, Grasses Planted Through Federal Program Crucial for Sage Grouse Survival in Eastern Washington
UCTV Launches New Portal to Sustainability for California
Manuel Zimmer Selected HHMI-Wellcome International Research Scholar
The Latest Weapons Against Climate Change: The Beaver, the Oyster, Cold Water and More…
New York Seascape Marine Life Now Revealed at Brooklyn Bridge Park Photo Exhibition
Our Taste in Movies Is Highly Idiosyncratic—and at Odds with Critics’ Preferences
How Pokémon Go Can Help Students Build Stronger Communication Skills
Can’t Touch This: The Psychological Effects of Functional Intimacy
How Focusing on Parent-Child Relationships Can Prevent Child Maltreatment
Blackhawk Restaurant’s History Celebrated in Library Collection
Smithsonian Snapshot: Reuniting an Enigmatic Artist’s Paintings
Great Lakes Journalist Dan Egan Named Water Policy Fellow at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
University of North Florida Accounting Grad Top CPA Exam Performer/Elijah Watt Sells Award Winner
NovoThelium Wins Texas Venture Labs Investment Competition
Commencement 2017: The Importance of Creativity and Critical Thinking in Business and Management
The Dark Side of Helping Coworkers
Babson College's 'Full-Stack' Living Community
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Study Finds Alzheimer’s Disease Likely Not Caused by Low Body Mass Index
A new large-scale genetic study found that low body mass index (BMI) is likely not a causal risk factor for Alzheimer’s disease, as earlier research had suggested, according to a study published in the Endocrine Society’s Journal of Clinical Endo...
– Endocrine Society
Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, May-2017
Embargo expired on 09-May-2017 at 14:00 ET
NIH-Funded Clinical Trial Shows Avastin Is as Effective as Eylea for Treatment of Central Retinal Vein Occlusion
Monthly eye injections of Avastin (bevacizumab) are as effective as the more expensive drug Eylea (aflibercept) for the treatment of central retinal vein occlusion (CRVO), according to a clinical trial funded by the National Eye Institute (NEI), part...
– NIH, National Eye Institute (NEI)
U10EY023529, U10EY023533, U10EY023521
Embargo expired on 09-May-2017 at 14:30 ET
Tip Sheet: Johns Hopkins Researchers Present at the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology Annual Meeting
What: The annual meeting of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology When: May 7-11 Where: Baltimore Convention Center, Baltimore, MD (1 W. Pratt St. Baltimore, MD 21201)
– Johns Hopkins Medicine
Embargo expired on 10-May-2017 at 08:35 ET
Dr. Peter M. Fleischut Appointed Senior Vice President and Chief Transformation Officer at NewYork-Presbyterian
Dr. Peter M. Fleischut has been named senior vice president and chief transformation officer at NewYork-Presbyterian, effective May 1.
– New York-Presbyterian Hospital
Embargo expired on 10-May-2017 at 06:00 ET
Children’s Hospital Los Angeles Announces CHLA Health Network — the Largest Pediatrician Network in Los Angeles
Children’s Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA) and the CHLA Health Network announced today the launch of the CHLA Health Network, a group of more than 100 general pediatricians in 26 practices throughout Los Angeles who have affiliated with CHLA to improve...
– Childrens Hospital Los Angeles
Embargo expired on 09-May-2017 at 14:00 ET
Sugar or Protein? How Fruit Fly Brains Control What They Choose to Eat
Using fruit flies, Johns Hopkins researchers say they have identified a specific and very small set of brain cells — dubbed dopamine wedge neurons — responsible for driving the insects’ food preferences toward what they need, rather than what t...
– Johns Hopkins Medicine
Science; NS 05027, R01 NS079584, R21 NS088521
Helping Clinicians Through Traumatic Events Also Helps the Bottom Line, Cost-Benefit Analysis Shows
A peer-support program launched six years ago at Johns Hopkins Medicine to help doctors and nurses recover after traumatic patient-care events such as a patient’s death probably saves the institution close to $2 million annually, according to a rec...
– Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Astronauts Experience Decrease in Blood Vessel Function During Spaceflight, Study Finds
A Kansas State University kinesiology study has found that astronauts aboard the International Space Station have decreased physical fitness because of a decrease in the way oxygen moves through the body.
– Kansas State University
Journal of Applied Physiology
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Stereotactic Partial Breast Radiation Lowers Number of Treatments to Five
UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers found in a recent phase one clinical trial that stereotactic partial breast radiation was as safe as traditional radiation but decreased treatment time from six weeks to just days.
– UT Southwestern Medical Center
International Journal of Radiation Oncology, Biology and Physics-2017
includes video
Newly Published Research Will Help to Refine Treatments for Global Parasitic Disease
Iowa State University biomedical researchers have broken new ground in understanding the genome of a parasitic roundworm that infects 2 million people worldwide. The research could lead to more effective treatments to combat the parasites.
– Iowa State University
Research Elucidates Ghrelin’s Role in Blood Glucose Regulation, a Finding with Implications for Treating Diabetes
UT Southwestern research investigating the blood glucose-regulatory actions of the hormone ghrelin may have implications for development of new treatments for diabetes.
– UT Southwestern Medical Center
Diabetes, May-2017
Seniors Who Live with Their Abusers Often Suffer Recurrent Abuse
Older adults who have been hospitalized for injuries from an assault are more likely to experience subsequent physical abuse if they are female, widowed, diagnosed with dementia, or return home to live with the perpetrator, according to a new study i...
– University of Illinois at Chicago
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
When Malaria Infects the Placenta During Pregnancy, Baby’s Future Immunity Can Be Affected
Mothers infected with malaria during pregnancy can pass more of their own cells to their baby and change the infant’s risk of later infection, a new study shows.
– Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Journal of Infectious Diseases
Taming the Trouble with Inhalers: A New Way to Treat Asthma
What does asthma have in common with anxiety? New research shows that both can be treated with chemical compounds that exploit the calming effect of certain neurotransmitters. It could lead to fewer kids having to use an inhaler to take steroids.
– University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
NIH MH-096463, GM065281 and GM093137
Twenty-Year Cancer Survivor Gives Back by Donating 20 Handmade Quilts
Twenty years after undergoing a life-saving treatment at Loyola University Medical Center, cancer survivor Carolyn Gatenby returned to Loyola to donate 20 handmade quilts. “I wanted to give back,” Mrs. Gatenby said. “I’ve had 20 good years th...
– Loyola University Health System
Happy Mother’s Day: Five Facts About Anesthesia for Labor and Delivery
A first-time mother-to-be gets a lot of advice from well-meaning friends and family members about everything from breastfeeding to which kind of diapers to buy. But when it comes to anesthesia, the nation’s 50,000 Certified Registered Nurse Anesthe...
– American Association of Nurse Anesthetists (AANA)
CRF to Hold Free Seminar on Living with Heart Failure for Patients and Caregivers
CRF will hold a free seminar, “Broken Hearts: Living with Heart Failure,” on Tuesday, June 6, 2017 for heart failure patients and caregivers at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital. The seminar will focus on providing both patients and caregivers a deep...
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– Cardiovascular Research Foundation (CRF)
The CAP Strongly Supports Legislation to Improve Patient's Access to Care
The College of American Pathologists (CAP) commended the re-introduction of Local Coverage Determination Clarification Act of 2017.
– College of American Pathologists (CAP)
Dr. Francis O’Connor Receives AMSSM’s Top Honor
Col. Francis O’Connor, MD, MPH, received the Founders’ Award today, May 9, 2017 at the 26th American Medical Society for Sports Medicine (AMSSM) Annual Meeting in San Diego, Calif. The award is bestowed when AMSSM leadership determines that a mem...
– American Medical Society for Sports Medicine (AMSSM)
Milken Institute School of Public Health Receives $1 Million to Support Signature Community Health Center Research and Training Program
A new three-year gift from the RCHN Community Health Foundation (RCHN CHF), of more than $1 million, will support the Geiger Gibson Program at the Milken Institute School of Public Health (Milken Institute SPH) at George Washington University.
– George Washington University
Raymond B. Wynn, MD, FACR, Joins Loyola MedicineAs Vice Chair of Radiation Oncology
Raymond B. Wynn, MD, FACR, an internationally known radiation oncologist, has joined Loyola Medicine as vice chair of network operations in the department of radiation oncology.
– Loyola University Health System
Three San Diego Researchers Honored by Royal Society of Chemistry
Three chemists from The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI)—Dale Boger, Jin-Quan Yu and Phil Baran—have received awards from the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), a renowned professional organization for chemists based in the United Kingdom, with m...
– Scripps Research Institute
BIDMC Scientist Barbara B. Kahn, MD, Elected to the National Academy of Sciences
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center’s (BIDMC) Barbara B. Kahn, MD, an international leader in the field of diabetes, endocrinology and metabolism, has been elected to the prestigious National Academy of Sciences (NAS).
– Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
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Rising Temperatures Threaten Stability of Tibetan Alpine Grasslands
A warming climate could affect the stability of alpine grasslands in Asia’s Tibetan Plateau, threatening the ability of farmers and herders to maintain the animals that are key to their existence, and potentially upsetting the ecology of an area in...
– Georgia Institute of Technology
Nature Communications; DEB-1257858 ; DEB-1342754
Embargo expired on 10-May-2017 at 05:00 ET
Scientists Print Nanoscale Imaging Probe onto Tip of Optical Fiber
Combining speed with incredible precision, a team of researchers has developed a way to print a nanoscale imaging probe onto the tip of a glass fiber as thin as a human hair, accelerating the production of the promising new device from several per mo...
– Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Embargo expired on 10-May-2017 at 05:00 ET
Scientists Help Thin-Film Ferroelectrics Go Extreme
Scientists have created the first-ever polarization gradient in thin-film ferroelectrics, greatly expanding the range of functional temperatures for a key material used in a variety of everyday applications. The discovery could pave the way for devel...
– Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Nature Communications, May 10, 2017
Embargo expired on 10-May-2017 at 05:00 ET
Looking at Light to Explore Superconductivity in Boron-Diamond Films
More than a decade ago, researchers discovered that when they added boron to the carbon structure of diamond, the combination was superconductive. Since then, growing interest has been generated in understanding these superconducting properties. With...
– American Institute of Physics (AIP)
Embargo expired on 09-May-2017 at 11:00 ET
‘Inverse Designing’ Spontaneously Self-Assembling Materials
Researchers are exploring how molecular simulations with the latest optimization strategies can create a more systematic way of discovering new materials that exhibit specific, desired properties. More specifically, they did so by recasting the desig...
– American Institute of Physics (AIP)
Embargo expired on 09-May-2017 at 11:00 ET
CBT Could Help Stress in Sport, Leeds Beckett Study Finds
Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) could be a powerful tool to help elite sportspeople improve their performance by handling stress more effectively, new research has found.
– Leeds Beckett University
Psychology of Sport and Exercise
Lyme Disease Researchers Seek Consensus as Number of Cases Grows
Despite gaps in scientific understanding, promising prevention and control measures for the tick-borne disease are available but underutilized, researchers say
– University of California, Santa Cruz
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B
UCLA Researchers Design Process to Better Understand How Advanced Melanoma Adapts to Immunotherapy
A new study by scientists at the UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center could be a significant step toward understanding how certain cases of advanced melanoma shield themselves from pembrolizumab, the FDA-approved treatment that harnesses the immu...
– University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Health Sciences
Ames Laboratory and Iowa State University Scientists Develop More Efficient Catalytic Material for Fuel Cell Applications
Scientists at Ames Laboratory have discovered a method for making smaller, more efficient intermetallic nanoparticles for fuel cell applications, and which also use less of the expensive precious metal platinum.
– Ames Laboratory
Right-or Left-Handedness Affects Sign Language Comprehension
The speed at which sign language users understand what others are ‘saying’ to them depends on whether the conversation partners are left- or right-handed, a new study has found.
– University of Birmingham
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Aging Gracefully in the Rainforest
In an article that appears in the current issue of Evolutionary Anthropology, researchers synthesize over 15 years of theoretical and empirical findings from long-term study of the Tsimane forager-farmers. They find productivity and social status pea...
– Santa Fe Institute
Grape Seed Extract Could Extend Life of Resin Fillings
A natural compound found in grape seed extract could be used to strengthen dentin — the tissue beneath a tooth’s enamel — and increase the life of resin fillings, according to new research at the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Den...
– University of Illinois at Chicago
Journal of Dental Research; National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research Grant DE021040
Shrubs, Grasses Planted Through Federal Program Crucial for Sage Grouse Survival in Eastern Washington
A federal program that pays farmers to plant agricultural land with environmentally beneficial vegetation is probably the reason that sage grouse still live in portions of Washington’s Columbia Basin, according to a new study by UW, state and feder...
– University of Washington
Journal of Wildlife Management
UCTV Launches New Portal to Sustainability for California
Broadcasting stories of sustainability research and outreach conducted by University of California faculty, scientists and students, Sustainable California connects users to the science-based, real-world sustainability solutions being created by the...
– University of California San Diego
Manuel Zimmer Selected HHMI-Wellcome International Research Scholar
Neuroscientist Manuel Zimmer, a group leader at the Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP) in Vienna, has been selected as HHMI-Wellcome International Research Scholar. His work on C. elegans worms aims to uncover how the brain processes inf...
– IMP - Research Institute of Molecular Pathology
The Latest Weapons Against Climate Change: The Beaver, the Oyster, Cold Water and More…
Beavers, high elevation streams, and oyster reefs are just three of the weapons in the fight against climate change discussed in 14 Solutions to Problems Climate Change Poses for Conservation, a new report released today by WCS.
– Wildlife Conservation Society
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New York Seascape Marine Life Now Revealed at Brooklyn Bridge Park Photo Exhibition
New York - May 9, 2017 – Brooklyn residents and visitors can get close-up glimpses of the region’s most mysterious inhabitants at Underwater Wildlife New York, a photo exhibit now underway at Brooklyn Bridge Park that showcases the region’s mos...
– Wildlife Conservation Society
Lifestyle & Social Sciences |
Our Taste in Movies Is Highly Idiosyncratic—and at Odds with Critics’ Preferences
Our taste in movies is notably idiosyncratic, and not linked to the demographic traits that studios target, finds new study on film preferences. The work also shows that moviegoers’ ratings are not necessarily in line with those of critics.
– New York University
Projections
How Pokémon Go Can Help Students Build Stronger Communication Skills
Technology continues to change the way students learn. That's why Emily Howell, an assistant professor in Iowa State’s School of Education, is working with teachers to develop new ways to incorporate digital tools in the classroom, including games ...
– Iowa State University
The Reading Teacher
Can’t Touch This: The Psychological Effects of Functional Intimacy
In “Functional Intimacy: Needing—But Not Wanting—the Touch of a Stranger,” University of Chicago Booth School of Business Professor Ayelet Fishbach explores the discomfort felt in a situation that requires functional intimacy. The study prese...
– University of Chicago Booth School of Business
Journal of Personality & Social Pscyhology
How Focusing on Parent-Child Relationships Can Prevent Child Maltreatment
In order to help children facing maltreatment, the relationship between the parent and child is key, argues Kristin Valentino, William J. Shaw Center for Children and Families Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Notre Dame.
– University of Notre Dame
Blackhawk Restaurant’s History Celebrated in Library Collection
Opening celebration for legendary Blackhawk Restaurant collection at UIC.
– University of Illinois at Chicago
Smithsonian Snapshot: Reuniting an Enigmatic Artist’s Paintings
For the first time in nearly 140 years, three paintings by the legendary but mysterious Japanese artist Kitagawa Utamaro (1753–1806) have been reunited at the Smithsonian’s Arthur M. Sackler Gallery—the only location to show all three original ...
– Smithsonian Institution
Great Lakes Journalist Dan Egan Named Water Policy Fellow at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s School of Freshwater Sciences has appointed Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reporter Dan Egan as the Brico Fund Senior Water Policy Fellow in Great Lakes Journalism. In this role, Egan will investigate, write and ...
– University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
University of North Florida Accounting Grad Top CPA Exam Performer/Elijah Watt Sells Award Winner
Patrick Kmieciak, who earned both his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in accounting from the University of North Florida, is a top CPA exam performer and winner of the 2016 Elijah Watt Sells Award by the American Institute of CPAs. This is the fi...
– University of North Florida
NovoThelium Wins Texas Venture Labs Investment Competition
A Ph.D. candidate at the UT Austin College of Pharmacy received first place in the 2017 Spring Texas Venture Labs Investment Competition for her company, NovoThelium.
– University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin)
Commencement 2017: The Importance of Creativity and Critical Thinking in Business and Management
As graduation nears, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute business students at the Lally School of Management are preparing to hit the ground running as they look to transform the world at the intersection of business and technology. Two exemplary Lally ...
– Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI)
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