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Medical News E-Cigarette Use Accelerates Effects of Cardiovascular Aging A new study suggests that a single exposure to e-cigarette (e-cig) vapor may be enough to impair vascular function. Researchers from West Virginia University will present findings today at the Cardiovascular Aging: New Frontiers and Old Friends meeti... – American Physiological Society (APS) Embargo expired on 12-Aug-2017 at 12:45 ET Menopausal Status May Better Predict Blood Vessel Health in Women Than Fitness Level High physical fitness is known to be related to enhanced blood vessel dilation and blood flow (endothelial function) in aging men. However, for women, endothelial function and the effect of exercise may be related more to menopausal status than fitne... – American Physiological Society (APS) Embargo expired on 12-Aug-2017 at 12:45 ET Cardiovascular Aging Symposium Explores Relationship Between Dysfunction and Disease Development During the “Novel Implications for Blood Flow and Vascular Dysfunction in Non-cardiovascular Related Disease” symposium at the APS Cardiovascular Aging: New Frontiers and Old Friends conference, researchers will present findings that emphasize th... – American Physiological Society (APS) Embargo expired on 12-Aug-2017 at 20:00 ET Researchers Explore a Better Way to Measure Blood Pressure Automatic blood pressure devices are often used to assess blood pressure levels at home and in the clinic. But these devices are prone to significant errors, sometimes leading to the prescription of blood pressure-lowering medications to patients who... – American Physiological Society (APS) Embargo expired on 12-Aug-2017 at 12:45 ET New Strategies to Optimize and Slow Cardiovascular Aging Heart disease remains the leading cause of death in the U.S. and growing older is the greatest—and most inevitable—risk factor for it. So what, if anything, can we do to keep our hearts and arteries as healthy as possible for as long as possible?... – American Physiological Society (APS) Embargo expired on 11-Aug-2017 at 19:10 ET Brain Scan Study Adds to Evidence That Lower Brain Serotonin Levels Are Linked to Dementia In a study looking at brain scans of people with mild loss of thought and memory ability, Johns Hopkins researchers report evidence of lower levels of the serotonin transporter — a natural brain chemical that regulates mood, sleep and appetite. – Johns Hopkins Medicine AG038893, AG041633, UL1TR001079; Neurobiology of Disease Breast Cancer Study in India Shows How the Country Can Avoid Crisis The research, which is the first of its kind to look at breast cancer awareness in India, found that cultural and religious issues mean that women don’t access health services, are reluctant to consult male doctors, neglect their own health due to ... – University of Portsmouth Using Alternative Medicine Only for Cancer Linked to Lower Survival Rate Patients who choose to receive alternative therapy as treatment for curable cancers instead of conventional cancer treatment have a higher risk of death, according to researchers from the Cancer Outcomes, Public Policy and Effectiveness Research (COP... – Yale Cancer Center Sweet! Sugar-Coated Probe Yields Better Acid Test When our cells’ acid-alkaline balance goes wrong, it can go wrong in a big way—think cancer and cystic fibrosis. New fluorescent probes make it easier to detect pH and sweetened the deal by adding sugar to his acid-sensitive probes, making them m... – Michigan Technological University ACS Sensors, June 2017 ; National Institute of General Medical Sciences of the National Institutes of Health, Award Number R15GM114751 Study Finds Stark Increase in Opioid-Related Admissions, Deaths in Nation’s ICUs Since 2009, hospital intensive care units have witnessed a stark increase in opioid-related admissions and deaths, according to new study led by researchers at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center's (BIDMC) Center for Healthcare Delivery Science. Pub... – Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Annals of the American Thoracic Society Know Your Risk for Ovarian CancerMount Sinai Experts Share Tips for Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month in September Ovarian cancer is the fourth leading cause of death in American women and according to the National Cancer Institute, approximately 22,000 women will be diagnosed with the disease and 14,000 will die from it. – Mount Sinai Health System Therapeutic Targets in Multiple Sclerosis Will Be Featured at Americas Committee for Treatment and Research in Multiple Sclerosis (ACTRIMS) 2018 Forum ACTRIMS' third annual forum will be Feb. 1-3 in San Diego, California and will focus on therapeutic targets in multiple sclerosis with emphasis on disease-modifying therapies. New at the 2018 forum is the presentation by the National Multiple Scleros... – Americas Committee for Treatment and Research in Multiple Scleroses (ACTRIMS) Einstein Researchers Awarded Three NIH Grants Totaling $12Million to Fight Virulent Viruses The NIH has awarded Einstein researchers three grants totaling more than $12 million to protect against three deadly viruses—Ebola, Marburg and hantavirus. Research collaborations between Kartik Chandran, Ph.D., professor of microbiology & immunolo... – Albert Einstein College of Medicine R01AI132256; R01AI125462; R01AI132633 Science News When DNA Evidence Challenges Ideas of A Person’s Racial Purity, White Supremacists Use a Decision Tree to Affirm or Discount the Results Now that science can determine a person’s racial and ethnic origins from a cheek swab, those devoted to ideas of racial “purity,” are employing methods of mind games and logic twists to support their beliefs despite facing evidence of their own... – American Sociological Association (ASA) 2017 ASA Annual Meeting Embargo expired on 12-Aug-2017 at 03:05 ET Massive Particles Test Standard Quantum Theory In quantum mechanics particles can behave as waves and take many paths through an experiment, even when a classical marble could only take one of them at any time. However, it requires only combinations of pairs of paths, rather than three or more, t... – University of Vienna Science Advances Embargo expired on 11-Aug-2017 at 14:00 ET New SQUID-Based Detector Opens Up New Fields of Study With New Level of Sensitivity Investigators at the University of Colorado, Boulder and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a new sensor array-based instrument that offers ultra-low noise detection of small amounts of energy for a number of app... – American Institute of Physics (AIP) Night Vision for Bird- & Bat-Friendly Offshore Wind Power The ThermalTracker software analyzes video with night vision, the same technology that helps soldiers see in the dark, to help birds and bats near offshore wind turbines. – Pacific Northwest National Laboratory includes video Simulation Demonstrates How Exposure to Plasma Makes Carbon Nanotubes Grow PPPL research performed with collaborators from Princeton University and the Institute for Advanced Computational Science at the State University of New York at Stony Brook has shown how plasma causes exceptionally strong, microscopic structures know... – Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory DE-AC02-09CH11466 Researchers Use Machine Learning to Spot Counterfeit Consumer Products A team of researchers has developed a new mechanism that uses machine-learning algorithms to distinguish between genuine and counterfeit versions of the same product. – New York University The annual KDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining Canary in a Coal Mine: Survey Captures Global Picture of Air Pollution’s Effects on Birds Writing Aug. 11 in the journal Environmental Research Letters, University of Wisconsin-Madison Professor Tracey Holloway, an expert on air quality, and her former graduate student Olivia Sanderfoot, sort through nearly 70 years of the scientific lite... – University of Wisconsin-Madison Environmental Research Letters Aug 11 2017 The Implications of Cosmic Silence Applying the principle of mediocrity to the Drake equation, a probabilistic estimate of the number of intelligent species in the universe, leads to the conclusion that technological species go extinct early in their development. – University of Arkansas, Fayetteville International Journal of Astrobiology, Aug 3-2017 New Battery Material Goes with the Flow Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory have engineered a new material to be used in redox flow batteries, which are particularly useful for storing electricity for the grid. The material consists of carefull... – Argonne National Laboratory Advanced Energy Materials Solar Eclipse to Astonish New Jersey and the U.S. On August 21 Americans will be treated to a spectacular total solar eclipse on Aug. 21 in an approximately 70-mile-wide zone stretching from the Northwest to the Southeast. In New Jersey, a partial eclipse will begin at about 1:20 p.m., peak at about 2:45 p.m. ... – Rutgers University Engineer Looks to Owl Wings for Bio-Inspired Ideas for Quieter Aircraft, Wind Turbines Iowa State's Anupam Sharma is running computer simulations to learn how owl wings manipulate air flow, pressure and turbulence to create silent flight. He and his partners hope their studies will produce practical ideas for making quiet aircraft and ... – Iowa State University NSF CAREER #1554196 Man on a Mission: CSU San Bernardino Professor Chosen for Special NASA Mission Dr. Richard Addante is five days into a 45-day stay in a simulated space shuttle that will allow researchers to measure the psychological effects of extended isolation in space. – California State University (CSU) Chancellor's Office Total Eclipse of the Sun: Kansas State University Expert Offers Tips to Safely View Aug. 21 Solar Eclipse Kansas State University physicist Chris Sorensen offers tips to safely watch the Aug. 21 total solar eclipse, both inside and outside the path of totality. Expert Available – Kansas State University PNNL Scientist Jiwen Fan Receives DOE Early Career Research Award Jiwen Fan of the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory has been selected to receive a 2017 Early Career Research Program award from the U.S. Department of Energy. Fan will use the award to study severe thunderstorms in the ce... – Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Lifestyle & Social Sciences Smartphone Tracking Shows Fear Affects Where Youth Spend Time Youth spend less time in their neighborhoods if area residents have a high fear of crime, according to a new study that used smartphones to track kids’ whereabouts. Adolescents spent over an hour less each day on average in their neighborhoods if r... – Ohio State University 2017 American Sociological Association annual meeting Embargo expired on 14-Aug-2017 at 00:00 ET Secret to Happiness May Include More Unpleasant Emotions People may be happier when they feel the emotions they desire, even if those emotions are unpleasant, such as anger or hatred, according to research published by the American Psychological Association. – American Psychological Association (APA) Embargo expired on 14-Aug-2017 at 09:00 ET Study Shows High School Math and Civics Predict Voting Behaviors in Midlife On average, students who completed Algebra I or higher were more likely to vote in both the elections than those who completed only general math. Nearly 40 percent of eligible voters who completed only general math abstained from casting a ballot in ... – American Sociological Association (ASA) Embargo expired on 13-Aug-2017 at 03:05 ET On the Darknet, Drug Buyers Aren’t Looking for Bargains When drug users go online for the first time to buy opioids, they aren’t looking for the widest selection or the best prices for their illicit purchases, a new study suggests. Researchers found that first-time drug buyers who visited one marketplac... – Ohio State University 2017 American Sociological Association annual meeting Embargo expired on 12-Aug-2017 at 00:00 ET College Men Mostly Presume Consent in Sexual Encounters with Women Many straight men on college campuses still aren’t doing well in gaining the explicit consent of their female sexual partners. Absent a clear and spoken, “No!” or demand to stop, young men are using non-verbal cues and presumed behaviors to as... – American Sociological Association (ASA) Embargo expired on 12-Aug-2017 at 03:05 ET "Getting to 80%” on Energy Cutbacks Cannot Occur Unless Behaviors Change California’s plan to cut energy consumption by 80 percent by 2050 cannot be achieved with current proposed policy changes because most solutions focus on changing technologies rather than changing behavior, a new UC Davis study suggests. – American Sociological Association (ASA) Are Your Tweets Feeling Well? Study finds opinion and emotion in tweets change when you get sick, a method public health workers could use to track health trends. – Pacific Northwest National Laboratory 10.1140/epjds/s13688-017-0102-z Researcher Reveals Emerging Differences Among Americans Who Live Together, Based on Social Class Amanda Miller of the University of Indianapolis studies how the experience of cohabitation is changing in America. Her latest research and new co-authored book reveal how the process of moving in and living together today often differs greatly by soc... Expert Available – Academy Communications Cohabitation Nation Ceremony to Welcome ‘Artists Monument’ to UIC Public art from longtime UIC art professor comes to UIC. – University of Illinois at Chicago Business News Study: Job Centers Offer Little Help for the Unemployed If you are unemployed and looking for a job, the best way to get government-funded training and help finding a job is to prove you are “unemployable.” – American Sociological Association (ASA) Embargo expired on 14-Aug-2017 at 03:05 ET