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Medical News Exposure to Head Impacts in Youth Football Practice Drills Researchers examined differences in the number, location, and magnitude of head impacts sustained by young athletes during various youth football practice drills. Such information could lead to recommendations for football practices, including modifi... – Journal of Neurosurgery Journal of Neurosurgery: Pediatrics, September 12, 2017; KL2TR001421; R01NS094410 Embargo expired on 12-Sep-2017 at 00:00 ET Mayo Clinic National Health Checkup: Nearly All Americans Take at Least One Preventive Measure to Avoid Cancer Cancer is a real concern for many Americans. According to the fourth edition of the Mayo Clinic National Health Checkup, 95 percent of respondents take at least one preventive measure to avoid cancer. – Mayo Clinic Embargo expired on 12-Sep-2017 at 05:30 ET Study Shows So-Called ‘Healthy Obesity’ Is Harmful to Cardiovascular Heath Clinicians are being warned not to ignore the increased cardiovascular health risks of those who are classed as either ‘healthy obese’ or deemed to be ‘normal weight’ but have metabolic abnormalities such as diabetes. – University of Birmingham Journal of the American College of Cardiology Embargo expired on 11-Sep-2017 at 14:00 ET Researchers Find “Internal Clock” Within Live Human Cells, Opening Door to Future Discoveries A team of scientists has revealed an internal clock within live human cells, a finding that creates new opportunities for understanding the building blocks of life and the onset of disease. – New York University Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Embargo expired on 11-Sep-2017 at 15:00 ET ‘Epigenetic’ Changes From Cigarette Smoke May be First Step in Lung Cancer Development Scientists at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center say they have preliminary evidence in laboratory-grown, human airway cells that a condensed form of cigarette smoke triggers so-called “epigenetic” changes in the cells consistent with the earl... – Johns Hopkins Medicine Cancer Cell Embargo expired on 11-Sep-2017 at 12:00 ET Cell Surface Protein May Offer Big Target in Treating High-Risk Childhood Cancers Oncology researchers studying high-risk children’s cancers have identified a protein that offers a likely target for immunotherapy--harnessing the immune system in medical treatments. In cell cultures and animal models, a potent drug attached to an... – Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Cancer Cell, online Sept. 11, 2017; CA009615, GM008638 Embargo expired on 11-Sep-2017 at 12:05 ET AJPH Supplement Study Shows Considerable Progress in Public Health Emergency Preparedness Since September 11, 2001 In this month's release, find new embargoed research from a special AJPH supplement on public health emergency preparedness. – American Public Health Association (APHA) American Journal of Public Health AJPH Embargo expired on 11-Sep-2017 at 16:00 ET A Newly Identified Mitochondrial Metastasis Suppressor Pathway Controls Metabolic Reprogramming of Tumor Cells A novel mitochondrial variant of the protein Syntaphilin, or SNPH, which orchestrates the choice between cancer cell proliferation and metastasis in response to oxygen and nutrient shortage in the tumor microenvironment, has been identified by resear... – Wistar Institute Journal of Clinical Investigation Embargo expired on 11-Sep-2017 at 16:00 ET Savings Less Than Expected for Generic Oral Chemotherapy Cost savings fell below expectations for generic versions of an orally administered cancer treatment in an analysis by University of North Carolina Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center researchers. The findings raise questions about the extent to w... – University of North Carolina Health Care System JAMA Internal Medicine, Sept-2017 Embargo expired on 11-Sep-2017 at 11:00 ET Long Sitting Periods May Be Just as Harmful as Daily Total A new study founds that sitting around for 12 or more hours per day, particularly if accumulated during 60- to 90-minute periods, increased the risk of death--even in those who exercised. – Columbia University Medical Center Annals of Internal Medicine Embargo expired on 11-Sep-2017 at 17:00 ET Modulating T-Cell Metabolism Uncovers New Technology for Enhancing Immunotherapy T lymphocytes found in tumors and implicated in killing tumor cells cope with the shortage of oxygen and nutrients in the tumor microenvironment by using fat as the main source of energy. Promoting a switch from glucose to fatty acid to generate ener... – Wistar Institute Cancer Cell Embargo expired on 11-Sep-2017 at 12:00 ET Revolutionary Process Could Signal New Era for Gene Synthesis A team of scientists led by the University of Southampton has demonstrated a groundbreaking new method of gene synthesis – a vital research tool with real-world applications in everything from growing transplantable organs to developing treatments ... – University of Southampton Nature Chemistry, Sept-2017 Embargo expired on 11-Sep-2017 at 11:00 ET Outside-In Reprogramming: Antibody Study Suggests A Better Way to Make Stem Cells Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have found a new approach to the “reprogramming” of ordinary adult cells into stem cells. – Scripps Research Institute Baxter Family Foundation ; Norris and Del Webb Foundation; DC012592; MH102698; RB3-02186 Embargo expired on 11-Sep-2017 at 11:05 ET Mount Sinai and ProHEALTH Dental Announce Innovative Clinical and Academic Affiliation Poor oral health is an important indicator of overall health and has been linked to serious conditions like heart disease and diabetes. – Mount Sinai Health System Embargo expired on 12-Sep-2017 at 08:00 ET Telemonitoring and Automated Messages Improve CPAP Adherence Patients with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) are more likely to use CPAP, or continuous positive airway pressure, when their use is telemonitored and they receive individualized, automated messages that reinforce therapy adherence, according to a rand... – American Thoracic Society (ATS) American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine; American Journal of Respiratory Cell and Molecular Biology; Annals of the American Thoracic Society Study Sets New Distance Record for Medical Drone Transport Johns Hopkins researchers have set a new delivery distance record for medical drones, successfully transporting human blood samples across 161 miles of Arizona desert. Throughout the three-hour flight, they report, the on-board payload system maintai... – Johns Hopkins Medicine American Journal of Clinical Pathology Precision Therapy Proves Effective in Treatment-Resistant Subgroup of COPD Patients Antibody treatment reduces rate of flare-ups in patients with a subgroup of treatment-resistant COPD. – Health Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh New England Journal of Medicine Checking Your Neck, Colon Cancer Screening, New Microfluidic Device, and More in the Cancer News Source Click here to go directly to the Cancer News Source – Newswise New Treatment Approaches to Emotional Problems after TBI Patients with traumatic brain injury (TBI) commonly have emotional difficulties—a persistent problem with limited treatment options. New approaches to treatment for emotional deficits after TBI are presented in the September/October special issue o... – Wolters Kluwer Health: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation Campaigns to Reduce Elective Early-Term Births Effective, Study Finds A new study from researchers at the University of Notre Dame and the University of Central Florida shows that programs aimed at reducing early-term elective births have been successful, reducing the number of health complications in mothers and babie... – University of Notre Dame Journal of Policy Analysis and Management New Tool Helps Physicians Assess Usefulness of Clinical Guidelines for Patient Outcomes A new tool has been developed to help clinicians identify trustworthy, relevant, and useful practice guidelines. The related study and a corresponding editorial is published today in Annals of Family Medicine. – Tufts University Annals of Family Medicine, Sept 2017, 10.1370/afm.2119; R03 HS22940-01A1 ​Segregation’s Unexpected Link with Black Health in History Racial housing segregation had some unexpected relationships with how long both blacks and whites lived historically in the United States, a new study suggests. – Ohio State University Social Science & Medicine Scientists Construct First Predictive Model of Inflammatory Bowel Disease Scientists at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Sema4, and collaborating institutions today published results of an in-depth, multi-omics approach to characterizing the immune component of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). – Mount Sinai Health System Nature Genetics NYU Researchers Examine Disaster Preparedness and Recovery in a Hurricane-Induced Hospital Evacuation Two reports published in the Journal of Nursing Scholarship reveal important insights on emergency preparedness, recovery, and resilience from nurses working at NYU Langone Health’s main hospital during Superstorm Sandy in 2012. – New York University Journal of Nursing Scholarship; New York University College of Dentistry Pilot Research Development Award Cocaine Users’ Brains Unable to Extinguish Drug Associations Mount Sinai researchers study if longtime cocaine users could benefit from a psychological technique that might help them quit – Mount Sinai Health System Addiction Biology These Mutations Could Be Key to Understanding How Some Harmful Conditions Develop A team of researchers led by a bioinformatician at the University of California San Diego has developed a method to help determine whether certain hard-to-study mutations in the human genome, called short tandem repeats or microsatellites, are likely... – University of California San Diego Nature Genetics Does Health Insurance Status Affect Childhood Cancer Survival? Privately insured children and those with Medicaid at the time of a cancer diagnosis experience largely similar survival trends, with slight evidence for an increased risk of cancer death in children who were uninsured at diagnosis, finds a new study... – Washington University in St. Louis CANCER Researchers Find That Body Clock, Gut Microbiota Work Together to Pack on the Pounds UT Southwestern researchers have uncovered new clues about how gut bacteria and the body’s circadian clock work together to promote body fat accumulation. – UT Southwestern Medical Center Science, Sep-2017 New Drug Shown to Lower Risk of Fracture in Women with Osteoporosis A new drug that boosts bone formation has been shown to reduce the risk of fracture in women with osteoporosis when compared to one of the most commonly used osteoporosis medications, according to findings from UAB reported online in NEJM. – University of Alabama at Birmingham NEJM online, Sept. 11 Accelerating the Development of Next-Generation Cancer Therapies The Gene Editing Institute of Christiana Care’s Helen F. Graham Cancer Center & Research Institute signs agreement with ABS to modify cell lines to accelerate cancer therapies – Christiana Care Health System UCLA opens first engineered blood stem cell clinical trial for cancers with the NY-ESO-1 tumor marker Scientists at the Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research at UCLA have initiated a phase 1 clinical trial to test a novel cancer treatment for certain kinds of cancers that have a specific tumor marker called NY-ES... – University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Health Sciences New Toe Implant Helps Patient Regain Mobility Before the Cartiva implant was available, individuals who experienced severe toe pain from arthritis had no options for relieving the pain that would allow them to remain active. – Beaumont Health Using Improv to Boost Confidence, Improve Mental Health A Rutgers public health student puts his acting skills into play to help people with mental illness and substance use disorders overcome anxiety and communicate more effectively – Rutgers University Announcing the TCT 2017 Late-Breaking Trials and First Report Investigations The Cardiovascular Research Foundation (CRF) has announced the 12 late-breaking trials and 16 first report investigations that will be presented at the Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT) 2017 scientific symposium. TCT, the world’s prem... – Cardiovascular Research Foundation (CRF) ‘The Science of Consciousness’ Conference – April 2-7, 2018: Loews Ventana Canyon Resort – Tucson, Arizona The Science of Consciousness (‘TSC’) is an interdisciplinary conference emphasizing broad and rigorous approaches to all aspects of the study and understanding of conscious awareness. Topical areas include neuroscience, philosophy, psychology, bi... – Center for Consciousness Studies, University of Arizona, Department of Anesthesiology Vanderbilt, Bayer Collaborate To Develop New Therapies Against Kidney Diseases Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) and Bayer have agreed on a five-year strategic research alliance to evaluate new drug candidates for the treatment of kidney diseases, with the goal of accelerating the translation of innovative approaches ... – Vanderbilt University Medical Center Marylander Overcomes Injury to Train for Triathlon to Benefit Charitable Foundation Dwight Griffith, 60, overcomes back injury, surgery at Mercy Medical Center, on his way to triathlon competition to raise awareness, funds for Griffith NEVER GIVE UP Foundation. – Mercy Medical Center, Baltimore The Cardiovascular Research Foundation Appoints Dr. Juan F. Granada as President and Chief Executive Officer The Cardiovascular Research Foundation (CRF) today announced the appointment and promotion of Juan F. Granada, MD, as the foundation’s President and Chief Executive Officer. Dr. Granada was also appointed to CRF’s Board of Directors. A renowned l... – Cardiovascular Research Foundation (CRF) Georgetown Hosts Global Health Security Expert Beth Cameron Beth Cameron, senior director for the Nuclear Threat Initiative’s Global Biological Policy and Programs, will discuss why U.S. leadership continues to be vital in advancing the Global Health Security Agenda’s mission to build a world safe from b... – Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center Science News When Ancient Fossil DNA Isn’t Available, Ancient Glycans May Help Trace Human Evolution Researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine and collaborators discovered a new kind of glycan (sugar chain) that survives even in a 4 million-year-old animal fossil from Kenya, under conditions where ancient DNA does not. Whi... – University of California San Diego Health Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Embargo expired on 11-Sep-2017 at 15:00 ET The Turbulent Healing Powers of Plasma Non-equilibrium atmospheric pressure plasma can help heal wounds, destroy cancer cells and kill harmful bacteria. The jets of plasma that doctors might use, however, often become turbulent with the direction and velocity changing dramatically. Now, r... – American Institute of Physics (AIP) Applied Physics Letters Embargo expired on 11-Sep-2017 at 11:00 ET includes video The Evolutionary Origin of the Gut How did the gut, the skin and musculature evolve? This question concerns scientists for more than a century. Through the investigation of the embryonic development of sea anemones, a very old animal lineage, researchers from the University of Vienna ... – University of Vienna Nature Ecology & Evolution DOI: 10.1038/s41559-017-0285-5 Embargo expired on 11-Sep-2017 at 11:00 ET Carbon Cycling in Forest Soils Research Presented The variety and activity of soil microbes can tell a story of the value of carbon storage in soil. The “Belowground Wood Stake Decomposition in Forest Soil” presentation planned at the Managing Global Resources for a Secure Future ASA, CSSA, SSSA... – American Society of Agronomy (ASA), Crop Science Society of America (CSSA), Soil Science Society of America (SSSA) American Society of Agronomy Embargo expired on 12-Sep-2017 at 09:00 ET Benson Hill Biosystems Launches Novel Genome Editing CRISPR 3.0 Technology Cms1 CRISPR Nuclease Available to Partners to Drive Crop Improvement – Benson Hill Biosystems Embargo expired on 12-Sep-2017 at 08:05 ET NUS Researchers Develop Advanced Material for Ultra-Stable, High Capacity Rechargeable Batteries A team of researchers from the National University of Singapore has successfully designed a novel organic material of superior electrical conductivity and energy retention capability for use in battery applications. This invention paves the way for t... – National University of Singapore Nature Energy Microfluidic Chip Rapidly IDs Deadly Blood Infection Biomedical engineers have developed a microfluidic test that could enable rapid diagnosis and early intervention for sepsis, which accounts for the most deaths and medical expenses in hospitals worldwide. – National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering Nature Communications, July-2017 New Evidence Suggests That Octupuses Aren’t Loners Octopuses are usually solitary creatures, but a new site in the waters off the east coast of Australia is the home of up to 15 gloomy octopuses (Octopus tetricus) that have been been observed communicating — either directly as in den evictions or i... – University of Illinois at Chicago Marine and Freshwater Behaviour and Physiology Making Lithium-Ion Batteries Safer, Stronger Today’s rechargeable lithium-ion batteries are good, but they could be much better in the future. – University of Illinois at Chicago Nature Communications WCS Commends the United Nations General Assembly for Its Leadership to Stop Illegal Wildlife Trade The following statement was issued today by the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) upon the United Nation’s General Assembly adoption of its third resolution on illegal wildlife trade. – Wildlife Conservation Society Sandia's Radiation Analysis Software Makes Emergency Responders’ Jobs Quicker, Easier LIVERMORE, Calif. — When law enforcement officers and first responders arrive at an emergency involving radiation, they need a way to swiftly assess the situation to keep the public and environment safe. Having analysis tools that can quickly and ... – Sandia National Laboratories Small Brain, Big Data Using a multi-lab approach, Argonne researchers are tapping the laboratory’s vast arsenal of innovative technologies to map the intricacies of brain function at the deepest levels, and describing them in greater detail than ever before through adva... – Argonne National Laboratory Discovering the Art of Waste Stephanie Foote is the first West Virginia University faculty member to be chosen for a National Humanities Center Fellowship. Foote is in residence at the National Humanities Center in Durham, N.C. for the 2017-18 academic year while working on her ... – West Virginia University - Eberly College of Arts and Sciences Crapemyrtle Pest to Be Targeted by $3.3 Million Grant to Texas A&M AgriLife Extension The most popular flowering shrub in the U.S. has a new ally in a fight against a new, devastating exotic pest. A $3.3 million grant will fund the study “Systematic Strategies to Manage Crapemyrtle Bark Scale” led by the Texas A&M AgriLife Ext... – Texas A&M AgriLife Hewlett Packard’s Suhas Kumar Wins 2017 Klein Award Suhas Kumar, a postdoctoral researcher at Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), wants to develop next-generation information storage devices and better computers. His particular interest is a new type of electronic device, called a memristor, that could ... – SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory Lifestyle & Social Sciences A Wellesley Researcher Studies Individual Differences in Ability to Recognize Faces If a former classmate walks by you on the street and looks you in the face without saying so much as “hello,” don’t be dismayed. Same for a person you met at a party the night before. – Wellesley College Current Directions in Psychological Science Johns Hopkins Carey Business School Adds 7 to Full-Time Faculty The Johns Hopkins Carey Business School has added seven research- and practice-track professors and lecturers to its full-time faculty for the start of the 2017-18 academic year, bringing the school’s total number of full-time faculty members to 93... – Johns Hopkins University Carey Business School Business News UCI’s Paul Merage School of Business Undergraduate Program Ascends Among Top 50 in U.S. News & World Report Rankings For the fourth year in a row, the UCI Paul Merage School of Business undergraduate program is ranked among the top 50 programs in the nation by U.S. News & World Report, this year coming in at No. 31 in the Best Business Programs rankings released to... – University of California, Irvine, The Paul Merage School of Business Iowa State University Receives $50 Million Commitment to Name College of Business Iowa State University announced a historic commitment of $50 million to the College of Business from Debbie and Jerry Ivy of Los Altos Hills, California. In recognition of the couple’s generosity, the college will be renamed the Debbie and Jerry Iv... – Iowa State University