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Medical News Researchers Identify Immunotherapy Targets in Early-Stage Lung Cancer Immunotherapy, which has achieved remarkable results in late-stage lung cancer patients, can also hold great hope for newly diagnosed patients, cutting the deadly disease off before it has the chance to take hold and offering a potential cure, accord... – Mount Sinai Health System Cell, May-2017 Embargo expired on 04-May-2017 at 12:00 ET includes video Discovery of New Pathway in Brain Has Implications for Schizophrenia Treatment Neuroscientists at Tufts have discovered a new signaling pathway that directly connects the brain’s NMDA and a7nACh receptors – both associated with learning and memory –– which has significance for development of drugs to treat schizophrenia... – Tufts University Neuron; LT000010/2013; MH106208; NS037585; NS061764; AA020183 Embargo expired on 04-May-2017 at 12:05 ET Fluid Overload Linked to Premature Death in Patients on Dialysis • Chronic fluid overload was linked with an increased risk of early death in patients undergoing hemodialysis. • The magnitude of this risk was comparable to that of coronary artery disease or congestive heart failure. – American Society of Nephrology (ASN) doi: 10.1681/ASN.2016121341 Embargo expired on 04-May-2017 at 17:00 ET Researchers Find Surprise Communication Between Brain Regions Involved in Infant Motor Control A team of University of Iowa researches has discovered a new connection between two regions of the brain that may help explain how motor skills develop. Working with infant rats, the scientists found that the hippocampus and the red nucleus, part of ... – University of Iowa Current Biology Embargo expired on 04-May-2017 at 12:00 ET Your Muscles Can 'Taste' Sugar It's obvious that the taste buds on the tongue can detect sugar. And after a meal, beta cells in the pancreas sense rising blood glucose and release the hormone insulin—which helps the sugar enter cells, where it can be used by the body for energy.... – University of Michigan Embargo expired on 04-May-2017 at 12:00 ET Large Data Set Brings Precision to Breast Cancer Diagnosis and Care Although the odds of developing breast cancer are nearly identical for black and white women, black women are 42 percent more likely to die from the disease. A large, multi-institutional study, published on-line May 4, 2017, in JAMA Oncology, explore... – University of Chicago Medical Center JAMA Oncology, May 4, 2017 Embargo expired on 04-May-2017 at 11:00 ET Queen’s Research Shows Illegal Levels of Arsenic Found in Baby Foods Researchers from Queen’s University Belfast have found that almost half of baby rice food products contain illegal levels of inorganic arsenic despite new regulations set by the EU. – Queen's University Belfast PONE-D-16-47763R2 Levels of infants' urinary arsenic metabolites related to formula feeding and weaning with rice products Embargo expired on 04-May-2017 at 14:00 ET Rosemary Ventura Named NewYork-Presbyterian’s First Chief Nursing Informatics Officer Dr. Rosemary Ventura has been appointed Chief Nursing Informatics Officer for NewYork-Presbyterian, effective May 1. – New York-Presbyterian Hospital Embargo expired on 05-May-2017 at 08:00 ET New $21 Million Gift Puts Basser Center for BRCA at the Forefront of Advancements for Patients At Risk of Inherited Cancers A new $21 million gift to the Basser Center for BRCA at the Abramson Cancer Center of the University of Pennsylvania from alumni Mindy and Jon Gray will cement and propel Penn’s preeminence as a leader in research to improve treatment and preventio... – Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania Embargo expired on 04-May-2017 at 10:00 ET Unlocking the Barrier At a glance: · New study reveals that blood-brain barrier function relies on the balance between omega-3 fatty acids and other lipids in cells that line blood vessels in the central nervous system. · This lipid make-up keeps the... – Harvard Medical School End of School Lunch Guidelines, New Anti-Rejection Drug, Fasting Diets, and More in the Obesity News Source Click here to go directly to Newswise's Obesity News Source – Newswise In Huntington's Disease, Traffic Jams in the Cell's Control Center Kill Brain Cells Working with mouse, fly and human cells and tissue, Johns Hopkins researchers report new evidence that disruptions in the movement of cellular materials in and out of a cell's control center -- the nucleus -- appear to be a direct cause of brain cell... – Johns Hopkins Medicine Neuron; R01NS094239, R01NS085207 Findings on Genetic Roles in 'Type 1.5' Diabetes May Shed Light on Better Diagnosis, Treatment Researchers investigating a form of adult-onset diabetes that shares features with the two better-known types of diabetes have discovered genetic influences that may offer clues to more accurate diagnosis and treatment. The study team found that late... – Children's Hospital of Philadelphia BMC Medicine, April 25, 2017; DK085212 In Home Healthcare, Not Speaking Patients’ Native Language Negatively Affect Care Outcomes The study examined language concordance visits--duty calls where the provider spoke the same language as the patient or an interpreter accompanied the provider--for registered nurses (RN) and physical therapists (PT) from home health care services in... – New York University Home Health Care Management and Practice; Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality #R01HS023593 Scientists Solve Major Cancer Protein Conundrum Despite intense research, there’s been much confusion regarding the exact role of a protein in a critical cancer-linked pathway. On one hand, the protein is described as a cell proliferation inhibitor, on the other, a cell proliferation activator, ... – Scripps Research Institute NS077952; CA124495; Children’s Tumor Foundation Hulin Wu, Ph.D., Named Chair of Biostatistics at UTHealth School of Public Health Hulin Wu, Ph.D., has been selected as the new chair of the Department of Biostatistics at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) School of Public Health. – University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston Yale Researcher Gets $792,000 Grant From Cancer Society The American Cancer Society, the largest non-government, not-for-profit funding source of cancer research in the United States, has approved funding of a new research grant totaling $792,000 to a researcher at Yale University. – Yale Cancer Center For People with Down Syndrome, Varying Test Results Can Make It Harder to Get the Right Vision Prescription Even objective, automated vision testing—using a device called an autorefractor—gives variable results in patients with Down syndrome, reports a study in the May issue of Optometry and Vision Science, the official journal of the American Academy ... – Wolters Kluwer Health: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins Optometry and Vision Science Prolonged Military-Style Training Causes Changes to Intestinal Bacteria, Increases Inflammation A new study finds that long periods of physiological stress can change the composition of microorganisms residing in the intestines (intestinal microbiota), which could increase health risks in endurance athletes and military personnel. The study, pu... – American Physiological Society (APS) Advanced Prostate Cancer Treatment Failure Due to Cell Reprogramming Researchers have discovered a molecular mechanism that reprograms tumor cells in patients with advanced prostate cancer, reducing their response to anti-androgen therapy. The findings, based on a study in mice, could help to determine which patients ... – Columbia University Medical Center Cancer Discovery, May 4, 2017 New Tool for Analyzing Mouse Vocalizations May Provide Additional Insights for Autism Modeling Vocalization plays a significant role in social communication across species such as speech by humans and song by birds. Male mice produce ultrasonic vocalizations in the presence of females and both sexes sing during friendly social encounters. – Children's Hospital Los Angeles Saban Research Institute Neuron; IIS1029373 includes video American Psychological Association Voices Disappointment Upon Passage of American Health Care Act The American Psychological Association and its affiliated APA Practice Organization expressed disappointment that the House of Representatives passed the American Health Care Act and urged the Senate to reject the bill, which is projected to take hea... – American Psychological Association (APA) Policy Summit Focused on Eradicating Drug Waste in Cancer Care The Hematology Oncology Pharmacy Association (HOPA) will convene a summit with healthcare professionals and industry members to discuss examples of oncology drug waste in the US and identify approaches to reduce the burden of drug waste on the US hea... – Hematology Oncology Pharmacy Association The Medical Minute: “BE FAST” to Recognize Stroke Signs Many people have become familiar with the FAST acronym for identifying acute stroke symptoms. But a recently expanded version of the acronym can make it easier for those witnessing an acute stroke to identify it in nearly all cases. – Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center Engineering Researcher at MSU Helps Design Artificial Lung Device Children with chronic lung diseases often must wait months or even years for a transplant, while large, immobile hospital equipment that could help them breathe easier actually may worsen their condition by overtaxing already damaged lungs. – Mississippi State University CSU's Nursing Students Well-Prepared to Serve Their Communities in Multiple Settings Enrolled at nursing programs at 19 campuses, (and a 20th planned at Humboldt State University), California State University nursing students are serving their communities throughout the state from the get-go. – California State University (CSU) Chancellor's Office Three Questions Pregnant Women Should Ask About Fetal Ultrasounds To help women get an optimal ultrasound of the baby’s heart, one likely to be able to detect a heart defect, if present, a UCLA expert recommends they seek a provider that offers advanced technology and a thorough screening of the heart. Here are ... Expert Available – University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Health Sciences includes video Want to Be a Better Runner? Start Lifting Weights Finding time for strength-training exercises can be difficult for runners with busy schedules. Luckily, lifting weights doesn’t have to be time consuming, and runners can follow workout routines that take less than 20 minutes to complete. And, says... Expert Available – Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center American Chiropractic Association Statement on House Passage of Republican Health Care Bill The American Chiropractic Association issues a statement in response to the House Passage of the Republican Health Care Bill, H.R. 1628. – American Chiropractic Association Legislation Would Include Chiropractors in the U.S. Public Health Service A new bill in the U.S. House of Representatives would improve the quality of America’s health care infrastructure by further integrating doctors of chiropractic (DCs) through the nation’s official delivery and research networks. H.R. 2202 introdu... – American Chiropractic Association Endocrine Society Gravely Disappointed in House Passage of American Health Care Act The United States House of Representatives today passed the American Health Care Act (AHCA), a piece of legislation intended to replace the Affordable Care Act. The Society opposed the legislation which would make coverage more expensive – if not o... – Endocrine Society The Seleni Institute Receives Landmark Funding From the Hope & Grace Fund The Seleni Institute announced today the receipt of a grant of $92,617 from the hope & grace fund, a project of the New Venture Fund in partnership with philosophy inc., the global women’s skin care brand. – Seleni Institute Heather Pinkett Receives a Hartwell Research Award Heather W. Pinkett, an associate professor of molecular biosciences at Northwestern University, has received a 2016 Hartwell Individual Biomedical Research Award for her work advancing children’s health. – Northwestern University Generous Donation by Enilda and Paul Sansone, Sr. And the Sansone Foundation, Means More 3D Mammography at Riverview Medical Center Thanks to a very generous $500,000 pledge from the Sansone Foundation founded by Enilda and Paul Sansone, Sr., Riverview Medical Center added a third tomosynthesis breast imaging machine in April 2017. Tomosynthesis, or 3D mammography, is the latest... – Meridian Health GW Researcher Receives $1.7 Million Federal Grant to Continue Study of the Hedgehog Receptor A George Washington University researcher will study the underlying mechanisms of the Hedgehog receptor, thanks to $1.7 million NIH grant. – George Washington University Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics Opposes Harmful Health Care Legislation Approved by House of Representatives The Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics joins the vast majority of organizations representing health care providers, patients, hospitals and the elderly by opposing the harmful health care legislation passed May 4 by the House of Representatives. – Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics Chicago Radiological Society Gives Highest Honor to Loyola Radiation Oncologist Loyola Medicine radiation oncologist Edward Melian, MD, has received the Chicago Radiological Society’s 2017 Distinguished Service Award, the highest honor the society bestows on members. – Loyola University Health System Science News Researchers Shed New Light on Influenza Detection Notre Dame Researchers have discovered a way to make influenza visible to the naked eye, by engineering dye molecules to target a specific enzyme of the virus. – University of Notre Dame Journal of the American Chemical Society A Lot of Galaxies Need Guarding in This NASA Hubble View Like the quirky characters in the upcoming film Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, the Hubble Space Telescope has some amazing superpowers, specifically when it comes to observing galaxies across time and space. One stunning example is galaxy cluster Ab... – Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) includes video High Temperature Step-by-Step Process Makes Graphene From Ethene An international team of scientists has developed a new way to produce single-layer graphene from a simple precursor: ethene – also known as ethylene – the smallest alkene molecule, which contains just two atoms of carbon. – Georgia Institute of Technology Journal of Physical Chemistry C; FA9550-14-1-0005 ; FG05-86ER45234 Video: New Fabric Coating Protects Your Clothes, and the Environment ITHACA, N.Y. – When you spill pasta sauce on your favorite shirt but there is no trace of it after being washed, you can thank oleophobicity, a resistance to oil commonly applied to textiles. That resistance, however, comes at a price. 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Liangbing Hu of the Energy Research Center and his colleagues added nanoparticles to wood, then used it to filter toxic dyes from water. – Maryland NanoCenter ACS Nano includes video Trash Into Treasure A recent discovery by Sandia National Laboratories researchers may unlock the potential of biofuel waste — and ultimately make biofuels competitive with petroleum. – Sandia National Laboratories Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 114 no. 16 Top Ten Food Trends for 2017 Despite the recent spike in interest of clean-label and free-from foods, the food industry remains driven by convenience, according to Food Technology magazine contributing editor A. Elizabeth Sloan. In the April issue of Food Technology, published b... – Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) The Institute of Food Technologists Recommends a Definition of “Healthy” to FDA In written comments submitted to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) expressed concern that labeling an individual food as ‘healthy’ can be misleading for consumers. – Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) New Effort by Argonne Helps Power Utilities and Others Better Plan for the Future If you’re an electric utility planning a new power plant by a river, it would be nice to know what that river will look like 20 years down the road. Will it be so high that it might flood the new facility? Will the water be so low that it can’t b... – Argonne National Laboratory NIH Launches Competition to Develop Human Eye Tissue in a Dish The National Eye Institute (NEI), part of the National Institutes of Health, has opened the first stage of a federal prize competition designed to generate miniature, lab-grown human retinas. The retina is the light- sensitive tissue in the back of t... – NIH, National Eye Institute (NEI) JAMA Ophthalmol.134(7):802-809. doi:10.1001/jamaophthalmol.2016.1284 (2016).; Arch Ophthalmol. 124, 1754-1760. (2006). 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Nomination guidelines can be found at: HarringtonDiscovery.org/ThePrize – University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center Lifestyle & Social Sciences Trump Tweets the Phrases "Fake News" and "Failing NYTimes" the Most “Fake news” and “failing nytimes” are the two phrases Donald Trump tweeted most in his first 100 days in office, showing just how much the president used Twitter to target the media at the start of his administration, according to Temple Univ... – Temple University RTI International Finds TROSA, an Innovative Substance Abuse Treatment Program, Saves North Carolina $7.5 Million Annually TROSA, a therapeutic community providing substance abuse treatment and job training, saves North Carolina $7.5 million every year, according to an independent study conducted by RTI International. – RTI International Study: Models That Forecast Impact of Government Spending Are Easily Manipulated Economists have found that the most widely used model for predicting how U.S. government spending affects gross domestic product (GDP) can be rigged using theoretical assumptions to control forecasts. – North Carolina State University American Economic Review, May 2017 UVA Darden Professor’s Testimony Influential in Landmark Amazon Tax Case Professor Ron Wilcox provided expert testimony on behalf of the IRS – University of Virginia Darden School of Business Largest Class of Levine Scholars to Join UNC Charlotte This Fall Twenty-three young leaders from high schools across the United States comprise the eighth, and largest, class of UNC Charlotte’s Levine Scholars Program; they will join the University, starting this fall. – University of North Carolina at Charlotte Students Bring National Attention to Student-Led Innovation and Entrepreneurship Two Wichita State University students placed first in the curriculum category at VentureWell's OPEN 2017 conference in Washington recently, finishing ahead of professors, administrators and faculty who were all presenting ideas on how to teach entrep... – Wichita State University Puerto Rico’s Bankruptcy and the Municipal Bond Market Puerto Rico filed for bankruptcy protection May 3, the largest-ever American municipal debt restructuring in history. 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Rouhani is scheduled to to visit coal mine explosion site in Golestan soon

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Gorgan, Golestan Prov, May 5, IRNA – President Hassan Rouhani is scheduled to take a trip in few days to Azadshahr in the northern Iranian Province of Golestan to personally visit the site of the deadly explosion of a coal mine in the city on May 7, an official said on Friday.

Deputy Governor General of Golestan for political affairs Ali Asghar Tahmasebi told the Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA) in an interview that during his tour to the scene of accident, President Rouhani in addition to visiting the area of disaster is expected to sympathize with the bereaved families of the victims who lost their loved ones in the mine explosion on Wednesday.

At least 22 miners have been killed in a huge explosion in the Zemestanyurt coal mine in the northeastern province of Golestan.

According to reports, 35 miners have been entrapped in the coal mine.

Zemestanyurt coal mine in Azadshahr region is situated 90 km east of the provincial capital city of Gorgan.

The provincial officials have announced three days of mourning on the sad event.

Two Koreas: History at a glance

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The Korean Peninsula, located between the Sea of Japan and the Yellow Sea, has seen heightened tensions in recent months as US President Donald Trumphas threatened to act against North Korea's continued missile tests.

After the defeat of the Japanese empire in World War II, Korea was split into two spheres. The Soviet Union controlled the territory in the north and the US controlled the south.

In 1950, North Korea invaded South Korea, starting the three-year-long Korean War. Since the signing of the armistice agreement in 1953, the north and south have been divided by a 4km wide demilitarised zone stretching 250km.

Both Koreas have steadily increased their military spending over the decades. Today, North Korea spends more than any other country on military spending relative to GDP. Nearly a quarter of its GDP goes towards the military.

As world leaders have come and gone, North Korea's Kim dynasty has remained in power. After withdrawing from the Nuclear Proliferation Treaty in 2003, North Korea has gone on to conduct several nuclear tests, most recently in September 2016.

Source: Al Jazeera News

An Aging Pulsar has Captured a new Companion, and it’s Spinning back up Again

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Matt Williams द्वारा When massive stars reach the end of their life cycle, they explode in a massive supernova and cast off most of their material. What's left is a "milliscond pulsar", a super dense, highly-magnetized neutron star that spins rapidly and emit beams of electromagnetic radiation. Eventually, these stars lose their rotational energy and begin to slow down, but they can speed up again with the help of a companion. According to a recent study, an international team of scientists witnessed this rare event when observing an ultra-slow pulsar located in the neighboring Andromeda Galaxy (XB091D). The results of their study indicated that this pulsar has been speeding up for the past one million years, which is likely the result of a captured a companion that has since been restoring its rapid rotational velocity. Typically, when a pulsars pairs with an ordinary star, the result is a binary system consisting of a pulsar and a white dwarf. This occurs after the pulsar pulls off the outer layers of a star, turning it into a white dwarf. The material from these outer layer then forms an accretion disk around the pulsar, which creates a "hot spot" that radiates brightly in the X-ray specturum and where temperatures can reach into the millions of degrees. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/4/4d/Millisecond_pulsar_and_accretion_disk_-_NASA_animation_%28hi-res%29.ogv/Millisecond_pulsar_and_accretion_disk_-_NASA_animation_%28hi-res%29.ogv.480p.webm The team was led by Ivan Zolotukhin of the Sternberg Astronomical Institute at Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU), and included astronomers from the University of Toulouse, the National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF), and the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory. The study results were published in The Astrophysical Journal under the title "The Slowest Spinning X-Ray Pulsar in an Extragalactic Globular Cluster". As they state in their paper, the detection of this pulsar was made possible thanks to data collected by the XMM-Newton space observatory from 2000-2013. In this time, XMM-Newton has gathered information on approximately 50 billion X-ray photons, which has been combined by astronomers at Lomosov MSU into an open online database. This database has allowed astronomers to take a closer look at many previously-discovered objects. This includes XB091D, a pulsar with a period of seconds (aka. a "second pulsar") located in one of the oldest globular star clusters in the Andromeda galaxy. However, finding the X-ray photos that would allow them to characterize XB091D was no easy task. As Ivan Zolotukhin explained in a MSU press release: "The detectors on XMM-Newton detect only one photon from this pulsar every five seconds. Therefore, the search for pulsars among the extensive XMM-Newton data can be compared to the search for a needle in a haystack. In fact, for this discovery we had to create completely new mathematical tools that allowed us to search and extract the periodic signal. Theoretically, there are many applications for this method, including those outside astronomy." The slowest spinning X-ray pulsar in a globular star cluster has been discovered in the Andromeda galaxy. Credit: A. Zolotov Based on a total of 38 XMM-Newton observations, the team concluded that this pulsar (which was the only known pulsar of its kind beyond our galaxy at the time), is in the earliest stages of "rejuvenation". In short, their observations indicated that the pulsar began accelerating less than 1 million years ago. This conclusion was based on the fact that XB091D is the slowest rotating globular cluster pulsar discovered to date. The neutron star completes one revolution in 1.2 seconds, which is more than 10 times slower than the previous record holder.  From the data they observed, they were also able to characterize the environment around XB091D. For example, they found that the pulsar and its binary pair are located in an extremely dense globular cluster (B091D) in the Andromeda Galaxy - about 2.5 million light years away. This cluster is estimated to be 12 billion years old and contains millions of old, faint stars. It's companion, meanwhile, is a 0.8 solar mass star, and the binary system  itself has a rotation period of 30.5 hours. And in about 50,000 years, they estimate, the pulsar will accelerate sufficiently to once again have a rotational period measured in the milliseconds - i.e. a millisecond pulsar. A diagram of the ESA XMM-Newton X-Ray Telescope. Delivered to orbit by a Ariane 5 launch vehicle in 1999. Credit: ESA/XMM-Newton Interestingly, XB910D's location within this vast region of super-high density stars is what allowed it to capture a companion about 1 million years ago and commence the process "rejuvenation" in the first place. As Zolotukhin explained: "In our galaxy, no such slow X-ray pulsars are observed in 150 known globular clusters, because their cores are not big and dense enough to form close binary stars at a sufficiently high rate. This indicates that the B091D cluster core, with an extremely dense composition of stars in the XB091D, is much larger than that of the usual cluster. So we are dealing with a large and rather rare object—with a dense remnant of a small galaxy that the Andromeda galaxy once devoured. The density of the stars here, in a region that is about 2.5 light years across, is about 10 million times higher than in the vicinity of the Sun." Thanks to this study, and the mathematical tools the team developed to find it, astronomers will likely be able to revisit many previously-discovered objects in the coming years. Within these massive data sets, there could be many examples of rare astronomical events, just waiting to be witnessed and properly characterized. Further reading: The Astrophysical Journal, Lomonosov Moscow State University