Day October 6, 2017

Medicine, Health Care Faster Salmonella Test Boosts Food… Published: October 5, 2017.Released by Cornell University   ITHACA, N.Y. – A new test allows accurate, rapid testing for Salmonella, a bacteria that is one of the leading causes of food-borne illness across…

Medicine, Health Care DSI Professor Conducts Research to… Published: October 5, 2017.Released by Data Science Institute at Columbia   Tal Danino, a professor at the Data Science Institute, is conducting research that could help scientists combat the most lethal of cancers:…

Medicine, Health Care Researchers Identify Genetic Drivers of… Published: October 5, 2017.Released by Duke University Medical Center   DURHAM, N.C. — Lymphoma is the most common blood cancer, but the diagnosis belies a wildly diverse and little understood genetic foundation for…

Medicine, Health Care Multivitamin Use During Pregnancy Linked… Published: October 5, 2017.Released by Drexel University Children whose mothers took multivitamins during pregnancy are roughly 30 percent less likely to develop autism with a co-occurring intellectual disability, according to a new…

Medicine, Health Care Low Serum Calcium May Increase… Published: October 5, 2017.Released by Elsevier Rochester, MN, October 5, 2017 – Sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) is fatal for over 90% of patients, and more than half of men and close to…

Medicine, Health Care Largest Twin Study Pins Nearly… Published: October 5, 2017.Released by Elsevier Philadelphia, PA, Oct. 5, 2017 – In the largest study of twins in schizophrenia research to date, researchers at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, estimate that…

Medicine, Health Care Study Says Financial Awards Can… Published: October 5, 2017.Released by Florida Atlantic University   Financial awards can unintentionally discourage a whistleblower from reporting fraud in a timely manner by hijacking their moral motivation to do the right thing,…

Medicine, Health Care Research Identifies Potential Targets for… Published: October 5, 2017.Released by Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo   Brazilian researchers at the University of São Paulo’s Bioscience Institute (IB-USP) are starting to unravel the molecular…

Medicine, Health Care New Findings on Mechanisms for… Published: October 5, 2017.Released by Georgia State University   ATLANTA–New discoveries about the mechanism responsible for heat generation in the body related to fat tissue oppose classical views in the field and could…

Medicine, Health Care Second Grade Handwashing Experiment Leads… Published: October 5, 2017.Released by Infectious Diseases Society of America   SAN DIEGO – How do you get kids to understand the importance of washing their hands? Make it an experiment, suggests one…

Medicine, Health Care Women Who Get Frequent UTIs… Published: October 5, 2017.Released by Infectious Diseases Society of America   SAN DIEGO – Drinking an additional three pints of water a day may keep the urinary tract infection (UTI) away – at…

Medicine, Health Care Mini Form of Replacement Gene… Published: October 5, 2017.Released by Mary Ann Liebert, Inc./Genetic Engineering News New Rochelle, NY, Oct.5, 2017 — A new study demonstrates success in using a shortened form of the CEP290 gene for…

Medicine, Health Care Coming a Step Closer to… Published: October 5, 2017.Released by Massachusetts General Hospital A study by a team of researchers at the Massachusetts General Hospital Center for Engineering in Medicine (MGH-CEM) and Shriners Hospital for Children has…

Medicine, Health Care ‘Increased Risk’ Donor Organs a… Published: October 5, 2017.Released by Michigan Medicine – University of Michigan ANN ARBOR, Mich. – Increasingly, transplant surgeons must initiate a tough conversation: explaining to patients what it means to accept an…

Medicine, Health Care Monoclonal Antibodies Against Zika Show… Published: October 5, 2017.Released by National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Using blood samples from an individual previously infected with Zika virus, scientists funded by the National Institute of Allergy and…

Medicine, Health Care Multiple Research Approaches Are Key… Published: October 5, 2017.Released by National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Preparedness in the face of major disease outbreaks can save thousands of lives: Rapid deployment of effective diagnostics, treatments, and…

Medicine, Health Care Novel PET Tracer Identifies Most… Published: October 5, 2017.Released by Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging RESTON, Va. – Stanford University medical scientists have developed a novel imaging agent that could be used to identify most…

Medicine, Health Care Global Burden of Disease Study… Published: October 5, 2017.Released by The JAMA Network Journals   A new article published by JAMA Oncology reports the results of the Global Burden of Disease 2015 study on primary liver cancer incidence,…

Medicine, Health Care Antimicrobial Use in Danish Animals… Published: October 5, 2017.Released by Technical University of Denmark   The total antimicrobial consumption in Danish animals has continued to decrease for the third consecutive year. This is one of the findings of…

Medicine, Health Care Improvement of the Genetic Decoding… Published: October 5, 2017.Released by Université libre de Bruxelles A result that will help in the future diagnosis of children with neurodevelopmental disorders, such as intellectual disability, autism or schizophrenia. A video…

Medicine, Health Care A Need for Bananas? Dietary… Published: October 5, 2017.Released by University of Alabama at Birmingham BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Bananas and avocados — foods that are rich in potassium — may help protect against pathogenic vascular calcification, also…

Medicine, Health Care Bariatric Surgery Lowers Cancer Risk… Published: October 5, 2017.Released by University of Cincinnati Academic Health Center   CINCINNATI–Severely obese patients who undergo bariatric surgery lower their risk of developing cancer by at least a third, according to a…

Medicine, Health Care Sensory Loss Can Be a… Published: October 5, 2017.Released by University of Chicago Medical Center A long-term study spanning five years and including more than 3,000 nationally-representative older US adults has found that a natural decline of…

Medicine, Health Care Stealing from the Body: How… Published: October 5, 2017.Released by University of East Anglia   New research published today uncovers how the blood cancer ‘steals’ parts of surrounding healthy bone marrow cells to thrive, in work that could…

Medicine, Health Care Nerve Study Shows How Cells… Published: October 5, 2017.Released by University of Edinburgh Genetic processes that allow cells to transform so they can mend damaged nerves have been identified by scientists. Their insights on tissue repair could…

Medicine, Health Care A Candidate Genetic Factor for… Published: October 5, 2017.Released by University of Helsinki Researchers at the University of Helsinki, Finland, have found a genetic variation, which associates with the damage caused by maternal alcohol consumption. This genetic…

Medicine, Health Care A Novel Textile Material That… Published: October 5, 2017.Released by University of Leeds Scientists have developed a novel weapon in the battle against deadly hospital-acquired infections – a textile that disinfects itself. Image shows a Surfaceskins device…

Medicine, Health Care Study Highlights 10 Most Unnecessary… Published: October 5, 2017.Released by University of Maryland School of Medicine   Unnecessary medication. Tests that don’t reveal the problem, or uncover a “problem” that isn’t really there. Procedures that have more risk…

Medicine, Health Care Smart Bandage Could Promote Better,… Published: October 5, 2017.Released by University of Nebraska-Lincoln Researchers from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Harvard Medical School and MIT have designed a smart bandage that could eventually heal chronic wounds or battlefield…

Medicine, Health Care Did Teddy Evans Fatally Undermine… Published: October 5, 2017.Released by University of New South Wales Sydney: The tragic death of Scott of the Antarctic and four companions on the return of his scientific expedition to the South…

Medicine, Health Care Nanopatch Polio Vaccine Delivers … Published: October 5, 2017.Released by University of Queensland Efforts to rid the world of polio have taken another significant step, thanks to research led by University of Queensland bioscience experts and funding…

Medicine, Health Care Anti-RAS Antibodies Show Poor Reliability… Published: October 5, 2017.Released by University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio   Researchers from the Greehey Children’s Cancer Research Institute at UT Health San Antonio co-authored a paper published Sept.…

Medicine, Health Care Why Can’t MTOR Inhibitors Kill… Published: October 5, 2017.Released by University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio   Anti-cancer drugs called mTOR inhibitors slow the growth of cancer cells but show limited ability to cause cancer…

Medicine, Health Care New Research on Sperm Stem… Published: October 5, 2017.Released by University of Utah Health   SALT LAKE CITY – New research from scientists at Huntsman Cancer Institute (HCI) at the University of Utah and collaborators at University of…

Medicine, Health Care Interpreting Hurricane Forecast Displays Can… Published: October 5, 2017.Released by University of Utah The 2017 hurricane season has highlighted the critical need to communicate a storm’s impact path and intensity accurately, but new research from the University…

Medicine, Health Care Simplifying Information Aids Fight Against… Published: October 5, 2017.Released by University of Virginia Health System   Providing simplified health information designed for parents with low health literacy helps all families in childhood obesity treatment programs regardless of their…

Medicine, Health Care CRI Study Challenges Long-standing Concept… Published: October 5, 2017.Released by UT Southwestern Medical Center   DALLAS – Oct. 5, 2017 – Scientists at the Children’s Medical Center Research Institute at UT Southwestern (CRI) have discovered that lactate provides a…

Medicine, Health Care Good-guy Bacteria May Help Cancer… Published: October 5, 2017.Released by UT Southwestern Medical Center   DALLAS – Oct. 5, 2017 – Individuals with certain types of bacteria in their gut may be more likely to respond well to…

Medicine, Health Care Decision to Rescind Waters of… Published: October 5, 2017.Released by Virginia Tech New evidence suggests that the Trump Administration’s proposal to rescind the 2015 Waters of the United States (WOTUS) rule that would limit the scope of…

Medicine, Health Care Scientists Develop ‘Body-on-a-chip’ System to… Published: October 5, 2017.Released by Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center WINSTON-SALEM, NC, Oct. 5, 2017 – Using the same expertise they’ve employed to build new organs for patients, scientists at Wake Forest…