Month: May 2018

Medicine, Health Care Conflicting Guidance on Opioid Prescribing… Published: May 31, 2018.Released by University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing   PHILADELPHIA (May 31, 2018) – Persistent pain and recurrent episodes of pain are common for those who are living with cancer, or for those undergoing cancer treatment. When used properly, prescription opioids have long been known to help combat pain experienced by people with cancer. In the face of the worsening opioid epidemic, clinical guidelines have

Medicine, Health Care Penn-developed Approach Could Limit Toxicity… Published: May 31, 2018.Released by University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine   PHILADELPHIA – A new approach pioneered at the University of Pennsylvania’s Abramson Cancer Center may provide a new path towards treating Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML) with CAR T cells. To treat AML, investigators have to target a specific protein – CD33 – that’s also expressed on healthy cells, meaning the therapy cannot attack the cancer without

Medicine, Health Care Labor Exploitation Is Endemic in… Published: May 31, 2018.Released by University of Sheffield   Labour exploitation including forced labour is endemic at the base of global tea and cocoa supply chains, according to a pioneering international study published by researchers at the University of Sheffield today (31 May 2018). The two-year Global Business of Forced Labour study investigated the business models of forced labour in global tea and cocoa supply chains. Forced labour

Medicine, Health Care New Findings Link Estrogen And… Published: May 31, 2018.Released by University of Turku Women are more prone to the development of autoimmune diseases. The female hormone estrogen is likely to affect the immune system. A team of scientists from Turku Center for Biotechnology and University of Georgia reported new findings related to the involvement of estrogen hormone receptor in autoimmune diseases. The incidence of autoimmune diseases such as MS, RA, and SLE

Medicine, Health Care Memory Depends on Protein ‘Off-switch’,… Published: May 31, 2018.Released by University of Warwick Memory, learning and cognitive flexibility depend on a protein ‘off-switch’ in the brain, according to a breakthrough discovery made by an international research collaboration co-led by the University of Warwick. This new knowledge could enable us to better understand and combat neurological diseases which inhibit memory, such as Alzheimer’s. Dr Mark Wall from Warwick’s School of Life Sciences, with

Medicine, Health Care A New Understanding of How… Published: May 31, 2018.Released by UT Southwestern Medical Center   DALLAS – May 31, 2018 – Glucose is the energy that fuels cells, and the body likes to store glucose for later use. But too much glucose can contribute to obesity, and scientists have long wanted to understand what happens within a cell to tip the balance. To solve this riddle, researchers at UT Southwestern’s Cecil H. and

Medicine, Health Care Drugs That Suppress Immune System… Published: May 31, 2018.Released by Washington University School of Medicine   People who take drugs that suppress the immune system are less likely to develop Parkinson’s disease, according to a study from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. The findings, published May 31 in Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, suggest that a person’s own immune system helps nudge him or her down the path toward

Psychology Mothers with High Emotional, Cognitive… Published: May 31, 2018.Released by Brigham Young University A new parenting study finds that the greater emotional control and problem-solving abilities a mother has, the less likely her children will develop behavioral problems, such as throwing tantrums or fighting. The study also found mothers who stay in control emotionally are less likely to be verbally harsh with their children, and mothers who stay in control cognitively are less likely

Psychology For American Indian Youth, Risk… Published: May 31, 2018.Released by Colorado State University Since 1975, Colorado State University social scientists have studied rates of drug and alcohol use among American Indian youths living on or near reservations. Their latest published results underscore a trend that has persisted over many decades: Native adolescents are more likely to use alcohol and illicit drugs than non-Native adolescents in the United States. The researchers are from the CSU

Psychology This Is Your Brain Detecting… Published: May 31, 2018.Released by Ohio State University   COLUMBUS, Ohio – Detecting patterns is an important part of how humans learn and make decisions. Now, researchers have seen what is happening in people’s brains as they first find patterns in information they are presented. Findings showed that the brain processes pattern learning in a different way from another common way that people learn, called probabilistic learning. Researchers showed study

Psychology For Anxiety, a Single Intervention… Published: May 31, 2018.Released by University of Connecticut No matter which treatment they get, only 20 percent of young people diagnosed with anxiety will stay well over the long term, UConn Health researchers report in the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. “When you see so few kids stay non-symptomatic after receiving the best treatments we have, that’s discouraging,” says UConn Health psychologist Golda Ginsburg.

Psychology Researchers Document Another Cost of… Published: May 31, 2018.Released by Washington State University Scientists at UCLA and Washington State University are seeing America’s polarization play out at the family dinner table, with Thanksgiving visits that were 30 to 50 minutes shorter after the presidential election of 2016. Economists Keith Chen and Ryne Rohla also saw that visits were even shorter for travelers from media markets with intense political advertising. Their findings appear in the

Medicine, Health Care Smoking, Lack of Exercise Linked… Published: May 30, 2018.Released by University of Arizona A growing body of research links divorce to a wide range of poor health outcomes, including greater risk for early death. However, the reason for the connection is not well understood. A new study by the University of Arizona points to two possible culprits: a greater likelihood of smoking after divorce and lower levels of physical activity. “We were

Medicine, Health Care As Colorectal Cancer Rises in… Published: May 30, 2018.Released by University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus The American Cancer Society (ACS) and other preventive guideline organizations recommend that screening for colorectal cancer start for people of average risk at age 50. However, new data showing rising colorectal cancer incidence in people younger than 50 – and in some cases much younger than 50 – may argue for an earlier start to screening.

Medicine, Health Care High Protein Diet Slightly Increases… Published: May 30, 2018.Released by University of Eastern Finland For middle-aged men, eating higher amounts of protein was associated with a slightly elevated risk for heart failure than those who ate less protein, according to new research from the University of Eastern Finland. Proteins from fish and eggs were not associated with heart failure risk in this study. The findings were reported in Circulation: Heart Failure. Despite

Medicine, Health Care New Guidance on Treating Diabetes… Published: May 30, 2018.Released by University of Exeter New guidance has been published on managing diabetes in the elderly, including for the first time how to manage treatment for the particularly frail. The guidance was produced from a collaboration between experts in diabetes medicine, primary care and geriatric medicine, led by Dr David Strain at the University of Exeter Medical School. It will advise clinicians on helping

Medicine, Health Care Growth Hormone May Provide New… Published: May 30, 2018.Released by University of Gothenburg Less fatigue and better recovery of cognitive abilities such as learning and memory. These may be the results of growth hormone treatment after a stroke, an experimental study of mice published in the journal Stroke suggests. “We hope that this work can pave the way for clinical studies involving the use of human growth hormone as treatment in the

Medicine, Health Care Having an Abortion Does Not… Published: May 30, 2018.Released by University of Maryland Having an abortion does not increase a woman’s risk for depression, according to a new study of nearly 400,000 women published today in JAMA Psychiatry. While previous research has found abortion does not harm women’s mental health, studies claiming that it does continue to be published and state policies that restrict access to abortion in the United States have

Medicine, Health Care CLL Patient Treated at Penn… Published: May 30, 2018.Released by University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine PHILADELPHIA – The doctors who have spent years studying the case call it “a series of fortunate events.” What began as a remarkable response to chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell therapy is now providing evidence about the human genome and immune response that could help turn gene therapy non-responders into responders. Researchers at the University

Medicine, Health Care Using Telemedicine to Bring Genetic… Published: May 30, 2018.Released by University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine   PHILADELPHIA – Genetic counseling for cancer patients has become standard of care at academic medical centers, but patients cared for at community-based medical practices across the United States may not have access to these resources. Video and phone sessions can close that gap and bring genetic counseling to patients who would not otherwise have the chance

Medicine, Health Care Some Blood Stem Cells Are… Published: May 30, 2018.Released by University of Southern California – Health Sciences   In your body, blood stem cells produce approximately 10 billion new white blood cells, which are also known as immune cells, each and every day. Even more remarkably, if some of these blood stem cells fail to do their part, then other blood stem cells pick up their slack and overproduce whichever specific type of

Medicine, Health Care Insomnia Is a Likely Long-term… Published: May 30, 2018.Released by University of Surrey Stroke patients experience sustained problems with insomnia potentially reducing their ability to relearn key skills and putting them at increased risk of depression, a new study in the journal Scientific Reports finds. In the first study of its kind, researchers from the University of Surrey, University of Freiburg, Germany, and the University of Bern, Switzerland, conducted an in depth

Medicine, Health Care Soy Lecithin NSAID Combo Drug… Published: May 30, 2018.Released by University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston   When scientists at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) applied a chemical found in soybeans to a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID), they increased its anticancer properties and reduced its side effects. Findings of the preclinical study of phosphatidylcholine, also called lecithin, appear in the journal Oncology Letters. “The results support

Medicine, Health Care Now, You Can Hold a… Published: May 30, 2018.Released by Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard What if you could hold a physical model of your own brain in your hands, accurate down to its every unique fold? That’s just a normal part of life for Steven Keating, Ph.D., who had a baseball-sized tumor removed from his brain at age 26 while he was a graduate student in the MIT

Medicine, Health Care Body Knows Best: A Natural… Published: May 30, 2018.Released by Weizmann Institute of Science   Treating inflammatory diseases of the bowel is extremely challenging: Genes, gut microbes and disrupted immune function all contribute. Weizmann Institute of Science researchers are proposing a way around this complexity. In a study in mice, published in Cell Reports, they have found a way to trigger a natural defense mechanism that prompts the body itself to alleviate intestinal

Medicine, Health Care Young Women at High Genetic… Published: May 30, 2018.Released by Wolters Kluwer Health   May 29, 2018 – With available testing for breast cancer risk genes, some women are learning at young ages that they are at high lifetime risk of breast cancer. Plastic surgeons play a key role in counseling and managing this group of high-risk young adults, according to a special topic paper in the June issue of Plastic and Reconstructive

Psychology Cognitive Training Reduces Depression, Rebuilds… Published: May 30, 2018.Released by Center for BrainHealth New research from the Center for BrainHealth at The University of Texas at Dallas shows that certain cognitive training exercises can help reduce depression and improve brain health in individuals years after they have suffered a traumatic brain injury (TBI). The recent study, published in Human Brain Mapping, revealed significant reductions in the severity of depressive symptoms, increased ability to regulate

Psychology Older Men with Higher Levels… Published: May 30, 2018.Released by Springer The level of sex hormones such as testosterone in a man’s body could influence his religiosity. A new study by Aniruddha Das of McGill University in Canada in Springer’s journal Adaptive Human Behavior and Physiology now adds to the growing body of evidence that religiosity is not only influenced by upbringing or psychological makeup, but physiological factors could also play a role. Das

Psychology Research Finds Pain Expectation Is… Published: May 30, 2018.Released by University of California – Riverside   RIVERSIDE, Calif. (http://www.ucr.edu) – So much for, “See? That wasn’t so bad.” If your child thinks the needle is going to hurt, that expectation ensures it’s going to hurt. That’s the finding of first-of-its-kind research from UC Riverside psychologist Kalina Michalska. For the first time, researchers have looked at how expectation influences pain experience in children. “We know that

Psychology Law Firms Do Not Encourage… Published: May 30, 2018.Released by University of Eastern Finland The professional ethos of law firms discourages men from taking parental leave, a new Finnish-Canadian study shows. Carried out by the University of Eastern Finland and TÉLUQ University in Quebec, the study found that the professional culture in law firms rests on traditional masculine ideology, with men regarded as the providers for their families. This view does not encourage men

Psychology Sensory-based Food Education Encourages Children… Published: May 30, 2018.Released by University of Eastern Finland Sensory-based food education given to 3-5 year-old children in the kindergarten increases their willingness to choose vegetables, berries and fruit, according to a new study from the University of Eastern Finland. Sensory-based food education offers new tools for promoting healthy dietary habits in early childhood education and care. The findings were published in Public Health Nutrition. The researchers used the

Psychology Workplace Dress Codes Present Barriers… Published: May 30, 2018.Released by University of Missouri-Columbia COLUMBIA, Mo. – According to the U.S. Census, nearly 20 million people of working age live with a disability. While past research has indicated that people living with disabilities face barriers in workplace participation, researchers from the University of Missouri have now found one hindrance to workplace participation for people with disabilities is the lack of appropriate clothing. This barrier increases

Psychology New Moms’ Voices Get Lower… Published: May 30, 2018.Released by University of Sussex The pitch of new mothers’ voices temporarily drops after they have had their first baby, according to a new longitudinal study by Dr Kasia Pisanski, Kavya Bhardwaj, and Prof David Reby at the University of Sussex. The researchers analysed women’s voices over a 10-year period – five years before and five years after childbirth – and found that new mothers’ voices

Medicine, Health Care NYU Professor Replicates Famous Marshmallow… Published: May 28, 2018.Released by New York University   New York, NY – A new replication study of the well-known “marshmallow test” – a famous psychological experiment designed to measure children’s self-control – suggests that being able to delay gratification at a young age may not be as predictive of later life outcomes as was previously thought. Published in Psychological Science by Dr. Tyler W. Watts, an assistant

Medicine, Health Care People with Dementia More Likely… Published: May 28, 2018.Released by Queensland University of Technology The tendency of people with dementia to wander and become lost has led QUT researchers to recommend a ‘Silver Alert’ system, similar to Amber Alerts for missing children, be activated when someone with the diagnosis of dementia is reported lost. Led by Dr Margie MacAndrew from the QUT-based Dementia Centre for Research Collaboration: Carers and Consumers (DCRC-CC), the

Medicine, Health Care Cell Chat: Attacking Disease by… Published: May 28, 2018.Released by RMIT University Breakthrough lab-on-a-chip technology that reveals how human cells communicate could lead to new treatments for cancer and autoimmune disorders. Developed by an Australian-Swiss research team, the technology offers researchers unprecedented insights into how individual cells behave – something that scientists are discovering is far more complex than previously thought. The researchers from RMIT University, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)

Medicine, Health Care Regulatory Mutations Missed in Standard… Published: May 28, 2018.Released by The Mount Sinai Hospital / Mount Sinai School of Medicine   Researchers have identified a type of genetic aberration to be the cause of certain neurodevelopmental disorders and congenital diseases, such as autism and congenital heart disease, which are undetectable by conventional genetic testing. The discovery that genetic mutations called epivariations are involved in these diseases could lead to more advanced diagnostic tools

Medicine, Health Care Lung-on-a-chip Simulates Pulmonary Fibrosis … Published: May 28, 2018.Released by University at Buffalo BUFFALO, N.Y. — Developing new medicines to treat pulmonary fibrosis, one of the most common and serious forms of lung disease, is not easy. One reason: it’s difficult to mimic how the disease damages and scars lung tissue over time, often forcing scientists to employ a hodgepodge of time-consuming and costly techniques to assess the effectiveness of potential treatments.

Medicine, Health Care New Method for Finding Disease-susceptibility… Published: May 28, 2018.Released by Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology(UNIST) A new study, affiliated with UNIST has recently presented a novel statistical algorithm, capable of identifying potential disease genes in a more accurate and cost-effective way. This algorithm has also been considered as a new promising approach for the identification of candidate disease genes, as it works effectively with less genomic data and takes only

Medicine, Health Care Doctors Fail to Flag Concussion… Published: May 28, 2018.Released by University of California – San Francisco   As evidence builds of more long-term effects linked to concussion, a nationwide study led by scientists at UCSF and the University of Southern California has found that more than half of the patients seen at top-level trauma centers may fall off the radar shortly after diagnosis, placing in jeopardy treatments for these long-term effects. Among 831

Medicine, Health Care New Chromosome Study Can Lead… Published: May 28, 2018.Released by University of Copenhagen The Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences Foetuses with a so-called new balanced chromosomal aberration have a higher risk of developing brain disorders such as autism and mental retardation than previously anticipated. The risk is 20 per cent for foetuses with these types of aberrations according to a new study from the University of Copenhagen. These chromosomal aberrations are

Medicine, Health Care UEA Research Could Help Fine-tune… Published: May 28, 2018.Released by University of East Anglia Cancer therapies that cut off blood supply to a tumour could be more effective in combination with existing chemotherapeutic drugs – according to new research from the University of East Anglia. New research published today in the journal EMBO Reports reveals that tumour growth is better-reduced in mice when the expression of a particular protein called Beta3-integrin is

Medicine, Health Care UMD Food Scientist Guides Students… Published: May 28, 2018.Released by University of Maryland   College Park, MD — In an effort to sustain and educate the next generation of food safety experts in the United States, Dr. Bob Buchanan of the University of Maryland has served as a scientific mentor to a pair of academically accelerated high school students who are challenging the current food avoidance recommendations for pregnant women as established by

Medicine, Health Care Most Concussion Patients Fall Under… Published: May 28, 2018.Released by University of Southern California Millions of Americans suffer concussions each year, and many endure symptoms for months or years afterward. A new study shows that a majority of patients with a concussion receive no follow-up care within three months of discharge from the hospital. Based on a sample of 831 patients sent to a top-level trauma center with a concussion, or mild

Medicine, Health Care Study Suggests Obese Children Who… Published: May 28, 2018.Released by University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston   Obese children who consume at least two servings of any type of cow’s milk daily are more likely to have lower fasting insulin, indicating better blood sugar control, according to researchers at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth). The findings of the study, to be presented at the European Congress

Medicine, Health Care Potent New Mechanism of Action… Published: May 28, 2018.Released by University of Tsukuba Tsukuba – Professor Akiyoshi Fukamizu’s research group of Life Science Center for Survival Dynamics (Tsukuba Advanced Research Alliance, TARA), University of Tsukuba, Eisai Co., Ltd. and its gastrointestinal business subsidiary EA Pharma Co., Ltd. have revealed a mechanism in which an analogue (ER-464195-01) of Eisai’s in-house discovered E6007 inhibits integrin activation by dissociating interaction between calreticulin (CRT) and integrin

Medicine, Health Care A New Guide for Explorers… Published: May 28, 2018.Released by University of Virginia Health System Researchers from the University of Virginia have established new guidelines for scientists mapping out the body molecule by molecule to help us better understand how our cells use metals such as iron and magnesium to maintain good health. The guidelines ultimately will benefit the battle against diseases such as cancer, assist in the development of new drugs

Psychology Which Role Does the Brain… Published: May 28, 2018.Released by Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience – KNAW Helping other people in need is a foundation of our society. It is intuitive to believe that we help others because we empathically share their pain. Neuroscience shows that when we see somebody in pain our brain activates tactile and emotional regions as if we ourselves were in pain. A study from Selene Gallo (Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience,

Psychology Infantilism as a Norm … Published: May 28, 2018.Released by National Research University Higher School of Economics Views on human age need to be revisited. The value of adulthood as a period of certainty has declined for many, which means that this period is being delayed. The processes of personality development vary, and adults are preserving signs of infantilism. HSE University experts, Elena Sabelnikova and Natalia Khmeleva, suggest a new way of looking at

Psychology Goal Conflict Linked to Psychological… Published: May 28, 2018.Released by University of Exeter Being torn about which personal goals to pursue is associated with symptoms of psychological distress, new research shows. A survey of more than 200 young adults by the University of Exeter and Edith Cowan University (ECU) investigated two forms of motivational conflict. These were inter-goal conflict (when pursuing one goal makes it difficult to pursue another) and ambivalence (conflicting feelings about

Medicine, Health Care Tau Mutations May Increase Cancer… Published: May 24, 2018.Released by American Association for Cancer Research   PHILADELPHIA — Mutations to the protein tau, commonly associated with neurodegenerative disorders, may serve as a novel risk factor for cancer, according to results published in Cancer Research, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research. “Our study revealed that the presence of tau mutations raises the risk of developing cancer,” said Fabrizio Tagliavini, MD, scientific

Medicine, Health Care Towards a Sensor You Could… Published: May 24, 2018.Released by American Association for the Advancement of Science A newly developed device could one day detect the presence of disease-driving molecules in the gut – an otherwise difficult-to-access environment – reading out these results to a cell phone in real time. In a trial demonstration in pigs, it worked to detect molecules indicative of excess bleeding. The researchers who designed this device equipped

Medicine, Health Care Adolescents with Hay Fever Have… Published: May 24, 2018.Released by American College of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology   ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, IL – (MAY 24, 2018) – Although allergies affect more than 50 million Americans, they are occasionally misunderstood and can be seen as a minor condition. An article published in Annals of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology, the scientific journal of the American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology (ACAAI) shows allergies can have

Medicine, Health Care South Asian Americans Are at… Published: May 24, 2018.Released by American Heart Association DALLAS, May 24,2018 — South Asians are more likely to die of heart disease, such as heart attacks and strokes caused by atherosclerosis – the disease process that narrows arteries – than East Asians and non-Hispanic whites living in the United States, according to a new scientific statement from the American Heart Association published in its journal Circulation. The

Medicine, Health Care Hot Cars Can Hit Deadly… Published: May 24, 2018.Released by Arizona State University   A lot can happen at 160 degrees Fahrenheit: Eggs fry, salmonella bacteria dies, and human skin will suffer third-degree burns. If a car is parked in the sun on a hot summer day, its dashboard can hit 160 degrees in about an hour. One hour is also about how long it can take for a young child trapped in

Medicine, Health Care Each Hour of Delay in… Published: May 24, 2018.Released by Elsevier Glenview, IL, May 24, 2018 – The rising incidence of sepsis, a leading cause of in-hospital death, has prompted the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to issue protocols known as care bundles to standardize and improve sepsis care. Because of a known association between elevated lactate levels and increased mortality, the guidelines mandate that lactate levels should be tested

Medicine, Health Care Lack of Paid Sick Leave… Published: May 24, 2018.Released by Florida Atlantic University   Research conducted by Florida Atlantic University and Cleveland State University has, for the first time, quantified the relationship between the lack of paid sick leave and poverty in the United States. The data indicates that, even when controlling for education, race, sex, marital status and employment, working adults without paid sick leave are three times more likely to have

Medicine, Health Care Revealed Mechanism Behind Citrus Canker… Published: May 24, 2018.Released by Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo Xanthomonas citri, the bacterium that causes citrus canker, a disease responsible for major damage to lemon and orange groves in worldwide scale, has a veritable arsenal of weapons to overcome constant competition with other bacterial species and ward off natural predators such as amoebae. Despite the fact that citrus canker have already

Medicine, Health Care Cancer Cells Co-opt Pain-sensing ‘Wasabi… Published: May 24, 2018.Released by Harvard Medical School Anyone who’s taken a bite of a sandwich with too much spicy mustard or a piece of sushi with too much wasabi can attest to the tear-inducing sensation these condiments can cause. These loud warnings to the nervous system of exposure to potentially harmful chemicals are triggered by TRPA1, a calcium channel protein sometimes referred to as the “wasabi

Medicine, Health Care New Study: ‘Alarming’ Differences in… Published: May 24, 2018.Released by Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation   SEATTLE – While health care access and quality have improved generally over the past several years, advancements in many countries have been slow or nonexistent as compared to the previous decade, according to a new scientific study. In addition, the first-ever assessment at the state or provincial level reveals striking disparities across most nations, most prominently

Medicine, Health Care Tumor Cells Evade Death Through… Published: May 24, 2018.Released by Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona) Greater knowledge of the mechanisms that contribute to the survival of tumour cells is key to vanquishing them. The study published today in the journal Cancer Cell, headed by Angel R. Nebreda, ICREA researcher at the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona), reveals a new protective mechanism for tumour cells in breast cancer and

Medicine, Health Care Sepsis Patients Treated And Released… Published: May 24, 2018.Released by Intermountain Medical Center   National guidelines assume that all patients who’re diagnosed with clinical sepsis in an emergency department will be admitted to the hospital for additional care, but new research has found that many more patients are being treated and released from the ED for outpatient follow-up than previously recognized. Despite the finding that about 16 percent of sepsis patients who are

Medicine, Health Care Vast Majority of Poor, Urban… Published: May 24, 2018.Released by Johns Hopkins Medicine   A study of more than 7,000 low-income, urban mothers enrolled in the Boston Birth Cohort found that fewer than 5 percent of them started folic acid supplementation and used it almost daily before pregnancy, a widely recommended public health measure designed to prevent potentially crippling birth defects. A report of the findings was published on April 19 in the

Medicine, Health Care Kessler Foundation Study Compares Neuropsychological… Published: May 24, 2018.Released by Kessler Foundation East Hanover, NJ. May 24, 2018. A recent article by Kessler Foundation researchers compared two neuropsychological tests for assessing learning in individuals with multiple sclerosis (MS). The article, “Comparing the Open Trial – Selective Reminding Test results with the California Learning Verbal Test II in Multiple Sclerosis” was published online on April 4, 2018, in Applied Neuropsychology: Adult. This is

Medicine, Health Care Kaiser Permanente Researchers Develop New… Published: May 24, 2018.Released by Kaiser Permanente   Combining data from electronic health records with results from standardized depression questionnaires better predicts suicide risk in the 90 days following either mental health specialty or primary care outpatient visits, reports a team from the Mental Health Research Network, led by Kaiser Permanente research scientists. The study, “Predicting Suicide Attempts and Suicide Death Following Outpatient Visits Using Electronic Health Records,”

Medicine, Health Care Loyola Medicine Survey Finds 16%… Published: May 24, 2018.Released by Loyola University Health System   MAYWOOD, IL – A Loyola Medicine survey has found that 15.8 percent of adult burn patients screened positive for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The survey by clinical psychologist Elizabeth Simmons, PsyD, licensed clinical social worker Kelly McElligott, AM, and colleagues from Loyola Medicine’s Burn Center was presented at the annual meeting of the American Burn Association, where it

Medicine, Health Care Tiny Particles Could Help Fight… Published: May 24, 2018.Released by Massachusetts Institute of Technology   Glioblastoma multiforme, a type of brain tumor, is one of the most difficult-to-treat cancers. Only a handful of drugs are approved to treat glioblastoma, and the median life expectancy for patients diagnosed with the disease is less than 15 months. MIT researchers have now devised a new drug-delivering nanoparticle that could offer a better way to treat glioblastoma.

Medicine, Health Care A Cascade of Immune Processes… Published: May 24, 2018.Released by Michigan Medicine – University of Michigan ANN ARBOR, Michigan — Cancer is crafty. To survive and thrive, tumors find a way of thwarting our body’s natural systems. By looking at these systems, researchers at the University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center have discovered that tumor cells reprogram metabolic pathways to gain control over a type of immune cell that allows cancer growth.

Medicine, Health Care NCI Study Finds Gut Microbiome… Published: May 24, 2018.Released by National Cancer Institute Scientists have found a connection between bacteria in the gut and antitumor immune responses in the liver. Their study, published May 25 in Science, was led by researchers in the Center for Cancer Research (CCR) at the National Cancer Institute (NCI). It showed that bacteria found in the gut of mice affect the liver’s antitumor immune function. The findings

Medicine, Health Care African-Americans And Latinos Are More… Published: May 24, 2018.Released by National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities   A new study published in the May 2018 issue of Preventive Medicine shows that African Americans and Latinos are significantly more likely to experience serious depression than Whites, but chronic stress does not seem to explain these differences. Dr. Eliseo J. Pérez-Stable, director of the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD)