Immunotherapy for Glioblastoma Well Tolerated; Survival Gains Observed
A phase one study of 11 patients with glioblastoma who received injections of an investigational vaccine therapy and an approved chemotherapy showed the combination to be well tolerated while also resulting in unexpectedly significant survival increa...
– Duke Health
Clinical Cancer Research; P50-CA190991-02, R42-CA153845-02, P30-CA14236-42, R01-CA177476-04, R01-NS085412-04; R01-NS086943-03, R01-NS067037, R01-CA134844, 1R01CA175517-01A1, P01-CA154291-05, CA180411-01, R25-NS065731-07...
Embargo expired on 14-Apr-2017 at 00:05 ET
Kidney Disease Is a Major Cause of Cardiovascular Deaths
• In 2013, reduced kidney function was associated with 4% of deaths worldwide, or 2.2 million deaths. • More than half of these deaths were cardiovascular deaths.
– American Society of Nephrology (ASN)
doi: 10.1681/ASN.2016050562
Embargo expired on 13-Apr-2017 at 17:00 ET
NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia Receives $4.5 Million CMS Grant to Link Clinical and Community Services in New York
NewYork-Presbyterian, in collaboration with Columbia University Medical Center, has received a grant of $4.5 million over five years from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to participate in the newly launched Accountable Health Commu...
– New York-Presbyterian Hospital
Embargo expired on 13-Apr-2017 at 14:00 ET
3D-Printed Patch Can Help Mend a ‘Broken’ Heart
A team of biomedical engineering researchers, led by the University of Minnesota, has created a revolutionary 3D-bioprinted patch that can help heal scarred heart tissue after a heart attack. The discovery is a major step forward in treating patients...
– University of Minnesota College of Science and Engineering
NIH RO1 HL 99507; NIH RO1 HL114120; NIH RO1 HL 131017; NIH RO1 UO1 134764.; Circulation Research; NSF Award CBET- 1445650
Study Finds Worse Survival When Specific Thyroid Cancers Spread to Bone
In what is known to be the largest study on bone metastases in thyroid cancer, researchers at the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center found that patients with follicular and medullary thyroid cancer had the highest rate of cancer-relat...
– Michigan Medicine - University of Michigan
Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism; R01CA201198 ; AG049684; R01HS024512
Worldwide Survey Finds 16 Percent Rate of Acute Neurological Conditions in Critically Ill Children
Sixteen percent of children in pediatric intensive care units (ICUs) have acute neurological conditions with brain damage due to cardiac arrest, traumatic brain injury, or other causes, reports an international survey study in Pediatric Critical Care...
– Wolters Kluwer Health: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins
Pediatric Critical Care Medicine
Are Oncologists Jumping the Gun with the 21-Gene Assay?
University of Colorado Cancer Center Study uncovers discrepant decision-making for use of 21-gene assay in women with cancer: • Testing occurs in high-risk population, despite current evidence • Non-concordance with NCCN Guidelines® recommend...
– National Comprehensive Cancer Network® (NCCN®)
UVA Finds Way to View Genes Inside Living Cells
By mapping out gene locations in 3D, scientists can shed light on cancer and other diseases and potentially find better treatments and new cures.
– University of Virginia Health System
Nature Communications; U01-EB021236; GM094522; U54-DK107980
Assessing Heart Disease Risk Is Within Arm’s Reach
Atherosclerosis, commonly known as hardening of the arteries, has long been seen as a strong indicator of coronary artery disease, as compared to the traditional risk factors of race, age, gender and metabolic profile.
– New York Institute of Technology
Epidemiological Analysis Shows Unexpected Benefit Related to High Blood Pressure for Many with Ovarian Cancer
An international team of collaborators retroactively examined the associations between survival among patients diagnosed with invasive epithelial ovarian cancer and those patients’ history of hypertension, heart disease, diabetes, and medications t...
– Roswell Park Cancer Institute
Quest for Balance in Radiation Leads to Lower Doses
New UC Project Finds Roadmap to Improve Patient Safety in Radiation Exposure
– UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center
JAMA Internal Medicine
Fewer Repeat Hospital Admissions After 'Vertical Integration' of Healthcare
"Vertical integration" of healthcare—closer coordination of care between primary care and hospitals—leads to a lower rate of hospital readmissions, suggests an experience from Portugal reported in the May issue of Medical Care. The journal is pub...
– Wolters Kluwer Health: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins
Medical Care
Researchers Examine the Relationship Between Drug Injection Risk Behaviors and Immune Activation
Investigators examined the relationship between injection drug use and immune activation in a sample of HIV infected and uninfected PWID. Findings suggest that efforts to encourage injection cessation or reduction in frequency can have positive heal...
– New York University
Research Suggests Trans Fat Bans Lessen Health Risks
People living in areas that restrict trans fats in foods had fewer hospitalizations for heart attack and stroke compared to residents in areas without restrictions, according to a new study conducted by researchers at the University of Chicago Medici...
– University of Chicago Medical Center
JAMA Cardiology
The Medical Minute: Exercise Helps to Keep Seniors Safe From Falls
Each day, more than 800 Americans suffer a hip fracture. Most of those fractures are due to falls, and most happen to seniors, who have lower bone density and muscle mass than the rest of the population.
– Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center
The AANS Honors Renowned Members at Annual Meeting
Listing of the major awards to be presented during the 2017 AANS Annual Scientific Meeting.
– American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS)
Patient Makes Dramatic Recovery From Amputation to Transplanted Hand
In October 2016, Jonathan Koch, a 51-year-old entertainment executive from Los Angeles, underwent a 17-hour procedure to replace the hand he lost to a mysterious, life-threatening illness. Six months after surgery by the UCLA hand transplant team and...
– University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Health Sciences
$500K National Science Foundation Grant to Fund Human Skin Research
Binghamton University Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering Guy German will continue his research into skin with the help of a new, five-year, $500,000 National Science Foundation (NSF) Early Career Development (CAREER) grant.
– Binghamton University, State University of New York
Henry Ford Cancer Institute Appoints Vice President, Executive Director
Spencer C. Hoover, a decorated U.S. Army veteran who joined Henry Ford Health System in 2015, was appointed vice president and executive director of the health system’s Henry Ford Cancer Institute and cancer care services.
– Henry Ford Health System
Managing Cell and Human Identity
Leading biologists and bioethicists from the Institute for Regenerative Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, and other institutions, will come together to discuss these topics in a day-long symposium entitled, “Managing Cell and Human Identi...
– Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
Penn Medicine’s Daniel J. Rader, MD, Receives National Award from American College of Physicians
The American College of Physicians, the largest medical specialty organization in the United States, presented Daniel J. Rader, MD, with its Award for Outstanding Work in Science as Related to Medicine at the organization’s annual scientific confer...
– Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
Justice in America for Native Americans
How do factors such as race, culture, issues with accessing legal representation, and resiliency contribute to injustices for Native Americans? These are some of the issues to be discussed at a panel at Georgetown University titled "Justice in Americ...
– Georgetown University Medical Center
'Neuron-Reading' Nanowires Could Accelerate Development of Drugs to Treat Neurological Diseases
A team led by engineers at the University of California San Diego has developed nanowires that can record the electrical activity of neurons in fine detail. The new nanowire technology could one day serve as a platform to screen drugs for neurologica...
– University of California San Diego
Nano Letters, Apr-2017
NASA Missions Provide New Insights into 'Ocean Worlds' in Our Solar System
Recent observations of Jupiter's icy moon Europa by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have uncovered a probable plume of material erupting from the moon's surface at precisely the same location as a similar apparent plume seen two years earlier by Hubble...
– Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI)
The Astrophysical Journal Letters, Apr-2017
Advantage: Water
When water comes in for a landing on the common catalyst titanium oxide, it splits into hydroxyls just under half the time. Water's oxygen and hydrogen atoms shift back and forth between existing as water or hydroxyls, and water has the slightest adv...
– Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Early Edition Feb. 6, 2017
Scientists Tag Humpback Whales in Southeast Pacific
Whales from both poles migrate long distances to breed in tropical waters. Smithsonian scientist Hector M. Guzman and Fernando Félix at the Salinas Whale Museum in Ecuador tagged 47 humpbacks with satellite transmitters to understand how the humpbac...
– Smithsonian Institution
Q&A with CFN Scientist Qin Wu
Wu, a theoretical chemist at Brookhaven Lab’s Center for Functional Nanomaterials (CFN), performs calculations and simulations and constructs models that provide a fundamental understanding of the structures, dynamics, and properties of chemical sy...
– Brookhaven National Laboratory
Music as Medicine: Using Music to Help Dementia and Alzheimer's Patients
Music and voice major Jessica Voutsinas ’18 was singing the classic song “Over the Rainbow” to a resident at Longview — an adult residential facility near the Ithaca College campus — when the woman unexpectedly lit up and began telling stor...
– Ithaca College
Student Develops Device to Improve Cattle Grazing, Partners with Aggie Innovation Space
New Mexico State University Department of Animal and Range sciences junior Josiah Brooks is creating a feed intake device for cattle, and he is working with the Aggie Innovation Space to design and develop parts for a prototype.
– New Mexico State University (NMSU)
SLAC Celebrates Femtosecond Week
Got a millionth of a billionth of a second? There’s science that actually happens on this timescale. Join us online for a week of ultrafast science from April 17 to 21. Learn more about how scientists and engineers use electron beams and bright ...
– SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
MTSU Rover Teams Place, Earn Major Awards at NASA Annual Event in Huntsville
One MTSU student engineering team placed in the top 10 in the world while a second team earned two major technical awards at the 2017 NASA Human Exploration Rover Challenge.
– Middle Tennessee State University
Boise State Names Next Leader for College of Engineering
JoAnn Slama Lighty will be the new dean of Boise State University’s College of Engineering, effective July 17.
– Boise State University
Penn State Aerospace Engineer Wins Commission for Women Rosemary Schraer Mentoring Award
04/13/2017UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Susan Stewart, senior research associate and associate professor of aerospace engineering at Penn State, was recently named the recipient of the Penn State Commission for Women 2017 Rosemary Schraer Mentoring Award....
– Penn State College of Engineering
New Berkeley Lab Project Turns Waste Heat to Electricity
A new Berkeley Lab project seeks to efficiently capture waste heat and convert it to electricity, potentially saving California up to $385 million per year. With a $2-million grant from the California Energy Commission, Berkeley Lab scientists will w...
– Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Scientists Need Your Help in First-Ever Census of Weddell Seals
Scientists are asking for the public’s help to look through thousands of satellite images of Antarctica in the first-ever, comprehensive count of Weddell seals. Documenting the seals’ population trends over time will help scientists better unders...
– University of Minnesota College of Science and Engineering
Statewide Poll Reveals Deep Divide in Ohio Opinion on the Trump White House
A new statewide Ohio poll conducted by Baldwin Wallace University finds voters remain deeply divided on many issues in the early days of the Donald Trump administration, including an equal split on whether they trust the president or the media (or ne...
– Baldwin Wallace University
How World of Warcraft Can Get You a Job
A new study by researchers at Missouri University of Science and Technology found that World of Warcraft (WoW) gamers who were successful working as a team in “raids” had qualities that psychological studies have shown to translate to success on ...
– Missouri University of Science and Technology
Married LGBT Older Adults Are Healthier, Happier Than Singles, Study Finds
Same-sex marriage has been the law of the land for nearly two years — and in some states for even longer — but researchers can already detect positive health outcomes among couples who have tied the knot, a University of Washington study finds. ...
– University of Washington
The President's "Enemy" Rhetoric and the Press
President Trump’s declarations that the press is the “enemy of the American people,” accompanied by overt hostile acts, are not merely different in degree but different in kind from the tensions and antagonisms with the media that have punctuat...
– University of Utah
Geopolitical Uncertainty Brews Investing Concerns at Shanghai Forum
The 2017 CEIBS Private Wealth Investment Forum — the University of Virginia Darden School of Business’ fourth annual investing summit in Shanghai, hosted in partnership with the China Europe International Business School (CEIBS) — brought toget...
– University of Virginia Darden School Foundation
FAU Poll Shows Hispanic Consumers in Florida Optimistic About Economy Despite Increasing Cost of Living
Hispanics in Florida are optimistic about their financial situation despite concerns about rising costs and interest rates, according to a new statewide survey conducted by the FAU Business and Economics Polling Initiative.
– Florida Atlantic University
Newly Launched Berkeley Certificate in Design Innovation Promotes Creativity, Collaboration at Cal
The cross-disciplinary, cross-departmental partnership between the College of Environmental Design, the College of Engineering, the Haas School of Business and the College of Letters and Science hopes to guide undergraduate students to the critical n...
– UC Berkeley, College of Environmental Design
Southeastern Receives $10 Million Bequest, Largest Single Donation in Its History
A $10 million bequest to Southeastern Louisiana University -- the largest in its history -- will be used to fund scholarships to help increase the number of women enrolled in STEM programs.
– Southeastern Louisiana University
Former VP Joe Biden to Deliver Senior Convocation Address at Cornell May 27
Vice President Joe Biden will give the keynote address at this year’s Senior Convocation, Saturday, May 27, during Cornell’s 149th Commencement Weekend.
– Cornell University
TPG Chief Investor Shares Insights on Growing a Private Equity Giant
Over the course of a 25-year career at TPG Capital, Chief Investment Officer Jonathan Coslet has played a leading role in steering the company to the heights of the private equity industry.
– University of Virginia Darden School Foundation
AANS 2017 Annual Scientific Meeting
Announcement of American Association of Neurological Surgeons' Annual Meeting, in L.A., April 22-26, 2017
– American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS)
Babson to Induct Thomas and Laurie Cunnington into Alumni Hall of Fame and Honor 2017 ‘Rising Stars,’ B.E.T.A. Challenge Winners
Thomas Cunnington MBA ’63 , Partner, Cunnington & Cunnington and Former Chief Executive Officer, Ward Williston Oil Co., and Laurie Cunnington, Partner, Cunnington & Cunnington and Former President, Ward Williston Oil Co. will be inducted into The ...
– Babson College
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