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Released: 7-Feb-2023 1:35 PM EST
What do medical students learn from family medicine clerkships?
Boston University School of Medicine

Medical student clerkships, the full immersion learning experiences in practice-based facilities for medical students, have learning objectives to define what students should learn by the end of their rotation, but medical educators are now asking, how does one know what larger lessons students are taking away?

Newswise: Patient's satisfaction with doctor could influence decision to have bariatric surgery
Released: 7-Feb-2023 1:05 PM EST
Patient's satisfaction with doctor could influence decision to have bariatric surgery
UT Southwestern Medical Center

Patients’ satisfaction with their physicians may influence their decisions to undergo bariatric surgery, according to a multicenter study involving UT Southwestern and the UTHealth School of Public Health published in JAMA Network Open.

Newswise: Notre Dame study finds voter ID laws mobilize voters in both parties, rather than sway election results
Released: 7-Feb-2023 12:30 PM EST
Notre Dame study finds voter ID laws mobilize voters in both parties, rather than sway election results
University of Notre Dame

Notre Dame researchers found that voter ID requirements motivated supporters of both parties equally to comply and participate, but had little overall effect on the actual outcomes of the elections.

Released: 7-Feb-2023 12:05 PM EST
Rutgers Specialists Show Facial Pain Can Be Unconnected to Teeth
Rutgers University-New Brunswick

Studies show orofacial pain commonly occurs in the absence of dental or tooth problems and requires evaluation and treatment by specialists.

Newswise: Scientists Report Differences in Dopamine Signals in Patients with History of Alcohol Use Disorder
Released: 7-Feb-2023 12:05 PM EST
Scientists Report Differences in Dopamine Signals in Patients with History of Alcohol Use Disorder
Wake Forest University School of Medicine

In a new study from Wake Forest University School of Medicine, scientists have demonstrated that the connection between dopamine and counterfactual information, which is related to the psychological notions of regret and relief, appears altered by alcohol use disorder.

Released: 7-Feb-2023 12:05 PM EST
Resilience to HIV-Related Stigma May Be Key to Ending the AIDS Epidemic
Rutgers University-New Brunswick

Failing to address the psychological trauma experienced by many older people living with HIV/AIDS will make it difficult, if not impossible, to end the epidemic, according to a Rutgers study.

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Newswise: Microscopy Images Could Lead to New Ways to Control Excitons for Quantum Computing
Released: 7-Feb-2023 11:15 AM EST
Microscopy Images Could Lead to New Ways to Control Excitons for Quantum Computing
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Excitons are drawing attention as possible quantum bits (qubits) in tomorrow’s quantum computers and are central to optoelectronics and energy-harvesting processes. However, these charge-neutral quasiparticles, which exist in semiconductors and other materials, are notoriously difficult to confine and manipulate. Now, for the first time, Berkeley Lab researchers have created and directly observed highly localized excitons confined in simple stacks of atomically thin materials. The work confirms theoretical predictions and opens new avenues for controlling excitons with custom-built materials.

Newswise: Uncovering Sexual Health Topics for Parents to Address with Their Adolescent-aged GBQ Male Children
Released: 7-Feb-2023 11:00 AM EST
Uncovering Sexual Health Topics for Parents to Address with Their Adolescent-aged GBQ Male Children
University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing

Comprehensive and inclusive sexual health education reduces young gay, bisexual, and queer (GBQ) men's vulnerability to poor sexual health outcomes like HIV and STIs into adulthood, data shows. However, conservative ideologies continue to dominate policies on school-based sex education and view topics like same-sex attractions as controversial.

2-Feb-2023 1:00 PM EST
Spending on Consumer Advertising for Top-Selling Prescription Drugs in U.S. Favors Those With Low Added Benefit
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

A new study led by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health found that the share of promotional spending allocated to consumer advertising was on average 14.3 percentage points higher for drugs with low added benefit compared to drugs with high added benefit.

Newswise: Early anti-VEGF treatment of diabetic retinopathy yields no benefit to visual acuity
2-Feb-2023 11:05 AM EST
Early anti-VEGF treatment of diabetic retinopathy yields no benefit to visual acuity
NIH, National Eye Institute (NEI)

While early treatment of diabetes-related eye disease slowed progression to severe disease, it did not improve visual acuity compared with treating more severe disease once it developed, according to a clinical study from the DRCR Retina Network.

Newswise: Optimal Layout for a Hospital Isolation Room to Contain COVID-19 Includes Ceiling Vent
2-Feb-2023 2:30 PM EST
Optimal Layout for a Hospital Isolation Room to Contain COVID-19 Includes Ceiling Vent
American Institute of Physics (AIP)

Researchers recently modeled the transmission of COVID-19 within an isolation room at the Royal Brompton Hospital in London, U.K. Their goal was to explore the optimal room layout to reduce the risk of infection for health care staff. To accomplish this, they used an adaptive mesh finite-element computational fluid dynamics model to simulate 3D spatial distribution of the virus within the room — based on data collected from the room during a COVID-19 patient’s stay. They share their findings and guidance in Physics of Fluids.

   
Released: 7-Feb-2023 10:05 AM EST
What is clinically meaningful to slow Alzheimer’s progression?
Mayo Clinic

An expert work group has reframed what is clinically meaningful to slow Alzheimer's disease progression during clinical trials, including treatment impact over time and the need for combination therapies.

Newswise: How to reverse unknown quantum processes
Released: 7-Feb-2023 10:05 AM EST
How to reverse unknown quantum processes
University of Vienna

In the world around us processes appear to follow a certain time-direction: dandelions eventually turn into blowballs. However, the quantum realm does not play by the same rules. Physicists from the University of Vienna and IQOQI Vienna have now shown that for certain quantum systems the time-direction of processes can be reversed. This demonstration of a so-called rewinding protocol has been published in the Journal "Optica".

Released: 7-Feb-2023 10:00 AM EST
Medical Students Develop Curriculum to Shine a Light on the Injustices of Racial Segregation in Health Care
Mount Sinai Health System

Medical students at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai are challenging a traditional model of medical education they say omits a critical ingredient: preparing students for the experience of segregation within health care.

Newswise: Researchers publish new epigenetic editing technique to improve crops
Released: 7-Feb-2023 9:00 AM EST
Researchers publish new epigenetic editing technique to improve crops
Donald Danforth Plant Science Center

Danforth Center scientists and their collaborators improve disease resistance in cassava using an innovative technology called targeted methylation.

Newswise: Copy-cat? Youth with Few Friends Conform to Stay in a Friend’s ‘Good Graces’
Released: 7-Feb-2023 8:30 AM EST
Copy-cat? Youth with Few Friends Conform to Stay in a Friend’s ‘Good Graces’
Florida Atlantic University

What gives one friend influence over another? Considerable attention has focused on who influences whom; much less is known about why one partner is prone to be influenced by the other. A study tested the hypothesis that within a friend dyad, having fewer friends than one’s partner increases susceptibility to influence, because it reduces dissimilarity and promotes compatibility. Results showed that partners with fewer friends were influenced by children with more friends. In each case, the partner with fewer friends became more similar to the partner with more friends. Academic engagement was the only domain where partners with fewer friends also influenced partners with more friends.

Released: 7-Feb-2023 8:05 AM EST
Fertility treatment does not adversely affect cardiovascular health of offspring, international study suggests
University of Bristol

A large study looking at the effects of fertility treatment has found no robust difference in blood pressure, heart rate, lipids, and glucose measurements between children conceived naturally and those conceived using assisted reproductive technologies (ART).

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Released: 7-Feb-2023 8:00 AM EST
New Sodium, Aluminum Battery Aims to Integrate Renewables for Grid Resiliency
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

A new sodium battery technology shows promise for helping integrate renewable energy into the electric grid. The battery uses Earth-abundant raw materials such as aluminum and sodium.



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