World renowned researchers emphasize the critical need for clinicians to aggressively utilize a multi-pronged approach to reducing the risk of complications and premature death from type 2 diabetes mellitus.
Florida Atlantic University’s Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing professor John Lowe, RN, Ph.D., FAAN, was recently awarded a $2.9 million grant, funded by the National Institutes of Health, to conduct and evaluate an after-school substance abuse prevention intervention – Intertribal Talking Circle – among Native American Indian youth.
Florida Atlantic University neuroscientist Emmanuelle Tognoli, Ph.D., and J.A. Scott Kelso, Ph.D., neuroscientist and eminent scholar in science, at the Center for Complex Systems and Brain Sciences at FAU, recently published research in the prestigious journal Neuron titled “The Metastable Brain.” The article indicates that metastable dynamics – a subtle blend of integration and segregation in the brain that occurs on multiple levels (cells, brain regions, networks) – underlies the real-time coordination necessary for the brain’s dynamic cognitive, behavioral and social functions.
Jeanette Wyneken, Ph.D., associate professor of biological science at Florida Atlantic University, and Kate Mansfield, Ph.D., a co-investigator at the University of Central Florida, are the first to successfully track neonate sea turtles in the Atlantic Ocean waters during what had previously been called their “lost years.” Findings from the study appear today in the journal Proceeding of the Royal Society B.
Professors at FAU's Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine discuss the clinical and public health challenges to increase the use of statins in the treatment and prevention of heart attacks and strokes. Last November, the American Heart Association, in collaboration with the American College of Cardiology and the U.S. National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, presented and published its new guidelines for the use of statins in the treatment and prevention of heart attacks and strokes.
Florida Atlantic University received a U.S. patent for a new method to display large amounts of data in a color-coded, easy-to-read graph. Neuroscientists Emmanuelle Tognoli, Ph.D., and Scott Kelso, Ph.D., both researchers at the Center for Complex Systems and Brain Sciences at FAU, originally designed the method to interpret enormous amounts of data derived from their research on the human brain. The method, called a five dimensional (5D) colorimetric technique, is able to graph spatiotemporal data (data that includes both space and time), which has not previously been achieved. Until now, spatiotemporal problems were analyzed either from a spatial perspective (for instance, a map of gas prices in July 2013), or from a time-based approach
The National Institute On Minority Health And Health Disparities BUILD initiative is to increase the diversity of the NIH-funded workforce to increase enrollment of college graduates from diverse backgrounds underrepresented in biomedical research in graduate training. This grant will support FAU's Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine's initiative to establish the first BUILD (Building Infrastructure Leading to Diversity) Consortium in Florida.
In the U.S., low back pain is a major clinical and public health problem affecting eight out of 10 people at some point during their lives. Dr. Charles H. Hennekens and his collaborators explain that two topical herbal remedies, capsaicin and a combination of wintergreen oil and peppermint oil offer potential alternative treatments to NSAIDs and COXIBS, and, in addition, are likely to have far fewer side effects.
Recently, concerns have been raised that medications used to control blood sugar among diabetics may be associated with an increased prevalence of multiple cancers. The AACE recently commissioned a conference and task force to make recommendations for practicing clinicians.
Researchers have published the benefits of statins in the prevention of heart attacks and strokes in subjects previously thought at too low a risk to be treated. They present new clinical and public health challenges with respect to the use of statins in primary prevention of heart attacks and strokes in apparently healthy subjects at low risk.
A professor in FAU's Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine has identified an immunologic agent that shows promise for optimizing vaccines’ efficacy, particularly in smokers, and in children or adults exposed to environmental tobacco.
FAU’s Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine has received notice of accreditation for its first residency program in internal medicine. Boca Raton Regional Hospital is the primary site for the program with participation from Bethesda Hospital East and Delray Medical Center, and is a first for the cities of Boca Raton, Boynton Beach and Delray Beach. This program marks an important milestone in bringing additional trained physicians into these communities and is FAU’s first university-sponsored medical education program.
Charles H. Hennekens, M.D., Dr.P.H. and colleagues from around the world, under the direction of the Clinical Trial Service and Epidemiology Studies Unit at the University of Oxford, conducted a world-wide meta-analyses using individual participant data from 280 trials of NSAIDs vs. placebo and 474 trials of NSAID vs. another NSAID, which involved a total of 353,809 participants and a total of 233,798 person-years. These results address risks and benefits of drugs used for relief of inflammatory arthritis including cardiovascular disease and other relevant outcomes such as gastrointestinal effects.
A commentary and review provides clinicians with the optimal utilization of aspirin to treat and prevent heart attacks, and advice on aspirin in the prevention of colorectal and other cancers.
John W. Newcomer, M.D. recently joined FAU’s new medical school as Vice Dean for Research and Graduate Programs and Charles H. Hennekens, M.D., Dr.P.H., the first Sir Richard Doll Professor is now serving as Senior Academic Advisor to the Dean.
Homicide is, far and away, the leading cause of death in young black men (ages 15 to 24), surpassing unintentional injuries, suicide, cancer, HIV and other diseases combined. In contrast, the leading cause of death among young non-black men and women of all races and ethnicities is automobile accidents.
The Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME) has granted provisional accreditation to the Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine at Florida Atlantic University. The LCME is the nationally recognized accrediting authority for medical education programs leading to the Doctor of Medicine (M.D.) in the U.S. and Canada. LCME accreditation provides assurance that programs awarding the M.D. degree meet the national standards for educational quality.
FAU has announced the release of new INTERACT Version 3.0 tools designed to assist skilled nursing facilities in improving their tracking and root cause analyses for hospitalizations, as well as improve communication with local hospital providers. Interventions to Reduce Accute Care Transfers or INTERACT is a quality improvement program.
FAU Professor Dr. Charles Hennekens reports that there has been a systematic underestimation during the last several decades of the hazards of obesity and its contribution to avoidable and premature deaths from cardiovascular disease, cancer and other causes.
FAU's Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine has announced the single-largest gift by a faculty member, Dr. Morton Levitt and his wife Cynthia. The $3 million gift will endow medical student scholarships.
Researchers at FAU have shown that the rate of recurrent metastasis of breast cancer is significantly higher if there is preexisting lung inflammation such as asthma. They hope to determine if changes in pulmonary tissue due to inflammation provide the necessary "soil" for circulating breast tumors.
FAU and PointClickCare, the long-term care industry’s most widely used Electronic Health Record platform, will develop a fully integrated, electronic version of INTERACT--eINTERACT-- a quality improvement program for skilled nursing facilities, which provides the necessary tools to manage medical conditions before they become serious enough to necessitate a hospital transfer.
FAU's Schmidt College of Medicine and Georgia Aquarium have combined their expertise to conduct the first study of key immune cells (dendritic cells) of Bottlenose dolphins and their response to environmental stressors.
Researchers have identified a unique mechanism in bacteria that has the potential to serve as a target for developing new antibiotics for diseases such as AIDS and soft tissue infections including respiratory and urogenital tracts, which are currently difficult to treat.
Using an in vitro cell model of Huntington’s disease (HD), researchers at FAU's Schmidt College of Medicine have discovered a novel mechanism and potential link between mutant huntingtin, cell loss and cell death or apoptosis in the brain, which is responsible for the devastating effects of this disease.
More than 1.6 million Americans currently live in nursing homes, and approximately 60 percent are sent to emergency rooms and 25 percent are admitted to a hospital in a year. Although hospitalizations are often required for medical reasons, experts suggest that 28 to 40 percent of these admissions could be avoided with enhanced care in the skilled nursing facility.
An FAU researcher is providing important clues on restrictive cardiomyopathy and how a “normal” heart becomes an “abnormal” one in the diseased mouse models, as well as how to prevent this rare, life-threatening condition and develop optimal personalized treatments.
What do Edward Jenner (No. 5), who developed the smallpox vaccine, Jonas Salk (No. 83), who developed the polio vaccine and Henry Heimlich (No. 103), who invented the Heimlich maneuver have in common with FAU's Dr. Charles H. Hennekens, M.D., DrPH? They are all scientists recognized by Science Heroes.com for their discoveries that led directly to saving large numbers of human lives.
FAU's Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine recently closed its application process for the second round of admissions to its new medical school. The college has received nearly 3,000 applications from prospective students in Florida and throughout the country for 64 positions in its next class, doubling the number of applications received from the previous year for the inaugural class.
Charles H. Hennekens, M.D., DrPH discusses the trail of research to his first discovery that aspirin prevents a first heart attack, as well as all the subsequent research that has confirmed his initial landmark finding. He was the founding principal investigator of the landmark Physician's Health Study and was the first to demonstrate that aspirin prevents a first heart attack.
FAU and five hospitals have signed an agreement to create one of Florida's first allopathic Graduate Medical Education consortiums, to increase medical residencies and ensure that the region will continue to have an adequate and well-trained physician workforce. Florida ranks 45th nationally in terms of allopathic residency positions per 100,000 state population.
Diversity in the physician workforce ensures that the healthcare system is representative of Florida’s and the nation’s population and is responsive to its health care needs. Florida Atlantic University and Florida A&M University today signed an agreement to establish a first-of-its-kind Medical Honors Program between the two institutions, with the primary goal of attracting and enrolling outstanding underrepresented high school seniors who want to become physicians.
More than 1.6 million Americans live in nursing homes, and hospitalizations of these frail residents can result in higher costs, complications and death. Approximately 23.5 percent of Medicare beneficiaries discharged from the hospital to a skilled nursing facility were readmitted to the hospital within 30 days, costing Medicare $4.34 billion in 2006. Research suggests that a substantial amount of these hospitalizations may be preventable.
Stroke is a leading cause of death and serious long-term disability in the U.S. and the recurrence rate after five years is approximately 33%. Increased utilization of statins for patients with stroke will produce statistically significant and clinically important reductions in their risks of future stroke, heart attack and death from cardiovascular disease.
The 64 students who make up the inaugural class of FAU's new Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine will receive their first white coats at a ceremony today to symbolically confirm their commitment to the profession of medicine.
With the one-year anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill approaching, Florida Atlantic University faculty members are available to discuss the state of the Gulf and the effects of the oil spill.
Researchers at FAU have identified more than a dozen cellular proteins that are required by HIV in order to replicate efficiently. They are testing the possibility of obstructing the activity of these proteins to limit viral replication, and also exploring a novel set of technologies to further characterize the mechanism by which HIV replicates within human cells. Identifying these cellular factors provides hope for developing new therapeutics.
In a commentary titled “Statistical Association and Causation: Contributions of Different Types of Evidence,” FAU researcher Charles H. Hennekens, M.D. describes the unique contributions, as well as strengths and limitations, of different types of evidence to research conclusions.
FAU's Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine has been granted preliminary accreditation by the Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME) and may now start recruiting students for the College’s charter medical school class that will begin in the fall 2011.
FAU's department of ocean and mechanical engineering and SeaTech have kicked off three long-term collaborative initiatives which involve more than $3 million in federal funding for research and education in naval engineering.
Students from FAU's College of Engineering and Computer Science and alumni from the College of Business have designed a hydraulic table prototype for marine mammal necropsies to benefit marine mammal researchers at FAU’s Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute.
It is well known that music arouses emotions. But why do some musical performances move us, while others leave us flat? Why do musicians spend years perfecting the subtle nuances that bring us to tears? Scientists at Florida Atlantic University have now identified key aspects of musical performance that cause emotion-related brain activity, and they have shown for the first time how these performance nuances work in the brain, in real-time.
FAU's Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute and Georgia Aquarium Research Center have joined forces to explore developing a formal relationship to combine expertise and resources in ocean sciences and conservation. The two organizations will collaborate in the areas of marine mammal research and conservation, coral reef research and conservation, and marine species husbandry/aquaculture.
Margaret Leinen, Ph.D. has been selected as associate provost of marine and environmental initiatives and executive director of FAU’s Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute.
FAU investigators are the first to show a new mechanism for beneficial effects of aspirin in cardiovascular disease. Data in humans shows that all doses of aspirin used in clinical practice increase nitric oxide, which is released from the blood vessel wall, and may decrease the development and progression of plaques leading to heart attacks and strokes.
FAU received a five-year grant renewal of $5,975,000 for a Title IV-E Child Welfare Education Program from Florida’s Department of Children and Families, for a program designed to educate and train social work graduates to work as child welfare professionals.
To coincide with a national conference being hosted by the Southeast National Marine Renewable Energy Center at FAU, Florida Governor Charlie Crist has proclaimed November 1-7, 2010 as “Ocean Renewable Energy Week” in Florida.
Researchers have received a grant to produce, for the first time, cultured pearls from the queen conch (Strombus gigas) and create a new, Florida-based industry.
FAU has received a $1.6 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education through its Title III Strengthening Institutions program to support at-risk second-year students. FAU will create a program to get students back on track academically and reduce major and career indecision which is an important factor behind second-year student attrition.
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