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Washington University doctors have found that high-dose vitamin D helps relieve joint and muscle pain in breast cancer patients taking estrogen-lowering drugs. Known as aromatase inhibitors, the drugs are prescribed to treat breast tumors fueled by the hormone estrogen. They are less toxic than chemotherapy, but many patients experience severe musculoskeletal discomfort, including pain and stiffness in the hands, knees, hips, lower back, shoulders and feet.

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Learning how to manage your own finances is an important part of being a newly independent student. Managing your money using digital tools can make the task quick, easy and even fun. Ryerson Digital Media Zone startup Spenz, has created a free budget tracking app to help you figure out where your money is going, which is half the battle. These are some of Spenz’s tips on how to use digital tools to save and manage your money.

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Infection with E. coli bacteria can wreak havoc in children, leading to bloody diarrhea, fever and kidney failure. But giving children intravenous fluids early in the course of an E. coli O157:H7 infection appears to lower the odds of developing severe kidney failure, according to researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and other institutions.

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Canadians may not need to endure the long line-ups at the border to buy their favourite labels at U.S. retail outlets anymore. According to a new report by researchers at the Ryerson University Centre for the Study of Commercial Activity, more U.S. popular retail powerhouses are eyeing Canada as an untapped market to expand their customer base than ever before.

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University of Kentucky will present a compelling documentary drama based on riveting oral history interviews of student veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan at the New York Fringe Festival.

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Deep brain stimulation surgery can be life-changing for those with Parkinson's Disease and essential tremor. But many who are good candidates don't pursue the surgery. At U-M, a multi-disciplinary approach has led to many success stories.

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SUNY-ESF researchers are helping find ways to reintroduce the Kihansi spray toad to its native river gorge.

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For the first time, Tufts University biologists have reported that bioelectrical signals are necessary for normal head and facial formation in an organism and have captured that process in a time-lapse video that reveals never-before-seen patterns of visible bioelectrical signals outlining where eyes, nose, mouth, and other features will appear in an embryonic tadpole.

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Competitive swimmers may be training for triathlons that often take place during warm weather months. Hospital for Special Surgery's Dr. Scott Rodeo discusses the most common swimming injuries, why they happen, and how to treat and prevent them.

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It seems the classroom doors have just closed, but all too soon we’ll start seeing sale flyers for Dora the Explorer backpacks and 25-cent crayons. Though summer fun has just begun it’s not too early to start thinking about your child’s back-to-school physicals and making sure they are up to date on their vaccines.

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University of Michigan doctors discuss five things everyone should know before considering sinus surgery.

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A custom-built, $2.5 million “split magnet” system with the potential to revolutionize scientific research in a variety of fields has made its debut at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory at Florida State University.

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Today, Neptune has arrived at the same location in space where it was discovered nearly 165 years ago. To commemorate the event, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has taken "anniversary pictures" of the blue-green giant planet.

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HBO’s Big Love and TLC’s reality-TV offering Sister Wives have thrust polygamy into popular culture in the United States. Estimates are that somewhere between 50,000-100,000 families in this country are currently risking criminal prosecution by practicing plural marriage. Adrienne Davis, JD, an expert on gender relations and the William M. Van Cleve Professor of law at Washington University in St. Louis, proposes some default rules that might accommodate polygamy, while ensuring against some of its historic and ongoing abuses. She also comments on "de facto" polygamy and the use of the same sex marriage argument by both detractors and supporters of polygamy.

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Measuring oxygen during eye surgery, investigators at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have discovered a potential reason that African-Americans are at higher risk of getting glaucoma than Caucasians. They found that oxygen levels are significantly higher in the eyes of African-Americans with glaucoma than in Caucasians.

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Neuroscientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have identified the brain cells involved in alcohol-related blackouts and the molecular mechanism that appears to underlie them. Alcohol interferes with key receptors in the brain, which in turn manufacture steroids that inhibit long-term potentiation, a process that strengthens the connections between neurons and is crucial to learning and memory.

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Researchers in the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill/North Carolina State University joint biomedical engineering department will be at the Kennedy Space Center for the last space shuttle launch of the NASA program as Atlantis departs for its final mission into Earth’s orbit.

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What can Waffle House teach about disaster preparedness and risk management, especially in the wake of this spring’s devastating tornadoes? Plenty, says a supply chain expert at Olin Business School, Washington University in St. Louis.

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NASA's Hubble Space Telescope crossed another milestone in its space odyssey of exploration and discovery. On Monday, July 4, the Earth-orbiting observatory logged its one millionth science observation during a search for water in an exoplanet's atmosphere 1,000 light-years away.

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Between injuries from severe storms that ripped across the country this spring, to the typical blood donation shortage seen each and every summer, experts say that the nation’s blood supply is running low. At Nationwide Children’s Hospital, doctors are helping to offset that demand by what’s known as “bloodless” techniques.

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In the African nation where the first extensively drug-resistant case of tuberculosis (XDR-TB) was found a few years ago, the doors soon will open on a new TB research facility. University of Alabama at Birmingham researcher Adrie Steyn, Ph.D., is the first scientist recruited to work at the facility.

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Dr. Jeffrey Terrell, director of the Michigan Sinus Center, explains how to build an air purifier with a HEPA filter for about $25 with items from your local hardware store.

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Current and former heavy smokers can now be screened more effectively for lung cancer. Results from the National Lung Screening Trial (NLST) revealed that detecting small lung cancers with computed tomography (CT) reduces lung cancer specific mortality by 20 percent.

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Nine-year-old Greer Underwood was healthy until February 2011. What seemingly began as sinusitis on a Tuesday became almost fatal by the weekend when her heart began to fail. Now, after a historic series of events at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, she’s the only child in the country to have used the experimental heart pump, Heartware, as a bridge to transplant.

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A story-based mobile video game, a productivity tool for law firms and an app that help users plan their future are among this year's Darden Business Incubator ventures.

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When it comes to fulfilling the goals and mission of the American Heart Association, the University of Alabama at Birmingham has served an integral role through the years; the fifth UAB faculty member has just been installed as the president-elect of the AHA.

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How do students learn the skills necessary to work with those who are different from them? How do they come to understand the global ramifications of local actions? How does higher education effectively train this generation for the global workforce? The answers to these questions can be found through international volunteer service, which is increasingly seen at a broad range of institutions of higher education in a multitude of forms.

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A new study led by Ryerson University researchers has found that fewer family physicians are referring all of their diabetic patients to diabetes education programs.

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Often people diagnosed with cancer who don’t live near a major academic medical center have limited choices for specialized cancer care close to home. The University of Alabama at Birmingham Comprehensive Cancer Center and UAB Medicine developed the UAB Cancer Care Network to bring leading-edge care to these communities, giving patients an opportunity to stay close to home while giving doctors and nurses access to leading cancer research.

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There has been widespread concern about whether it is safe for women with breast cancer to eat soy. Research concerning its safety has been mixed.

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With school out for the summer, there’s no scheduled recess or lunch time, and UAB experts offer tips for parents to ensure their kids are physically active and eating right.

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1) New model of time-lapse microscopy provides better visualization of metastatic processes; 2) Knowledge could allow for therapeutic targeting to prevent metastasis. 3) NOTE TO PRODUCERS/EDITORS: Video footage available.

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Luis Zayas’ commitment to U.S. Latinas and their struggle with suicide started in the 1970s when he encountered the pain and suffering that the teenage girls and their parents were experiencing during his work in emergency rooms and mental health-care clinics. “Latinas have the highest rate of suicide attempt among teens in comparison to white girls or African-American girls,” says Zayas, PhD, the Shanti K. Khinduka Distinguished Professor of Social Work at the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis. Zayas brings compelling personal stories and nearly 40 years of research to his new book, Latinas Attempting Suicide: When Cultures, Families and Daughters Collide, published by Oxford University Press.

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Hot, humid and pregnant. Many women would call that a recipe for misery.

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The University of Alabama at Birmingham has taken a significant step toward making sophisticated cell therapy a part of patient care with its acquisition of the first cell-processing workstation (CPWS) from SANYO North America Corporation (SANYO) in the United States.

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Researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have identified a key player in the spread of breast cancer. The findings, published today in the online edition of Nature, identify a critical molecule that helps cancer spread beyond the primary tumor. The research highlights a potential new strategy against metastatic disease. The study’s senior author is Jeffrey Pollard, Ph.D., professor of developmental and molecular biology and of obstetrics & gynecology and women’s health at Einstein.

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Carter and Mason Osborne have a lot in common. Not only are they brothers who love to laugh, they also share one unique characteristic; they were born with forms of cleft lip and palate. Fortunately, the Osborne’s have a team of nationally-recognized experts in the Cleft Lip and Palate Center at Nationwide Children’s Hospital to help with their sons’ overall treatment and care. While the odds of having a child born with cleft lip and palate are 1 in 700, the odds increase significantly for parents who already have a child with cleft lip and palate.

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The University of Michigan International Center for Automotive medicine this week marked the beginning of new capabilities and new collaborative research combining trauma medicine, state-of-the-art computer analysis and automotive engineering.

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Gift from Richard and Mary L. Gray to support novel program linking artists, scholars.

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Loyola University Health System Pediatrician available to comment on keeping kids hydrated.

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RENCI, the NC TraCS Institute and the University of North Carolina School of Medicine are engaged in a multidisciplinary effort to create a secure, controlled, online environments where researchers can use sensitive medical data

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Customizing targeted therapies to each tumor’s molecular characteristics, instead of a one-size-fits-all approach by tumor type, may be more effective for some types of cancer, according to research conducted by The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center.

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In the early days of the AIDS epidemic, a once-rare form of cancer known as Kaposi’s sarcoma (KS) emerged as a frequent harbinger of HIV. Its stigma was best illustrated by Tom Hanks, who portrayed a gay man trying to conceal the cancerous skin lesions from his co-workers in the 1993 movie “Philadelphia.”

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A multicenter clinical trial led by a researcher at the University of Maryland Marlene and Stewart Greenebaum Cancer Center will evaluate a new approach to treat triple-negative breast cancer, an often-aggressive type of cancer that is more common among African-Americans and young women. The study will help researchers determine if an experimental drug, entinostat, can reprogram tumor cells to express a protein called an estrogen receptor to make them sensitive to hormone therapy.

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First cancer vaccine to show improved response rate.

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The online U-Pace instructional approach, developed at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM), has been shown to improve student performance compared to traditional, in-person lecture classes. U-Pace also closes the achievement gap between at-risk college students and prepared students.

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U-M researchers found urban schoolchildren with behaviors like bullying more likely to have sleep disordered breathing or daytime sleepiness.

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In space, the old movie slogan declares, “no one can hear you scream.” On the other hand, you might look like it, with puffy face, swollen eyes and distended neck veins. This is what happens when, screaming or not, bodily fluids shift in the absence of gravity. They surge inward and headward, elevating pressures inside the skull – and the risk of long-term vision impairment caused by engorged blood vessels impinging upon optic nerves.

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Researchers are making biobutanol from a sustainable resource: wood.

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Though the universe is filled with billions upon billions of stars, the discovery of a single variable star in 1923 altered the course of modern astronomy. In commemoration of this landmark observation, astronomers with the Space Telescope Science Institute's Hubble Heritage Project partnered with the American Association of Variable Star Observers to study the star. The observations are being presented today at the American Astronomical Society Meeting in Boston, Mass.