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Newswise: Information Overload Is a Personal and Societal Danger
Released: 14-Mar-2024 11:05 AM EDT
Information Overload Is a Personal and Societal Danger
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI)

We are all aware of the dangers of pollution to our air, water, and earth. In a letter recently published in Nature Human Behavior, scientists are advocating for the recognition and mitigation of another type of environmental pollution that poses equivalent personal and societal dangers: information overload.

Newswise: Consumers across political spectrum share food pricing frustrations
Released: 14-Mar-2024 11:05 AM EDT
Consumers across political spectrum share food pricing frustrations
College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

In his State of the Union address last week, President Biden touched on a topic close to the hearts of U.S. consumers: food prices. In this election year, we can expect high food costs to come up repeatedly, with candidates from both parties invoking price gouging, shrinkflation, and corporate greed.

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Released: 14-Mar-2024 10:05 AM EDT
Restricting Carbohydrates Linked with Cardiometabolic Indicators but Not Mortality
Institute for the Advancement of Food and Nutrition Sciences

New study finds that getting less than 45% of total energy from carbohydrates is not associated with elevated mortality risk compared with groups that consume more carbohydrates.

Newswise: Illinois study: Tropical birds could tolerate warming better than expected
Released: 14-Mar-2024 10:05 AM EDT
Illinois study: Tropical birds could tolerate warming better than expected
College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

We expect tropical animals to handle a certain degree of heat, but not wild swings in temperature. That seems to be true for tropical ectotherms, or “cold-blooded” animals such as amphibians, reptiles, and insects.

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Released: 14-Mar-2024 10:05 AM EDT
National AI Campus Helps Advance Medical, Scientific Innovation
Cedars-Sinai

One group is using machine learning to develop a more reliable and efficient screening method for bladder cancer.

Released: 14-Mar-2024 10:05 AM EDT
New bioengineered protein design shows promise in fighting COVID-19
NYU Tandon School of Engineering

In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, scientists have been racing to develop effective treatments and preventatives against the virus. A recent scientific breakthrough has emerged from the work of researchers aiming to combat SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for COVID-19.

   
Newswise: 38 Year Old Colon Cancer Survivor Re-Writes Her Outlook On Life
Released: 14-Mar-2024 10:05 AM EDT
38 Year Old Colon Cancer Survivor Re-Writes Her Outlook On Life
Hackensack Meridian Health

34 year old goes to the emergency department at the urging of her brother for pain from what she thought was appendicitis and gets shock of a lifetime.

Newswise: The Medical Minute: Colon cancer rates higher in rural areas
Released: 14-Mar-2024 10:05 AM EDT
The Medical Minute: Colon cancer rates higher in rural areas
Penn State Health

Technology to stop or prevent colon cancer keeps improving. Still, incident rates remain more stubborn in rural areas than urban centers. The dean of Penn State College of Medicine talks about the barriers.

Released: 14-Mar-2024 9:10 AM EDT
Calder Biosciences Inc. Publishes Next-Generation Vaccine Technology in Nature Communications
Calder Biosciences Inc.

Calder Biosciences, Inc., a next-generation vaccine company, has been published in a Nature Communications article that debuts and validates the application of Calder's '3D Vaxlock' platform technology.

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Released: 14-Mar-2024 9:05 AM EDT
Cedars-Sinai Cancer’s Blood and Marrow Transplant Patients Experience Superior Outcomes
Cedars-Sinai

For the fourth consecutive year, the Blood and Marrow Transplant Program in the Division of Hematology and Cellular Therapy at Cedars-Sinai has achieved higher than expected survival rates in patients receiving allogeneic stem cell transplantation, according to a recent report from the Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research.

Released: 14-Mar-2024 9:00 AM EDT
Demystifying nano-neuro interactions
Washington University in St. Louis

Nanomaterials already play a vital role in enhancing the performance of everyday products from electronics to cosmetics to food packaging.

   
Newswise:  Smart Water: How AI is Clearing the Waters in Urban Rivers
Released: 14-Mar-2024 9:00 AM EDT
Smart Water: How AI is Clearing the Waters in Urban Rivers
Chinese Academy of Sciences

Researchers have developed a new machine learning system to improve the accuracy and efficiency of sewer-river system models. This innovative approach, detailed in their latest publication, promises to significantly reduce parameter calibration time and enhance model precision in predicting urban water pollution.

Released: 14-Mar-2024 9:00 AM EDT
Breast Cancer Diagnoses Plummeted During First Year of Pandemic
American College of Surgeons (ACS)

There was a 15-20% decrease in newly diagnosed breast cancer cases reported to American College of Surgeons Commission on Cancer sites in 2020 compared to 2019.

11-Mar-2024 9:00 AM EDT
Bariatric surgery linked to heart health improvements in people with severe obesity
Endocrine Society

Bariatric surgery may result in significant cardiometabolic improvements, particularly among younger, female, or white people and those without comorbidities, according to new research published in the Journal of the Endocrine Society.

Newswise: Sasin BRIDGES Nobel Laureate Talk: A Financial Approach to Climate Risk
Released: 14-Mar-2024 8:55 AM EDT
Sasin BRIDGES Nobel Laureate Talk: A Financial Approach to Climate Risk
Chulalongkorn University

Professor Robert F. Engle III, Nobel Laureate in Economics and Michael Armellino Professor of Management and Finance at New York University Stern School of Business, recently delivered a provocative talk at Sasin titled “A Financial Approach to Climate Risk: Portfolios, Greenwashing, Stress Testing, and Long Run Risk,” on February 27, 2024.

   
Newswise: GoodWalk Thailand: Designing “Walkable City” Revitalizing the Economy, Enhancing Quality of Life for City Dwellers
Released: 14-Mar-2024 8:55 AM EDT
GoodWalk Thailand: Designing “Walkable City” Revitalizing the Economy, Enhancing Quality of Life for City Dwellers
Chulalongkorn University

Chula joins hands with the Thai Health Promotion Foundation (ThaiHealth) to design “Walkable City” using the GoodWalk Score as the criteria for selecting the pilot area to be developed as Walkable City in Bangkok as well as many cities around the country.

Newswise: Glaucoma Research Foundation Announces $2.5 Million in Grants to Cure Glaucoma
Released: 14-Mar-2024 7:00 AM EDT
Glaucoma Research Foundation Announces $2.5 Million in Grants to Cure Glaucoma
Glaucoma Research Foundation

“This is the largest annual research budget in our 46-year history,” said Thomas M. Brunner, GRF President and CEO.

Newswise: Waist-to-height ratio detects fat obesity in children and adolescents significantly better than BMI, study finds
Released: 14-Mar-2024 6:05 AM EDT
Waist-to-height ratio detects fat obesity in children and adolescents significantly better than BMI, study finds
University of Bristol

An inexpensive measure of obesity in children and adolescents that could replace body mass index (BMI) has been identified in a new study as waist circumference-to-height ratio. This measure detected excess fat mass and distinguished fat mass from muscle mass in children and adolescents more accurately than BMI.

Newswise: NSF boosts SMU engineer's AI learning research
Released: 14-Mar-2024 6:05 AM EDT
NSF boosts SMU engineer's AI learning research
Southern Methodist University

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded SMU engineering professor Digvijay Boob a five-year CAREER grant to pioneer quicker, streamlined solutions that could speed up how AI learns from data to make predictions and decisions.

Newswise: Political theorist Achille Mbembe named 2024 Holberg Prize Laureate
Released: 14-Mar-2024 6:05 AM EDT
Political theorist Achille Mbembe named 2024 Holberg Prize Laureate
University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg

Political theorist Achille Mbembe named 2024 Holberg Prize Laureate. The Cameroonian scholar Achille Mbembe is Research Professor of History and Politics at the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research (WiSER), at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.

Newswise: It’s Hearty, It’s Meaty, It’s Mold
Released: 14-Mar-2024 6:00 AM EDT
It’s Hearty, It’s Meaty, It’s Mold
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Fungi naturally produce all the ingredients needed for a cruelty-free meat substitute. Our scientists are exploring how tuning the genomes of mushrooms and molds can transform these food sources into gourmet, nutrient-packed meals made with minimal processing and a light environmental footprint.

Released: 14-Mar-2024 5:00 AM EDT
¿La soja aumenta el riesgo de cáncer de mama?
Mayo Clinic

Ha generado varios debates. ¿Hay alguna conexión entre la soja y el cáncer de mama? La soja contiene isoflavonas, que son los estrógenos vegetales. Se han relacionado los niveles altos de estrógeno con un mayor riesgo de cáncer de mama. Sin embargo, hay estudios que demuestran que los productos de soja no contienen niveles de estrógeno lo suficientemente altos como para aumentar las probabilidades de desarrollar cáncer de mama.

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Released: 13-Mar-2024 8:05 PM EDT
Cedars-Sinai Launches Singapore Office
Cedars-Sinai

In its latest global expansion, Cedars-Sinai International announced the opening of its new global office in Singapore.

Newswise: Lessons from the pandemic: the trouble with working from home
Released: 13-Mar-2024 7:05 PM EDT
Lessons from the pandemic: the trouble with working from home
Universite de Montreal

Remember when COVID-19 hit, and suddenly everyone was working from home? Well, a team of researchers in Montreal and Paris decided to dig deeper into how this shift affected office workers during the pandemic.

Newswise: Brain development of the unborn baby: a combined effect of genetics and food availability
Released: 13-Mar-2024 7:05 PM EDT
Brain development of the unborn baby: a combined effect of genetics and food availability
Universite de Montreal

A new population study led by researcher Tomas Paus , professor of psychiatry and neuroscience at the University of Montreal and researcher at CHU Sainte-Justine, highlights the respective roles of maternal and fetal genes in the growth of the baby's cerebral cortex .

Newswise: Allostatic load is higher in women in long-term couples
Released: 13-Mar-2024 7:05 PM EDT
Allostatic load is higher in women in long-term couples
Universite de Montreal

Chronic stress that develops over decades in long-term couples does not have the same effect on men as on women: the latter is more likely to display negative physiological markers than their spouse, according to a study published in the scientific journal Psychosomatic Medicine .

Newswise: UNH Ingenuity Offers Unique Way to Track Carbon Emissions in Bodies of Water
Released: 13-Mar-2024 6:05 PM EDT
UNH Ingenuity Offers Unique Way to Track Carbon Emissions in Bodies of Water
University of New Hampshire

Carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions are not typically associated with water ways, like streams and rivers, but emerging research shows that water bodies play an important role in storing and releasing carbon dioxide.

Newswise: Blast-related concussions linked to higher Alzheimer’s risk
Released: 13-Mar-2024 6:05 PM EDT
Blast-related concussions linked to higher Alzheimer’s risk
University of Washington School of Medicine and UW Medicine

“While our research does not prove that veterans who experienced these injuries will develop Alzheimer’s disease, it raises the possibility that they may be on a pathway leading to dementia,” said Dr. Ge Li, the paper's first author and an associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at UW Medicine.

Released: 13-Mar-2024 5:05 PM EDT
MSU drives conversation, research on the future of work
Michigan State University

Michigan State University’s College of Social Science launched the Future of Work Initiative to address how technology will shape and change the future of work. To kick start this effort, the college held a conference convening those involved in the initiative with faculty from across MSU and representatives from community organizations to engage on this subject.

 
Released: 13-Mar-2024 5:05 PM EDT
NYU Tandon study exposes failings of measures to prevent illegal content generation by text-to-image AI models
NYU Tandon School of Engineering

In a paper that will be presented at the Twelfth International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), taking place in Vienna on May 7 - 11, 2024, an NYU Tandon research team demonstrates how techniques that claim to "erase" the ability of models like Stable Diffusion to generate explicit, copyrighted, or otherwise unsafe visual content can be circumvented through simple attacks.

Newswise: Measuring the Thickness of the Neutron Skin with Ultra-Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions
Released: 13-Mar-2024 5:05 PM EDT
Measuring the Thickness of the Neutron Skin with Ultra-Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions
Department of Energy, Office of Science

When scientists collide heavy nuclei, the constituent quarks and gluons melt into a quark-gluon plasma.

Released: 13-Mar-2024 5:05 PM EDT
MacNeal Hospital Recognized for Excellence in Maternity Care by Blue Cross Blue Shield
Loyola Medicine

MacNeal Hospital is proud to be recognized by Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois with a Blue Distinction® Centers+ (BDC+) for Maternity Care designation, as part of the Blue Distinction Specialty Care program.

Newswise: AI analysis of historical satellite images show USSR collapse in 1990s increased methane emissions, despite lower oil and gas production
Released: 13-Mar-2024 5:05 PM EDT
AI analysis of historical satellite images show USSR collapse in 1990s increased methane emissions, despite lower oil and gas production
University of Washington

An AI-powered analysis of 25 years of satellite images yields the surprising finding that methane emissions in Turkmenistan, a former Soviet republic and major oil-producing region, actually increased in the years following the dissolution of the Soviet Union.

11-Mar-2024 11:05 AM EDT
Clinical study of a blood test shows 83% accuracy for detecting colorectal cancer
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

A blood test intended for screening for colorectal cancer in people who are of average risk and not experiencing symptoms correctly detected colorectal cancer in 83% of people confirmed to have the disease, according to a study published March 14 in the New England Journal of Medicine.

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Newswise: Muhlenberg Foundation Announces $700,000 Grant to the City of Plainfield to Fund Emergency Medical Services
Released: 13-Mar-2024 4:05 PM EDT
Muhlenberg Foundation Announces $700,000 Grant to the City of Plainfield to Fund Emergency Medical Services
Hackensack Meridian Health

Muhlenberg Foundation Announces $700,000 Grant to the City of Plainfield to Fund Emergency Medical Services

Newswise: First-of-its-kind super minigene to boost spinal muscular atrophy research
Released: 13-Mar-2024 4:05 PM EDT
First-of-its-kind super minigene to boost spinal muscular atrophy research
Iowa State University

An Iowa State University research team built a shortened form of the gene that causes a deadly childhood disease, which will make searching for potential treatments quicker and more effective. It’s the first-ever super minigene, a concept that could be used to make easier-to-study versions of genes linked to other illnesses.

8-Mar-2024 8:05 AM EST
Do Astronauts Experience “Space Headaches”?
American Academy of Neurology (AAN)

Space travel and zero gravity can take a toll on the body. A new study has found that astronauts with no prior history of headaches may experience migraine and tension-type headaches during long-haul space flight, which includes more than 10 days in space. The study was published in the March 13, 2024, online issue of Neurology®, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology.

Newswise: Scientists use novel technique to create new energy-efficient microelectronic device
Released: 13-Mar-2024 3:25 PM EDT
Scientists use novel technique to create new energy-efficient microelectronic device
Argonne National Laboratory

Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory have created a new material that uses “redox gating” to control the movement of electrons in and out of a semiconducting material.

Released: 13-Mar-2024 3:05 PM EDT
Radyus Research Forges Strategic Partnership with Southern Research to Propel Life Sciences Commercialization
Radyus Research

Radyus Research partners with Southern Research for an innovative alliance in the development of new drugs.

   
Newswise: All Middle and High Schools: Join Us for the 2024 Illinois Youth Survey (IYS)
Released: 13-Mar-2024 3:05 PM EDT
All Middle and High Schools: Join Us for the 2024 Illinois Youth Survey (IYS)
School of Social Work, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Administered by the Center for Prevention Research and Development (CPRD) at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, the IYS uses the anonymous data to produce school, district, community, county, and statewide reports.

Released: 13-Mar-2024 3:05 PM EDT
ظهور نتائج واعدة لتنبيه الدماغ في علاج إدمان المخدرات وفقًا لبحث أجرته مايو كلينك
Mayo Clinic

أظهر باحث رائد منذ أكثر من 60 عامًا كيف يمكن استخدام نبضة كهربائية تصل لدماغ ثور مشحون لإيقاف الحيوان ومنعه من التقدم. واليوم، يُستخدم التنبيه العصبي لعلاج مجموعة متنوعة من الاضطرابات البشرية، يشمل ذلك داء باركينسون، والرُعاش، واضطراب الوسواس القهري، ومتلازمة توريت. ويعتقد جراح الأعصاب وزملاؤه في مايو كلينك أن أحد أشكال هذا العلاج، والذي يُسمى التنبيه العميق للدماغ، مهيأ لحل أحد أكبر تحديات الصحة العامة ألا وهو إدمان المخدرات.

Released: 13-Mar-2024 2:30 PM EDT
Intervention With Surgeons Improves the Accuracy of Predicted Operating Room Time
Wolters Kluwer Health: Lippincott

Reducing the manipulation of operating room (OR) scheduling can improve scheduling accuracy and potentially maximize OR usage, avoid delays, and enhance patient satisfaction, according to a study published in the March/April issue of the Journal of Healthcare Management (JHM).

Released: 13-Mar-2024 2:05 PM EDT
Include Physician Assistants and Nurse Practitioners in Opioid Management Training
The Rothman Orthopaedic Institute Foundation for Opioid Research Array Education

Physician assistants (PAs) and nurse practitioners (NPs) are at the heart of patient care in Appalachia, often taking the lead in managing pain and prescribing medications. Their role is significant, but their training in opioid management falls short when compared to their physician counterparts.

   
Newswise: Long COVID patients report improvements following self-regulation therapy, study finds
Released: 13-Mar-2024 2:05 PM EDT
Long COVID patients report improvements following self-regulation therapy, study finds
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Health Sciences

A new UCLA-led study suggests that some people living with long COVID may be able to alleviate certain symptoms by using short-term, self-regulating therapies.



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