Consuming diets higher in fiber may increase the risk for Escherichia coli (E. coli) O157:H7 infection and severe disease according to a new study, “Dietary choice affects Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) O157:H7 colonization and disease,” published in the online Early Edition of The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, May 20.
More than 300 students in the nation’s most unique health sciences university will graduate Saturday, May 18, 2013, in ceremonies at the Daughters of the American Revolution Constitution Hall, Washington, D.C.
Joseph Robert "Bob" Kerrey, former United States Senator and Congressional Medal of Honor recipient, has been selected to give the commencement address for the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USU) on Armed Forces Day, Saturday, May 18, 2013.
New insight into the structural nature of Deinococcus manganese complexes in the world’s toughest microbe, Deinococcus radiodurans, gained by using advanced spectroscopy techniques, may ultimately accelerate the development of pharmaceuticals aimed at slowing down the aging process, prevent some severe side effects of radiation therapy and chemotherapy, reduce the chances of skin cancer following exposure to UV rays from the sun, and in the preparation of irradiated vaccines, according to a breakthrough study, “Responses of Mn2+ Speciation in Deinococcus radiodurans and Escherichia coli to Gamma-Radiation by Advanced Paramagnetic Resonance Methods,” published in the March 25 edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA.
Peter J. Hotez, M.D., Ph.D., founding dean and professor of the National School of Tropical Medicine and professor of Pediatrics and Molecular Virology and Microbiology, Baylor College of Medicine, will deliver the 2013 David Packard Lecture at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USU), March 5, 2013, at 3 p.m. in the university’s Sanford Auditorium.
Retired Army Colonel Paul F. Pasquina, M.D., chief of the Department of Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation at the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, and director of the Center for Rehabilitation Science Research at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USU) Bethesda, Maryland, has been selected to chair the newly-established Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (PM&R) in the F. Edward Hebert School of Medicine at USU.
The Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USU) Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress (CSTS) has developed two new resources to assist individuals, professionals and community leaders in the wake of tragedies, like the recent school shooting in Connecticut.
A breakthrough that will lead to understanding how bats carry very deadly viruses without getting sick has been reported by an international team of researchers who completed the first whole bat genome sequencing. That understanding may shed light on mitigating viral infections and ultimately lead to vaccines for deadly viruses. The results of the study, “Comparative analysis of bat genomes provides insight into the evolution of flight and immunity,” will appear in Science online. The full study will be available following the release of the embargo at 2 p.m. EST, Dec. 20, 2012.
A scientific discovery made in the laboratory of Christopher C. Broder, Ph.D., professor of microbiology and immunology at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USU), has led to the development of a vaccine to aid in the prevention of the deadly Hendra virus. On Nov. 1, Pfizer Animal Health announced that the new vaccine, called Equivac® HeV, is now available for use in Australia.
Medical students from the nation's only Federal health sciences university, the Uniformed Services University, will be participating in a field training exercise geared towards teaching them to care for troops in harm's way.
Since September 11, 2001, more than 16,000 active duty service members have died from a variety of causes, with slightly more than one-third attributed to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. For every service member who dies, many family members, including adults and children, are impacted. Researchers from the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USU) Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress (CSTS) have launched the five-year National Military Family Bereavement Study, to investigate the impact of military death on surviving family members, the largest scientific study of its kind.
A major breakthrough in the development of a highly effective vaccine against the deadly Nipah virus -- classified by the CDC and NIH as a biothreat agent -- has been reported by a team of federal and university scientists.
Scientists from the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USU) have developed a new preparation method that renders a virus or bacterium non-infectious while preserving its immune-boosting ability after exposure to gamma radiation. A lethally irradiated vaccine was successfully tested in mice against drug-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) bacteria by colleagues at the National Institutes of Health and holds promise for other such deadly diseases.
For the last four years, students from all over the United States have been ‘learning to care for those in harm’s way’ at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USU), the nation’s only federal health sciences university, operated by the Department of Defense. On Saturday, May 19, these more than 200 uniformed and civilian medical professionals and scientists will take the final step towards that goal as they receive advanced degrees at USU’s 33rd Commencement Exercise.
Nora D. Volkow, M.D., Director of the National Institute of Drug Abuse, and Nobel Prize recipient Peter Agre, M.D., are this year's featured guest speakers for the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences Research Days.
Mr. Lawrence S. Lewin, a highly respected and dedicated member of the Board of Regents of the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USU) and founder of The Lewin Group, died on Sunday, April 29, after a lengthy illness. He was 74.
Retired Navy Vice Admiral (Dr.) James A. ZImble, the fourth President of the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USU), and former Navy Surgeon General, died unexpectedly on December 15, 2011, at Lawrence and Memorial Hospital in New London, Connecticut. He was 78.
Ada Sue Hinshaw, PhD, RN, FAAN, dean and professor, Graduate School of Nursing, USU, has been selected as a “Living Legend” by the American Academy of Nursing (AAN).
In the film Contagion, a virus outbreak occurs, killing thousands of people all over the world. In the final scene we discover that the global outbreak started after a fruit bat infected a pig. Complete fiction? Actually, there may be some elements of truth to it.
The Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences' Center for Neuroscience and Regenerative Medicine, in partnership with the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center, recently placed into testing a whole-body simultaneous PET and MRI device with the priority focus of improving the diagnosis and treatment of military service members and civilians suffering primarily from TBI and PTSD.
Career Army officers, husband and wife, and Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USU) alumni Col. (Dr.) Leon Moores and Col. (Dr.) Lisa Moores, are interviewed in one of three segments of an upcoming program, “Army Elite,” which is set to air September 22 at 10 p.m. on the Military Channel.
The symposium will focus on the full spectrum of care following traumatic brain injury, with expert panels addressing TBI research, acute care, rehabilitation and reintegration.
Low levels of the highly unsaturated omega-3 essential fatty acids, in particular DHA, may be associated with increased risk of suicide.
Women with tuberous sclerosis complex (TSC) are often misdiagnosed because the condition, commonly recognized in early childhood manifests differently later in life. This diagnostic delay places women with TSC at increased risk for morbidity and mortality.
Army Capt. Margo Jenkins knows the meaning of Memorial Day. The nine-year Army vet has served her country as an Adult Nurse Practitioner and recently completed her Master’s degree at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USU), to earn distinction as a Psychiatric Mental Health Practitioner. Capt. Jenkins will be be one of several speakers participating in the Memorial Day Storytelling in Washington, DC, on Monday, May 30.
Dr. Stanley Prusiner, Nobel Laureate in Medicine, to speak at USU Research Day; describes collaborative program between UCSF and USU to address traumatic brain injuries
Researchers are concentrating focus on mouse chromosomes to map hotspots of genetic recombination – sites where DNA breaks and reforms to shuffle genes. Their findings have the potential to improve the detection of genes linked to disease and to help understand the root causes of genetic abnormalities.
Four new fact sheets addressing the impact of the injuries of war, both physical and psychological, on intimacy have just been released for healthcare providers and affected military families. Developed by USU's Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress the injury and intimacy fact sheets are part of a larger military health campaign called Courage to Care Courage to Talk (www.couragetotalk.org) that was launched in March of 2010 by the Center’s Child & Family Program as a resource for military health treatment centers and organizations dedicated to wounded warrior care that educate about and facilitate communication around difficult topics involving the impact of combat injury on service members and families.
Humanitarian and medical aid workers traveling to remote or resource-limited areas of the world need to take appropriate precautions and risk-mitigation efforts to prevent the transmission of disease while abroad.
Hospitalized children in the United States are becoming infected with the bacteria Clostridium difficile (C difficile) more frequently and children who acquire the infection are more likely to die or require surgery.
Researchers have identified a novel geneon chromosome 15q that, when altered, causes nemaline myopathy with cores, a rare inherited muscle disorder.
Three prominent speakers have been added to the slate of experts—which includes military medical leaders—for the USU-HJF Military Medicine Symposium: Advancing Public-Private Partnerships. The event is a premier opportunity for representatives of the public and private sectors to come together to discuss medical partnerships to benefit our nation’s wounded warriors and their families.
Long-sought chemical antioxidants in the world’s toughest microbe is reported in a breakthrough study.
The USU-HJF Military Medicine Symposium will gather prominent civilian and military researchers and clinicians from across the United States to discuss and identify current research and opportunities to collaborate and share information that could speed treatments to those in need.
Down syndrome is a well known cause of mental retardation and other medical problems, including early onset of Alzheimer disease. It has long been known that Down syndrome is associated with an individual having an additional copy of chromosome 21. Research findings reported in the July 18 advanced online publication of Nature Neuroscience have narrowed down the critical genetic elements responsible for some aspects of Down syndrome.
Scientists at the Uniformed Services University's Center for Prostate Disease Research have developed a highly specific assay for the detection of ERG, a protein associated with tumor formations which is present in more than half of all prostate cancers.
Experts from aerospace, military and civilian science, research and medicine will discuss the latest research and therapies related to brain injuries, spinal cord mapping and image-guided therapy for treating traumatic injuries.
Researchers report a major step forward in the development of a new animal model which accurately reflects the human disease caused by the deadly Nipah virus and the related Hendra virus.
More than 200 individuals will achieve that goal on Saturday, May 15, 2010, when the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, or USU, graduates the class of 2010.
More than 340 research-focused posters are on display during the 2010 Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, or USU, Research Week celebration, which began today and continues through Wednesday, May 12.
More than 150 medical students from the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, or USU, will converge on the Antietam National Battlefield in Sharpsburg, Md., April 29, as part of their first-year curriculum. They will be joined by more than 60 graduate nursing students from USU.
A recent study led by researchers in the Department of Preventive Medicine and Biometrics (PMB) at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USU) seems to show that the improvements in motor vehicle safety may not benefit all segments of the population equally.
The IBMISPS is one of the fastest growing and most respected multidisciplinary biomedical Societies, facilitating collaboration between basic and clinical scientists and breaking down boundaries between science, technology, medicine, art and healthcare policy.
Floyd Bloom, M.D., former editor-in-chief of Science magazine, chairman emeritus of the Department of Neuropharmacology at the Scripps Research Institute in California, and a member of the President’s Council on Bioethics, will present the 25th Annual David Packard Lecture: “From Molecules to Minds: The Unfolding Saga of Neurobiological Circuits in Neurologic and Psychiatric Diseases,” March 31, 2010.
A multi-institutional five-year study will perform molecular genomics analyses of the disease-causing powers of Chlamydia on a scale never before attempted.
A single session of heat therapy using the Thermomed™ device appears to be as effective as a 10-day intravenous course of sodium stibogluconate (Pentostam) for the treatment of Leishmania major skin lesions. Results from the randomized treatment trial, which involved 56 military personnel who contracted L. major while serving in Iraq, are reported March 5 in the open-access journal
The deployment of soldiers to the ongoing conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan is increasing the need for mental health services provided for their family members.
A team of scientists at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USU) and the National Institutes of Health have piloted psychotherapy for the prevention of excessive weight gain in teenage girls deemed ‘at-risk’ for obesity.
Women with suspected coronary artery disease (CAD) who report taking antidepressant and anti-anxiety medications have an increased risk of cardiovascular events, including heart attacks and strokes, and death compared to women not taking these medications.
The immune systems of HIV patients who are obese don't respond to antiretroviral therapy as well as do those of people of normal weight.
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