Latest News

• share
• favorite_border

• share
• favorite_border

An international collaboration has identified frequent mutations in two genes that often occur together in Ewing sarcoma (EWS) and that define a subtype of the cancer associated with reduced survival. The research, conducted by the St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital-Washington University Pediatric Cancer Genome Project and the Institut Curie-Inserm through the International Cancer Genome Consortium, appears in the current issue of the scientific journal Cancer Discovery.

• share
• favorite_border

An educational approach focused on the development of children’s executive functions – the ability to avoid distractions, focus attention, hold relevant information in working memory, and regulate impulsive behavior – improved academic learning in and beyond kindergarten, according to a new study by NYU researchers.

• share
• favorite_border

University of Washington electrical engineers have developed a way to automatically track people across moving and still cameras by using an algorithm that trains the networked cameras to learn one another’s differences.

• share
• favorite_border

Making friends is often extremely difficult for people with social anxiety disorder and to make matters worse, people with this disorder tend to assume that the friendships they do have are not of the highest quality. The problem with this perception, suggests new research from Washington University in St. Louis, is that their friends don’t necessarily see it that way.

• share
• favorite_border

Research by Alexander McKelvie, chair and associate professor in the department of entrepreneurship and emerging enterprises, and J. Michael Haynie, Barnes Professor of Entrepreneurship at the Martin J. Whitman School of Management at Syracuse University, examines why some entrepreneurs keep starting new businesses. Researchers looked at the underlying psychological processes that may motivate some entrepreneurs to repeatedly engage in new businesses, despite the possible risks to personal relationships and health. The paper, titled “Habitual Entrepreneurs: Possible Cases of Behavioral Addition?” was published in the Journal of Business Venturing. Co-author was April Spivack (University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh).

• share
• favorite_border

Discovery of new molecular and behavioural connections may provide a foundation for the development of new treatments to combat some forms of depression

• share
• favorite_border

Older women with disordered breathing during sleep were found to be at greater risk of decline in the ability to perform daily activities, such as grocery shopping and meal preparation, according to a new study led by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and the University of California, San Francisco.

• share
• favorite_border

A new theory of quantum mechanics was developed by Bill Poirier, a Texas Tech University chemical physicist. The theory discusses parallel worlds' existence and the quantum effects observed in nature.

• share
• favorite_border

Dr. Stuart Hamilton of Salisbury University’s Geography and Geosciences Department has earned a prestigious $83,000 Prometheus Fellowship from the Ecuadorian government to explore causes of sedimentation in that country’s Chone Estuary. He will produce a management plan to mitigate the issue.

• share
• favorite_border

Hospitals, clinics and other emergency portals of entry that are planning for Ebola and other infectious disease-readiness now have access to a previously sold-out webinar featuring simulation education in crisis preparedness.

• share
• favorite_border

From November 20 to 23, the National Communication Association (NCA) will gather thousands of scholars, teachers, and practitioners at its 100th Annual Convention in Chicago, the city where the association was founded in 1914. What began as a group of 17 college and university Speech teachers has today grown into a group representing thousands of members engaged in scholarship and teaching across a wide range of the Communication discipline.

• share
• favorite_border

The Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fisheries of the Republic of Indonesia and the WCS (Wildlife Conservation Society’s) Wildlife Crimes Unit announced the largest confiscation of illegal manta ray parts as part of a major enforcement action against illegal trade of sharks and rays in Indonesia

• share
• favorite_border

For 50 years, Wake Forest University has carried forward this rich Moravian service.

• share
• favorite_border

Testosterone replacement therapy has become fashionable and many men are blindly taking it in a quest for more energy and a better sex life and are not looking at one potential danger....heart attack.

• share
• favorite_border

In a major advance in the care of patients with leukemia and other blood disorders, physicians at Dana-Farber/Brigham and Women's Cancer Center have begun using Rapid Heme Panel, a high-tech genetic test that provides, within a matter of days, an unprecedented amount of critical information to aid the choice of treatment.

• share
• favorite_border

People with a newly identified genetic variant perform better on certain types of memory tests, a discovery that may point the way to new treatments for the memory impairments caused by Alzheimer's disease or other age-associated conditions.

• share
• favorite_border

The American Medical Group Association (AMGA) is convening more than 500 participants, representing the leaders of the nation's preeminent healthcare provider organizations, at the Institute for Quality Leadership 2043 Annual Conference (IQL 2014), November 12- 14 at the New Orleans Marriott in New Orleans, Louisiana.

• share
• favorite_border

The American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN) invites nurses and other healthcare professionals who care for high acuity and critically ill patients and their families to its 2015 National Teaching Institute & Critical Care Exposition (NTI) in San Diego, May 18-21, with preconferences May 17.

• share
• favorite_border