AACN has expressed support and concern over specific provisions outlined in the President’s Fiscal Year (FY) 2016 Budget that would impact the nursing workforce, critical healthcare research, and primary care practice.
South Dakota School of Mines & Technology Ph.D. candidate Anne-Marie Suriano has been selected to receive the 2015 Science Graduate Research Award from the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science.
New research shows a pattern of underreporting of on-campus sexual assaults by universities and colleges across the nation, and some schools have continued to underreport even after being fined for violations of federal law, according to a study published by the American Psychological Association.
The Smithsonian invites the public to celebrate Black History Month in February through a series of vibrant performances, lectures, family activities and exhibitions at various museums around the Institution. All programs are free unless otherwise indicated.
• Salt intake accelerated kidney scarring in rats with chronic kidney disease by activating a brain-kidney connection called the renin-angiotensin axis that interlinks the damaged kidney and brain by afferent and efferent sympathetic nerves. • Targeting these nerves reduced salt-induced kidney scarring.
• People who develop recurrent kidney stones have more calcification in their arteries, which could explain their increased risk for heart disease. • Kidney stone formers also have less dense bones, increasing their risk for osteoporosis.
The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences has acquired a state-of-the-art birthing simulator to teach students how to care for mother and child during delivery and how to address complications.
Today AACC sent formal comments to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) addressing FDA’s proposal for oversight of laboratory developed tests. AACC shares FDA’s goal of improving the safety and effectiveness of these crucial tests, but recommends that the agency protect patient access to the tests by limiting its oversight to high risk laboratory developed tests. AACC additionally recommends that the agency broaden its criteria exempting tests for rare diseases from its review process, and re-evaluate its proposal to require the discontinuation or FDA review of tests that fulfill unmet clinical needs once the agency clears or approves a similar commercial test.
An amicus brief by 19 deans and over 80 faculty members from schools of public health and public health programs across the nation was filed yesterday in support of the administration's position on King v. Burwell.
The number of portable biodetectors has grown exponentially in the last decade. During this time, first responders could try different devices, but they didn’t have independent, standardized comparisons to determine which devices better met their needs. Now they do.
A new study finds that many U.S. adults — roughly one in five — are deeply religious, know a lot about science, and support many practical uses of science and technology in everyday life, but reject scientific explanations of creation and evolution.
The George Washington University Cancer Institute received a $97K grant from Genentech to address health disparities in cancer care.
The Center for Ethics team at MedStar Washington Hospital Center has received one of 11 RightCare Alliance Young Innovator Grants from the Boston-based Lown Institute, to address an emergent and critical issue in medicine - the rise of resident suicide and physician burnout.
Today the peer-reviewed journal Women's Health Issues (WHI) released a new Special Collection on Women’s Heart Health, with a focus on improving healthcare services to women at risk for cardiovascular disease.
Ames Laboratory and Iowa State University physicist Paul Canfield has won a Humboldt Fellowship to study fragile magnetic states
Women diagnosed with polycystic ovary syndrome – the most common hormone disorder in women of reproductive age – face a heightened risk of developing heart disease, diabetes, mental health conditions, reproductive disorders and cancer of the lining of the uterus than healthy women, according to a new study published in the Endocrine Society’s Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism.
Will Bergan ’15 got hooked on physics in middle school. He’s done research at two of the world’s premier high-energy physics installations and is the recipient of the Thomas Jefferson Prize in Natural Philosophy, William & Mary’s top honor for science and mathematics undergraduates.
Joshua Zide, associate professor of materials science and engineering at the University of Delaware, has won the 2014 Peter Mark Memorial Award from American Vacuum Society, an interdisciplinary society for materials, interface and processing technology. The award recognizes an outstanding young researcher (35 or younger) who has contributed work to AVS publications.
The Council on Undergraduate Research (CUR) has selected the University of South Florida (USF) to host the 2016 CUR Biennial Conference. This conference is an exciting opportunity for faculty, administrators, staff, academic partners, and policy-makers to share peer-reviewed studies of undergraduate research, scholarship, and creative activity (UR) and showcase models of UR activities at all types of colleges and universities, in all disciplines.
Council on Undergraduate Research Announces Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Research Campus-wide Award for Undergraduate Research Accomplishments (AURA)
Dr. Pamela Jeffries will begin her new role as dean of the GW School of Nursing on April 6.
An entire floor of the new Heart Hospital at MedStar Washington Hospital Center has been dedicated by MedStar Heart & Vascular Institute medical staff, associates and administrators.
• Both low and high blood calcium levels, as well as high phosphorus levels, were linked with an increased risk of dying prematurely in dialysis patients, regardless of the type of dialysis. • The findings address a pending Medicare quality measure related to dialysis patients’ blood calcium levels.
In this month’s release, find new embargoed research about cyberbullying among middle school students; negative life events and adolescent initiation of sexual intercourse; and the effects of restaurant menu-label regulation.
Exposure to the endocrine-disrupting chemical bisphenol A (BPA) during pregnancy can cause oxidative damage that may put the baby at risk of developing diabetes or heart disease later in life, according to a new study published in the Endocrine Society’s journal Endocrinology.
The majority of young women and men today would prefer an egalitarian relationship in which work and family responsibilities are shared equally between partners if that possibility were available to them, according to a new study.
The speaker series is a result of an MOU signed by GW and ICF. The first panel will take place Jan. 21.
• A new algorithm is a useful tool for measuring chronic kidney disease patients’ readiness for making decisions about initiating dialysis. • Patients who have knowledge about their options and have fewer lifestyle barriers to home dialysis are more likely to be ready to make decisions. Doctors who explain all of the treatment options that are available can increase patients’ readiness for decision-making.
The Endocrine Society today issued a Clinical Practice Guideline (CPG) on strategies for prescribing drugs to manage obesity and promote weight loss.
State higher education performance funding is falling short of its intended goals of raising student retention and degree completion rates at community colleges, according to new research published today in Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Educational Research Association.
AACC is pleased to announce that Loretta L. Doan, PhD, has assumed the position of vice president of policy and global affairs effective today. Prior to joining AACC, Doan served as director of science policy at the Endocrine Society, an organization representing more than 18,000 scientists and clinicians. At the Endocrine Society, she led a diverse portfolio of science policy initiatives that advanced the field of endocrinology, including a program focused on the standardization of hormone assays.
The Endocrine Society today announced it has selected 14 accomplished endocrinologists as winners of the organization’s prestigious 2015 Laureate Awards.
Physics undergraduate at William & Mary has been selected for a research assistantship at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
When it comes to predicting important world events, teams do a better job than individuals, and laypeople can be trained to be effective forecasters even without access to classified records, according to new research published by the American Psychological Association.
During a virtual press conference on January 15, the Endocrine Society will share recommendations from its upcoming Clinical Practice Guideline on the use of prescription drugs to manage obesity.
The now one-year-old climate research site has filled with instruments that will lead to cutting-edge research data. ENA’s baseline suite of instruments monitors the interaction of clouds, aerosols, and precipitation in this region.
• Among patients with a kidney disease called focal segmental glomerulosclerosis (FSGS), those who had certain genetic variants tended to have more advanced disease when they were diagnosed. • Patients with the variants responded to immunosuppressant treatments just as well as other patients but tended to progress more rapidly to kidney failure.
The American Society of Nephrology (ASN), the world’s largest organization of kidney health professionals, has published a new report analyzing the results of the 2014 Nephrology Fellows Survey. Authored by leading health workforce researchers at George Washington University, the report provides key insights from future kidney health professionals. The report’s release follows the announced formation of the ASN Nephrology Match Task Force and the disappointing results of the 2015–2016 nephrology Match.
Members of the Endocrine Society have elected five new Officers and Council members to lead the world’s oldest, largest and most active organization devoted to research on hormones and the clinical practice of endocrinology.
Members of the media can now register to attend the Endocrine Society’s Annual Meeting & Expo. The event featuring the latest advances in hormone health and science will be held in San Diego March 5-8, 2015.
The Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery will release their entire collections online Jan. 1, 2015, providing unprecedented access to one of the world’s most important holdings of Asian and American art. The free public resource—called “Open F|S”—will launch at open.asia.si.edu, allowing anyone to explore and create with the collections, from anywhere in the world.
Researchers designed a way to harvest several long-lived radioisotopes; such harvesting could supply isotopes for which there is limited or no other source.
A virtual tour of ARM's Southern Great Plains (SGP) site
Researchers from Washington University in St. Louis, Washington State University and Savannah River National Laboratory are among the principal investigators seeking innovative solutions to environmental and energy production challenges in subsurface science. They are also among the scientists who submitted applications to the Special Science Call for Proposals to use EMSL's Radiochemical Annex. Learn more about three research projects using the Annex's resources. The article includes examples of collaborative research at EMSL with two major universities and a national laboratory – Washington University in St. Louis, Washington State University and Savannah River National Laboratory.
In many science fields—like neuroscience—sharing data isn’t that simple because no standard data format exists.
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