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Due to COVID-19 and a rapidly expanding list of conditions for which lung transplantation can be lifesaving, the need for new organs is growing. However, there’s a global shortage of donated lungs, which results in numerous deaths among patients on the waitlist. To help expand the donor pool, Northwestern Medicine is now using a device from XVIVO called XPS™ which is used for ex vivo lung perfusion (EVLP) – nicknamed “lungs in a box” – to rescue potentially viable lungs and those initially deemed “unacceptable” for transplant. Out of all solid organs, lungs have the lowest utilization, with only one in five donated lungs getting transplanted.

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Most simulations of our climate’s future may be overly sensitive to Arctic ice melt as a cause of abrupt changes in ocean circulation, according to new research led by scientists at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Climate scientists count the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (or AMOC) among the biggest tipping points on the way to a planetary climate disaster.

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Four individuals who have made major contributions in fields ranging from sports and entertainment to national defense and artificial intelligence will receive honorary degrees at Tulane University’s 2022 Commencement. Henry “Hank” Aaron, one of baseball’s greatest players; Gen. David H. Berger, a Tulane graduate and commandant of the United States Marine Corps; Ken Jeong, a medical doctor who became one of the country’s most sought-after comedic actors and Dr. Rosalind Picard, an inventor, engineer, scientist and pioneer in artificial intelligence, will receive honorary degrees at the May 21 ceremony. Aaron will receive Tulane’s first-ever posthumous honorary degree.

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A team at the University of Michigan Health Rogel Cancer Center, in partnership with the statewide Michigan Radiation Oncology Quality Consortium (MROQC) lung cancer collaborative, found that raising awareness about the risk of radiation exposure to the heart and standardizing cardiac exposure limits reduced the average dose to the heart by 15% and reduced the number of patients receiving the highest heart doses by half without minimizing tumor treatment or increasing dosage to other at-risk organs in the chest

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The aim of this study was to analyze decision-making strategies and proportion of patients who had organ preservation and secondary treatment after 2 years of implementation of a dedicated significant polyp and early colorectal cancer multidisciplinary team. A secondary aim was to assess the recurrence rate at 2 years.

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In a study published in the May 2022 issue of Diseases of the Colon & Rectum, investigators from the Medical University of Vienna, Austria, provide insight in the anatomical position of the mesh in relation to the sacrum during a laparoscopic procedure. They studied 18 fresh cadavers and performed laparoscopic sacral mesh fixation as surgeons would do during laparoscopic ventral mesh rectopexy.

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The U.S. Senate has introduced a bill, S. 4042, to modernize Medicare coverage and better meet the needs of today’s seniors by increasing access to services provided by doctors of chiropractic.

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A study published in Molecular Psychiatry is the first to look at multiple levels of biology within women with postpartum depression (PPD) to see how women with the condition differ from those without it.

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A new U of T Scarborough study finds that liberals and conservatives differ in how they perceive dominance in women, which may influence their likelihood to vote them into political office.

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Dr. Oladele "Dele" Ogunseitan, UC Presidential Chair and Professor of Population Health and Disease Prevention at the University of California, Irvine Program in Public Health, discusses using a One Health approach to combating global antibiotic resistance.

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This special edition features presentations by MD Anderson researchers at the AACR Annual Meeting 2022, including early-stage clinical trials on immunotherapy and targeted therapies plus laboratory studies to improve immunotherapy responses, to understand early lung cancer development, to clarify the role of ZEB1 in lung cancer metastasis and to develop new treatments for cancers with KRAS mutations.

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EVENT: The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory, in collaboration with the Long Island Power Authority (LIPA), is celebrating Earth Day at the Jones Beach Energy & Nature Center with a day full of educational talks and activities. People of all ages are invited to come explore the science behind Earth’s climate and our energy resources, both in-person and virtually.

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Ketanji Brown Jackson, who grew up in Miami, becomes the first Black woman to be elevated to the high court. But barriers for women and Black people still remain in all aspects of society, University of Miami experts cautioned.

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AACN to honor Cynda Rushton, from the Johns Hopkins University Berman Institute of Bioethics and the School of Nursing, for her exceptional contributions to groundbreaking work to address moral suffering, cultivate moral resilience and ethical practice, and improve end-of-life care.

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The American Educational Research Association (AERA), with support from ACT, has announced Daniel M. Koretz of the Harvard Graduate School of Education as the recipient of the 2022 E. F. Lindquist Award.

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As part of Hong Kong Tech Forum, this conference will bring together leading experts from all over the world to exchange views on the recent trends in a variety of topics concerning the chemistry of 2D materials.

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The American Educational Research Association (AERA) has announced the winners of its 2022 awards for excellence in education research.

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The study found that while a combination of factors contributes to red tide blooms, human activity has played a consistent role in intensifying them during the past decade.

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Pattern of clips taken out of context to create the implication that president is unfit for office

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While the frequency spectrum allocated to the 5th generation (5G) wireless communications has not been fully utilized, research groups worldwide are already juggling their positions for 6G, in which frequencies 100 GHz to 3 THz are promising.

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A new study shows the majority of older adults are not prescribed disease-modifying medications for rheumatoid arthritis, despite guidelines that call for early and aggressive treatment of the inflammatory autoimmune disease. Researchers say rheumatologists and primary care providers must be prepared to care for older adults with rheumatic diseases while addressing polypharmacy and multimorbidity.

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The archives received a $100,000 grant from the California State Library to support CSUDH’s LGBTQ History Access Project, and $40,000 from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation to begin the cataloguing of the L.A. Free Press collection.

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The new Cooperative Institute for Research to Operations in Hydrology, or CIROH, will be headquartered at the Alabama Water Institute. It is a consortium of 28 academic institutions, non-profit organizations and government and industry partners — including the Gulf of Mexico Coastal Ocean Observing System (GCOOS) — bringing together a powerful team of hydrologic researchers across the United States and Canada to develop and deliver national hydrological analyses, forecast information, data, guidance and equitable decision-support services to inform essential emergency management and water resources decisions.

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In an important milestone for the Energy Exascale Earth System Model, researchers have developed and evaluated an entirely new global atmosphere model. The model has a resolution 30 times finer than global climate models. This resolution will produce much more detailed climate simulations.

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University of Florida research has quantified the financial shock that a 2018 red tide bloom had to Florida’s economy using the Airbnb market as a gauge to the broader impacts.

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Extremely small arrays of magnets with strange and unusual properties can order themselves by increasing entropy, or the tendency of physical systems to disorder, a behavior that appears to contradict standard thermodynamics — but doesn’t.

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Coalescing supermassive black holes in the centers of merging galaxies fill the universe with low-frequency gravitational waves.

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The world’s largest International Dark Sky Reserve is coming to Texas and Mexico, thanks to a partnership between The University of Texas at Austin’s McDonald Observatory, The Nature Conservancy, the International Dark-Sky Association (IDA) and many others.

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Four West Virginia University Health Sciences academic programs have integrated nationally-recognized Certified Tobacco Treatment Specialist training into their curricula.

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Research in the April 2022 issue of JNCCN finds rates of breast cancer survivors receiving annual mammograms dropped 1.5% per year from 2009 to 2016, with largest decrease in survivors under age 50.

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