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Released: 6-Oct-2020 11:20 AM EDT
Violence against Women in Politics a Growing Problem
Rutgers University-New Brunswick

While women have made significant inroads into politics in recent years, their involvement has spurred attacks, intimidation and harassment in many parts of the world, says Mona Lena Krook, a professor of political science at Rutgers University-New Brunswick and author of the new book Violence against Women in Politics.

Released: 6-Oct-2020 11:10 AM EDT
UIC researchers expose the limitations of digital technologies in commemorating COVID-19 victims
University of Illinois Chicago

The authors highlight the important role that health care professionals take on.

Released: 6-Oct-2020 11:05 AM EDT
DHS S&T SVIP Awards $186K to TranslateLive for Language Translation Capabilities
Homeland Security's Science And Technology Directorate

TranslateLive to adapt Instant Language Assistant to support USCG operator safety and mission performance.

Released: 6-Oct-2020 11:05 AM EDT
AIP Congratulates 2020 Nobel Prize Winners in Physics
American Institute of Physics (AIP)

The 2020 Nobel Prize in physics was awarded to Roger Penrose, Reinhard Genzel, and Andrea Ghez, for their work on black holes, described by the Nobel committee as “the darkest secrets in the universe.” To help journalists and the public understand the context of this work, AIP is compiling a Nobel Prize resources page featuring relevant scientific papers and articles, quotes from experts, photos, multimedia, and other resources. The page will be updated throughout the day.

Released: 6-Oct-2020 11:00 AM EDT
Antibiotics Could Replace or Delay Surgery for Appendicitis in Adults
Michigan Medicine - University of Michigan

Michigan Medicine participated in a large clinical trial which found that, in many cases, appendicitis can be safely and effectively treated with antibiotics instead of surgery.

Released: 6-Oct-2020 11:00 AM EDT
Story Tips From Johns Hopkins Experts On COVID-19
Johns Hopkins Medicine

Johns Hopkins Medicine biomedical engineering student Christopher Shallal developed an initiative to keep health care teams safe by galvanizing community members to use 3D printers to make face shields. His mentors on the project were Elizabeth Logsdon, Ph.D., and Warren Grayson, Ph.D.

2-Oct-2020 9:55 AM EDT
Hydrogen Embrittlement Creates Complications for Clean Energy Storage, Transportation
American Institute of Physics (AIP)

Hydrogen is becoming a crucial pillar in the clean energy movement, and developing safe and cost-effective storage and transportation methods for it is essential but complicated, because hydrogen can cause brittleness in several metals including ferritic steel. Recent advancements are starting to provide insight into the embrittlement process. A review of various methods in Applied Physics Reviews improves the understanding of the structure, property, and performance of ferritic steels subjected to mechanical loading in a hydrogen environment.

Released: 6-Oct-2020 10:45 AM EDT
The Johns Hopkins School of Nursing Receives 2020 Health Professions HEED Award for Diversity
Johns Hopkins School of Nursing

For a third consecutive year, the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing (JHSON) has received the Health Professions Higher Education Excellence in Diversity (HEED) Award from INSIGHT Into Diversity magazine for outstanding commitment to diversity and inclusion.

Released: 6-Oct-2020 10:20 AM EDT
Story Tips: Remote population counting, slowing corrosion and turning down the heat
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

ORNL story tips: Remote population counting, slowing corrosion and turning down the heat

Released: 6-Oct-2020 10:05 AM EDT
What Makes Us Averse to Loss in Making Economic Decisions? NYU Neuroscientist Aims to Understand Why Under New NIH Grant
New York University

New York University neuroscientist Christine Constantinople will examine the intricacies of our decision-making processes under a five-year, $1.5 million grant from the National Institutes of Health.

   
Released: 6-Oct-2020 10:00 AM EDT
Can your diet help protect the environment?
University of Illinois Chicago

If Americans adhere to global dietary recommendations designed to reduce the impact of food production and consumption, environmental degradation could be reduced by up to 38%, according to a new paper published in the journal Environmental Justice.

   
6-Oct-2020 10:00 AM EDT
Penn Medicine Researchers Receive Prestigious National Institutes of Health Director’s Awards
Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania

The NIH selected two researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania to receive its Director’s Awards, part of the NIH Common Fund’s High-Risk, High-Reward Research Program. Brian Litt was honored with a Pioneer Award, supporting his novel neurodevice research. Gregory Corder was selected as a New Innovator Award winner for research investigating the mechanisms of chronic pain.

Released: 6-Oct-2020 9:00 AM EDT
New tools to improve care for cancer that has spread to the brain
University of Virginia Health System

The tools will help doctors and patients make better-informed treatment decisions, enhance the care of brain metastases, and enable hospitals to improve the coordination and effectiveness of their interdisciplinary treatment programs.

Released: 6-Oct-2020 9:00 AM EDT
Hijacking cancer cells with a virus while blocking cells’ antiviral defenses could knock out mesothelioma
Sbarro Health Research Organization (SHRO)

A study exploring a new combination of therapeutic agents has recently been published in the International Journal of Molecular Sciences, describing dl922-947, an oncolytic adenovirus, and AZD1775, an inhibitor of the DNA damage checkpoint kinase WEE1, and their possible efficacy to treat MPM.

Released: 6-Oct-2020 9:00 AM EDT
Birds Risk Starvation Trying to “Keep Pace” With Climate Change
Cornell University

Surviving on a warming planet can be a matter of timing—but simply shifting lifecycle stages to match the tempo of climate change has hidden dangers for some animals, according to new research from the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behaviour and Cornell University.

Released: 6-Oct-2020 9:00 AM EDT
Hackensack Meridian Mountainside Medical Center & Montclair Department of Health and Human Services Launch 2nd Annual Don’t Bug Me Flu Prevention Campaign
Hackensack Meridian Health

Mountainside Medical Center and the Montclair Department of Health and Human Services launched Don’t Bug Me, their annual public awareness campaign aimed at flu prevention, today. This

Released: 6-Oct-2020 8:15 AM EDT
Veteran leads by example at WVU
West Virginia University - Eberly College of Arts and Sciences

After spending most of his adult life as a U.S. Marine, Colorado native Nicholas Ailport is applying his leadership skills in new ways at WVU.

Released: 6-Oct-2020 8:00 AM EDT
NRAO Contest Winners Illustrate Diverse Cosmic Phenomena
National Radio Astronomy Observatory

Winners in NRAO's VLA 40th Anniversary Image Contest are from around the world, and their works illustrate a fascinating variety of celestial objects. Entries combined observational data from the VLA with data from optical, infrared, and X-ray telescopes, and from computer simulations.

Released: 6-Oct-2020 8:00 AM EDT
New Survey Reveals How to Build Stronger Fertility Patient-Provider Relationships
Pregnantish

A new survey from pregnantish, co-sponsored by EMD Serono and CooperSurgical, uncovers the key reasons why patients leave their fertility clinics and reveals the importance of doctor-patient relationship-building as a key factor to patient retention.

Released: 6-Oct-2020 8:00 AM EDT
Crop Biotechnology, physiology and translational genomics to feed and fuel the world
American Society of Agronomy (ASA), Crop Science Society of America (CSSA), Soil Science Society of America (SSSA)

Symposium will highlight the development of cutting-edge strategies to enable precision breeding of the next generation of high-yielding and stress-resilient crops.

Released: 6-Oct-2020 7:55 AM EDT
Climate-friendly cooling to help ease global warming
International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA)

A new study shows that coordinated international action on energy-efficient, climate-friendly cooling could avoid as much as 600 billion tonnes CO2 equivalent of greenhouse gas emissions in this century.

Released: 6-Oct-2020 7:00 AM EDT
Reproductive Hormone May Curb COVID-19 Inflammation, Prevent ‘Cytokine Storm’
American Physiological Society (APS)

Researchers have used “omics” data containing genetic profiles of drugs to identify the hormone oxytocin as a possible treatment for COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2).

Released: 6-Oct-2020 3:05 AM EDT
Indirect effects of the COVID-19 pandemic coincide with a heavy mental health burden
Newswise

Indirect effects of the COVID-19 pandemic coincide with a heavy mental health burden FRONTIERS

Released: 5-Oct-2020 7:35 PM EDT
Top students tapped for Los Alamos science experience
Los Alamos National Laboratory

As part of a U.S. Department of Energy graduate-student program, 52 students from 43 different universities will be sponsored to conduct research at 12 national laboratories. Seven of them will come to Los Alamos National Laboratory for their research experience for between three and 12 months.

Released: 5-Oct-2020 7:30 PM EDT
Study Shows Antibiotics May be Viable Treatment Option for Appendicitis
Henry Ford Health

Every year more than 250,000 people undergo surgery for appendicitis, making it one of the 20 most common surgeries performed in the United States. In the largest randomized U.S. study of appendicitis published today in the New England Journal of Medicine, researchers from Henry Ford Health System and 24 other sites around the U.S. report that seven in 10 patients who received antibiotics avoided surgery and that patients who took antibiotics for symptom relief fared no worse in the short term than those who underwent surgery.

Released: 5-Oct-2020 7:10 PM EDT
Eight Los Alamos projects win R&D 100 Awards
Los Alamos National Laboratory

Los Alamos National Laboratory technologies brought in eight R&D 100 Awards and Special Recognition Awards, including a Gold Award for Corporate Social Responsibility, Gold and Silver Awards for Market Disruptor - Services, and a Bronze Award for Green Technology, presented by R&D World magazine.

Released: 5-Oct-2020 5:25 PM EDT
New connection method makes precast building repair fast, cost-effective
South Dakota State University

A newly patented method of connecting precast beams and columns will make it possible to quickly repair concrete buildings damaged by earthquakes and hurricanes.

Released: 5-Oct-2020 5:25 PM EDT
UCLA to lead statewide coalition to address COVID-19’s impact on communities at risk
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Health Sciences

A coalition of 11 academic institutions and their community partners across California has received a $4.1 million grant from the NIH for a statewide community-engaged approach to addressing COVID-19 among populations that have been disproportionately affected by the pandemic.

Released: 5-Oct-2020 5:20 PM EDT
University of Oklahoma Biomedical Engineering Professor Conducts Study to Develop Booster with Potential to Improve Eventual COVID-19 Vaccine
University of Oklahoma, Gallogly College of Engineering

A study to determine the effectiveness of the drug IP-00 in producing immune responses as a booster for the eventual vaccine for COVID-19 is being conducted by researchers in the Biophotonics & ImmunoEngineering Laboratory, led by Professor Wei R. Chen in the Stephenson School of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Oklahoma. The OU researchers are collaborating with Immunophotonics, Inc., St. Louis, Missouri, on the study.

Released: 5-Oct-2020 5:15 PM EDT
TCT Connect Agenda Now Available
Cardiovascular Research Foundation (CRF)

The TCT Connect agenda is now available online. TCT, the annual scientific symposium of CRF and the world’s premier educational meeting specializing in interventional cardiovascular medicine, will take place online October 14-18. Every year, TCT features major medical research breakthroughs and gathers leading researchers and clinicians from around the globe to present and discuss the latest evidence-based research in the field.

Released: 5-Oct-2020 5:00 PM EDT
Mayo Clinic heart transplant program recognized for top patient outcomes
Mayo Clinic

The Mayo Clinic heart transplant program in Arizona has been recognized as one of the top transplant programs in the U.S. based on quality and patient outcomes. The Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients, a national medical database that evaluates solid organ transplantation in the U.S., has reported that the Mayo program has achieved the top long-term outcomes in the country.

5-Oct-2020 4:10 PM EDT
Modest increases in physician productivity can offset the cost of medical scribes
University of Chicago Medical Center

New research led by Neda Laiteerapong MD, Associate Professor of Medicine at the University Chicago Medicine, indicates the real value of a scribe to a medical practice.

29-Sep-2020 7:05 PM EDT
Back Pain with Sciatica More Likely to Improve with Immediate Physical Therapy
University of Utah Health

For people who experience back pain with sciatica, meaning their pain radiates into their leg, it may be worthwhile to start physical therapy right away, according to new research reported in Annals of Internal Medicine. That approach is different from the initial advice doctors often give patients with back pain, which is to try to remain active and give their symptoms time to subside before considering treatment like physical therapy.

Released: 5-Oct-2020 4:55 PM EDT
Texas’s only emergency nurse practitioner program expands to San Antonio
University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston

Now more than ever, Texas hospitals are in dire need of emergency nurse practitioners (ENPs) to help alleviate heavy workloads for health care professionals working the front lines of the pandemic.

Released: 5-Oct-2020 4:45 PM EDT
2nd annual “Doing Business” report ranks North American cities by ease of doing business
Arizona State University (ASU)

The Center for the Study of Economic Liberty at ASU has released the second edition of its signature Doing Business North America report, which provides objective measures of business regulations across 130 cities in 92 states, provinces and districts in the U.S., Canada and Mexico.

Released: 5-Oct-2020 4:25 PM EDT
Webinar Series: Investors and ESG
University of Maryland, Robert H. Smith School of Business

In ‘The Second Objective Function,’ Maryland Smith’s Center for Financial Policy, with USB, launches a free webinar series that explores the environmental, social and corporate governance questions that are most pressing for organizations and investors today.

   
Released: 5-Oct-2020 4:00 PM EDT
Graduate Student Receives DOE Award to Conduct Research at Jefferson Lab
Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility

A graduate student who will work with theorists at Jefferson Lab to better understand subatomic particles has received a supplemental research award from the DOE Office of Science Graduate Student Research Program.

1-Oct-2020 10:45 AM EDT
‘Repliclones’ Fuel Perplexing Persistence of HIV in the Blood of Some Patients on Medication
Health Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh

In a new study, infectious disease researchers show that HIV viremia isn’t always nonadherence to medication or resistance to the drugs. Instead, the patients are victims of what the scientists have dubbed “repliclones” – large clones of HIV-infected cells that produce infectious virus particles.

Released: 5-Oct-2020 3:50 PM EDT
Individual suicide risk can be dramatically altered by social 'sameness,' study finds
Indiana University

Similarities among individuals living in the same communities can dramatically change their risk of dying by suicide, according to a new study by Indiana University researchers.

Released: 5-Oct-2020 3:50 PM EDT
Pioneering research shows the benefits and risks of treating appendicitis with antibiotics instead of surgery
University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston

Results of a first-of-its-kind clinical trial shed light on when antibiotics instead of surgery might be the better choice for treating appendicitis in some patients, according to results from the national Comparing Outcomes of Antibiotic Drugs and Appendectomy (CODA) trial published today in the New England Journal of Medicine.

Released: 5-Oct-2020 3:45 PM EDT
Graduate students gather virtually for summer school at PPPL
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

Students attending the third annual graduate summer school at PPPL gathered virtually, due to travel restrictions, to get a broad overview of the field of plasma physics.

Released: 5-Oct-2020 3:45 PM EDT
Grant to help researchers prevent apple fire blight in U.S.
Cornell University

A $779,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food Agriculture will help Cornell University researchers prevent fire blight disease in apples and pears before it starts.

Released: 5-Oct-2020 3:45 PM EDT
Women, workers of color filling most ‘high-hazard/low-reward’ jobs in Washington
University of Washington

When exploring data on Washington workers during the pandemic — demographics, working conditions, wages and benefits, and risks of exposure to disease — the authors of a new report found that women hold two-thirds of the jobs in the harshest category of work.

Released: 5-Oct-2020 3:40 PM EDT
Diagnosing COVID-19 in just 30 minutes
Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH)

The year 2020 can be summarized simply by one word - COVID-19 - as it was the culprit that froze the entire world. For more than 8 months so far, movement between nations has been paralyzed all because there are no means to prevent or treat the virus and the diagnosis takes long.

   
Released: 5-Oct-2020 3:30 PM EDT
Fred Hutch opens COVID-19 Clinical Research Center
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

SEATTLE — Oct. 5, 2020 — Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center announced the opening of the COVID-19 Clinical Research Center, or CCRC. Funded by philanthropic donations and public/private partnerships, the CCRC is one of the first stand-alone facilities in the nation designed to test novel interventions to treat and prevent COVID-19.

Released: 5-Oct-2020 3:25 PM EDT
Excess folic acid during pregnancy harms brain development of mice
UC Davis Health (Defunct)

A study of pregnant mice found high levels of folic acid were associated with significant changes in brain development of offspring.



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