NIST today announced funding for 20 new research projects under its Technology Innovation Program, including projects ranging from unmanned, hovering aircraft for inspecting bridges to a high-speed sorting system for recycling aerospace metals to nanomaterials for advanced batteries.
The NREF has reached an agreement with Codman & Shurtleff, Inc. to provide funding to the NREF in support of the Foundation’s new post-residency fellowship grant program. These fellowships will cover general neurosurgery as well as subspecialty areas such as pediatrics, neurosurgical oncology, peripheral nerve, neurocritical care, and stereotactic & functional neurosurgery.
The Tiger Woods scandal may have a lasting impact on his endorsement potential, says University of Maryland consumer psychologist Stephen McDaniel, who studies sports marketing and fan behavior. "Nike has historically been less interested in an endorser's virtue and more interested in athletic prowess, but this will not be true for other companies,” he says.
Cascade ProDrug Inc. and the University of Oregon have completed an agreement that gives the company exclusive ownership of technology to make medicines that turn on in oxygen-starved tissues. The deal could lead to improved treatments for cancer and other diseases marked by excessive cell growth.
Scientists who study the melting of Greenland’s glaciers are discovering that water flowing beneath the ice plays a much more complex role than they previously imagined.
David Schneider, M.D., chair of family and community medicine at Saint Louis University, says the added stress of the holidays combined with increased alcohol consumption creates a perfect storm for domestic violence.
Building materials that better retain heat in the winter, and reflect it in the summer; plumbing fixtures that save water; and facilities that encourage employees to bicycle to work. Environmentally-friendly features like these enable the new research building at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia to be certified as a green structure.
Four members of the Council on Undergraduate Research receive national awards for excellence in research and teaching.
An increase in the number of screened carriers for cystic fibrosis (CF) was associated with a decrease in the number of children born with CF in northeast Italy.
Persons with higher levels of leptin, a protein hormone produced by fat cells and involved in the regulation of appetite, may have an associated reduced incidence of Alzheimer disease and dementia, according to a study in the December 16 issue of JAMA.
Although there were promising results in a phase 2 trial, patients with mild Alzheimer disease who received the drug tarenflurbil as part of a phase 3 trial did not have better outcomes on measures of cognitive decline or loss of activities of daily living compared to patients who received placebo.
On the anniversary of Beethoven’s birthday (Dec. 16, 1770) the popularity of his music endures. Wake Forest University, professor of music David Levy, a Beethoven scholar and the author of “Beethoven: the Ninth Symphony” (Yale University Press 2003), says Beethoven, like Shakespeare, was a “superb craftsman.”
Biomedical engineers have produced a laboratory chip with nanoscopic grooves and ridges capable of growing cardiac tissue that closely resembles natural heart muscle.
“Disney took a calculated risk with ‘The Princess and the Frog’ that could help restore their leadership in the genre,” says Brent Smith, Ph.D., a professor of entertainment marketing at Saint Joseph’s University in Philadelphia. “With competition from DreamWorks and other animation houses, this move may have helped Disney regain some luster as a forward-thinking industry innovator.”
Many people still lack the access and skills to take advantage of the Web’s wealth of health information. But a community-based coalition is working to close that information gap, with some success.
A Web tool that generates color maps of projected temperature and precipitation changes using 16 of the world's most prominent climate-change models is being demonstrated at the climate summit in Copenhagen and is the subject of a presentation Dec. 15 at the American Geophysical Union meeting.
In a new study of terminally ill cancer patients, researchers at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute found support of patients’ spiritual needs by the medical team is associated with greater use of hospice, less aggressive care, and greater quality of life near death.
Each year thousands of people are treated in emergency departments across the United States for heart attacks, broken bones and other injuries related to snow shoveling. Loyola University Health System experts give shoveling safety tips.
Scientists at Georgia Tech have developed a nanolithographic technique that can produce high-resolution patterns of at least three different chemicals on a single chip at writing speeds of up to one millimeter per second. The nanopatterns can be designed with any shape and are stable enough to be stored for weeks and used elsewhere.
Researchers rejoice. Unwrap your new e-reader this holiday season and load it with free digitized books from an era gone by. The Cornell University Library – by way of the Internet Archive, a nonprofit library that provides access to a growing cache of materials to the public – is offering more than 80,000 books in a digital format, all in the public domain and originally printed before 1923 mainly in the United States.
A new study links chronic obstructive pulmonary disease with increased activity of cells that act as sentinels to activate the body’s immune system. COPD affects more than 12 million Americans. Immune factors may be key if doctors are to find better ways to detect and treat the disease early when patients might benefit.
Holiday madness is in full swing; shopping, cooking, cleaning, parties, out-of-town relatives. Even the kids feel stressed out with all the anticipation and distracted parents, and “Why does Aunt Sara have to stay in my room?” However there is a great antidote when things get hectic and overwhelming, head outdoors. Even if there is a chill in the air, time outside connecting with nature can lower the stress level, revive the spirits, and add to the enchantment of the season.
PNAS study by USC geobiologists documents new behavior of metal-metabolizing bacteria, with implications for design of microbial fuel cells.
The study, led by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, is the first of its kind to demonstrate that social service programs can have the added benefits of improving the cognitive abilities of older adults. Using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), the researchers found that seniors participating in a youth mentoring program made gains in key brain regions that support cognitive abilities important to planning and organizing one’s daily life.
Scientists have discovered more small seismic tremor events lasting one to 70 hours that occur in somewhat regular patterns in a megathrust earthquake zone in Washington state and British Columbia.
This study analyzed the impact of experiential learning on students through a study of an agroecology course. Via a mixed-methods analysis, researchers determined that the course measurably impacted participating students. The research results are published in the latest issue of the Journal of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Education.
Nine weeks of education about the glycemic index in foods is enough to encourage adults with type 2 diabetes to adopt better dietary habits that result in improvements to their health, recent research suggests.
Survey participants could help parents raising child with Down syndrome.
The current issue of JRRD (Volume 46, Issue 6) features 19 timely scientific articles on traumatic brain injury (TBI) and clinical practice guidelines for mild TBI.
Research by Binghamton University psychologist Brandon Gibb could provide new weapons for the fight against childhood depression. Working with colleagues around the country, he hopes to identify the causes of mental-health problems in kids and define trajectories of risk for depression.
Millions of Americans take Celebrex for arthritis or other pain. Many also take a low-dose aspirin daily to reduce the risk of heart attack and stroke. Yet they may be getting little protection, because Celebrex keeps the aspirin from doing its job, a new study suggests.
Determining blood loss at the scene of trauma can be critical to successful patient treatment. Health care workers such as emergency medical technicians have used visual estimation, which can be highly inaccurate, as their only means of determining volumes of blood loss. A new, simple method developed by the UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School may drastically improve their accuracy.
Parents and children giving or receiving an electronic device with music this holiday season should give their ears a gift as well by pre-setting the maximum decibel level to somewhere between one-half and two-thirds maximum volume.
An international team of Canadian and Spanish scientists have found the first potential immunological clue of why some people develop severe pneumonia when infected by the pandemic H1N1 virus.
State assistance to improve energy efficiency of Maryland homes heated by natural gas would generate economic and environmental benefits over the next 10 years, including more than 80,000 new jobs, savings of hundreds of dollars in average heating bills and a nine percent reduction in residential carbon emissions, concludes a new University of Maryland study.
Inhibiting fatty acid synthesis in brain cancer cells may offer a new option to treat about 50 percent of deadly glioblastomas that are driven by amplified signaling of the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR), according to a first-of-its-kind study by researchers at UCLA’s Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center.
This Hubble picture postcard of hundreds of brilliant blue stars wreathed by warm, glowing clouds is the most detailed view of the largest stellar nursery in our local galactic neighborhood. The massive, young stellar grouping, called R136, is only a few million years old and resides 170,000 light-years away in the 30 Doradus Nebula, a turbulent star-birth region in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), a satellite galaxy of our Milky Way. The Hubble Wide Field Camera 3 observations were taken Oct. 20-27, 2009.
Although seen as a potential heart disease therapy, raising high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol levels by inhibiting activity of a transfer protein may not be effective, a new study suggests. Scientists at Tufts University and Boston University School of Medicine found an association between low plasma cholesterol ester transfer protein (CETP) activity and increased risk of heart disease in the Framingham Heart Study population.
UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers have provided the most extensive account to date of the unique observable characteristics seen in patients with an extremely rare premature aging syndrome.
As the national discussion of health care focuses on costs, a new study from North Carolina State University shows that it might be more accurate to think of health care spending as an investment that can spur economic growth. The study also shows that government projections of health care costs and financing may be unduly pessimistic.
Teaching children how to recognize when family members are experiencing a stroke and to call 911 might be a good way to save stroke victims from becoming disabled permanently, according to a new study.
In partnership with the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer, the American Association for Cancer Research will host the AACR-IASLC Joint Conference on Molecular Origins of Lung Cancer, which will bring together leaders from all over the world who share the goal of eradicating this form of cancer.
Simple strategies can help reduce the discomfort and stress of navigating a stepfamily holiday and help children develop positive memories, says a psychologist and wellness expert. Josh Klapow, Ph.D., says to recognize the holidays will not always go smoothly and be reminded that family, children are worth the effort.
The well-worn notion that patients in the United States have unfettered access to the most expensive cancer drugs while the United Kingdom’s nationalized health care system regularly denies access to some high-cost treatments needs rethinking, a team of bioethicists and health policy experts says in a report out today.
One year ago this week, Siemens (a global powerhouse in the industry, energy and healthcare sectors) agreed to pay $800 million in combined U.S. fines and penalties to settle Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (“FCPA”) charges for a pattern of bribery the U.S. Department of Justice (“DOJ”) termed “unprecedented in scale and geographic scope.” The charged conduct involved improper payments to obtain or retain (among other business) transportation, telecommunication, energy and health sector contracts in (among other places) Argentina, China, Mexico, Nigeria, Russia, and Venezuela.
Early Alzheimer’s disease detected by a compound that binds to brain plaques appears likely to progress into symptomatic Alzheimer’s disease with dementia, according to a report in the December issue of Archives of Neurology, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.
Intensive medical therapy, including aggressive control of blood pressure and cholesterol levels, for patients with asymptomatic plaque buildup in their carotid arteries (which supply blood to the brain) appears to be associated with reduced rates of cardiovascular events and reduced risk of microemboli (microscopic-sized blood clots) in the brain arteries, according to a report posted online today that will appear in the February 2010 print issue of Archives of Neurology, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.
Adults who used an electronic lock-out system to reduce their television time by half did not change their calorie intake but did expend more energy over a three-week period, according to a report in the December 14/28 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.
Increased physical activity appears to be associated with a lower risk of cancer-specific and overall death in men with a history of colorectal cancer that has not spread to other parts of the body, according to a report in the December 14/28 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.
Individuals who drink more coffee (regular or decaffeinated) or tea appear to have a lower risk of developing type 2 diabetes, according to an analysis of previous studies reported in the December 14/28 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine.
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