With school out for the summer, there’s no scheduled recess or lunch time, and UAB experts offer tips for parents to ensure their kids are physically active and eating right.
1) New model of time-lapse microscopy provides better visualization of metastatic processes; 2) Knowledge could allow for therapeutic targeting to prevent metastasis. 3) NOTE TO PRODUCERS/EDITORS: Video footage available.
Luis Zayas’ commitment to U.S. Latinas and their struggle with suicide started in the 1970s when he encountered the pain and suffering that the teenage girls and their parents were experiencing during his work in emergency rooms and mental health-care clinics. “Latinas have the highest rate of suicide attempt among teens in comparison to white girls or African-American girls,” says Zayas, PhD, the Shanti K. Khinduka Distinguished Professor of Social Work at the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis. Zayas brings compelling personal stories and nearly 40 years of research to his new book, Latinas Attempting Suicide: When Cultures, Families and Daughters Collide, published by Oxford University Press.
Hot, humid and pregnant. Many women would call that a recipe for misery.
The University of Alabama at Birmingham has taken a significant step toward making sophisticated cell therapy a part of patient care with its acquisition of the first cell-processing workstation (CPWS) from SANYO North America Corporation (SANYO) in the United States.
Researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have identified a key player in the spread of breast cancer. The findings, published today in the online edition of Nature, identify a critical molecule that helps cancer spread beyond the primary tumor. The research highlights a potential new strategy against metastatic disease. The study’s senior author is Jeffrey Pollard, Ph.D., professor of developmental and molecular biology and of obstetrics & gynecology and women’s health at Einstein.
Carter and Mason Osborne have a lot in common. Not only are they brothers who love to laugh, they also share one unique characteristic; they were born with forms of cleft lip and palate. Fortunately, the Osborne’s have a team of nationally-recognized experts in the Cleft Lip and Palate Center at Nationwide Children’s Hospital to help with their sons’ overall treatment and care. While the odds of having a child born with cleft lip and palate are 1 in 700, the odds increase significantly for parents who already have a child with cleft lip and palate.
The University of Michigan International Center for Automotive medicine this week marked the beginning of new capabilities and new collaborative research combining trauma medicine, state-of-the-art computer analysis and automotive engineering.
Gift from Richard and Mary L. Gray to support novel program linking artists, scholars.
Loyola University Health System Pediatrician available to comment on keeping kids hydrated.
RENCI, the NC TraCS Institute and the University of North Carolina School of Medicine are engaged in a multidisciplinary effort to create a secure, controlled, online environments where researchers can use sensitive medical data
Customizing targeted therapies to each tumor’s molecular characteristics, instead of a one-size-fits-all approach by tumor type, may be more effective for some types of cancer, according to research conducted by The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center.
In the early days of the AIDS epidemic, a once-rare form of cancer known as Kaposi’s sarcoma (KS) emerged as a frequent harbinger of HIV. Its stigma was best illustrated by Tom Hanks, who portrayed a gay man trying to conceal the cancerous skin lesions from his co-workers in the 1993 movie “Philadelphia.”
A multicenter clinical trial led by a researcher at the University of Maryland Marlene and Stewart Greenebaum Cancer Center will evaluate a new approach to treat triple-negative breast cancer, an often-aggressive type of cancer that is more common among African-Americans and young women. The study will help researchers determine if an experimental drug, entinostat, can reprogram tumor cells to express a protein called an estrogen receptor to make them sensitive to hormone therapy.
First cancer vaccine to show improved response rate.
The online U-Pace instructional approach, developed at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM), has been shown to improve student performance compared to traditional, in-person lecture classes. U-Pace also closes the achievement gap between at-risk college students and prepared students.
U-M researchers found urban schoolchildren with behaviors like bullying more likely to have sleep disordered breathing or daytime sleepiness.
In space, the old movie slogan declares, “no one can hear you scream.” On the other hand, you might look like it, with puffy face, swollen eyes and distended neck veins. This is what happens when, screaming or not, bodily fluids shift in the absence of gravity. They surge inward and headward, elevating pressures inside the skull – and the risk of long-term vision impairment caused by engorged blood vessels impinging upon optic nerves.
Researchers are making biobutanol from a sustainable resource: wood.
Though the universe is filled with billions upon billions of stars, the discovery of a single variable star in 1923 altered the course of modern astronomy. In commemoration of this landmark observation, astronomers with the Space Telescope Science Institute's Hubble Heritage Project partnered with the American Association of Variable Star Observers to study the star. The observations are being presented today at the American Astronomical Society Meeting in Boston, Mass.
New studies carried out by scientists in Turkey, Russia and Israel, have investigated a variety of biological effects triggered by cell phones. Two years after false accusations against scientists who described DNA breaks, now the recent results finally show, that exposure induced DNA breaks are real.
Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and King’s College London have independently identified DNA on chromosome 3 that appears to be related to depression.
Superbug CRKP is just the latest in emerging strains of drug-resistant bacteria. While new drugs to combat these stealthy microbes like MRSA and CRKP remain in development, a UCLA expert discusses the impact of the superbugs and what we can do to help prevent catching and spreading these dangerous bacteria.
A new prostate-imaging technology that fuses MRI with real-time, three-dimensional ultrasound may offer a more exacting method to obtain biopsy specimens from suspicious areas within the organ.
Osteoporosis Awareness Month is time to take charge of your own bone health.
Florida State University (FSU) experts in medicine, exercise science, nutrition, sports psychology and athletic training have partnered with one of the nation’s premier sports medicine and orthopedic treatment centers to establish the Institute of Sports Sciences and Medicine (ISSM), a public-private collaboration that spells good news for millions of athletes of all ages.
For years, the relationship between Internet service provider and home user has been a simple, all-you-can-eat model. Now, as the nation’s largest providers prepare to implement usage-based pricing plans, a tool created by Georgia Tech researchers could empower consumers to ensure they are getting the service they are paying for.
The ONLY annual event that brings together professionals involved in both the science and the business of food — experts from industry, academia, and government.
Researchers at Georgia Tech built a robot that can penetrate and “swim” through granular material. In this study, they show that by varying the shape of the robot’s head or by tilting it up or down, they can control the robot’s vertical movement in complex environments.
Rebecca Byrne was young, in love, and having a baby. It was everything she ever wanted. But then she found out she also had breast cancer. The mother-to-be was faced with the difficult decision of keeping her baby - or postponing her own life-saving treatment. (Video)
In honor of National Nurses Week we celebrate Norma Salahshour, who has worked at The Methodist Hospital since 1961. This summer she will complete her fifth decade as a nurse at the same hospital, which is quite an accomplishment.
Actor Jerry Mathers is the host of the American Academy of Neurology Foundation’s latest patient education video and guidebook, Diabetic Nerve Pain: A Guide for Patients and Families. The video and guidebook are aimed at answering important questions for people who suffer from nerve pain due to diabetes and can be viewed and downloaded for free by visiting www.aan.com/patients. Printed copies of the guidebook and video may be purchased at www.aan.com/store.
Dr. Marlene Huff shares information and tips for parents on child development and the use of social media.
Jefferson radiation oncology team receives part of major NIH award to develop better drugs to mitigate effects of radiation exposure.
Doctors at the Michigan Sinus Center offer sinus care tips to keep you breathing easier.
UCLA scientists have discovered a way to wake up the immune system to fight cancer by delivering an immune system-stimulating protein in a nanoscale container called a vault directly into lung cancer tumors, harnessing the body’s natural defenses to fight disease growth.
What would mom get herself for Mother’s Day if she had the chance? A new survey from the American Society of Plastic Surgeons shows that it might be a tummy tuck or breast lift. ASPS stats show "mommy makeover" procedures are increasing.
The benefits of breastfeeding for all babies, especially at-risk newborns, have received new national attention from the U.S. Surgeon General with the expertise of Diane L. Spatz, PhD, RN, of the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing.
It was “busy, controlled chaos” in the University of Alabama at Birmingham Hospital emergency room Wednesday night in the aftermath of the deadly tornado outbreak that pounded Central Alabama, said Loring Rue, M.D., chief of trauma surgery.
People in Alabama are experiencing a real tragedy in the aftermath of yesterday’s deadly storms. It’s important to realize just how severely the many losses are being felt, and while emergency responders are helping those with physical injuries, it’s important to care for those with psychological wounds as well, says Joshua C. Klapow, Ph.D., a clinical psychologist and associate professor in the UAB School of Public Health.
Exotic bacteria that do not rely on oxygen may have played an important role in determining the composition of Earth’s early atmosphere, according to a theory that UChicago researcher Albert Colman of a volcanic crater in Siberia.
Georgia Tech researchers have solved the mystery of how fire ants self-assemble into a waterproof raft.
Drowning audits conducted at YMCA locations appear to improve lifeguards’ performance and save lives, according to a new study.
As fuel prices soar, food prices are beginning to creep up to crisis levels most recently seen in 2007. “Coupled with the financial crisis, high food prices can take a significant toll on nutrition, especially in developing countries,” says Lora Iannotti, PhD, a public health expert and professor at the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis. “The same consequences can be true for wealthier countries, as households opt for less expensive, poor quality foods. Hidden hunger is a problem across the globe.”
An innovative public-private collaboration between one of the world’s top digital effects and computer animation companies, the Digital Domain Media Group, and one of the nation’s finest film schools, Florida State University’s College of Motion Picture Arts, announced the development of a new digital media enterprise to be located in West Palm Beach, Fla.
A. Alfred Taubman has become U-M’s largest individual donor, with total giving of more than $142 million. His latest gift of $56 million to the A. Alfred Taubman Medical Research Institute, announced today before the University’s Board of Regents, will bring his support of innovative medical science at the University of Michigan to a total of $100 million.
Teams of students from seven institutions of higher learning in Virginia and Maryland will play the University of Virginia Bay Game on Earth Day, April 22.
To celebrate the 21st anniversary of the Hubble Space Telescope's deployment into space, astronomers at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Md., pointed Hubble's eye at an especially photogenic pair of interacting galaxies called Arp 273.
U-M doctors stress a balanced approach, but note older therapies can offset risks, costs of ‘biologics’.
Two new studies in the Journal of the American Medical Association highlight the power of sequencing cancer patients’ genomes as a diagnostic tool, helping doctors decide the best course of treatment and researchers identify new cancer susceptibility mutations that can be passed from parent to child.
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