Expert Briefing on Lead, Pfas Chemicals in Drinking Water, and Their Threat to Public Health
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
“This is the largest annual research budget in our 46-year history,” said Thomas M. Brunner, GRF President and CEO.
An inexpensive measure of obesity in children and adolescents that could replace body mass index (BMI) has been identified in a new study as waist circumference-to-height ratio. This measure detected excess fat mass and distinguished fat mass from muscle mass in children and adolescents more accurately than BMI.
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded SMU engineering professor Digvijay Boob a five-year CAREER grant to pioneer quicker, streamlined solutions that could speed up how AI learns from data to make predictions and decisions.
Political theorist Achille Mbembe named 2024 Holberg Prize Laureate. The Cameroonian scholar Achille Mbembe is Research Professor of History and Politics at the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research (WiSER), at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.
Fungi naturally produce all the ingredients needed for a cruelty-free meat substitute. Our scientists are exploring how tuning the genomes of mushrooms and molds can transform these food sources into gourmet, nutrient-packed meals made with minimal processing and a light environmental footprint.
Ha generado varios debates. ¿Hay alguna conexión entre la soja y el cáncer de mama? La soja contiene isoflavonas, que son los estrógenos vegetales. Se han relacionado los niveles altos de estrógeno con un mayor riesgo de cáncer de mama. Sin embargo, hay estudios que demuestran que los productos de soja no contienen niveles de estrógeno lo suficientemente altos como para aumentar las probabilidades de desarrollar cáncer de mama.
In its latest global expansion, Cedars-Sinai International announced the opening of its new global office in Singapore.
Remember when COVID-19 hit, and suddenly everyone was working from home? Well, a team of researchers in Montreal and Paris decided to dig deeper into how this shift affected office workers during the pandemic.
A new population study led by researcher Tomas Paus , professor of psychiatry and neuroscience at the University of Montreal and researcher at CHU Sainte-Justine, highlights the respective roles of maternal and fetal genes in the growth of the baby's cerebral cortex .
Chronic stress that develops over decades in long-term couples does not have the same effect on men as on women: the latter is more likely to display negative physiological markers than their spouse, according to a study published in the scientific journal Psychosomatic Medicine .
Carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions are not typically associated with water ways, like streams and rivers, but emerging research shows that water bodies play an important role in storing and releasing carbon dioxide.
“While our research does not prove that veterans who experienced these injuries will develop Alzheimer’s disease, it raises the possibility that they may be on a pathway leading to dementia,” said Dr. Ge Li, the paper's first author and an associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at UW Medicine.
Michigan State University’s College of Social Science launched the Future of Work Initiative to address how technology will shape and change the future of work. To kick start this effort, the college held a conference convening those involved in the initiative with faculty from across MSU and representatives from community organizations to engage on this subject.
In a paper that will be presented at the Twelfth International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), taking place in Vienna on May 7 - 11, 2024, an NYU Tandon research team demonstrates how techniques that claim to "erase" the ability of models like Stable Diffusion to generate explicit, copyrighted, or otherwise unsafe visual content can be circumvented through simple attacks.
When scientists collide heavy nuclei, the constituent quarks and gluons melt into a quark-gluon plasma.
MacNeal Hospital is proud to be recognized by Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois with a Blue Distinction® Centers+ (BDC+) for Maternity Care designation, as part of the Blue Distinction Specialty Care program.
An AI-powered analysis of 25 years of satellite images yields the surprising finding that methane emissions in Turkmenistan, a former Soviet republic and major oil-producing region, actually increased in the years following the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
A blood test intended for screening for colorectal cancer in people who are of average risk and not experiencing symptoms correctly detected colorectal cancer in 83% of people confirmed to have the disease, according to a study published March 14 in the New England Journal of Medicine.
Muhlenberg Foundation Announces $700,000 Grant to the City of Plainfield to Fund Emergency Medical Services
An Iowa State University research team built a shortened form of the gene that causes a deadly childhood disease, which will make searching for potential treatments quicker and more effective. It’s the first-ever super minigene, a concept that could be used to make easier-to-study versions of genes linked to other illnesses.
Space travel and zero gravity can take a toll on the body. A new study has found that astronauts with no prior history of headaches may experience migraine and tension-type headaches during long-haul space flight, which includes more than 10 days in space. The study was published in the March 13, 2024, online issue of Neurology®, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology.
Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory have created a new material that uses “redox gating” to control the movement of electrons in and out of a semiconducting material.
Radyus Research partners with Southern Research for an innovative alliance in the development of new drugs.
Administered by the Center for Prevention Research and Development (CPRD) at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, the IYS uses the anonymous data to produce school, district, community, county, and statewide reports.
أظهر باحث رائد منذ أكثر من 60 عامًا كيف يمكن استخدام نبضة كهربائية تصل لدماغ ثور مشحون لإيقاف الحيوان ومنعه من التقدم. واليوم، يُستخدم التنبيه العصبي لعلاج مجموعة متنوعة من الاضطرابات البشرية، يشمل ذلك داء باركينسون، والرُعاش، واضطراب الوسواس القهري، ومتلازمة توريت. ويعتقد جراح الأعصاب وزملاؤه في مايو كلينك أن أحد أشكال هذا العلاج، والذي يُسمى التنبيه العميق للدماغ، مهيأ لحل أحد أكبر تحديات الصحة العامة ألا وهو إدمان المخدرات.
Reducing the manipulation of operating room (OR) scheduling can improve scheduling accuracy and potentially maximize OR usage, avoid delays, and enhance patient satisfaction, according to a study published in the March/April issue of the Journal of Healthcare Management (JHM).
Physician assistants (PAs) and nurse practitioners (NPs) are at the heart of patient care in Appalachia, often taking the lead in managing pain and prescribing medications. Their role is significant, but their training in opioid management falls short when compared to their physician counterparts.
A new UCLA-led study suggests that some people living with long COVID may be able to alleviate certain symptoms by using short-term, self-regulating therapies.
Published in Nature Communications, Increased Asian Aerosols Drive a Slowdown of Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, identifies the role aerosols over Asia is having on the AMOC, a complex system of currents in the Atlantic Ocean.
A insuficiência cardíaca é um problema de saúde potencialmente urgente para jovens adultos com doença cardíaca congênita (ACHD). Ela é frequentemente negligenciada e pouco tratada, apesar de as hospitalizações para esse problema continuarem aumentando. A pesquisa da Mayo Clinic revela que jovens adultos nos Estados Unidos que vivem com doença cardíaca congênita têm maior risco de morte ou complicações cardiovasculares após a hospitalização por insuficiência cardíaca. Entretanto, os dados do estudo publicados na revista médica Journal of the American Heart Association também descobriram que os pacientes que receberam cuidados cardiológicos recentes e antes da hospitalização por insuficiência cardíaca tinham menos probabilidade de morrer.
مدينة روتشستر، ولاية مينيسوتا – يشكّل فشل عضلة القلب مصدر قلق صحي ربما يكون مُلحًا بالنسبة للبالغين الشباب المصابين بمرض القلب الخلقي (ACHD) الذي يتم تجاهله وعدم التعامل معه بجدية في كثير من الأحيان، برغم استمرار تزايد عدد الحالات المحتجزة في المستشفيات بسبب هذا المرض. تبين الأبحاث الصادرة من مايو كلينك أن البالغين الشباب في الولايات المتحدة الذين يعيشون بمرض القلب الخلقي مُعرضون بشكل متزايد لخطر الوفاة أو لمضاعفات أمراض القلب والأوعية الدموية بعد احتجازهم في المستشفى للعلاج من فشل عضلة القلب. ومع ذلك، تبين بيانات الدراسة المنشورة في مجلة جمعية القلب الأمريكية أيضًا أن المرضى الذين كانوا يتلقون مؤخرًا رعاية طبية لأمراض القلب قبل احتجازهم في المستشفى لتلقي علاج فشل عضلة القلب كانوا أقل عُرضة للوفاة.
Although 80% of people with epilepsy live in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), most epilepsy research originates in high-income regions.
Repeats of DNA sequences, often referred to as “junk DNA” or “dark matter,” that are found in chromosomes and could contribute to cancer or other diseases have been challenging to identify and characterize. Now, investigators at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center have developed a novel approach that uses machine learning to identify these elements in cancerous tissue, as well as in cell-free DNA (cfDNA) — fragments that are shed from tumors and float in the bloodstream. This new method could provide a noninvasive means of detecting cancers or monitoring response to therapy. Machine learning is a type of artificial intelligence that uses data and computer algorithms to perform complex tasks and accelerate research.
Researchers have described a new species of ancient shark that was collected in Arkansas 45 years ago and fills an important role in understanding an enigmatic and bizarre group of prehistoric fishes. The study is published in the journal Geodiversitas.
Applications are currently being accepted for the Fall 2024 term of two undergraduate internship programs offered by the Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science: the Science Undergraduate Laboratory Internships (SULI) program and the Community College Internships (CCI) program.
Research led by Eren Ozguven, director of the Resilient Infrastructure and Disaster Response Center (RIDER) and a professor at the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering, examined demographics, infrastructure and more than seven decades of weather data to determine which places in Kentucky are most vulnerable to tornadoes.
Delivering genetic material tagged with a cellular "ZIP code" prompted cells to secrete proteins or drugs into the bloodstream that successfully treated psoriasis and cancer in mouse models, UT Southwestern Medical Center scientists report in a new study.
Há mais de 60 anos, um pioneiro pesquisador mostrou como um pulso de eletricidade no cérebro de um touro de carga poderia ser utilizado para parar o animal em seu trajeto. Hoje, a neuroestimulação é usada para tratar uma variedade de doenças humanas, incluindo doença de Parkinson, tremor, transtorno obsessivo-compulsivo e síndrome de Tourette. Um neurocirurgião da Mayo Clinic e seus colegas acreditam que uma forma de tratamento chamada estimulação cerebral profunda (ECP), está pronta para resolver um dos maiores desafios da saúde pública: a dependência química.
Physicists often turn to the Rayleigh-Taylor instability to explain why fluid structures form in plasmas, but that may not be the full story when it comes to the ring of hydrogen clumps around supernova 1987A, research from the University of Michigan suggests.
University of Utah biologists announce the discovery of numerous species of roundworm in the highly saline waters of Great Salt Lake, the vast terminal lake in northwestern Utah that supports millions of migratory birds.
When informed of the background, education, and training of an anesthesiologist versus a nurse anesthetist, people living in Washington, D.C. want anesthesiologists to administer anesthesia during surgery. The District of Columbia Society of Anesthesiologists (DCSA) and the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) strongly oppose Council Bill 25-545 that would eliminate the long-established requirement that a physician oversee anesthesia administered by nurse anesthetists and would allow these nurses to perform pain medicine procedures. Council Bill 25-545 jeopardizes the safety of Washington, D.C. patients who need anesthesia care. Bill 25-545 is scheduled for mark up in the Committee on Health at 3:00 pm on Thursday, March 21.
Hace más de 60 años, un pionero investigador mostró cómo un pulso de electricidad en el cerebro de un toro de carga podría ser utilizado para detener al animal en su trayectoria. Hoy en día, la neuroestimulación se usa para tratar una variedad de enfermedades humanas, incluyendo la enfermedad de Parkinson, temblor, trastorno obsesivo-compulsivo y síndrome de Tourette. Un neurocirujano de Mayo Clinic y sus colegas creen que una forma de tratamiento llamada estimulación cerebral profunda (ECP), está lista para resolver uno de los mayores desafíos de la salud pública: la adicción a las drogas.
Typically, the term burnout calls to mind someone who is putting in too many hours at work or is swamped with household chores. It isn’t necessarily something a parent expects in their adolescent. But it can happen.
Irvine, Calif., March 13, 2024 – Researchers at the University of California, Irvine and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory have conducted the first large-scale observation and modeling study of northwest Greenland’s Petermann Glacier.
An unassuming brown bovine from the south of Brazil has made history as the first transgenic cow capable of producing human insulin in her milk.