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Newswise: Después de la cirugía de epilepsia: manejo de las expectativas y del cuidado
Released: 18-Jan-2024 12:05 PM EST
Después de la cirugía de epilepsia: manejo de las expectativas y del cuidado
International League Against Epilepsy

Antes de la cirugía, las personas con epilepsia se someten a un proceso exhaustivo que implica una evaluación prolongada, pruebas detalladas y mucho tiempo con los equipos médicos. Pero después de la cirugía, argumentan algunos profesionales y defensores, se dejan las personas injustamente a cargo del tratamiento y del cuidado sin mucha ayuda u orientación.

Newswise: GOP presidential race: Political experts look to New Hampshire primary and beyond
Released: 18-Jan-2024 12:05 PM EST
GOP presidential race: Political experts look to New Hampshire primary and beyond
Virginia Tech

Virginia Tech political experts Karen Hult and Caitlin Jewitt provided perspectives on what the results of the 2024 Iowa Republican caucuses could spell for the Jan. 23 Republican primary in New Hampshire and the race overall.

Newswise: 'It was a breath of fresh air' – treatment of rare tumor helps KCH patient feel like herself again
Released: 18-Jan-2024 11:05 AM EST
'It was a breath of fresh air' – treatment of rare tumor helps KCH patient feel like herself again
University of Kentucky

With one smile, 18-year-old Payton Ebertshauer of London can light up any room.

Newswise: 10 researchers receive Argonne Postdoctoral Performance Awards
Released: 18-Jan-2024 10:15 AM EST
10 researchers receive Argonne Postdoctoral Performance Awards
Argonne National Laboratory

10 postdoctoral researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory were recently recognized at the laboratory’s 2023 Postdoctoral Performance Awards, which were presented in a ceremony on Nov. 9.

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Released: 18-Jan-2024 9:30 AM EST
Online Reviews: Filter the Fraud, But Don’t Tell Us How
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI)

When you try a new restaurant or book a hotel, do you consider the online reviews? Do you submit online reviews yourself? Do you pay attention if they are filtered and moderated? Does that impact your own online review submissions?

Newswise: Smart Lab to Address Dangerous, Difficult, and Dragging Catalyst Experiments
Released: 18-Jan-2024 8:50 AM EST
Smart Lab to Address Dangerous, Difficult, and Dragging Catalyst Experiments
National Research Council of Science and Technology

The research team led by Dr. Youn Min Hye, from the Carbon Conversion Research Lab at the Korea Institute of Energy Research (KIER) has developed a smart lab.

Newswise: AI Could Make Cyber Threats Harder to Detect
Released: 18-Jan-2024 6:05 AM EST
AI Could Make Cyber Threats Harder to Detect
Southern Methodist University

Gone are the days when the tell-tale signs of a ‘phishing’ scam were fairly easy to spot, SMU cybersecurity experts warn: Hackers are increasingly using generative AI (artificial intelligence) to write more convincing emails and bogus advertisements.

Newswise:Video Embedded add-virtual-reality-to-exercise-and-ease-chronic-pain
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Released: 17-Jan-2024 9:05 PM EST
Add virtual reality to exercise and ease chronic pain
University of South Australia

Boosting exercise is often on the agenda in the new year, but if you’re struggling to stick to a new fitness regime, University of South Australia research shows that virtual reality (VR) will not only make exercise feel easier but also ease chronic pain.

Newswise: When T cells and macrophages talk, Kelly Kersten listens
Released: 17-Jan-2024 2:05 PM EST
When T cells and macrophages talk, Kelly Kersten listens
Sanford Burnham Prebys

Kelly Kersten, Ph.D., who joined Sanford Burnham Prebys this month as an assistant professor in the Cancer Metabolism and Microenvironment program, studies the interactions between immune cells and their microenvironment to better understand how they contribute to anti-tumor immune responses.

Newswise: The Medical Minute: Calling all blood donors – especially young ones
Released: 17-Jan-2024 2:05 PM EST
The Medical Minute: Calling all blood donors – especially young ones
Penn State Health

Blood banks are looking for donors everywhere, but if you’re 17 to 35, step to the front of the line. A Penn State Health expert discusses why younger donors are needed more than ever.

Newswise:Video Embedded the-thing-in-my-life-that-shaped-me-most
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Released: 17-Jan-2024 2:05 PM EST
The ‘thing in my life that shaped me most’
Virginia Tech

The Fralin Biomedical Research Institute’s Neuromotor Research Clinic recently published findings in Behavioral Sciences demonstrating improved motor function for a wide range of diagnoses -- including cerebral palsy, stroke, traumatic brain injury, arteriovenous malformation, hemispherectomy, and more -- after receiving the intensive pediatric neurorehabilitation.

Released: 17-Jan-2024 10:05 AM EST
Brush biopsy enables early detection of oral cancer without surgery
University of Illinois Chicago

A new test invented by University of Illinois Chicago researchers allows dentists to screen for oral cancer with a simple brush

Newswise: Webb Shows Many Early Galaxies Looked Like Pool Noodles, Surfboards
Released: 17-Jan-2024 10:05 AM EST
Webb Shows Many Early Galaxies Looked Like Pool Noodles, Surfboards
Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI)

Like a lifeguard on duty, NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has scanned the horizon and spotted distant galaxies shaped like volleyballs, frisbees, pool noodles, and surfboards.

Newswise: Radioactivity not invited! Argonne uses heavy ions to quickly and safely produce degradation in nuclear materials
Released: 16-Jan-2024 2:20 PM EST
Radioactivity not invited! Argonne uses heavy ions to quickly and safely produce degradation in nuclear materials
Argonne National Laboratory

ATLAS — the Argonne Tandem Linac Accelerator System — can do even more ​“heavy lifting” for physics and nuclear science than previously thought.

Newswise: WashU Expert: VC bust? Time to return to fundamentals in 2024
Released: 16-Jan-2024 2:05 PM EST
WashU Expert: VC bust? Time to return to fundamentals in 2024
Washington University in St. Louis

After years of record investments and outsized returns fueled by ultralow interest rates, 3,200 U.S. private venture-backed companies — mostly tech startups — went out of business last year. Doug Villhard at Washington University in St. Louis' Olin Business School said the bust will cause the industry to reassess what is really important.

Newswise: Joshua Zide: Then and Now / 2012 Early Career Award Winner
Released: 16-Jan-2024 2:05 PM EST
Joshua Zide: Then and Now / 2012 Early Career Award Winner
Department of Energy, Office of Science

Joshua Zide and his team at the University of Delaware are taking a new approach to materials, making metallic nanoparticles separately from films and then incorporating them. It turns semiconductors into nanocomposites with different properties and new applications.

Newswise: Shengjie Feng channels the powers of cryogenic electron microscopy
Released: 16-Jan-2024 12:05 PM EST
Shengjie Feng channels the powers of cryogenic electron microscopy
Sanford Burnham Prebys

Shengjie Feng, Ph.D. is an expert in cryo-electron microscopy, a Nobel Prize-winning imaging technology capable of creating stop-action movies of proteins and other biomolecules jostling and connecting with each other while mitochondria and other organelles generate energy, assemble new molecules and transport cargo. At Sanford Burnham Prebys, Feng will use cryo-EM to reveal new ways to stop or prevent cancers.

   
Newswise: Snow-Capped Mountains at Risk from Climate Change
Released: 16-Jan-2024 11:05 AM EST
Snow-Capped Mountains at Risk from Climate Change
Department of Energy, Office of Science

Humans store water in huge metal towers and deep concrete reservoirs. But nature’s water storage is much more scenic – the snowpack that tops majestic mountains.

Released: 16-Jan-2024 9:30 AM EST
A roadmap for rescuing Utah's Great Salt Lake
University of Utah

Conserving water won’t be enough to restore the depleted Great Salt Lake, the signature Utah landscape whose existence as a functioning ecosystem remains seriously imperiled from low water levels and rising salinity.

Newswise: A roadmap for rescuing Utah's Great Salt Lake
Released: 16-Jan-2024 9:05 AM EST
A roadmap for rescuing Utah's Great Salt Lake
University of Utah

Conserving water won’t be enough to restore the depleted Great Salt Lake, the signature Utah landscape whose existence as a functioning ecosystem remains seriously imperiled from low water levels and rising salinity. Much of the water saved by Utah cities and farms through various conservation measures will have to be allowed to flow into the terminal lake if its levels are to rebound and remain at a safe level, according to Utah’s Great Salt Lake Strike Team. The panel of university and agency experts has released its latest data analysis just ahead of Utah’s upcoming legislative session.

Newswise: AI and robots will play an active role at manufacturing sites
Released: 16-Jan-2024 9:00 AM EST
AI and robots will play an active role at manufacturing sites
National Research Council of Science and Technology

The research team led by Chang-hyun Kim, head of the Department of AI Machinery of the Korea Institute of Machinery and Materials(KIMM) has succeeded in developing an AI technology for robot work that can be easily applied to manufacturing processes.

Newswise: ISPOR Publishes New Top 10 HEOR Trends Report
Released: 16-Jan-2024 4:05 AM EST
ISPOR Publishes New Top 10 HEOR Trends Report
ISPOR—The Professional Society for Health Economics and Outcomes Research

ISPOR—The Professional Society for Health Economics and Outcomes Research (HEOR) announced today the publication of its “2024-2025 Top 10 HEOR Trends Report.”

Released: 15-Jan-2024 11:05 AM EST
Tratamiento no quirúrgico para los fibromas uterinos
Mayo Clinic

Los fibromas uterinos son el principal motivo por el que las mujeres se someten a las histerectomías, cirugía que tiene como consecuencia la imposibilidad de tener hijos.

Released: 15-Jan-2024 11:05 AM EST
علاج غير جراحي للأورام الليفية الرحمية
Mayo Clinic

الأورام الليفية الرحمية هي السبب الرئيسي وراء خضوع النساء لعمليات استئصال الرحم، مما يجعلهن غير قادرات على الإنجاب.

Released: 15-Jan-2024 11:05 AM EST
Tratamento não cirúrgico para fibromiomas uterinos
Mayo Clinic

Os fibromiomas uterinos são a principal causa de mulheres submetidas a histerectomias, deixando-as impossibilitadas de ter filhos.

Newswise: Sasin Offers Sasin Sustainability Advisory
Released: 15-Jan-2024 8:55 AM EST
Sasin Offers Sasin Sustainability Advisory
Chulalongkorn University

or over two decades, Sasin School of Management has been pushing forth sustainability efforts in Thailand and Sasin’s Southeast Asia through Sustainability & Entrepreneurship Center.

Newswise: Cold Weather Platform Tennis Season Is Here: Avoid the ‘Ouch’ From the Most Common Injuries
Released: 15-Jan-2024 8:00 AM EST
Cold Weather Platform Tennis Season Is Here: Avoid the ‘Ouch’ From the Most Common Injuries
Midwest Orthopaedics at RUSH

Played outside in the cold weather on a heated, elevated court surrounded by chicken wire, platform tennis has been growing rapidly in pockets around the country since it began in the 1960’s.

Newswise: DOE User Facility Offers Imaging Platforms for Live Cell Microscopy
Released: 15-Jan-2024 7:05 AM EST
DOE User Facility Offers Imaging Platforms for Live Cell Microscopy
Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory - EMSL

The Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory a Department of Energy user facility, will hold a free webinar on Jan. 24 to showcase available imaging platforms for live cell microscopy.

Newswise:Video Embedded no-spokes-in-these-wheels-an-intellectual-disability-fails-to-deter-cyclists
VIDEO
Released: 14-Jan-2024 7:05 PM EST
No spokes in these wheels: an intellectual disability fails to deter cyclists
University of South Australia

As Australia gears up for the opening event of the world's premier men's elite road cycling tour, a group of lycra newbies will be celebrating their own success on wheels.

Released: 14-Jan-2024 12:05 PM EST
2024 Economic report to the governor highlights resilient Utah and U.S. economies
University of Utah

The Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute today presented the 36th Economic Report to Utah Gov. Spencer Cox at the 2024 Economic Outlook & Public Policy Summit, hosted by the Salt Lake Chamber.

Newswise: Answering the cattle nutrition protein question
Released: 12-Jan-2024 6:05 PM EST
Answering the cattle nutrition protein question
Texas A&M AgriLife

Knowing exactly how beef cattle utilize protein is important to answering many nutrition questions producers and industry nutritionists pose to Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service specialists like Jason Smith, Ph.D., Amarillo.

Newswise: Goldstein selected to help lead statewide task force addressing heart disease and stroke
Released: 12-Jan-2024 2:05 PM EST
Goldstein selected to help lead statewide task force addressing heart disease and stroke
University of Kentucky

Larry Goldstein, M.D., chair of the University of Kentucky Department of Neurology, has been selected to serve as co-chair of The Kentucky Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention (KHDSP) Task Force representing stroke systems of care across the state. 

Released: 12-Jan-2024 12:05 PM EST
130 Specialists at RUSH Named 'Top Doctors'
RUSH

Chicago magazine features 130 specialists at RUSH on its new list of Chicago’s Top Doctors

Newswise: China’s Presence And Power Casts A Shadow Over Taiwanese Elections
Released: 12-Jan-2024 12:05 PM EST
China’s Presence And Power Casts A Shadow Over Taiwanese Elections
University of Miami

Candidates for president of Taiwan must walk a tightrope regarding the country’s China policy. University of Miami experts detail the tensions in the high-stakes elections on Saturday.

Released: 12-Jan-2024 11:05 AM EST
MIND Diet Ranked Among Best in 2024
RUSH

For the seventh consecutive year, a diet created, studied and reported on by researchers at RUSH has been ranked among the top five diets for 2024 in multiple categories by U.S. News & World Report.

Newswise: Smartphone app could help prevent falls in older adults
Released: 12-Jan-2024 10:55 AM EST
Smartphone app could help prevent falls in older adults
Binghamton University, State University of New York

Researchers at Binghamton University, State University of New York's Motion Analysis Research Laboratory have developed an app to help study and prevent falls in older adults.

Released: 11-Jan-2024 6:05 PM EST
New ECMO Resources Include Online Course, Micro-credential
American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN)

Nurses and other clinicians who care for patients with severe heart and lung failure receiving extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) now have access to multiple resources from the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses, including specialized training and validation of their ECMO knowledge

   
Released: 11-Jan-2024 6:05 PM EST
Blue Monday, Considered By Some The Most Depressing Day Of The Year, Doesn’t Have To Be
Hackensack Meridian Health

Blue Monday is a myth, but depression this time of year isn't. Psychiatrists explain why and how to combat it.

Released: 11-Jan-2024 3:35 PM EST
Merging computer science and robotic technology to modernize processing of radioisotopes
Argonne National Laboratory

Argonne is leading a U.S. Department of Energy-funded project to safely speed up medical isotope production through a remotely-operated “hot box.”

Released: 11-Jan-2024 12:05 PM EST
Tufts Named a Top Institution for Community Engagement
Tufts University

Tufts University has been named one of 40 U.S. colleges and universities to receive the 2024 Carnegie Community Engagement Classification from the American Council on Education and the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.

Newswise: Argonne’s annual First Look@Argonne gives undergraduate students from underrepresented groups their first exposure to the lab — and its internship opportunities
Released: 11-Jan-2024 11:05 AM EST
Argonne’s annual First Look@Argonne gives undergraduate students from underrepresented groups their first exposure to the lab — and its internship opportunities
Argonne National Laboratory

Despite growing up in the Chicago area, Yasleen Muñoz — currently studying environmental biology at Harold Washington City College in Chicago — knew very little about the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory in suburban Lemont, Ill.Then one day this fall, she received an email out of the blue, inviting her to First Look@Argonne.

Released: 11-Jan-2024 8:05 AM EST
Pain-based weather forecasts could influence actions
University of Georgia

For individuals who experience chronic pain, weather can be a significant factor in their day-to-day plans.

Released: 11-Jan-2024 8:00 AM EST
Quando os transtornos do sono prenunciam algo mais sério
Mayo Clinic

Certa manhã, bem cedo, enquanto examinava uma paciente adormecida no Centro de Medicina do Sono, o Dr. Erik St. Louis percebeu algo peculiar. A paciente, uma mulher na faixa dos 60 anos, começou a correr debaixo dos lençóis.

Released: 11-Jan-2024 8:00 AM EST
Cuando los trastornos del sueño presagian algo más grave
Mayo Clinic

Una mañana temprano, mientras revisaba a una paciente dormida en el Centro de Medicina del Sueño, el Dr. Erik St. Louis observó algo particular. La paciente, una mujer de unos 60 años, había empezado a correr debajo de las sábanas. A media que sus párpados se agitaban, las piernas se pusieron en marcha, lentamente al principio, pero luego aceleraron rápidamente el paso, lo que la impulsó a lo largo de un camino que solo ella podía ver. Después de correr durante aproximadamente 30 segundos, se detuvo bruscamente y abrió los ojos. No era el comportamiento que el Dr. St. Louis esperaba de una persona con apnea del sueño.

Released: 11-Jan-2024 8:00 AM EST
Join Us in Sunny San Diego for the ATS 2024 International Conference May 17-22
American Thoracic Society (ATS)

Register now to learn about the latest in pulmonary, critical care and sleep medicine. Join us for scientific sessions and expert interviews.

Released: 11-Jan-2024 8:00 AM EST
عندما تُنذر اضطرابات النوم بشيء أكثر خطورة
Mayo Clinic

مدينة روتشستر، ولاية مينيسوتا— يومًا ما في الصباح الباكر، أثناء فحص حالة نائمة في مركز طب النوم، لاحظ الدكتور إريك سانت لويس أمرًا غريبًا. حيث بدأت الحالة، وهي مريضة في أوائل الستينات من عمرها، تركض تحت غطاء سريرها. حيث بدأت ساقاها تنطلقان ببطء في البداية ثم أخذت تزيد سرعتها لتندفع في طريق لا يراه أحد غيرها، وكان جفناها يرتعشان في نفس الوقت. وبعد الركض لمدة حوالي 30 ثانية، توقفت فجأة وفتحت عينيها. ولم يتوقع الدكتور سانت لويس أن يصدر مثل هذا التصرف من مريض انقطاع النفس النومي.

9-Jan-2024 8:05 AM EST
Scientists behind Novel Discoveries and Individuals Leading the Understanding of Emerging Areas of Concern for Public Health Are Being Honored with 2024 SOT Awards
Society of Toxicology

Among the accomplishments of this year’s awardees are discoveries related to the role of altered pharmacokinetics in non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, the mechanisms of Parkinson’s disease neurodegeneration, the risk of COVID-19 to smokers and vapers, and the role of the microbiome in pregnancy and early developmental programming.

   
Newswise: Developing Diagnostics for a Deadly Elephant Disease
Released: 10-Jan-2024 3:05 PM EST
Developing Diagnostics for a Deadly Elephant Disease
Tufts University

Elephant endotheliotropic herpesvirus is the leading cause of death for Asian elephant calves and is a danger to young African elephants as well.

Newswise: The Medical Minute: 75 Hard, 75 Soft and how to keep your fitness resolutions
Released: 10-Jan-2024 2:05 PM EST
The Medical Minute: 75 Hard, 75 Soft and how to keep your fitness resolutions
Penn State Health

75 Hard, a popular fitness routine, promises to change your life – but it’s intense. A Penn State College of Medicine expert discusses how you can achieve results with lower impact.

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Released: 10-Jan-2024 2:05 PM EST
Tabletop Exercise at Johns Hopkins APL Prepares Government and Industry for Bioeconomy Security Threats
Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory

Representatives from the federal government, academia and private industry convened at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, for a tabletop exercise to assess the nation’s preparedness for security threats unique to the bioeconomy. In May 2023, several dozen experts in public health, policy, cyber, physical sciences and law came together to identify vulnerabilities, develop mitigation recommendations and establish a greater understanding of the extent of the threats to key biological capabilities.



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