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Newswise: New cybersecurity center to protect grids integrated with renewables, microgrids
Released: 23-Apr-2024 10:05 AM EDT
New cybersecurity center to protect grids integrated with renewables, microgrids
Iowa State University

The U.S. Department of Energy is awarding researchers a $2.5 million grant to establish a cybersecurity center based at Iowa State University. The center will develop technology to protect power grids from cyberattacks and strengthen the grid industry's security workforce.

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Newswise: Virtual reality program shares shopping, cooking advice with dialysis patients
Released: 23-Apr-2024 10:05 AM EDT
Virtual reality program shares shopping, cooking advice with dialysis patients
College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Even with the best intentions, it’s not always easy for dialysis patients to choose low-sodium foods. That’s why University of Illinois and University of Arizona researchers created a virtual reality program focused on shopping and cooking with low-sodium ingredients to educate dialysis patients from the comfort of their treatment chairs.

Released: 23-Apr-2024 10:05 AM EDT
Majority of Acute Care Hospitals Do Not Admit Representative Proportion of Black Medicare Patients in Their Local Market
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

A study analyzing a large sample of Medicare admissions at nearly 2,000 acute care hospitals nationwide during 2019 found that most hospitals—nearly four out of five—admitted a significantly different proportion of Black fee-for-service Medicare patients age 65 and older compared to the proportion of the same group of patients admitted to any hospital in that hospital’s market area.

Released: 23-Apr-2024 10:05 AM EDT
FDA approves immunotherapy drug combo for non-muscle invasive bladder cancer after UCLA-led research shows improved outcomes for patients
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Health Sciences

The FDA approval was based on results of the QUILT 3.032 clinical trial, which was led by Dr. Karim Chamie, associate professor urology at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and a researcher at the UCLA Health Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center.

Newswise:Video Embedded hubble-celebrates-34th-anniversary-with-a-look-at-the-little-dumbbell-nebula
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Released: 23-Apr-2024 10:00 AM EDT
Hubble Celebrates 34th Anniversary with a Look at the Little Dumbbell Nebula
Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI)

To celebrate Hubble’s 34th launch anniversary, NASA released the telescope’s new observation of the Little Dumbbell Nebula. Also known as Messier 76, or M76, it is composed of a ring, seen edge-on as the central bar structure, where a central red giant star burned out, and two lobes of gas and dust that are on either opening of the ring.

20-Apr-2024 7:00 AM EDT
Stress Activates Brain Regions Linked to Alcohol Use Disorder, Differently for Women Than Men
Research Society on Alcoholism

When exposed to stress, people with alcohol use disorder engage parts of the brain associated with both stress and addiction, which may cause them to drink or crave alcohol after a stressful experience, suggest the authors of a study published in Alcohol: Clinical and Experimental Research.

     
Released: 23-Apr-2024 9:05 AM EDT
Social media affects people’s views on mental illness
Ohio State University

Even subtle differences in the wording of social media messages may be enough to sway young people’s beliefs about depression and anxiety and their treatment. Researchers found that college students were more optimistic about the possibility of successfully treating mental health problems after they read social media messages conveying a “growth mindset.”

Newswise: Tracy M. Valorie joins Glaucoma Research Foundation Board of Directors
Released: 23-Apr-2024 9:00 AM EDT
Tracy M. Valorie joins Glaucoma Research Foundation Board of Directors
Glaucoma Research Foundation

Glaucoma Research Foundation, the nation’s most experienced foundation dedicated solely to glaucoma research and education, has elected Tracy M. Valorie, BS, MBA to its Board of Directors.


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