In 2008 at VUMC there were a group of doctors trying something unheard of on a handful of patients who signed up for their study. Half would receive deep brain stimulation (DBS) surgery in attempt to slow the progression of their early-stage Parkinson’s disease, and the others would not.
Building innovations from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory will be on display in Washington, D.C. on the National Mall June 7 to June 9, 2024, during the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s, or HUD’s, Innovation Housing Showcase.
Partnership between UC San Diego Health and El Centro Regional Medical Center successfully ensures the delivery of high-quality care to Imperial County.
A joint study by Argonne and MIT highlights the essential role of public transportation in Chicago and warns of serious impacts if the system was removed, including increased traffic congestion, increased pollution, economic decline and activity cancellations.
Everybody has them. A Penn State Health expert with nearly 50 years of experience talks about the best way to treat headaches.
Argonne National Laboratory’s Office of Community Engagement has established a Memorandum of Understanding with Chicago’s Green Era Campus to pursue research in sustainability in agriculture, renewable energy generation, and food equity and access.
Below are summaries of recent Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center research findings and other news. March is Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month, contact our media team to set up interviews.
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You don’t need to be musically inclined to parent musically. But incorporating music in your family’s daily life can foster deeper connections with each other—and with music itself.
A new poll of voters in Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin, often considered battleground states, highlights the partisan divide on important issues and on the legal case against former U.S. President Donald Trump.
A task force at Argonne National Laboratory is defining new standards for the user experience at electric vehicle charging stations.
In June 1964, the world’s first deep-diving submersible dedicated to scientific research was commissioned. What have we learned over the past 60 years?
The Milken Institute School of Public Health at the George Washington University has named Timothy Holtz, global health epidemiologist, researcher, and board-certified physician in both preventive and internal medicine, as the newly appointed chair and director of the Sumner M. Redstone Global Center for Prevention and Wellness.
The utilization of Satellite Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) technology is being employed to unveil concealed archaeological features and safeguard heritage sites. The research highlights the significant potential of SAR in detecting buried structures, monitoring environmental threats, and assessing post-disaster impacts. This study showcases various use-cases, including ancient cities and natural reserves across Italy, China, and Russia, demonstrating the versatility and advanced capabilities of SAR in archaeological prospection and heritage conservation.
Researchers at the Krieger Klein Alzheimer’s Research Center at Rutgers Brain Health Institute are launching a pioneering study to better understand the characteristics that place South Asian populations at heightened risk for Alzheimer’s disease.
In recognition of her work breaking down language barriers around the world by creating Spanish-language educational content about lung cancer for patients and caregivers, Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center's Dr. Estelamari Rodriguez has been honored as GRACE Patient Educator of the Year.
In work supported by the Q-NEXT quantum center, a Stanford University group digs into diamond to find the source of its apparently temperamental nature when it comes to emitting quantum signals, widening a path for building quantum networks and sensors.
Vita Rose Carletti made her grand entry into the world on Jan. 7, 2024, after her mother, Krista Hazelwood, went through an arduous 36-hour labor that ended in an emergency cesarean section.
Three 5-month-old Andean bear cubs are debuting at the Queens Zoo, marking a rare occurrence as Andean bears typically only have one or two cubs at a time.
استخدم الناس الصيام المتقطع لسنوات من أجل فقدان الوزن غير المرغوب فيه، بينما يصوم آخرون لأسباب دينية. يعد هذا الاتجاه الغذائي الشائع بين الأنظمة الغذائية آمنًا بشكل عام، لكن بعض الدراسات تشير إلى أن تناول الطعام المقيد بالوقت قد يسبب مشاكل في القلب.
Há muitos anos, pessoas têm utilizado o jejum intermitente para perder quilos indesejados, enquanto outras jejuam por razões religiosas. A tendência popular da dieta é geralmente segura, mas alguns estudos sugerem que comer com restrição de tempo pode causar problemas cardíacos.
Durante muchos años, la gente ha utilizado el ayuno intermitente para perder kilos no deseados, mientras que otros ayunan por razones religiosas. La tendencia popular de la dieta suele ser segura, pero algunos estudios sugieren que comer con restricción de tiempo puede generar problemas cardíacos.
The science-themed escape room LabEscape, created by UIUC’s Paul Kwiat and supported by the Q-NEXT quantum center, gives fans at Chicago’s C2E2 expo a chance to experience the joy of science. They responded: LabEscape was nearly booked by opening day.
With her Early Career Research Award, Stanford University associate professor Sigrid Elschot studied the effects of fast-moving, microgram-sized particles that collide with spacecraft. These particles vaporize, ionize, and produce a plasma that radiates electromagnetic energy.
Momentum for manufacturing innovation in the United States got a boost during the inaugural MDF Innovation Days, held recently at the U.S. Department of Energy Manufacturing Demonstration Facility, or MDF, at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
Reyna Gordon, PhD, associate professor of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery, has been appointed director of the VICTR KL2 Program and director of Postdoctoral Training for Edge for Scholars (EFS) at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.
A group of engineers at Argonne National Laboratory is uniquely equipped to design, model and install experimental systems that enable pioneering scientific research.
For over a half-century, medical students at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School have been helping the citizens of Newark improve their health and quality of life. Recently, the medical school opened its doors to the community it serves for an exchange of ideas to take this service to the next level.
Argonne’s Aurora supercomputer represents a leap forward in scientific research. Offering unprecedented speed and power, advanced hardware, and AI capabilities, Aurora ushers in a new era of supercomputing to revolutionize the way scientists conduct research and achieve breakthroughs.
Finding the balance between maximizing profit and promoting civic development is critical for successful growth in cities, says Justin Hollander, a professor in the Department of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning at Tufts University
A record 17 to 25 named storms have been predicted for the 2024 Atlantic hurricane season, with 8 to 13 of them becoming hurricanes. A new forecast model jointly created by researchers at NOAA and the University of Miami will provide better diversity of prediction tools.
The choices that Bruce Gold faced last December to resolve debilitating symptoms from a severely enlarged prostate were to keep using a catheter or have an invasive surgery with unreliable results and a high risk of complications and lingering side effects.
Chulalongkorn University, in collaboration with the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and academic partners, organized the Inclusive Society Platform Network Meeting titled Roundtable: What is inclusive society platform? “The Unheard Voices” and an exhibition of research on inclusive society.
History is fun with Historicovator, an innovative metaverse media for learning the past at your own pace, by a Chula Education Lecturer that won several awards at the iCAN 2023 Innovation Contest in Canada.
In 2021, researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center used artificial intelligence and deep machine learning to analyze 1.7 million raw images of patient-derived tumor samples, pinpointing a key distinction between skin cancer cells with high and low potential to metastasize – a discovery that could ultimately mean the difference between life or death for patients.
معظم الأشخاص على دراية بالنوبات القلبية التي تحدث بسبب انسداد الشريان التاجي. ولكن الجسم لديه نوعان من الأجهزة الشريانية: الجهاز الشرياني التاجي، المرتبط بالقلب، والجهاز الشرياني المحيطي، والذي يتضمن الشرايين التي تحمل الدم المؤكسج إلى الذراعين، والساقين، والدماغ، وسائر الجسم.
You might never know they’re there. But brain aneurysms can turn into ticking time bombs medical science is still attempting to understand. A Penn State Health expert discusses the unsure world of cerebral aneurysms.
Physicist David DeMille and chemist Mercouri Kanatzidis were elected to the National Academy of Sciences for their outstanding scientific achievements.
During its decade-long existence, Rosenstiel School’s 75-foot-long hurricane simulator has helped usher in a wave of international scientists and cutting-edge projects—from hybrid coral reefs to ocean-tracking devices.
A maioria das pessoas já ouviu falar de ataques cardíacos que ocorrem por conta do bloqueio de uma artéria coronária. Contudo, o corpo possui dois tipos de sistemas arteriais: o sistema da artéria coronária, ligado ao coração, e o sistema arterial periférico, que envolve as artérias que transportam sangue oxigenado para os braços, pernas, cérebro e o resto do corpo.
In 2023, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in 2023 approved the world’s first leadless dual-chamber pacemaker, a potential gamechanger for the nearly 80% of patients who require pacing of both the upper and lower chambers of the heart. UT Southwestern is one of just nine heart centers in Texas to offer this advanced technology, which implants two capsule-shaped devices smaller than AAA batteries directly inside the heart in a catheter-based procedure, with no large incisions and no lead wires.
La mayoría de la gente ha oído hablar de ataques cardíacos que se producen debido al bloqueo de una arteria coronaria. Sin embargo, el cuerpo tiene dos tipos de sistemas arteriales: el sistema de la arteria coronaria, conectado al corazón, y el sistema arterial periférico, que involucra las arterias que transportan sangre oxigenada a los brazos, piernas, cerebro y el resto del cuerpo.
In an effort to address America’s aging energy infrastructure, Argonne scientists are using the power of artificial intelligence to predict potential failures before they occur and strategically optimize repairs, paving the way for a more reliable and efficient electric grid.
Orhun Aydin, Ph.D., assistant professor in Earth and Atmospheric Science at SLU’s School for Science and Engineering, received a $149,791 planning grant from the National Science Foundation for a program to put sensors in garbage and recycling bins around the City of St. Louis.
The American Academy of Dermatology (AAD), in conjunction with the Firefighter Cancer Support Network, will host a free Skin Cancer Check event for an estimated 425 New York City firefighters on Saturday, June 1 at the New York City Firefighter Training Facility on Randall’s Island. The inaugural event kicks off the Academy’s Firefighter Skin Cancer Checks Initiative, a nationwide effort designed to provide free skin cancer checks to 10,000 firefighters by 2026.
Factor Bioscience Inc., a Cambridge, Massachusetts-based biotechnology company pioneering mRNA-based cell engineering, today announced that the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has terminated three separate ex parte reexaminations of three U.S. patents owned by Factor.
A virtual and robotic revolution in Australia’s mining industry could spell the end of fly-in-fly-out (FIFO) workers within a decade, according to one of the country’s leading geologists and immersive technology experts.
As the warm weather and summer vacations draw more people outdoors, a UT Southwestern Medical Center cancer specialist is reminding everyone to stay vigilant of potential sun damage. Skin cancer is mainly caused by ultraviolet radiation from the sun. And while it is the most common of all cancers in the U.S., it is also one of the most avoidable forms of the disease.
Concerns over medical misinformation are not new, but the COVID-19 pandemic magnified long-simmering tensions over two fundamental concepts: Freedom of speech and the federal government’s responsibility to protect people from what it considers false and dangerous claims.
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