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UrduIt’s not just humans who enjoy eating shellfish, so do marine rays. They like to “crunch” on clams, which can sometimes take a big bite out of clammers’ profits. Using aerial and underwater videos, researchers assessed the ability of the whitespotted eagle ray to interact with clams housed within a variety anti-predator materials. Whitespotted eagle rays have strong jaws, plate-like teeth and nimble pectoral fins, which make them formidable and highly maneuverable predators of clams.
Month: March 2023
Understanding what makes senior towns in Iowa “smart”
Researchers are looking to small towns in Iowa to understand how some support aging in place better than others. Their findings could help communities plan for the future and preserve a high quality of life for all residents.
Summer Camp Goals for Kids with Allergies and Asthma: Stay Safe and Have Fun
Parents of children with allergies and asthma often face an added layer of concern about summer camp as they wonder how they will keep their kids safe from allergy and asthma flares, while allowing them to have great summer fun.
A Smarter Look at Traffic Congestion
NYU Tandon School of Engineering will continue its multi-faceted research and educational program to understand and combat traffic congestion, thanks to a five-year commitment of $2 million in annual federal funds recently awarded by the United States Department of Transportation (USDOT).
Keck Medicine of USC names Ikenna (Ike) Mmeje president and CEO of USC Arcadia Hospital
Keck Medicine of USC has named Ikenna (Ike) Mmeje president and CEO of USC Arcadia Hospital (USC-AH), effective March 13.
Ingeniería de tejidos para fortalecer corazones con malformaciones
¿Acaso sería posible extraer células de una pequeña porción de piel y transformarlas en tejido muscular para reparar un defecto cardíaco congénito? Esta es una pregunta científica que el Dr. Timothy Nelson, y sus colaboradores esperan responder para ayudar a quienes nazcan con una cavidad malformada en el hemisferio izquierdo del corazón, una afección compleja e infrecuente conocida como síndrome del corazón izquierdo hipoplásico (HLHS, por sus siglas en inglés).
Modificação de tecido para fortalecer os corações subdesenvolvidos
As células coletadas de uma pequena porção de pele poderiam se transformar em músculo cardíaco e reparar um defeito cardíaco congênito raro? Esta é uma questão científica que o Dr. Timothy Nelson (Ph.D.) e os seus colaboradores esperam responder para as pessoas que nasceram com a cavidade cardíaca esquerda subdesenvolvida (uma condição rara e complexa conhecida como Síndrome de hipoplasia do coração esquerdo, SHCE).
A Renewable Energy-Based Bi-directional Heat Trade System
A research team at the Department of Building Energy Research of the Korea Institute of Civil Engineering and Building Technology (KICT, President Kim Byung-suk), has developed a bi-directional heat trade system that utilizes excess heat from renewable energy including solar heat in an effort to achieve carbon neutrality in buildings.
هندسة الأنسجة لدعم القلوب غير مكتملة النمو
هل يمكن لخلايا مأخوذة من رقعة جلدية صغيرة أن تتحول لتصبح عضلة قلبية وتصلح عيبًا خلقيًا نادرًا بالقلب؟ هذا هو السؤال العلمي الذي يأمل تيموثي نيلسون، دكتور في الطب وحاصل على دكتوراه، والمتعاونون معه في الإجابة عليه من أجل هؤلاء الذين يولدون بحجرة قلب يسرى غير مكتملة النمو، وهي حالة مرضية نادرة ومعقدة تعرف باسم متلازمة القلب الأيسر ناقص التنسُّج.
COVID-19 infections raise risk of long-term gastrointestinal problems
A new study by researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and the Veterans Affairs St. Louis Health Care system shows that people who have been infected with COVID-19 are at an increased risk of developing a range of gastrointestinal conditions within the first month to a year after illness.
Head and Neck Injuries, Severity of Sports Injuries Increasing in High School Athletes
While the overall number of sports-related injuries is decreasing, the severity of those injuries and the number of head and neck injuries are on the rise.
Swing into Spring: Shoulder Arthroplasty Patients Can Return to Golf and Racket Sports with Less Pain, Maintain Level of Play
Two studies presented at the 2023 American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) Annual Meeting found that patients who had shoulder arthroplasty could return to play golf or racket sports within six months to one year, experiencing significantly decreased pain as well maintained or improved performance.
New Study Demonstrates that Running Does Not Increase Risk of Arthritis
Chicago Marathon® participants helped orthopaedic researchers further understand the impact of long-distance running on bone and joint health, specifically knee and hip arthritis in recreational runners.
Older Patients Shown to Exhibit Better Pain Relief, Quality of Life Than Younger Patients Following Total Knee Arthroplasty
Patients aged 55 and younger were found to have worse pain, function and quality of life following total knee arthroplasty (TKA) compared to patients 75 years and older.
New Study Shows High Patient Satisfaction and Outcomes After Outpatient Joint Arthroplasty at Academic Medical Centers
In the first study to establish patient satisfaction after outpatient joint arthroplasty (TJA) in an academic medical center (AMC) setting, patients indicated they were very likely to undergo the outpatient procedure again and had high patient reported outcomes (PROs).
Total Hip Arthroplasty Patients Under 65 Have Low Revision Rates at Eight Years
With an increase in total hip arthroplasty (THA) procedures being performed on younger patients, these patients have historically had poor long-term outcomes associated with implant failure.
Artificial Intelligence Proves to be an Effective Tool for Documenting Orthopaedic Encounters in Hand Surgery
While Electronic Health Records improve access to patient information, charting increases the clerical burden on physicians as medical documentation has been identified as a contributing factor to burnout.
COVID expansion of SNAP benefits expires, hunger and food insecurity likely to rise, says family nutrition expert
SNAP serves as the nation’s and the state’s largest line of defense against hunger and food insecurity. SNAP, formerly called food stamps, provides cash benefits to purchase food to eligible individuals with low incomes. Elena Serrano, director of the Virginia Cooperative Extension Family Nutrition Program, says, “Ending the enhanced benefits will affect households who have the most to lose, those households that qualified for maximum benefits, who will lose an added $95 per month in benefits. On average SNAP participants will lose $82 per month.”
How do microbes live off light?
Plants convert light into a form of energy that they can use – a molecule called adenosine triphosphate (ATP) – through photosynthesis. This is a complex process that also produces sugar, which the plant can use for energy later, and oxygen.
How heavy alcohol consumption increases brain inflammation
For people with alcohol use disorder (AUD), there is a constant, vicious cycle between changes to the brain and changes to behavior. AUD can alter signaling pathways in the brain; in turn, those changes can exacerbate drinking.
How to prevent concussions in football? Better helmets
Football helmets made by four leading manufacturers showed vulnerabilities in tests designed to better understand player concussions, according to a new study.
Preteens with problematic social media use more likely to hold positive beliefs about alcohol
A new national study published in BMC Public Health suggests that problematic social media use in early adolescents is associated with both positive and negative alcohol beliefs, which play a key role in predicting alcohol use and, potentially, the development of alcohol use disorder later in life.
Does more money correlate with greater happiness?
Are people who earn more money happier in daily life? Though it seems like a straightforward question, research had previously returned contradictory findings, leaving uncertainty about its answer.
Human temporal lobes are not very large in comparison with other primates
It had been thought to date that the species Homo sapiens has disproportionately large temporal lobes compared to other anthropoid primates, the group including anthropomorphic monkeys and apes. A new study, one of whose authors is Emiliano Bruner, a paleoneurologist at the Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana (CENIEH), contradicts that hypothesis.
Fickle Winters in East Asia Caused by Major Shift in Regional Atmospheric Circulation
Sometimes it seems like winter just can’t make up its mind—is it going to be harsh or mild? A little bit of both? New research from the University of Tsukuba showed how better understanding of large-scale weather patterns can help meteorologists improve seasonal forecasts and prepare us for dramatic shifts in weather conditions.
The next pandemic: Researchers develop tool to identify existing drugs to use in a future outbreak
A global team of researchers has created an algorithmic tool that can identify existing drugs in order to combat future pandemics. The work, reported in the Cell Press journal Heliyon, offers the possibility of responding more quickly to public-health crises.
Erratic sleep patterns linked to elevated blood pressure in teens with extra belly weight
Staying awake later into the night and sleeping in on the weekends are hallmarks of adolescent behavior, however, erratic sleep patterns may have consequences for future heart health by increasing blood pressure among teens who have more abdominal fat.
Pioneering study shows flood risks can still be considerably reduced if all global promises to cut carbon emissions are kept
Annual damage caused by flooding in the UK could increase by more than a fifth over the next century due to climate change unless all international pledges to reduce carbon emissions are met, according to new research.
Increased hospitalizations for heart attacks, heart failure seen in older adults living near fracking sites
Research shows connection between hospitalization rates for cardiovascular disease and proximity to fracking, providing evidence that exposure to airborne pollutants from unconventional natural gas development may impact human health
SHRO’s Giordano to Speak at Virtual Workshop on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
Artificial Intelligence and NGS Integrated into the Next Generation Tissue Microarrays (TMA) Workshop
Denovo Biopharma Creates Innovative Gene Registry Program to Support the First Precision Medicine for Treatment Resistant Depression
Denovo Biopharma LLC (“Denovo”), a pioneer in applying precision medicine to the development of innovative therapies, set up a gene registry web portal and invites people who suffer from treatment-resistant depression (TRD) to visit www.iMatchDepression.com to help identify whether they or someone they know may be eligible to participate in a biomarker-guided global Phase 2b clinical trial (the “ENLIGHTEN” study).
With NASA grant, ISU agronomist seeking to spot crop stress from space
A research team led by Iowa State University agronomy professor Brian Hornbuckle is studying how to use satellite-based sensors to remotely detect daily changes in water content and temperature of plants in fields across the Corn Belt, a system that could act as an early warning system for crop stress.
@UCIrvine researcher Matthew Bracken (@BrackenLab) is a good sources of information regarding the proposed ocean biodiversity treaty from the United Nations
Matthew Bracken Professor of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology University of California, Irvine [email protected] About About Matthew Bracken’s Marine Biodiversity Lab: Our research evaluates the relationships and feedbacks between consumers, nutrient cycling, biodiversity, and productivity. We take an integrative approach…
With $13M, UIC scientists will study lung inflammation mechanisms
The research team consists of six investigators who will lead three separate project grants and three separate cores, in the hopes of finding new avenues for research and treatments to help patients who suffer from conditions like chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder, pulmonary fibrosis and acute respiratory distress disorder, a common and serious complication of COVID-19.
Over-the-scope-clips may be more effective than standard treatment for some patients with nonvariceal upper gastrointestinal bleeding
A randomized controlled trial of adults with active bleeding or a nonbleeding visible vessel from a nonvariceal cause on upper gastrointestinal endoscopy found that over-the-scope-clips (OTSCs) as an initial treatment may be better than standard treatment in reducing the risk for further bleeding from some nonvariceal upper gastrointestinal causes. The findings are published in Annals of Internal Medicine.
YouTube’s credibility tags face “credibility conundrum” in fight against misinformation
While YouTube’s newly introduced tagging policy attempts to steer consumers to credible information sources on the social media platform by prioritizing credible sources in the search algorithm, individuals may still tend to rely on sources they trust for health information, like friends or even celebrities. The authors of a new commentary published in Annals of Internal Medicine refer to this as the “credibility conundrum.” What one person considers “credible,” another may not.
Commercial water purification system may have caused pathogen infection in 4 hospitalized patients
A study of 4 cardiac surgery patients in one hospital found that they developed Mycobacterium abscessus infections, a multidrug-resistant nontuberculous mycobacteria, potentially due to a commercial water purifier. The water purifier had been installed in the hospital to improve water palatability but was inadvertently removing chlorine from the supply lines feeding ice and water machines in the affected area of the hospital. The study is published in Annals of Internal Medicine.
Sleep and epilepsy: Dr. Birgit Frauscher
Bidirectional links between epilepsy and sleep have been known for thousands of years. Despite nearly a century of research using EEG investigations, the relationships are still not well understood.
Rutgers Expert Available to Comment on Cholesterol Drug for Statin Intolerant Patients
Emily Aboujaoude, clinical assistant professor at Rutgers University’s Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy, can comment on the NEJM trial finding bempedoic acid (Nexletol) lowers cholesterol in patients who cannot tolerate statins. The following quotes from Aboujaoude are available to journalists…
Response to hormone therapy predicts radiation resistance in ER+ breast cancer
How estrogen receptor-positive (ER+) breast cancer responds to hormone therapy may hold keys to understanding how it will respond to radiation therapy, and an experimental drug that increases the effectiveness of hormone therapy also overcomes radiation resistance in breast cancer, a study by UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers shows.
Metal Contamination Causes Metabolic Stress in Environmental Bacteria
Most studies on the effects of heavy metals on bacteria living in these environments have only focused on one metal at a time. In this study, researchers found that exposing bacteria to a mixture of metals caused their metabolism to change and led them to act as if they were starved for iron.
Incidence Rates of Diabetes Continue to Increase in Children, Young Adults
New findings from researchers at Wake Forest University School of Medicine confirm that the rates of Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes continue to increase in children and young adults. Non-Hispanic Black and Hispanic children and young adults also had higher incidence rates of diabetes.
New research points to drug option for hair-pulling, skin-picking disorders
Treatment with the drug memantine was associated with significant improvements compared to a placebo for patients with trichotillomania and excoriation disorders.
Hackensack Meridian Health Invests $14 Million Into Oncology Expansion at JFK University Medical Center
“Hackensack Meridian Health is committed to using every available resource to fight cancer and ensure that our patients, clinical staff, and frontline teams have access to best-in-class, award-winning care in their own backyard,” said Robert C. Garrett, FACHE, chief executive officer, Hackensack Meridian Health.
Major medical organizations form a coalition to stem the rising tide of firearm violence using a comprehensive public health approach
A new group — the Healthcare Coalition for Firearm Injury Prevention — is being established to advance firearm injury prevention using a public health approach.
Electronic Messages Improved Influenza Vaccination Rates in Nationwide Danish Study
To evaluate best strategies for increasing vaccination rates, researchers from Brigham and Women’s Hospital, a founding member of the Mass General Brigham healthcare system, collaborated with Danish researchers to develop and implement a nationwide trial in Denmark testing nine different electronic messaging tactics among adults over age 65.
Penn Nursing Center Joins with 50 Leading National Organizations to Curb Infodemic of Health and Science Misinformation and Disinformation
The creation of The Coalition for Trust in Health & Science, was formally launched during the 2023 American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C. The alliance, which includes Penn Nursing’s NewCourtland Center for Transitions and Health, was formed to unite leading organizations from across the entire health ecosystem to advance trust and factual science-based decision-making.
WashU Expert: Goldman Sachs’ sale won’t allow return to ‘freewheeling ways’
The Goldman Sachs Group is considering a sale of its consumer banking business, but regulations will mean it can’t simply return to being an investment bank, said an expert on financial and securities regulation at Washington University in St. Louis.“While exiting the consumer banking business may allow Goldman to ‘check out,’ it can never fully leave the regulatory world for bank holding companies and return to its investment banking roots,” said Andrew Tuch, a professor of law.
Temperature-stable TB vaccine safe, prompts immune response in NIH-supported study
A clinical trial testing a freeze-dried, temperature-stable experimental tuberculosis (TB) vaccine in healthy adults found that it was safe and stimulated both antibodies and responses from the cellular arm of the immune system.
Taking care of your teeth could help prevent chronic joint pain
Regular visits to the dentist might help keep joint pain at bay, too.