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UrduA set of updated recommendations on critical care for infants and children – including criteria for admission and discharge and levels of care in the pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) – are presented in Pediatric Critical Care Medicine. The journal is published in the Lippincott portfolio by Wolters Kluwer. The recommendations are released jointly by the Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) and the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), and an executive summary is also published in the journal Pediatrics.
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American Neurological Association highlights abstracts to be presented at 144th Annual Meeting, Oct. 13–15 in St. Louis
Advances lead to a more complete picture of precision medicine
Researchers Characterize Lung Inflammation Associated With Some Cancer Immnunotherapy
Immune checkpoint inhibitors are a type of therapy that uses the immune system to fight cancer. They have been hailed as game changing, garnering a Nobel Prize last year and quickly becoming the standard of care for many tumor types such as melanoma and certain lung and head and neck cancers.
Plant Research Could Benefit Wastewater Treatment, Biofuels and Antibiotics
Chinese and Rutgers scientists have discovered how aquatic plants cope with water pollution, a major ecological question that could help boost their use in wastewater treatment, biofuels, antibiotics and other applications.
Best treatment for herniated disc
A herniated disc is painful – and the most frequent cause of spinal surgery. But is the selected treatment always the right one? New research results show that the clinical criteria
Horwitz Prize awarded for work on critical cancer pathway
Columbia University will award the 2019 Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize to three scientists: Lewis C. Cantley, Weill Cornell Medicine and NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center, New York, NY, USA, David M. Sabatini, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Howard Hughes…
Ancient DNA from Central and South Asia reveals movement of people and language in Eurasia
A genome-wide analysis of ancient DNA from more than 500 individuals from across South and Central Asia sheds light on the complex genetic ancestry of the region’s modern people. “The scale of this data set enables [the authors] to compare…
Tiny airborne particles from wildfires have climate change implications
Scientists with Arizona State University connections are important contributors to a newly published
Research warns of the far-reaching consequences of measles epidemic and failure to vaccinate
The European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ESCMID) 5th Vaccine Conference will hear that the risks of failing to vaccinate children may extend far beyond one specific vaccine, although currently the most urgent problem to address is the…
New study confirms protective effect of diabetes drugs against kidney failure
A new meta-analysis published in The Lancet Diabetes and Endocrinology today has found that SGLT2 inhibitors can reduce the risk of dialysis, transplantation, or death due to kidney disease in people with type 2 diabetes. Lead author Dr Brendon Neuen…
Lessons in learning
Study shows students in ‘active learning’ classrooms learn more than they think
New method for imaging biological molecules
Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have, together with colleagues from Aalto University in Finland, developed a new method for creating images of molecules in cells or tissue samples. The method is based on the use of DNA snippets and…
Brighter future for LEDs: NIST Introduces new lamp calibration lab
Question: How many measurement scientists does it take to screw in an LED lightbulb? Answer: For researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), half as many as it took a few weeks ago. In June, NIST began…
Breakdown of spawning synchrony silently threatens coral survival in red sea reefs
Changes to the environmental conditions that underpin the reproductive success of some corals may be causing their highly synchronized mass-spawning strategy to break down, a new study finds. This desynchronization – a previously unnoticed threat – could drive aging coral…
Following three failed replications of 2016 study, Science maintains ‘EEoC’
After having issued an Editorial Expression of Concern on a 2016 Science study by Siddappa N. Byrareddy et al. in March of this year, to flag that the journal had learned the study had used a virus variant that could…
Scientists who raced to study Kilauea’s lava as it fueled rare phytoplankton bloom find surprise
Results from a rapid-response oceanographic expedition in the North Pacific reveal a surprise about how lava from the K?lauea Volcano, which erupted on the island of Hawai’i during the summer of 2018, triggered a vast phytoplankton bloom. The study –…
First ancient DNA from Indus Valley civilization links its people to modern South Asians
Researchers have successfully sequenced the first genome of an individual from the Harappan civilization, also called the Indus Valley Civilization (IVC). The DNA, which belongs to an individual who lived four to five millennia ago, suggests that modern people in…
Scientists confirm efficacy of a combination therapy for advanced liver cancer
A procedure that cuts off blood supply to tumors improves the effectiveness of a drug for advanced-s
Cleveland Clinic Medical Innovation Summit focuses on ‘Caring for Every Life Through Innovation’
17th annual summit to bring together more than 100 speakers and leaders from around the world
Similar information rates across languages, despite divergent speech rates
Spanish may seem to be spoken at a higher speed than Vietnamese, but that doesn’t make it any more “efficient”. Researchers affiliated with the CNRS and Université Lumière Lyon 2 (Dynamique du Langage laboratory) have shown that human languages are…
Having an elder brother is associated with slower language development
Intuitively, it is tempting to think that a child who has an elder brother or sister will grow up in a stimulating linguistic environment and will develop their language skills faster than the family’s firstborn. However, several studies have shown…
Michael A. Petr to present at the 6th Annual Aging Research, Drug Discovery, and AI Forum in Basel
Thursday, September 5, 2019 – Today the Biogerontology Research Foundation , a leading UK non-profit foundation dedicated to increasing healthy longevity and promoting advances in ageing research, Insilico Medicine , a biotechnology company developing the end-to-end drug discovery pipeline utilizing…
Updated Barrett’s Guideline aims to improve patient outcomes
The American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ASGE) has released its updated “ASGE guideline on screening and surveillance of Barrett’s esophagus,” published in the September issue of GIE: Gastrointestinal Endoscopy . The guideline aims to help clinicians understand the published literature…
Breakdown in coral spawning places species at risk of extinction
Synchronized coral spawning has become erratic, endangering the long-term survival of coral species,
Tropical storm Faxai gets a name and NASA gets an infrared picture
Tropical Storm 14W has been moving through the Northwestern Pacific Ocean for several days and has now been renamed Faxai. NASA’s Aqua satellite passed over the newly renamed storm and took the temperature of Faxai’s clouds and storms. NASA’s Terra…
Corrosion control: Topside drone keeps vessels ship-shape
ARLINGTON, Va.–The unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) launches straight up from the deck of the USS Midway, its operator carefully maneuvering the UAV in front of the ship’s air traffic control tower. Along the UAV’s predetermined flight path, the camera mounted…
Weight change and bone health in older adults with obesity
Weight loss in older adults is accompanied by loss in bone mineral density (BMD) and an increased risk of bone fracture. A new study published in Obesity found that loss of hip BMD persists in the year following a weight…
Traditional and electronic cigarettes linked to poor sleep
Use of traditional cigarettes or e-cigarettes was linked with more sleep difficulties in a recent Journal of Sleep Research study. The study included 1,664 college students, 41% of whom reported ever trying or currently using e-cigarettes and 29% of whom…
Students who do not date are not social misfits
Prior research identified four distinct dating trajectories from 6th to 12th grade: Low , Increasing , High Middle School , and Frequent . In a new study published in the Journal of School Health , researchers found that adolescents who…
Should patients continue blood thinners after experiencing gastrointestinal bleeding?
Anticoagulants and antiplatelet drugs, which are blood thinners such as warfarin and aspirin, are commonly taken to reduce the risk of potentially fatal blood clots, but they carry an increased risk of gastrointestinal bleeding. A study of 871 patients from…
Social networking sites affect nurses’ performance
Addiction to social networking sites reduces nurses’ performance and affects their ability to concentrate on assigned tasks, according to a study published in the Journal of Advanced Nursing . The study found that nurses can take “self-management” steps to address…
Study examines personality and motivation in relation to internet gaming disorder
A new study examining the relationships among personality, motivation, and internet gaming disorder (IGD) found that predictors of IGD include male gender, neurotic and introverted personality traits, and motivation related to achievement. The Journal of Addictions & Offender Counseling study…
Obesity and psychosocial well-being among patients with cancer
In a study published in Psycho-Oncology , excess weight was linked with poorer psychosocial health among older adults diagnosed with breast cancer or prostate cancer. The association was not seen in older patients with colon cancer, however. In the study…
Modifiable risk factors contribute to gout
Elevated urate in the blood (hyperuricemia) is a precursor of gout, which is the most common form of inflammatory arthritis worldwide. A study published in Arthritis & Rheumatology that included 14,624 U.S. adults found that four modifiable risk factors–body mass…
Diversity of Plasmodium falciparum across Sub-Saharan Africa
SILVER SPRING, Md. – Scientists from the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research joined a network of African scientists, the Plasmodium Diversity Network Africa, and Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute to publish a groundbreaking study about the genetic diversity of the…
WVU researcher studies differences in the immune systems of men and women
Females are less susceptible to infection but are 10 times more likely than males to develop an autoimmune disorder, such as hypothyroidism or rheumatoid arthritis. The female immune system is “a double-edged sword” in that way, said Jennifer Franko ,…
Artificial intelligence approaches may improve diagnostics of kidney disease
Highlights In two different studies, researchers used machine learning algorithms to classify kidney biopsy samples and found substantial agreement with standard classification by pathologists The methods may augment traditional diagnostics of kidney disease. Washington, DC (September 5, 2019) — Two…
Tuberculosis mutation discovery paves way for better treatments
PNAS publishes Rutgers New Jersey Medical school study: ‘Phase variation in Mycobacterium tuberculos
When physicians integrate with hospitals, costs go up, Rice study says
HOUSTON — (Sept. 5, 2019) — When physicians integrate with hospitals, the cost of health care rises even though there’s no evidence patients get better treatment, according to a new paper by experts at Rice University and Blue Cross and…
SRL publishes focus section on Subduction Zone processes in the Americas
The eastern Pacific Ocean margin stretching from Mexico to southern Chile offers seismologists a “natural laboratory” in which to study and test ideas about the processes of subduction zones, which are associated with some of the world’s largest recorded earthquakes…
A molecular ‘atlas’ of animal development
Researchers from the University of Pennsylvania provide a molecular map of every cell in a developin
UTA scientist explores using nanoparticles to reduce size of deep-seated tumors
Another collaborative project from a nanoparticles expert at The University of Texas at Arlington has yielded promising results in the search for more effective, targeted cancer treatments. Wei Chen, in collaboration with colleagues from the University of Rhode Island and…
UTA study shows how consumers rely on price to determine quality of products
A study of price and perceived quality
New study tracks sulfur-based metabolism in the open ocean
One of the planet’s most active ecosystems is one most people rarely encounter and scientists are only starting to explore. The open ocean contains tiny organisms — phytoplankton — that perform half the photosynthesis on Earth, helping generate oxygen for…
Researchers find alarming risk for people coming off chronic opioid prescriptions
Patients on chronic opioid prescriptions were 3x more likely to die of an overdose in the years that
Migraines linked to higher risk of dementia
Dementia is the most common neurological disease in older adults, whereas headaches, including migraines, are the most common neurological disorder across all ages. In a recent study in the International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry that included 679 community-dwelling adults aged…
Using nature to produce a revolutionary optical material
Nanocomposite protects against intense light, holds promise for expanding high-speed optical network
New research discovers the financial cost of trachoma surveys
Impact surveys critical to tracking bacterial disease that causes blindness
Helminthic infections may be beneficial against HIV-1
Infection with parasitic helminths can reduce the susceptibility of T-cells to HIV-1 infection, according to a study published September 5 in the open-access journal PLOS Pathogens by Esther de Jong of the University of Amsterdam and William Paxton of the…
Taxing sweetened drinks by the amount of sugar could cut obesity and boost economic gains
New analysis finds greater health and economic benefits to taxing sugar content compared to liquid v