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UrduSEATTLE, Wash. – As preschoolers across the nation head into classroom buildings for the start of the school year, more than 300 Seattle area children enrolled in the Tiny Trees Preschool will get to spend their time learning outside–rain or…
Tag: Public Health
MCG student to receive one of five scholarships for diversity efforts
Bria Peacock, a third-year student at the Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University, has received an Association of American Medical Colleges 2019 Herbert W. Nickens Medical Student Scholarship. The $5,000 scholarship, one of only five awarded each year, goes…
Social network interventions can lead to potential health benefits
Social network interventions can have a significant effect on a range of health behaviors and outcomes both in the short and long term, according to a new study published this week in PLOS Medicine by Ruth Hunter of Queen’s University…
Aesthetics of skin cancer therapy may vary by treatment type
HERSHEY, Pa. — While there are several effective options for treating non-melanoma skin cancers, some may result in better cosmetic appearance after treatment, according to researchers. In a meta-analysis of 58 studies, a study led by Penn State compared four…
Achieving zero harm from healthcare — new collection comments on 20 years of research
September 3, 2019 (Thousand Oaks, CA) Over the past 20 years, has the U.S. made significant progress to improve preventable medical errors? A new special collection of articles in the American Journal of Medical Quality (AJMQ) , published by SAGE…
UA awarded $1.4M grant for program that supports sleep apnea patients
TUCSON, Ariz. – University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson Professor Sairam Parthasarathy, MD, has been awarded nearly $1.4 million for a peer-support program for sleep apnea patients. The funding — from the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute — will…
Environmental exposures in pregnancy and childhood could affect blood pressure in children
Exposome study evaluates associations between more than 200 environmental exposures and blood pressu
$2M from NIH to extract meaningful data from CRISPR screens
Protein-coding genes comprise a mere 1% of DNA. While the other 99% of DNA was once derided as “junk,” it has become increasingly apparent that some non-coding genes enable essential cellular functions. Wei Li, Ph.D., a principal investigator in the…
Skin cancer risk in athletes: The dangers of ultraviolet radiation
The dangers of ultraviolet radiation exposure, which most often comes from the sun, are well-known. Speaking at The Physiological Society’s Extreme Environmental Physiology conference next week, W. Larry Kenney, Penn State University, will discuss how broad its effects can be,…
Most-comprehensive analysis of fentanyl crisis urges innovative action
With unprecedented death toll, unique strategies needed to reverse tide, study finds
Baylor College of Medicine issues position statement on youth smoking and vaping
Baylor College of Medicine has issued a statement to address and help prevent the harms of youth smoking and vaping. As e-cigarette use rises rapidly among younger generations, Baylor calls on the public to educate their legislators, policy makers and…
Youth: Transgender people should use bathroom they’re most comfortable in
Transgender rights continue to be under threat in several states, but a new study reveals that young
Giving trauma patients blood pressure stabilizing hormone cuts transfusions by half
Penn study shows that trauma patients with severe blood loss, most often gunshot victims, need only
Prenatal pesticide exposure linked to changes in teen’s brain activity
New study is one of the first to use advanced brain imaging to reveal how exposure to these chemical
University Hospitals awarded $1 million from Ohio Opioid Technology Challenge
UH Care Continues technology kept more than 12,000 opioid pills out of circulation in just six month
Prenatal pesticide exposure linked to changes in teen’s brain activity
New study is one of the first to use advanced brain imaging to reveal how exposure to these chemical
Gene linked to autism undergoes changes in men’s sperm after pot use
Further study is needed to determine if the altered gene contributes to autism in children
$3.3M NIH grant to support health in Detroit
EAST LANSING, Mich. – Faculty from Michigan State University received a $3.3 million grant from the National Institutes of Health for an experiment to improve the health of Detroit’s residents by cultivating green spaces in the city. Amber Pearson, assistant…
PSU receives $19.3 million NIH grant to help underserved students become scientists
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded an additional $19.3 million grant to a successful Portland State University (PSU) program that helps students from socioeconomically disadvantaged backgrounds become top-level health sciences researchers. The program – Building Infrastructure Leading to…
University Hospitals awarded $1 million from Ohio Opioid Technology Challenge
UH Care Continues technology kept more than 12,000 opioid pills out of circulation in just six month
PSU receives $19.3 million NIH grant to help underserved students become scientists
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded an additional $19.3 million grant to a successful Portland State University (PSU) program that helps students from socioeconomically disadvantaged backgrounds become top-level health sciences researchers. The program – Building Infrastructure Leading to…
Cleaning pollutants from water with pollen and spores — without the ‘achoo!’ (video)
SAN DIEGO, Aug. 26, 2019 — In addition to their role in plant fertilization and reproduction, pollens and spores have another, hidden talent: With a simple treatment, these cheap, abundant and renewable grains can be converted into tiny sponge-like particles…
Parasitic worms infect dogs, humans
Infective nematodes found in canines in remote Australia
One-third of pre-approved prescription drugs have not completed the FDA approval process
CATONSVILLE, MD, August 26, 2019 – The Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) Accelerated Approval Program was created in 1992 to significantly accelerate the ability to bring certain new drugs to market. New research to be published in an upcoming issues…
Memory loss, dementia an understudied yet widespread phenomenon among Chinese Americans
Rutgers releases first of their kind studies revealing the impact of immigration, gender, psychologi
Canadian children’s diet quality during school hours improves over 11-year period
Surveys taken 11 years apart show a 13 per cent improvement in the quality of foods consumed by Canadian children during school hours, a new UBC study has found. “It’s essential to look at what foods children are eating at…
Anthropologist chronicles a nation’s deportation campaign
In her new book, Sarah Willen examines Israel’s campaign against migrant communities, drawing parall
CU Anschutz announces first out-of-home gun storage map to prevent suicide
Families can improve home safety by storing firearms with law enforcement and retailers
Many kidneys discarded in the United States would be transplanted in France
New study, led by Penn Medicine and Paris Transplant Group, found French transplant centers are far
Front-line caregivers given tools to play bigger role in the fight against opioid abuse
Buprenorphine and naltrexone can help break a person’s addiction to life-threatening opioid use disorder, but they can be hard for front-line, primary care providers to prescribe, according to researchers at McGovern Medical School at The University of Texas Health Science…
UTHealth’s Argyrios Stampas earns training grant from Center for Clinical & Translational Sciences
Argyrios Stampas, MD, assistant professor of physical medicine and rehabilitation with McGovern Medical School at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth), has been awarded a KL2 training grant for research pertaining to bladder conditions for spinal…
Both talk therapy and medications show some efficacy for reducing suicide risk
Below please find summaries of new articles that will be published in the next issue of Annals of Internal Medicine . The summaries are not intended to substitute for the full articles as a source of information. 1. Both talk…
Addressing causes of mortality in Zambia
Despite the fact that people in sub-Saharan Africa are now living longer than they did two decades ago, their average life expectancy remains below that of the rest of the world population. A new study looked into the importance of…
The technology behind Bitcoin may improve the medications of the future
BLOCKCHAIN. Researchers at the University of Copenhagen have developed a prototype of an app that may potentially prescribe the optimal dose of medicine for the individual patient, as well as prevent counterfeit products. Big data. Machine Learning. Internet of Things.…
Study shows frying oil consumption worsened colon cancer and colitis in mice
Research by UMass Amherst food scientists compared effects of fresh and thermally processed oil
Can researchers engage safely with the food industry?
Researchers from the University of Queensland and University of Cambridge are exploring ways to help
Researcher works to understand how gonorrhea develops resistance to antibiotics
Steadily and relentlessly, the bacterium that causes gonorrhea has slipped past medicine’s defenses, acquiring resistance to once-reliable drugs, including penicillin, tetracycline, and ciprofloxacin. These former stalwarts are no longer used to treat the sexually transmitted disease. In 2010, after some…
Suicide and self-harm risk nearly triple in people with restless leg syndrome
Restless legs syndrome was associated with a nearly tripled risk of suicide and self-harm in a new study led by Penn State researchers. Using Big Data, the researchers found that people with restless legs syndrome (RLS) had a 2.7- fold…
50% of Irish adults rely on online advice for health concerns
RCSI MyHealth public lecture series to address common health topics
New center to address health disparities in inland Southern California
Five-year, $16 million grant from the National Institutes of Health will help launch Center for Heal
Clean air for a sustainable future
Three Leibniz Institutes are working on solutions to reduce the health impact of air pollution by so
Lower levels of dietary vitamins and antioxidants are linked to frailty in older adults
Researchers from The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA) at Trinity College Dublin have shown in the largest study to date that lower levels of specific dietary vitamins and antioxidants are associated with frailty. Frailty is a common chronic syndrome…
Health care workers unprepared for magnitude of climate change
Chronic kidney disease is just one climate-related ailment poised to strike
Most Patients Willing to Share Medical Records for Research Purposes
In a survey, UC San Diego researchers report most patients are willing to share medical records for research purposes, with a few caveats.
Texas cities increasingly susceptible to large measles outbreaks
PITTSBURGH, Aug. 21, 2019 – The growing number of children arriving at Texas schools unvaccinated makes the state increasingly vulnerable to measles outbreaks in cities large and small, according to a computer simulation created by the University of Pittsburgh Graduate…
What factors influence how antibiotics are accessed and used in less well off countries
It is often assumed that people use antibiotics inappropriately because they don’t understand enough about the spread of drug resistant superbugs. A new study led by Warwick University Assistant Professor Marco J Haenssgen challenges this view. The study, published in…
Nicotine-Free E-Cigarettes Can Damage Blood Vessels
MRI scans on 31 individuals showed that vaping temporarily impacts blood vessel function in healthy people.
How public health practitioners can address racism: New book edited by Fielding School professor
In a new book edited by a professor from the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, academicians and community organizers explain how public health practitioners can identify and address racism.
‘Hidden’ data exacerbates rural public health inequities
While some of the data rural public health officials need to better serve their communities and guide public health policy and spending exists, that data is hard to access and use. University of Washington researchers conducted qualitative surveys of rural public health leaders in four Northwest states to find the barriers they face to getting and using data. The results of their research have been published in JAMIA and the researchers are establishing an accessible database with the tools rural officials need to understand and share\ the data.
Age-related illness risk for people living with HIV
Study finds increased incidence of heart disease, COPD and bone fractures