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Canadian innovators use video games to help children with neurodevelopment disabilities
Dino Island improves attention and executive function in children with neurodevelopmental disabilities
Hospital admissions associated with noncommunicable diseases during COVID-19 outbreak in Brazil
What The Study Did: Researchers assessed the number of hospital admissions for noncommunicable diseases (abnormal tissue growths, metabolic diseases, cardiovascular diseases and musculoskeletal diseases) in São Paulo, Brazil, between January and June last year compared with the corresponding periods in the…
Study highlights barriers for women and marginalized groups in supramolecular chemistry
A new study by the international network Women In Supramolecular Chemistry (WISC) has highlighted the equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) issues faced by women and marginalised groups working within that field. The network has also set out a ‘calling in’…
Health care use among undocumented patients
What The Study Did: Researchers examined the association of increased anti-immigrant rhetoric during the 2016 presidential campaign with changes in the use of health care services among undocumented patients. Authors: Joseph Nwadiuko, M.D., M.P.H., M.S.H.P., of the University of Pennsylvania…
NYU Tandon alum and mentor Dan Guido elected to Scholarship for Service Hall of Fame
BROOKLYN, New York, Friday, March 5, 2021 – Dan Guido, an alumni of the NYU Tandon School of Engineering , is the sixth inductee into the CyberCorps: Scholarship for Service (SFS) Hall of Fame since inaugural class of honorees in…
Predicting work performance with personality
SMU Office of Research & Tech Transfer – Selecting the right person for a job can be tricky. A potential candidate may present well initially, but it’s hard to predict how they will perform once they are operating within an…
The Holberg Prize names public philosopher Martha C. Nussbaum as 2021 Laureate
(Bergen, Norway): Today, the Holberg Prize–one of the largest international prizes awarded annually to an outstanding researcher in the humanities, social sciences, law or theology–named American philosopher Martha C. Nussbaum as its 2021 Laureate. Nussbaum is the current Ernst Freund…
Robotic systems for patient evaluation
What The Study Did: Researchers evaluated the feasibility and acceptability of using a mobile robotic system to perform health care tasks such as acquiring vital signs, obtaining nasal or oral swabs and facilitating contactless triage interviews of patients with potential…
Effect of alcohol abstinence incentives with American Indian, Alaska Native adults
What The Study Did: Researchers in this randomized clinical trial examined the effectiveness of incentives offered for laboratory-confirmed abstinence from alcohol among American Indian and Alaska Native adults diagnosed with alcohol dependence. Authors: Michael G. McDonell, Ph.D., of Washington State…
MDI Biological Laboratory receives funding to address arsenic threat
Maine CDC grant will support improving access to safe drinking water
Researchers discover that privacy-preserving tools leave private data anything but
BROOKLYN, New York, Wednesday, March 3, 2021 – Machine-learning (ML) systems are becoming pervasive not only in technologies affecting our day-to-day lives, but also in those observing them, including face expression recognition systems. Companies that make and use such widely…
New book reveals Charles Darwin’s cultural impact in unprecedented detail
NUS historian of science Dr John van Wyhe has co-published a groundbreaking new book on Charles Darwin which shows for the first time the extent of his cultural impact over the past 160 years
COVID-19 RCTs registered in 1st 100 days of pandemic
What The Study Did: Researchers assessed the recruitment and results reporting of randomized clinical trials (RCTs) to treat or prevent COVID-19 registered within 100 days of the first case reported to the World Health Organization. Authors: Lars G. Hemkens, M.D., M.P.H.,…
Vilcek Foundation allocates $150,000 for 2022 prizes honoring immigrant scientists
The Vilcek Foundation will award three prizes of $50,000 to early-career immigrant researchers in biomedical science in 2022
Top diversity and equity leaders in psychiatry offer guidelines for academic medicine
New article and commentary from American Journal of Psychiatry
C-Path and Global Partners launch Ataxia Consortium
The Critical Path to Therapeutics for the Ataxias will optimize clinical trials for inherited ataxias
When young people start smoking
What The Study Did: Researchers in this observational study assess at what age young people ages 12 to 17 start using cigarettes. Authors: Adriana Pérez, Ph.D., of the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston in Austin, is the corresponding…
Risk factors associated with COVID-19 transmission among US Air Force trainees in a congregate setting
What The Study Did: Researchers in this observational study of more than 10,000 U.S. Air Force basic trainees examined whether symptoms and laboratory results on the first day of COVID-19 diagnosis are associated with development of a case cluster in a…
Recreational marijuana legalization, changes in use before, during, after pregnancy
What The Study Did: Researchers looked at whether state legalization of recreational cannabis was associated with changes in use by women before, during and after pregnancy. Authors: Kara R. Skelton, Ph.D., of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health…
Ancestry estimation perpetuates racism, white supremacy
BINGHAMTON, NY — Ancestry estimation — a method used by forensic anthropologists to determine ancestral origin by analyzing bone structures — is rooted in “race science” and perpetuates white supremacy, according to a new paper by a forensic anthropologist at…
JDRF, Lupus Research Alliance and National Multiple Sclerosis Society join forces to decode common m
First joint common mechanisms grants announced
Wiley and CRUI sign four-year transitional agreement to accelerate open access publishing in Italy
February 24, 2021 – Hoboken, N.J. – John Wiley & Sons, Inc. today announced a new four-year open access agreement with the Conference of Italian University Rectors (CRUI) to accelerate open access publishing among a growing list of more than…
Tobacco exposure in kids, risk of increased blood pressure
What The Study Did: Researchers investigated whether children and adolescents who smoked or lived with a smoker had an increased risk of elevated blood pressure. Authors: Rebecca V. Levy, B.M., B.Ch., M.Sc., of the Montefiore Medical Center in Bronx, New…
Abundance of iron drives cell death and could inform novel treatments for neuroblastoma
Neuroblastoma is a cancer that develops in nerve tissue, most commonly in the glands around the kidneys. The gene MYCN is overexpressed in 20-25% of neuroblastoma, and MYCN-amplified neuroblastoma contributes to a considerable percentage of pediatric cancer-related deaths. Anthony Faber,…
Tinnitus: A tingling mystery to be decrypted
The article by Dr. Mereen H. Fahmi Rasheed et al. is published in The Open Neuroimaging Journal, 2021
Trauma admissions during COVID-19 pandemic in LA county
What The Study Did: Researchers examined changes in trauma admissions throughout Los Angeles County during the COVID-19 pandemic in California. Authors: Kazuhide Matsushima, M.D., of the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, is the corresponding author. To access the embargoed study:…
Super-sensitive cancer blood test earns “Top 10” award from clinical research forum
Cancer biologists at Weill Cornell Medicine have been awarded a 2021 Top 10 Clinical Research Achievement Award from the Clinical Research Forum for their study last year describing a highly sensitive blood test for monitoring cancer progression and relapse. The…
Mongolian archaeological project receives 2 million euro Arcadia grant
A new grant to the Department of Archaeology will support the documentation of thousands of threatened sites and construct an open access database in English, Mongolian and Russian
Association of armed guards, severity of school shootings
What The Study Did: Researchers examined the association between the presence of an armed guard on scene and the severity of shootings at schools kindergarten through high school. Authors: Jillian Peterson, Ph.D., of Hamline University in St. Paul, Minnesota, is…
Role of diet in risk of colorectal cancer
What The Study Did: Researchers examined the strength of the evidence from published meta-analyses of observational studies that looked at the association between diet and the risk of colorectal cancer. Authors: Nathorn Chaiyakunapruk, Pharm.D., Ph.D., of the University of Utah…
TAT 2021 Honorary Award: A recognition in cancer drug development to Ruth Plummer
TAT 2021, March 1-2, 2021
Racial, ethnic differences in deceased organ donation
What The Study Did: Researchers examined changes in how organ donation from deceased donors differed by race and ethnicity in the United States over time. Authors: Dorry L. Segev, M.D., Ph.D., of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in…
25 leading researchers join EU-funded actions to teach students about trustworthy science
Path2Integrity promotes learning settings and materials for honesty, reliability, respect, and accountability in research
Assessment of SARS-CoV-2 and risk factors associated with COVID-19 among outpatients in Virginia
What The Study Did: Researchers assessed what percentage of the Virginia population had been exposed to SARS-CoV-2 after the first wave of COVID-19 infections in the U.S. Authors: Eric R. Houpt, M.D., of the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, is the corresponding…
Proton pump inhibitor use by children, risk of asthma
What The Study Did: Researchers investigated the association between the use of proton pump inhibitors among children and adolescents in Sweden and the risk of asthma. Authors: Yun-Han Wang, M.Sc., B.Pharm., of the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, is the corresponding…
NeuroVascular quality initiative quality outcomes database tops 10,000 procedures
FAIRFAX, Va., February 1, 2021 – The Society of NeuroInterventional Surgery’s (SNIS) Patient Safety Organization (PSO), in partnership with the NeuroPoint Alliance (NPA), is pleased to announce that the NVQI-QOD now has over 10,000 procedures in the registry. Since its…
Research establishes a new method to predict individual risk of cognitive decline
The early prognosis of high-risk older adults for amnestic mild cognitive impairment (aMCI), using noninvasive and sensitive neuromarkers, is key for early prevention of Alzheimer’s disease. A recent study, published in the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease , by researchers at…
Factors, rate of nurse burnout in US
What The Study Did: Researchers estimated the rate of nurse burnout in the United States and the factors associated with leaving or considering leaving their jobs due to burnout. Authors: Megha K. Shah, M.D., M.Sc., of the Emory University School…
Povidone iodine mouthwash, gargle, nasal spray to reduce nasopharyngeal viral load in patients with COVID-19
What The Study Did: Researchers in this randomized clinical trial investigated whether nasopharyngeal application of povidone iodine could reduce the viral load of patients with nonsevere COVID-19 symptoms. Authors: Olivier Mimoz, M.D., Ph.D., University Hospital of Poitiers in Poitiers, France, is…
Pensoft and ARPHA welcome three biodiversity-themed journals in their portfolio
The scholarly publisher and technology provider Pensoft and its self-developed publishing platform ARPHA welcome three journals to their distinguished and growing portfolio of biodiversity-themed journals. The international, peer-reviewed and open-access journals Acta Ichthyologica et Piscatoria , Caucasiana and Zitteliana are…
Wiley updates author name change policy within research publishing to support a more inclusive publishing environment
Wiley has updated its author name change policy , which applies to all research published in its more than 1,700 journals, to support the anonymity of authors who wish to change their name on already-published research. The new policy went…
Study reveals gender imbalance in scholarly submissions during pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a profound effect on higher education — shifting classes online, canceling events, and putting financial strain on institutions. One area of academia that has actually shown positive increases, however, is the submission of research papers.…
Public attitudes about COVID-19 in response to President Trump’s social media posts
What The Study Did: Researchers used near real-time social media data to capture the public’s changing COVID-19-related attitudes when former President Trump was infected. Authors: Sean D. Young, Ph.D., of the University of California, Irvine, is the corresponding author. To access…
Stimulant-associated deaths in US
What The Study Did: Researchers looked at changes in the rate of deaths associated with the use of illicit (such as cocaine) and medical stimulants in the United States from 2010 to 2017. Authors: Joshua C. Black, Ph.D., of Rocky Mountain…
Association of social, demographic factors with COVID-19 cases, death rates in US
What The Study Did: Researchers investigated the association between county-level social risk factors and COVID-19 cases and deaths, as well as weekly changes in cumulative cases and mortality, using publicly available data sets as of July 29, 2020. Authors: Renuka Tipirneni,…
Racial, ethnic differences in diagnostic imaging at children’s hospitals emergency departments
What The Study Did: Researchers examined if the use of diagnostic imaging for children receiving care in pediatric emergency departments in the United States differs by race and ethnicity. Authors: Jennifer R. Marin, M.D., M.Sc., of the University of Pittsburgh School…
Senquan Liu named STEM CELLS Young Investigator of 2020
Durham, NC – Senquan Liu, Ph.D., is STEM CELLS ‘s Young Investigator of 2020 for his work on human stem-cell derived extracellular vesicles (EVs). This award fosters advancements in the field of stem cell research by honoring a young researcher…
Reforming the ‘scoop’ system that hurts science
Do current reforms to end the ‘ratrace’ between scientists really help?
The DEEPER project: New photonic tools to reveal deep brain alterations causing diseases
Coordinated by IIT, the project involves 12 partners in 8 countries and it has been funded by the EU with about 5.7 million euros for the next 4 years