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USANA True Health Foundation donates over $1 million to improve people’s lives

During a season revolved around giving, the USANA True Health Foundation—whose mission is to provide critical nutrition to those who are suffering or in need—continues to help others live better lives, after donating more than a million U.S. dollars to those less fortunate in 2015.

23 Dec 2015

DWU-based irrigation treatments benefit container-grown nursery plants

Competition for limited water resources is challenging producers of container-grown nursery plants to investigate alternative irrigation strategies.

23 Dec 2015

Penn study explores bleeding complications linked to cardiac stent placement techniques

More than 375,000 American each year experience a heart attack, during which blood flow to a part of the heart is impeded by blocked arteries. Physicians often treat patients with stents, which prop open the arteries to allow blood to flow again. They use two approaches to place stents: transradial, or entry of the catheter which delivers the stent through the wrist, or transfemoral, in which the catheter is placed through the groin.

23 Dec 2015

Mount Sinai cardiologist honored with Spain's highest health distinction

Valentin Fuster, MD, PhD, Director of Mount Sinai Heart and Physician-in-Chief of The Mount Sinai Hospital, was honored by the Government of Spain with the highest health distinction awarded in Spain.

23 Dec 2015

Financial burden affects cancer patients without paid sick leave

Cancer can cause an enormous financial burden for some patients. Now a new study finds the burden is worse for patients without paid sick leave.

23 Dec 2015

Four unrelated families share identical BAP1 mutation that causes several cancers

University of Hawai'i Cancer Center researchers discovered members of four families, apparently unrelated and living in different states across the US, shared the identical mutation of a gene called BAP1 that causes mesothelioma, melanoma, renal carcinoma and other cancers.

23 Dec 2015

Study offers new data about feasibility of using LEDs in greenhouse tomato operations

To satisfy increasing consumer demand for locally grown, fresh tomatoes during off-seasons, greenhouse tomato growers often need to rely on supplemental lighting.

23 Dec 2015

Researchers identify transporters responsible for arsenic accumulation in plant seeds

Researchers from FIU's Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine Barry P. Rosen and Jian Chen, both from the Department of Cellular Biology and Pharmacology, are part of an international team that has identified how arsenic gets into the seeds of plants such as rice. T

23 Dec 2015

Pennsylvania Hospital achieves Magnet recognition for nursing excellence

Pennsylvania Hospital has achieved Magnet status - the highest institutional honor awarded for nursing excellence - from the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Magnet Recognition Program. PAH's achievement was granted unanimously by the ANCC's Commission on Magnet.

23 Dec 2015

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital gets approval for new graduate school of biomedical sciences

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital has received a unanimous vote of approval from the Tennessee Higher Education Commission for the opening of a new graduate school of biomedical sciences.

23 Dec 2015

Researchers identify child pedestrian behaviors that promote accidents

"Look both ways before you cross the street" may be sage advice, but it is also apparently necessary for children as old as 13, according to a new study by Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) researchers, who have pinpointed many of the behaviors that lead to child pedestrians being hit by cars.

23 Dec 2015

ATS commends President Obama for release of National Action Plan to combat TB

The American Thoracic Society applauds President Barack Obama and the Administration for the release of the National Action Plan to Combat Drug Resistant Tuberculosis (TB) today.

23 Dec 2015

UMass Medical School and UMass Lowell collaborate on new cyberinfrastructure technology to improve health care

Researchers at UMass Medical School and UMass Lowell are collaborating on a new cyberinfrastructure technology that will enable patients, researchers and physicians to transport and store large quantities of data, including sensitive information, through a secure system.

23 Dec 2015

Government officials attend press conference announcing international healthcare service session at 4th CIFTIS

A press conference announcing the hosting of the International Healthcare Service session at the 4th China Beijing International Fair for Trade in Services (CIFTIS), which was co-organized by CiMing Health Checkup Management Group, was held in Beijing on December 18th, 2015.

23 Dec 2015

Women suffering from blood clots can safely take hormone replacement therapy with anticoagulants

New research published online today in Blood, the Journal of the American Society of Hematology (ASH), is the first to demonstrate that women on blood thinners can take estrogen-containing contraception or hormone replacement therapy without an increased risk of blood clots or uterine bleeding.

23 Dec 2015

Novel drug shows promise in mouse models of human metastatic breast cancer

A doctor treating a patient with a potentially fatal metastatic breast tumor would be very pleased to find, after administering a round of treatment, that the primary tumor had undergone a change in character - from aggressive to static, and no longer shedding cells that can colonize distant organs of the body. Indeed, most patients with breast and other forms of cancer who succumb to the illness do so because of the cancer's unstoppable spread.

23 Dec 2015

Children's Hospital Colorado achieves Magnet recognition for third time

Children's Hospital Colorado has once again received recognition for excellence in nursing by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Magnet Recognition Program. This credential recognizes continuing excellence in nursing and overall patient care at Children's Colorado.

22 Dec 2015

Researchers reveal inherited genetic errors across 12 cancer types

Researchers long have known that some portion of the risk of developing cancer is hereditary and that inherited genetic errors are very important in some tumors but much less so in others.

22 Dec 2015

Study shows more patients with advanced NSCLC may benefit from pembrolizumab

More patients with advanced non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) could benefit from pembrolizumab, says Professor Roy Herbst, Chief of Medical Oncology, Yale Cancer Center and Smilow Cancer Hospital at Yale-New Haven, presenting promising results from the pivotal phase 2/3 KEYNOTE-010 trial at the first ESMO Asia Congress in Singapore), in conjunction with a publication in The Lancet.

22 Dec 2015

FDA updates blood donor deferral recommendations to help ensure continued safety of blood supply

Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued final guidance outlining updated blood donor deferral recommendations to reflect the most current scientific evidence and to help ensure continued safety of the blood supply by reducing the risk of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) transmission by blood and blood products.

22 Dec 2015

Education News and Research

USANA True Health Foundation donates over $1 million to improve people’s lives

DWU-based irrigation treatments benefit container-grown nursery plants

Penn study explores bleeding complications linked to cardiac stent placement techniques

Mount Sinai cardiologist honored with Spain's highest health distinction

Financial burden affects cancer patients without paid sick leave

Four unrelated families share identical BAP1 mutation that causes several cancers

Study offers new data about feasibility of using LEDs in greenhouse tomato operations

Researchers identify transporters responsible for arsenic accumulation in plant seeds

Pennsylvania Hospital achieves Magnet recognition for nursing excellence

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital gets approval for new graduate school of biomedical sciences

Researchers identify child pedestrian behaviors that promote accidents

ATS commends President Obama for release of National Action Plan to combat TB

UMass Medical School and UMass Lowell collaborate on new cyberinfrastructure technology to improve health care

Government officials attend press conference announcing international healthcare service session at 4th CIFTIS

Women suffering from blood clots can safely take hormone replacement therapy with anticoagulants

Novel drug shows promise in mouse models of human metastatic breast cancer

Children's Hospital Colorado achieves Magnet recognition for third time

Researchers reveal inherited genetic errors across 12 cancer types

Study shows more patients with advanced NSCLC may benefit from pembrolizumab

FDA updates blood donor deferral recommendations to help ensure continued safety of blood supply

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