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Diabetes curriculum may help empower students to make healthy choices

For Lola McPherren, learning about diabetes is personal. The Juanita High School ninth-grader had a grandfather with diabetes. She recalled that he gave himself a shot of insulin before a meal, and that he also never really changed his diet to help control the disease. He died in February.

25 Nov 2019

Video games poised to fundamentally change cardiology training

Video games are a popular form of entertainment in the U.S. with more than 164 million adults playing them. Seventy-five percent of households have at least one gamer.

25 Nov 2019

New survey to explore physicians' perspectives on deprescribing medications for older adults

As you grow older, you're more likely to develop health conditions that require taking multiple medications--some of which you may take for a long time.

25 Nov 2019

Screen time could be starting in infancy, says NIH study

Children nowadays might be risking their developmental health by excessive exposure to screen time. The average time that children stare at the idiot box, or other monitors, including a computer or mobile device, was almost an hour a day at 12 months of age, increasing to over 150 minutes (2.5 hours) by the age of 3 years.

25 Nov 2019

BB guns dangerous for kids as they increase risk of eye injuries

Often marketed as toys, non-powder firearms like BB guns, pellet guns, airsoft, and paintball guns are dangerous for children and teenagers due to a high risk of eye injury.

25 Nov 2019

New antiviral drug drives treatment resistance in influenza viruses

On January 31, 2019, an 11-year old boy in Japan went to a medical clinic with a fever. The providers there diagnosed him with influenza, a strain called H3N2, and sent him home with a new medication called baloxavir.

25 Nov 2019

Discovery in C. difficile biology opens new window to developing treatments for dangerous infections

A process called sporulation that helps the dangerous bacterium Clostridium difficile (C. difficile) to survive inhospitable conditions and spread is regulated by epigenetics, factors that affect gene expression beyond the DNA genetic code, researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai report.

25 Nov 2019

Feelings of love throughout the day connected with psychological well-being

Poets and songwriters may tend to focus their artistry on passion and romance, but it may be those unsung, brief feelings of love throughout the day that are connected with psychological well-being, according to a team of researchers led by two Penn State Institute for Computational and Data Sciences researchers.

25 Nov 2019

Women treated for early-stage breast cancer may develop invasive breast cancer

New research in the November 2019 issue of JNCCN—Journal of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network examines the implications of invasive breast cancer after breast-conserving treatment for ductal carcinoma in situ (aka DCIS, a form of non-invasive breast cancer) and which factors could impact overall survival.

25 Nov 2019

New collaboration aims to provide solutions for patients with hypoplastic left heart syndrome

Mayo Clinic's Todd and Karen Wanek Family Program for Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome (HLHS) and Children's of Alabama announce their collaboration within a consortium to provide solutions for patients with hypoplastic left heart syndrome, a rare and complex form of congenital heart disease in which the left side of the heart is severely underdeveloped.

25 Nov 2019

Research shows how cilia and exocyst contribute to extracellular vesicle production

Although the cilium has been known to scientists for more than 100 years, it is only recently that it has been acknowledged to play important roles in physiology.

25 Nov 2019

New partnership aims to explore, cultivate innovations in cell and gene therapy

Some patients who have not responded to traditional medicines are now experiencing remarkable recoveries thanks to next-generation immunotherapies. These therapies equip a patient's own immune cells to recognize, target, and destroy cancer cells.

25 Nov 2019

High out-of-pocket medication cost is a huge issue for millions of patients with cardiovascular diseases

One in 8 adults with common heart diseases and stroke skip taking medications, delay filling prescriptions or take lower doses than prescribed because of concerns about cost, according to new research published today in the American Heart Association's journal Circulation.

25 Nov 2019

Study finds increasing rate of eye injuries from nonpowder firearms among children

Nonpowder firearms have long been marketed to children and teenagers as toys or "starter" firearms and include BB, pellet, airsoft and paintball guns.

25 Nov 2019

Study finds lower rates of premature death and cancer in Seventh-day Adventists

A recent study found lower rates of premature death and cancer in Seventh-day Adventists, a Protestant denomination long known for health promotion, compared with individuals in the general U.S. population.

25 Nov 2019

BIDMC and Harvard launch first-of-its-kind Climate and Human Health Fellowship

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, the Harvard FXB Center for Health and Human Rights and the Center for Climate, Health, and the Global Environment at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (Harvard C-CHANGE), have launched a first-of-its-kind Climate and Human Health Fellowship.

22 Nov 2019

Study shows how drinking patterns reprogram circadian metabolism in the liver

Drinking alcohol is a widespread habit in modern society and can have serious metabolic consequences. Recent studies have uncovered the interplay between nutrition, metabolism and circadian rhythms. But, until now, little has been done to understand the effects of alcohol consumption on circadian metabolism.

22 Nov 2019

UMass Lowell researcher receives $1 million grant for asthma prevention research

A UMass Lowell researcher who works to alleviate asthma in senior citizens has received $1 million from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to advance his work.

22 Nov 2019

Highly accurate decision-making systems can be created with human-machine interaction

Machines can be trained to classify images and thus identify tumors in CT scans, mineral compositions in rocks, or pathologies in optical microscopy analyses. This artificial intelligence technique is known as machine learning and has gained new applications in recent years.

22 Nov 2019

FDA approves Ohio State-developed drug to treat patients with CLL and SCL

On Nov. 21, 2019, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the use of the drug acalabrutinib for first-line therapy in chronic lymphocytic leukemia and small cell lymphoma.

22 Nov 2019

Education News and Research

Diabetes curriculum may help empower students to make healthy choices

Video games poised to fundamentally change cardiology training

New survey to explore physicians' perspectives on deprescribing medications for older adults

Screen time could be starting in infancy, says NIH study

BB guns dangerous for kids as they increase risk of eye injuries

New antiviral drug drives treatment resistance in influenza viruses

Discovery in C. difficile biology opens new window to developing treatments for dangerous infections

Feelings of love throughout the day connected with psychological well-being

Women treated for early-stage breast cancer may develop invasive breast cancer

New collaboration aims to provide solutions for patients with hypoplastic left heart syndrome

Research shows how cilia and exocyst contribute to extracellular vesicle production

New partnership aims to explore, cultivate innovations in cell and gene therapy

High out-of-pocket medication cost is a huge issue for millions of patients with cardiovascular diseases

Study finds increasing rate of eye injuries from nonpowder firearms among children

Study finds lower rates of premature death and cancer in Seventh-day Adventists

BIDMC and Harvard launch first-of-its-kind Climate and Human Health Fellowship

Study shows how drinking patterns reprogram circadian metabolism in the liver

UMass Lowell researcher receives $1 million grant for asthma prevention research

Highly accurate decision-making systems can be created with human-machine interaction

FDA approves Ohio State-developed drug to treat patients with CLL and SCL

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