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New study shows electronic tracking system helps lower blood transfusions and infection rates

An electronic system that monitors how physicians give blood to patients after an operation has enabled a 22-hospital system with thousands of doctors to significantly reduce the amount of blood transfusions patients receive, cutting costs by $2.5 million over two years and contributing to lower infection rates without harming patients, according to a study presented at the 2015 Clinical Congress of the American College of Surgeons.

8 Oct 2015

Penn study forms basis for new treatment approaches for Sezary syndrome

Sezary syndrome (SS), an aggressive leukemia of mature T cells, is more complicated at a molecular level than ever suspected, according to investigators from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.

8 Oct 2015

Study: Sun exposure during teenage years may delay onset of multiple sclerosis

A study of people with multiple sclerosis (MS) found that those who spent time in the sun every day during the summer as teens developed the disease later than those reporting not spending time in the sun every day.

8 Oct 2015

Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center announces creation of Technology Development Program

Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center today announced the creation of a Technology Development Program, a $15 million program to develop the ideas, discoveries and inventions of the faculty and staff of the Medical Center into life science technologies having the potential to benefit patients in the community and worldwide.

8 Oct 2015

Limiting consumption of sugary drinks helps combat childhood and adolescent obesity

More than one-third of children in the United States ages 6 to 19 years old are overweight or obese. Over the past 30 years, the number of obese adolescents has more than quadrupled, which also has led to an increase in children diagnosed with diabetes. To combat this trend, Aneesh Tosh, M.D., adolescent medicine physician at University of Missouri Health Care and associate professor of clinical child health at the MU School of Medicine, recommends that sugary drinks be removed from adolescents' diets.

8 Oct 2015

New research highlights vitamin E needs for people with metabolic syndrome

New research shows that the estimated one-third of Americans who have a cluster of health problems that add up to metabolic syndrome don't absorb dietary vitamin E as effectively as healthy people.

8 Oct 2015

NIBIB-supported bioengineers work to reduce platelet activation and clotting in patients with VADs

A team of NIBIB-supported bioengineers, aerospace scientists, and cardiovascular clinicians are improving the function of the thousands of life-saving ventricular assist devices (VADs) implanted in advanced heart failure patients each year.

8 Oct 2015

Cleaning patient rooms with combination of chemicals and UV light cuts transmission of superbugs

Healthcare facilities continue to battle drug-resistant organisms such as methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) that loiter on surfaces even after patient rooms have been cleaned and can cause new, sometimes-deadly infections.

8 Oct 2015

New book suggests ways to reduce medical reversals

Medical reversal—when accepted medical interventions are abandoned because they are found to be ineffective—is the "most important problem in medicine today," according to the authors of a new book: Ending Medical Reversal.

8 Oct 2015

UT Southwestern investigators develop new strategy to classify cancers caused by KRAS mutations

UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers have developed a classification for cancers caused by KRAS, the most frequently mutated gene in cancer, that could eventually help oncologists choose more effective, customized cancer therapies.

8 Oct 2015

Online advertising potentially effective in delivering targeted cancer prevention education

Online advertising based on Google search terms is a potentially effective way to deliver targeted cancer prevention education, according to a study led by Eleni Linos, MD, DrPH, an assistant professor of dermatology at UC San Francisco.

8 Oct 2015

Half-matched donor bone marrow transplant just as good as full match, new study shows

Bone marrow transplantation is a life-saving therapy for many patients with blood cancers like leukemias and lymphomas. Currently, the gold standard blood-generating stem cells are obtained from a donor, a sibling, with a perfect match to the patient in order to minimize the chance of rejection and other complications. However, not all patients will have a perfectly matched sibling. Some cancer centers have begun to explore whether half-matched donors might work just as well.

8 Oct 2015

Dr. Paul Liu named 2015 Distinguished Alumnus for contributions to leukemia research

In his laboratory in the National Human Genome Research Institute in Bethesda, Md., Paul Liu, M.D., Ph.D., is working on targeted treatments for leukemia, a life-threatening blood cancer.

8 Oct 2015

NYIT's Aydin Farajidavar receives NIH grant to develop implantable wireless device for measuring gastric activity

New York Institute of Technology Assistant Professor Aydin Farajidavar has received a $457,000 National Institutes of Health grant to develop an implantable wireless system to study the body's gastric and digestive systems.

8 Oct 2015

New report reveals more about how stem cells are affected by immediate surroundings

A Johns Hopkins University biologist has led a research team reporting progress in understanding the mysterious shape-shifting ways of stem cells, which have vast potential for medical research and disease treatment.

8 Oct 2015

Dan's House of Hope selected to receive ASTRO's 2015 Survivor Circle grant

The American Society for Radiation Oncology has selected a Houston-based cancer patient support group, Dan's House of Hope, to receive ASTRO's 2015 Survivor Circle grant. The organization will receive $8,500 to recognize its efforts and provide direct support for the organization's work assisting cancer patients and their families.

8 Oct 2015

Endocrine Society issues Clinical Practice Guideline on treatment of menopausal symptoms

The Endocrine Society today issued a Clinical Practice Guideline (CPG) on identifying women who are candidates for treatment of menopausal symptoms and selecting the best treatment options for each individual.

8 Oct 2015

People in low-income countries lack access to life-saving cancer treatment

Queen's University researcher Timothy Hanna has co-authored a Lancet Oncology study that suggests as many as 90 per cent of people in low-income countries lack access to radiotherapy treatment. The lack of access to radiotherapy costs millions of lives and billions of dollars in lost economic growth in low- and middle-income countries.

8 Oct 2015

UCSD researchers develop new microbiome analysis platform

The human microbiome -- the total collection of bacteria, viruses and other microorganisms living in and on your body -- has been linked to a variety of health and disease states, including obesity, allergies, asthma, and a rapidly growing list of other conditions. But as researchers try to sort out the complex relationship between microbial populations and human health and use that information to diagnose or treat disease, they are generating a deluge of microbial sequence data that first needs to be organized and analyzed.

8 Oct 2015

New study compares general measures of self-control with domain-specific measures

Whether it's resisting buying a candy bar in the checkout lane or purchasing an unneeded pair of shoes on sale at the mall, self-control varies from person to person. Researchers must pay attention to these differences in individuals' self-control when assessing the impact of public policies, according to a new study by marketing and consumer behavior experts at Rice University and Vanderbilt University.

8 Oct 2015

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New study shows electronic tracking system helps lower blood transfusions and infection rates

Penn study forms basis for new treatment approaches for Sezary syndrome

Study: Sun exposure during teenage years may delay onset of multiple sclerosis

Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center announces creation of Technology Development Program

Limiting consumption of sugary drinks helps combat childhood and adolescent obesity

New research highlights vitamin E needs for people with metabolic syndrome

NIBIB-supported bioengineers work to reduce platelet activation and clotting in patients with VADs

Cleaning patient rooms with combination of chemicals and UV light cuts transmission of superbugs

New book suggests ways to reduce medical reversals

UT Southwestern investigators develop new strategy to classify cancers caused by KRAS mutations

Online advertising potentially effective in delivering targeted cancer prevention education

Half-matched donor bone marrow transplant just as good as full match, new study shows

Dr. Paul Liu named 2015 Distinguished Alumnus for contributions to leukemia research

NYIT's Aydin Farajidavar receives NIH grant to develop implantable wireless device for measuring gastric activity

New report reveals more about how stem cells are affected by immediate surroundings

Dan's House of Hope selected to receive ASTRO's 2015 Survivor Circle grant

Endocrine Society issues Clinical Practice Guideline on treatment of menopausal symptoms

People in low-income countries lack access to life-saving cancer treatment

UCSD researchers develop new microbiome analysis platform

New study compares general measures of self-control with domain-specific measures

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