I know bad news is coming my way when my oncologist walks into the exam room with a nurse. It doesn’t matter that he introduces her as a new nurse getting to know the system. In my more than six years of seeing my oncologist for metastatic colon cancer, he has never come in accompanied.…
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My in-laws were visiting the day I found my sister Gretchen dead of an overdose. They didn’t know what to do. Provide comfort? Space? Just go on like normal, I said. Our town in upstate New York, about five hours from their Brooklyn home, offered suburban experiences that easily kept them entertained. A simple circuit…
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March 13, 2020 — As outbreaks of COVID-19 disease caused by the novel severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) continue worldwide, there’s reassuring evidence that children have fewer symptoms and less severe disease. That’s among the insights provided by an expert review in The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal, the official journal of The European…
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In the first study of its kind, University of Miami researchers have found a strong behavioral signal to indicate which infants who have an older sibling with an autism spectrum disorder (ASD) will themselves be diagnosed with ASD as they grow older. The researchers found that such high-risk infants who exhibit an early social difficulty,…
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Nathan Ainspan, PhD has been named a Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP). Dr. Ainspan was granted Fellow status by the SIOP Executive Board at its most recent meeting. The profession of industrial and organizational psychology addresses the full range of human interactions in organizational settings. Members of the profession may…
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Christopher M. Barnes, PhD has been named a Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP). Dr. Barnes was granted Fellow status by the SIOP Executive Board at its most recent meeting. The profession of industrial and organizational psychology addresses the full range of human interactions in organizational settings. Members of the profession…
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Infectious disease researchers at The University of Texas at Austin studying the novel coronavirus were able to identify how quickly the virus can spread, a factor that may help public health officials in their efforts at containment. They found that time between cases in a chain of transmission is less than a week and that…
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Current guidance on coronavirus «largely ignores» the implications for public health and clinical responses in light of those most at risk, according to an international group of global health experts. Writing in the British Medical Journal, researchers from the University of East Anglia (UEA), London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) and Samson Institute…
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Alexander Alonso, PhD has been named a Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP). Dr. Alonso was granted Fellow status by the SIOP Executive Board at its most recent meeting. The profession of industrial and organizational psychology addresses the full range of human interactions in organizational settings. Members of the profession may…
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The cover for issue 10 of Oncotarget features Figure 3, «Overall survival (OS) for high (red) versus low (black) risk groups in the (A) OSU, (B) TCGA, and (C) SNU resected cohorts,» by Wolfe, et al. Digital mi RNA expression profiling was performed and risk scores were calculated based on the expression levels of the…
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