Plague is an endemic disease in Madagascar. Each year there is a seasonal upsurge between September and April, especially in the Central Highlands, which stand at an elevation of more than 800m. In 2017, an unprecedented pneumonic plague outbreak hit the main island, primarily affecting the capital Antananarivo and the main port city of Toamasina.…
IMAGE: A runner wears maximal shoes in the FORCE Lab at OSU-Cascades. view more Credit: Rob Kerr/OSU-Cascades BEND, Ore. – A six-week transition period did not help wearers adjust to “maximal” running shoes, indicating that increased impact forces and loading rates caused by the shoe design do not change over time, a new study from Oregon…
IMAGE: Drs. Hasan Zaki (left) and SM Nashir Udden. view more Credit: UTSW DALLAS – April 15, 2019 – UT Southwestern researchers have found that a protein in the body’s innate immune system that responds to gut microbes can suppress the most common type of liver cancer. The study, published today in the journal eLife, determined…
IMAGE: This is Alejandro Gutierrez, MD. view more Credit: MICHAEL GODERRE / BOSTON CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL Three children Alejandro Gutierrez, MD, treated for leukemia during his fellowship at Boston Children’s Hospital still haunt him more than a decade later. One 15-year-old boy died from the toxicity of the drugs he was given; the other two patients went…
Arlington, Va., April 16, 2019 – Outpatient healthcare providers inappropriately prescribed antibiotics to 40 percent of patients in a major Veterans Affairs healthcare system, a higher figure than in previous studies examining outpatient antibiotic use, according to a new study appearing in the American Journal of Infection Control (AJIC), the journal of the Association for…
FINDINGS UCLA researchers have developed a new artificial intelligence system to help radiologists improve their ability to diagnose prostate cancer. The system, called FocalNet, helps identify and predict the aggressiveness of the disease evaluating magnetic resonance imaging, or MRI, scans, and it does so with nearly the same level of accuracy as experienced radiologists. In…
TUCSON, Ariz. and AUSTIN, April 16, 2019 — The Critical Path Institute (C-Path) and CDISC are pleased to announce the release of a global Therapeutic Area Standard that specifies how to structure commonly collected data and outcome measurements in clinical trials for HIV. The standard, released in the form of User Guide for data managers,…
IMAGE: ‘It has always been said that the more empathy there is, the less aggressive behaviour there is, but what we are contributing is that it may not always be like… view more Credit: Nagore Iraola. UPV/EHU The research group in the Psychobiology section of the Department of Basic Psychological Processes and their Development of the…
IMAGE: Pancreatic cancer cells (nuclei in blue) growing as a sphere encased in membranes (red). By growing cancer cells in the lab, researchers can study factors that promote and prevent the… view more Credit: Min Yu (Eli and Edythe Broad Center for Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research at USC) CAMBRIDGE, MA — Before being tested…
IMAGE: FIU researchers Adriana Emilce Galvan, Masafumi Yoshinaga, Kunie Sakurai, Venkadesh Sarkarai Nadar, Jian Chen, Barry Rosen. Photographed in Rosen’s lab at Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine. view more Credit: Doug Garland, FIU Antibiotic resistance has been called one of the biggest public health threats of our time. There is a pressing need for new and…