Emerging from a theater on a recent Sunday, I turned on my phone and found a flurry of texts from my daughter. My 2-year-old granddaughter had just smashed her thumb in a closing restaurant door. Wincing, I read on: They were headed for an urgent care clinic. They were waiting for X-rays. The thumb was…
Some people around the world have polydactyly, meaning that they are born with extra fingers on their hands or extra toes on their feet. Some doctors may refer to this as a “malformation,” but does polydactyly actually bring benefits to an individual? People with polydactyly can use just one hand to perform tasks for which…
BALTIMORE, Md, June 5, 2019 -A University of Maryland School of Medicine study suggests that a novel machine learning model developed at the University of Maryland Medical System (UMMS), called the Baltimore score (B score), may help hospitals better predict which discharged patients are likely to be readmitted. The research was led by Daniel Morgan,…
A public health, police, and military partnership to reduce the mosquito population in Sri Lanka resulted in a more than 50-percent reduction in dengue, as well as cost savings, finds a study from an international team of researchers led by NYU College of Global Public Health. The findings are published in The Lancet Planetary Health.…
A large majority of people who use heroin and fentanyl would be willing to use safe consumption spaces where they could obtain sterile syringes and have medical support in case of overdose, suggests a study led by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. In the study, published June 5 in the…
IMAGE: Salma Patel, M.D., M.P.H., an assistant professor and sleep medicine specialist in the UA Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, has won a $100,000 Career Development Award… view more Credit: UA Health Sciences TUCSON, Ariz. – Obstructive sleep apnea is a common condition that has been associated with increased mortality, especially in…
In “The Conceptual Ecology of the Human Microbiome,” published in the June 2019 issue of The Quarterly Review of Biology, Nicolae Morar and Brendan J. M. Bohannan examine in detail the different metaphors scientists use to describe the human microbiome. Because it appears that each view has both advantages and disadvantages, the authors suggest the…
IMAGE: BEST trial investigators E. Steve Woodle, M.D., and Rita Alloway, Pharm.D., both of the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine. view more CINCINNATI (June 5, 2019) — Preliminary results from a $5.2 million clinical trial led by University of Cincinnati researchers show that the immunosuppressive drug belatacept can help safely and effectively treat kidney transplant…
IMAGE: To study the impacts of invading predators, a research team led by Princeton’s Rob Pringle used three lizard species: one predator, the curly-tailed lizard (Leiocephalus carinatus, bottom left), and two… view more Credit: Jonathan Losos, Washington University (bottom right) and Kiyoko Gotanda, McGill University (bottom left and top) Invading predators can devastate an ecosystem. In…
VIDEO: 3D reconstructions of regenerated bone at week 12 in stiff, early, or delayed loading conditions, respectively. view more To treat large gaps in long bones, like the femur, which result from bone tumor removal or a shattering trauma, researchers at Penn Medicine and the University of Illinois at Chicago developed a process that partially recreates…