IMAGE: From left, Douglas Feil, Chief Programs Officer, Janelle Hail, Founder and Chief Executive Office, Dr. Phil Evans, and Kevin Hail, President and Chief Operating Officer. view more Credit: National Breast Cancer Foundation DALLAS – July 16, 2019 – Dr. Phil Evans is so deeply involved in nonprofit cancer groups that a luncheon with the National…
Three UC Santa Barbara junior faculty members have been awarded the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). Spencer Smith, in electrical and computer engineering, Phillip Christopher, in chemical engineering, and Andrea Young in physics join more than 300 others across the country in receiving the award. The PECASE is the highest honor…
The style of tackling used in rugby may be associated with a lower force of impact than the style used in football, according to a preliminary study of college athletes released today that will be presented at the American Academy of Neurology Sports Concussion Conference in Indianapolis July 26-28, 2019. “For athletes who participate in…
VIDEO: University of Guelph researchers have become the first to access data on more than 19 million North American cats and have discovered that most cats continue to put on weight… view more Are cats getting fatter? Until now, pet owners and veterinarians didn’t know for sure. Now University of Guelph researchers have become the first…
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IMAGE: Red and yellow areas show sites of cell death in the mouse brain. The brain at left has no traumatic brain injury (TBI). The brain at center is post-TBI. The… view more Credit: Mark S. Shapiro, Ph.D., UT Health San Antonio An experimental treatment given to mice after a traumatic brain injury (TBI) reduced damage…
A national study finds children without insurance who seek treatment for a mental health disorder in the emergency department (ED) are more likely than those with private insurance to be transferred to another hospital. The study, conducted by researchers at UC Davis Children’s Hospital and the UC Davis Department of Psychiatry, showed differences in the…
Join us July 25-26, 2019, at the Allen Institute for Exploring Frontiers: Predicting Biology, a symposium featuring the latest insights from leading modeling researchers from the fields of neuroscience, cell science and immunology, chaired by Markus Covert, Ph.D., leader of the Allen Discovery Center at Stanford University. The talks will address leveraging computation and mathematics…
The year-old Ebola epidemic in the Democratic Republic of Congo has reached the city of Goma, which has a population of nearly 2 million, an international airport and ferries and buses that fan out over much of the region. Goma is also just one kilometer, or about half a mile, from the border with Rwanda.…
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