May 17, 2021 – Amid the rising toll of opioid overdoses and deaths in the U.S., several states are considering laws enabling civil commitment for involuntary treatment of patients with substance use disorders (SUDs). Most addiction medicine physicians support civil commitment for SUD treatment – but others strongly oppose this approach, reports a survey study…
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Ozlem Uzuner, Associate Professor and Interim Chair, Information Sciences and Technology, received $222,469 from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services for a large-scale clinical and economic impact analysis of potentially malignant incidental findings in radiology reports. Uzuner and her team will contribute to two aims of this project: (1) Extraction of incidentaloma frame…
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An international study has found that four out of five women in prison in Scotland have a history of head injury, mostly sustained through domestic violence. Published recently in The Lancet, researchers, including SFU psychology graduate student Hira Aslam, say the study has important implications for the female prison population more broadly and could help…
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Early preterm births may be dramatically decreased with docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) supplements, with a dose of 1000 mg more effective for pregnant women with low DHA levels than the 200 mg found in some prenatal supplements, according to a study led by researchers from the University of Kansas and the University of Cincinnati and published…
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17 May 2021 – Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, a nonprofit publisher of leading research journals in molecular biology, genetics, and related fields, is pleased to announce its first set of transformational publishing agreements, effective from January 1, 2021. “A sustainable path to open publication of biomedical research is a long-sought objective at Cold Spring…
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MUSC Hollings Cancer Center lung cancer researcher Gerard Silvestri, M.D., found that a lack of insurance leads to worse cancer survival than for those with Medicare, in a paper published in the May issue of Health Affairs. This work, a joint effort between Silvestri and researchers at the American Cancer Society, highlights the current dire…
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At the Temple of Praise, a predominantly Black church in southeast Washington, D.C., clergy, church volunteers and local doctors and pharmacists have worked to vaccinate more than 4,000 people, many in the congregation. The church is still using up its weekly allotments of the Moderna shot, with lines snaking through the parking lot every week…
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It seems that there is nothing wrong with blow-drying. But it turns out that improper blow-drying can be very harmful to your gorgeous hair. So how can you prevent this harmful impact? We all know that regular blow-drying can dehydrate hair and break its structure. Before using the hot air, it is worth familiarizing yourself…
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Artists, label heads and industry schemers know that success in pop music today requires racking up plays on TikTok and streaming services. But there’s another, unlikely platform that’s picking up steam: Roblox. Roblox is a game-creation engine, first released in 2006, that allows players to customize their own sandbox worlds, create mini-games on multiplayer servers…
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En 2012, mediante un intercambio de correos electrónicos con el entonces director financiero de Facebook, revelado durante una audiencia del subcomité antimonopolio de la Cámara de Representantes en 2020, Mark Zuckerberg expuso sus argumentos para comprar competidores más pequeños, entre ellos, en aquel momento, Instagram. Hay efectos de red en torno a los productos sociales…
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