When Lorna De Leoz invited laboratories to participate in her glycomics study, she hoped for 20 responses. Instead, she was deluged by emails from around the world. De Leoz, at the time a research chemist at the National Institute for Standards and Technology, or NIST, was planning a study on how pharmaceutical and academic laboratories…
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PHILADELPHIA–People living in predominately Hispanic neighborhoods are less likely to receive CPR from a bystander following an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest compared to people living in non-Hispanic neighborhoods, researchers from Penn Medicine and the Duke University of School of Medicine reported in the journal Circulation. This same group also had a lower likelihood of survival. Most…
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – People with drug-resistant epilepsy also can have deleterious neuropsychiatric symptoms like anxiety, depression, psychosis and impaired memory. These have negative impacts on quality of life, and there is an unmet need to improve therapy for such patients. Diagnosing and monitoring such neurobehavioral symptoms is challenging because their presentation can overlap with seizures.…
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During the years 1976 through 1980, 15% of U.S. adults were obese. Today, about 40% of adults are obese. Another 33% are overweight. Coinciding with this increase in weight are ever-rising rates of heart disease, diabetes, cancer and health complications caused by obesity, such as hypertension. Even Alzheimer’s disease may be partly attributable to obesity…
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HIV patients lose immunity to smallpox even though they were vaccinated against the disease as children and have had much of their immune system restored with antiretroviral therapy, according to a study published in the Journal of Infectious Diseases. Called HIV-associated immune amnesia, the finding could explain why people living with HIV still tend to…
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Christina Catherine Zipf and Robert Larry Glenn III were married Dec. 28 at St. John Vianney Roman Catholic Church in Gladwyne, Pa. The Rev. Msgr. Donald E. Leighton, a Roman Catholic priest, performed the ceremony, with the Rev. Dr. Alyn E. Waller, a Baptist pastor, participating. The couple graduated from Lafayette College, she cum laude.…
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John Conway Rensenhouse and Darren Dean Sextro are to be married Dec. 29 at the American, an events space in Kansas City, Mo. Sanford Robbins, a Universal Life minister and a friend of the couple, is to officiate. Mr. Rensenhouse (left), 64, is an actor, director, and theater producer and serves as artistic chair of…
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Garbage is inevitable in the restaurant and bar business. Kitchen employees toss onion skins and meat fat into the wastebasket almost instinctively. Once-used plastic wrap and slips guarding the linens find their way into black bags for trash-day pickup. Plastic bags are ordered by the bundle and then often discarded after customers use them to…
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Fazle Abed, who started a temporary relief effort for refugees in Bangladesh that became one of the largest nongovernmental organizations in the world, died on Dec. 20 in a hospital in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh. He was 83. His daughter, Tamara Abed, said the cause was complications of glioblastoma, a type of brain cancer.…
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In the constant search for a vaccine against tuberculosis — which now kills more people around the world than any other infectious disease — researchers have made an unusual discovery. In tests on monkeys, they found that an almost century-old vaccine routinely given to infants in many countries is far more protective when injected into…
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