DES PLAINES, IL — John E. Prescott, MD, chief academic officer of the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), will offer his prognostications of “The Future Landscape of Medical Education” when he delivers the education keynote address at the 30th annual meeting of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM) on Thursday, May 16. The…
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(New York, NY – May 2, 2019) — Mount Sinai researchers have broken new ground in the understanding of the MDM2 gene–which is often overexpressed in cancer–finding that when it acts with a specific protein, it can lead to cancer cell death. The study appears in the May 2, 2019, print edition of Molecular Cell.…
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IMAGE: This is a graph-plot showing the relationship between 62,040 single cells isolated from the mouse cerebellum. view more Credit: Maria C. Vladoiu, Ibrahim El-Hamami and Laura K. Donovan. TORONTO – Brain tumours are the leading cause of non-accidental death in children in Canada, but little is known about when these tumours form or how they…
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DES PLAINES, IL — Leading firearm injury and prevention experts, Drs. Rebecca Cunningham, and Garen Wintemute, will open SAEM19 — the annual meeting of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine on Wednesday, May 15 with a timely and compelling keynote address titled “with a timely presentation titled “Firearm Injury: Facts, Myths, and a Public Health…
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IMAGE: Left to Right: Amy Ellis (O’Connor lab), Erica Larson (Scanga lab), Alexis Balgman (O’Connor lab), Charles Scanga, Shelby O’Connor, Mark Rodgers (Scanga lab) view more PITTSBURGH, May 1, 2019 – About a third of us are walking around with the bacteria that causes tuberculosis (TB) in our bodies, but most don’t actually end up with…
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IMAGE: Douglas Thornton, co-director of the University of Houston PREMIER Service which aims to help patients and providers safely and effectively manage the use of controlled substance prescriptions view more Credit: University of Houston For the first time in American history, a person is more likely to die from an accidental opioid overdose than from a…
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So, you’re concerned about the environment and interested in changing your diet. That is an important first step. As Julia Moskin and Brad Plumer reported, “the world’s food system is responsible for about one-quarter of the planet-warming greenhouse gases that humans generate each year.” To help reduce your climate impact, we have dozens of recipes…
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A custom-made drone delivered a kidney this month to a Maryland woman who had waited eight years for a lifesaving transplant. While it was only a short test flight — less than three miles in total — the team that created the drone at the University of Maryland says it was a worldwide first and…
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Federal health regulators announced on Tuesday that they would require manufacturers of sleeping pills such as Ambien and related drugs to post strongly worded warnings in boxes on labels and patient guides. The Food and Drug Administration, in what it called a safety announcement, noted that the drugs’ side effects included risky behaviors, such as…
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WASHINGTON — The Food and Drug Administration said Tuesday that it would permit the sale of IQOS, a “heat not burn” tobacco device made by Philip Morris International, in the United States. While the agency stopped short of declaring that the device was safer than traditional cigarettes, the F.D.A. did say the heated tobacco-stick system…
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