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Conflict management improves ICU team knowledge, mindfulness and awareness
The intensive care unit is a stressful place, and conflicts invariably arise. To better understand the relationships between physicians, nurses,...
Post-treatment surveillance frequency not related to improved lung cancer patient survival
CHICAGO (October 4, 2018): Cancer treatment continues to improve for many types of cancer, leading to increased life expectancy for...
Teachers’ views on LGBQ students are changing
Over the past decade, the American school environment has become slightly more receptive towards students who identify as being either...
Brain & Behavior Research Foundation awards over $13 million in young investigator grants
NEW YORK (October 4, 2018)--The Brain & Behavior Research Foundation today announced the awarding of its Young Investigator Grants valued...
Facebook status: sick. How people use the internet to cope with illness
When a person is diagnosed with a serious illness, he or she may seek support from a variety of sources:...
Duvelisib has marked response, survival benefit in difficult-to-treat leukemia and lymphoma
Credit: Sarah Cannon (WASHINGTON, October 4, 2018) -- For some patients with difficult-to-treat leukemia and lymphoma, the investigational oral medicine...
Southwest Virginia residents sought to direct region’s battle against cancer
A new University of Virginia Cancer Center initiative will empower Southwest Virginia residents to lead projects to better detect and...
Case Western Reserve researchers to examine skin prions in fatal neurodegenerative disease
Credit: Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine Affecting both people and animals, prion diseases are degenerative brain disorders that...
Researcher blocks protein that defeats powerful tumor suppressor in breast cancer
Credit: TTUHSC Over half of all breast cancers carry genetic defects in the p53 gene, a powerful tumor suppressor. Loss...
Report outlines cancer risk among Hispanics/Latinos in the United States
ATLANTA -October 4, 2018- The cancer burden in Puerto Rico, a U.S. territory with a 99% Hispanic population, is substantially...
Rethinking lethality in youth suicide attempts
Washington, DC, October 4, 2018 - First suicide attempts are more lethal than previously realized, reports a study of children...
First large study details cognitive outcomes among older breast cancer patients
WASHINGTON -- The first large U.S. study of cognition in older breast cancer patients found that within the first two...
BPS congratulates biophysicist Frances Arnold on her Nobel Prize
ROCKVILLE, MD - The Biophysical Society (BPS) commends Frances Arnold, California Institute of Technology, on her shared Nobel Prize in...
Arizona bioscience community honors two of TGen’s top scientists
PHOENIX, Ariz. -- Oct. 3, 2018 -- Two top scientists from the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen), an affiliate of...
A novel molecule could spur new class of drugs for breast cancer
Credit: Stevens Institute of Technology Researchers at Stevens Institute of Technology and colleagues have designed and developed a new class...
T cell bispecific antibody for the immune-mediated killing of HER2+ breast cancer cells
(Vall d'Hebron Institute of Oncology) Researchers at the Vall d'Hebron Institute of Oncology in Barcelona show that the p95HER2-T cell...
Recording device for cell history
Different "events" such as infections by viruses, as well as the exposure to environmental toxins or other forms of stress,...
MSU faculty awarded $1 million grant to research tree chemistry in bark beetle battle
Credit: MSU Photo by Adrian Sanchez-Gonzalez BOZEMAN - As bark beetles continue to devour sickly pine forests, a Montana State...
Riffyn launches Open Access for scientists at non-profits
Credit: Riffyn Oakland, CA, USA, 3 October 2018 - Riffyn, a global provider of cloud-based experiment design and data analytics...
