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Conflict management improves ICU team knowledge, mindfulness, and awareness
SAN ANTONIO, TX (October 1, 2018)-The Intensive Care Unit is a stressful place, and conflicts invariably arise. To better understand...
$1.3 million grant to LSUHealthNO to increase certified sexual assault nurse examiners
New Orleans, LA - A team led by Jessica Landry, DNP, FNP-BC, Program Coordinator, BSN-DNP Primary Care Family Nurse Practitioner...
GeneGuide DNA testing application provides genetic testing, insights backed by Mayo
ROCHESTER, Minn. -- Mayo Clinic released a new DNA product with Helix, a personal genomics company, called "Mayo Clinic GeneGuide."...
Georgia State signs licensing agreement with DaZen Theranostics Inc. to develop cancer product
Credit: Georgia State University ATLANTA--Georgia State University has signed a licensing agreement with DaZen Theranostics Inc., a Delaware-based start-up company,...
Adherence to annual lung cancer screening needs improvement
SAN ANTONIO, TX (October 1, 2018)-- A study from the Thoracic Oncology Research Group (TORG), Division of Pulmonary Critical Care,...
Keeping our cells stable: A closer look at microtubules
Credit: Kobe University Microtubules help to regulate cell structure throughout our bodies. A group of Japanese researchers have used cryo-electron...
New research aims to help catch child killers
Credit: Ann Ross Violent crimes against children are especially abhorrent. New research from North Carolina State University will help law...
Children’s violent video game play associated with increased physical aggressive behavior
Violent video game play by adolescents is associated with increases in physical aggression over time, according to a Dartmouth meta-analysis...
Patient-partnered genomics study IDs immunotherapy as potential treatment for rare cancer
NEW YORK -- Angiosarcoma Project, a patient-partnered genomics study, identified immune checkpoint inhibition as a potential treatment option for patients...
EU countries unprepared to move future Alzheimer’s treatment into rapid clinical use
The health care systems in some European countries lack the capacity to rapidly move a disease-modifying treatment for Alzheimer's disease...
Eye discovery to pave way for more successful corneal transplants
A team of eye specialists at The University of Nottingham has made another novel discovery that could help to improve...
Global three-day conference on emerging arboviruses and insecticide resistance opens in Singapore
SINGAPORE, 1 October 2018 - The resistance of mosquito borne arboviruses such as dengue, zika, chikungunya and yellow fever are...
Scientists use AI to develop better predictions of why children struggle at school
Scientists using machine learning - a type of artificial intelligence - with data from hundreds of children who struggle at...
Cancer Immunotherapy Conference features latest research on response, resistance, treatment
NEW YORK -- The Fourth CRI-CIMT-EATI-AACR International Cancer Immunotherapy Conference: Translating Science into Survival, to be held in New York,...
New study confirms Mediterranean diet prevents a leading cause of blindness
SAN FRANCISCO - Sept. 30, 2018 - Evidence is mounting that a poor diet plays an important role in the...
Bacterial therapy tolerable, shows early promise in patients with advanced solid tumors
NEW YORK -- A phase I clinical trial investigating the use of bacterial Clostridium novyi-NT spores as an injectable monotherapy...
New cancer vaccine shows early promise for patients with HER2-positive cancers
NEW YORK -- Treatment with a HER2-targeted therapeutic cancer vaccine provided clinical benefit to several patients with metastatic HER2-positive cancers...
Video of zebrafish neural development wins top prize in Nikon Small World competition
Credit: Video created by Henry He, a researcher at the Morgridge Institute for Research and doctoral student in the Dresden...
China has seen remarkable progress in diabetes research over the past two decades
Credit: ©Science China Press In the period of 1995 to 2015, China has seen remarkable progress in diabetes research, according...
Unveiling the mechanism protecting replicated DNA from degradation
Credit: Takuya Abe Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University and the FIRC Institute of Molecular Oncology (IFOM) in Italy have succeeded...
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